Where's all the HDR games?

VincentHanna · 24 Oct 2016 at 11:15

So HDR is the new big thing that we've been sold by TV manufacturers for the past 18 months and games on Xbox S already support HDR. Playstation 4 even got an update a few months back and the PS4 Pro is also HDR ready.

Nvidia have been on record as stating that the Maxwell 2 and Pascal GPU's fully support HDR and that they were actively working with the 'Rise of the Tomb Raider' developers to implement it:
https://developer.nvidia.com/implementing-hdr-rise-tomb-raider
&
https://developer.nvidia.com/getting-know-new-hdr

Already Xbox S has a raft of games that support HDR, including:

Forza Horizon 3
Gears of War 4
Battlefield 1
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

All of these games are also available on PC, so why don't they support HDR? I know there aren't any HDR monitors yet, but many PC gamers use their 4k/UHD HDR enabled TV's for gaming.

So what's going on and when can we expect HDR to trickle down to PC games?

EDIT - SHADOW WARRIOR 2 CONFIRMED AS SUPPORTING HDR

VincentHanna · 24 Oct 2016 at 12:31

I'm not talking about 'HDR lighting' in the video options of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and stuff like that.

I mean true HDR video mode, applied to games.

VincentHanna · 24 Oct 2016 at 14:45

Ace Modder said:
isn't HDR pretty much just 10bit colour instead of the usual 8bit?

And as such some PC monitors have had 10bit colour for years.

No, 10bit colour is required, but just because something has a 10bit panel doesn't mean it also has HDR

Someone else said it means you lose detail in darker areas but that isn't the case either.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/hdr-tv-high-dynamic-television-explained

VincentHanna · 24 Oct 2016 at 14:46

mid_gen said:
My Dell U3014 is a 10-bit panel....so...yay HDR?

Nope.

VincentHanna · 25 Oct 2016 at 07:29

Just googled it, and yep, it appears to be the first HDR game on PC.

VincentHanna · 24 Jan 2017 at 13:46

Might have to make an official 'PC with HDR support thread'

Resident Evil 7 is the latest title to support HDR via Steam.

VincentHanna · 25 Jan 2017 at 22:23

Daytrader said:
Trouble is, if using a 4K HDTV HDR as your pc monitor, there laggy as hell compared to a dedicated PC monitor, think the best are around 30ms ? and most oled like 50/70ms, except the LG with a firmware update at around 27ms i think, and a lot of these screens turn off HDR when gaming mode enabled, wish these tv manufactures would make a dedicated tv/pc monitor, surely they all know most households have some sort of console/pc connected to them.

30ms is hardly laggy as hell!

50-70ms is definitely noticeable though.

An Xbox One wireless controller has input lag of around 60ms