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Hovation
3 years ago

Re: HDR Broken on Origin (PC) Fullscreen or Boarderless

@WhatAboutMeBossThis does not work for me unfortunately. I see no difference when I leave with Alt+Tab, the game never switches or adjusts or anything regardless of what's happening otherwise. HDR is on, and YouTube is definitely playing in HDR (incredibly bright + switched from SDR to HDR on the video itself to check just in case). Nothing seems to ever change or adjust in game regardless. I also tried disabling my secondary (non-HDR) monitor, no difference. That did make a difference for Gears 5, and HDR works perfectly with just the one monitor active, but no impact for NFS UB. What is your hardware?

Having to do something like this every time would make me less excited to play once I finally get started. Hoping EA can fix this asap. It's strange because the reports of this issue are few and far between (probably much more attention on consoles) but it's a massive broken feature that really should be addressed.

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  • hv6478's avatar
    hv6478
    3 years ago

    Some more info after further testing.

    I was briefly able to get HDR in-game! I did this by having the TV as my only monitor. I then changed the colour settings to reference mode in NVCP, however I don't think that's what did it, I think it is the next thing.

    After I changed that setting, the display blanked then came back much brighter than before. Usually, Windows will adjust SDR brightness down in HDR mode when you're on desktop or using regular apps. For some reason, this didn't happen (it usually gradually fades down in brightness). It was retina-searing and still bright, almost as if being locked/forced into HDR mode system-wide. I ran the game, turned HDR to auto, and it was much brighter and instantly noticeable vs. when it was off.

    For that gaming session, it was HDR the whole time. I could even toggle it off then back on using Win+Alt+B and it would kick back and stay in glorious HDR (makes a great diff at night in the game).

    Sadly, this was not repeatable. However, it seems that, if we could somehow force system-wide HDR (so, basically, make Win11 behave the exact way you usually do NOT want it to behave, and make it blast HDR on all parts of the desktop and Windows regardless of HDR content being played), we might be onto something here.

    I have a feeling this is what @WhatAboutMeBoss stumbled upon and perhaps also why it's not repeatable (at least for me, and the YouTube trick as described also doesn't seem to work for me).

    @WhatAboutMeBoss -- have you had success repeating this several times?

    It feels like we might be making a bit of progress! 

  • hv6478's avatar
    hv6478
    3 years ago
    @WhatAboutMeBoss wrote:
    @hv6478i am able to reproduce my workaround, but i am on a 2070 Super

    What TV or monitor are you using?

    Also, do you notice the colours are incredibly saturated and do you see some gradient branding around lights and what not? It seems like some monitors or TVs can force HDR mode for SDR content, and it usually looks very overdone and exaggerated. I'll try to get a pic of this.

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