Every time I enable hdr in a game it always seems too bright and I end up switching it off, does anyone else notice this? Its as if devs just use hdr to make everything really bright and completley miss the point of it. In age of empires 3 bloom looks ridiculous, the houses are practically shining.
HDR in games?
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i know what u mean, i hate bloddy hdr. always have it turned off
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Tis a good effect, not implemented that well yet because its still reasonably new technology. Give it time
Tis a good effect, not implemented that well yet because its still reasonably new technology. Give it time
They need a lot of time, atm I don't see why everyones making such a fuss over it when all it does is increase brightness in 90% of games. I have it off now as its not worth the 10-20fps drop, when I could just adjust the gamma tbh.
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I got to say, in a game like Oblivion it is nice, and im not bothered about the "fps" drop since its still at roughly 60fps (i think) entirely maxed out 
Far Cry has a couple of commands to let you adjust the 'level' of HDR, which is a good thing.
However, I very rarely use it since I only have a 6800ultra and it impacts framerates too much. It does look nice in places admittedly, but typically the only games which support it are modern ones which are quite demanding to start with.
The exception is Serious Sam 2, which seems to manage a fairly subtle HDR effect without decimating the framerate too much. Good job once again, Croteam
In a couple of years time when I have a geforce 8 or whatever, it might be nice to go back and play some games like Far Cry or Oblivion with HDR and decent rez/aa/af, but mainstream hardware just isn't fast enough atm.
However, I very rarely use it since I only have a 6800ultra and it impacts framerates too much. It does look nice in places admittedly, but typically the only games which support it are modern ones which are quite demanding to start with.
The exception is Serious Sam 2, which seems to manage a fairly subtle HDR effect without decimating the framerate too much. Good job once again, Croteam
In a couple of years time when I have a geforce 8 or whatever, it might be nice to go back and play some games like Far Cry or Oblivion with HDR and decent rez/aa/af, but mainstream hardware just isn't fast enough atm.
A lot of games these days seem so poorly coded it makes you wonder. I mean I can enable HDR (SM2.0) in HL2 on my x800xt and it runs perfectly fine. Most of the features introduced with SM3.0 can be done with SM2.0, but then they want you to upgrade don't they?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Dust set in a place where it would normally be bright enough to need sunglasses had you actually be there?Black Dog said:
I can understand why people don't like it though (I'm a fan of it tbh!)...
