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Poll: Which is the better visual upgrade, HDR 10 or Ray Tracing?
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Interesting, I've never experienced that, but if it works for you that way then go for it. Did you try both auto & HDR10 in the video section of the game?But it doesn't work properly in exclusive fullscreen
Fullscreen with HDR switched off - looks ok
Borderless window with HDR switched off - looks ok
Fullscreen with HDR switched on - looks grey and washed out
Borderless window with HDR switched on - looks like HDR
Edit: I wonder if it's something to do with the uplay overlay
Honestly it's the first time I'm hearing about people having issues with HDR in TD2. The beautiful thing with Ubi games is that usually you can just enabled them in-game and they just work. You still have to do the HDR calibration but that's more fine-tuning than if it works or not.
Again, I've never had any issues myself, and I've also set it up on multiple other PCs for other people and it all went without a hitch. If there's something else on your end, software etc, that's interfering with it - then I obviously can't comment on it because I haven't seen your setup. I've tested it both fullscreen exclusive, and borderless w/ HDR activated in windows, both with uplay overlay on and off, and again - no issues in any of those configurations.
Mind you, this is DX12 only, I never touched DX11 & it's all been on AMD cards (Polaris, Vega, and now RDNA 2).
Think someone mentioned it but it is one of those things that for some reason works absolutely fine for some people and absolutely doesn't want to work for others with no rhyme or reason.
IIRC I tried it with the beta, don't think it was the free weekend - so might have been why I had problems with it but other people have reported same kind of issues more recently - I don't own the game as I didn't get on with it - really hate what they've done to the movement and changing some mechanics around just so they can call them new while not fixing a lot of bugs.
That's a shame, I can say I absolutely love this game. Surprisingly bug-free as well in my case. In TD1 I had more crashes in that game than in all my ~30 years of gaming history put together, it was that bad, but I still had to see it through.
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So in 5-10 years then?
Got a 1080ti. Not a 100% sure I tried Variable refresh rate and Hardware GPU scheduling off in windows settings graphics page both are set to On. I did try unplug the 2nd monitor and just about every settings in the NV control panel.
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Probably but of course I meant today's consumer RT.
Although I dont mind playing graphically dated games, currently playing vesperia, played lost oddysey before it, and when both of these done I am either going back to lightning returns or onto fable. Dont think I have ever played a game solely for its visuals, I dont mind a good game been visually enhanced, but to me its always a secondary priority.
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Same, TD2 HDR looks incredible, super bright and extremely vibrant colours along with neutral lighting enabled.
I use an Asus PG43UQ HDR1000 monitor and all the games I've tried in HDR work perfectly.
I did have a screen before that was HDR capable but did HDR horrificaly and when HDR was turned on games like TD2 did become dull and very washed out. If your getting washed out colours then the screen is most likely your problem.
Even AC Vallhala looks stunning in HDR, I do play all of my games full screen but I do leave HDR off in Windows and let the game turn it on unless a specific game refuses to use HDR without turning it on in Windows first.
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Sadly a photo of my display does not cut it but
That is using Quake 2 RTX's path tracing and HDR (VK_FORMAT_R16G16B16A16_SFLOAT) in person it looks ridiculously good. Unfortunately not something I can distribute as I have almost no idea what I'm doing when it comes to programming for HDR and took a lot of special casing to even get it working and rendering something useful (most of the credit goes to Simon Buchan whose sample code I borrowed from) and it isn't entirely working correctly.
That is using Quake 2 RTX's path tracing and HDR (VK_FORMAT_R16G16B16A16_SFLOAT) in person it looks ridiculously good. Unfortunately not something I can distribute as I have almost no idea what I'm doing when it comes to programming for HDR and took a lot of special casing to even get it working and rendering something useful (most of the credit goes to Simon Buchan whose sample code I borrowed from) and it isn't entirely working correctly.
Sadly a photo of my display does not cut it but
That is using Quake 2 RTX's path tracing and HDR (VK_FORMAT_R16G16B16A16_SFLOAT) in person it looks ridiculously good. Unfortunately not something I can distribute as I have almost no idea what I'm doing when it comes to programming for HDR and took a lot of special casing to even get it working and rendering something useful (most of the credit goes to Simon Buchan whose sample code I borrowed from) and it isn't entirely working correctly.
Best of both worlds, nicely done!
Sadly a photo or screenshot (can't currently screenshot HDR format display buffer) doesn't do it justice especially if the viewer doesn't have a HDR display (though a 8bit int image doesn't have the HDR info anyhow).
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