I've been playing Baldur's Gate III.
You know what works flawlessly without having to jump through any hoops?
HDR.
The problem is on the Battlefield side. HDR stopped working for MANY of us, across multiple configurations, multiple monitor types, as soon as 4.2.0 was released.
I thought this forum was for the developers to look at? Where are they? Wtf
Anybody have any luck? Still * looking? I need some good news. WTF dice 😠
Hi,
If you want use HDR in the game... Open your windows calculator when you are playing and click on "Always visible", Reduce it to the smallest size you can.
Move the calculator where you want and return to the game. Normally after that the HDR is on. (After go on setting to calibrate HDR)
The problem come from a overlay in the game but when you use your calculator during the game, it's as if you were still on Windows, and the messed-up DICE filter is no longer active.
I know it sounds like a McGyver technique, but it works for me, and the size of the calculator doesn't bother me while I'm playing ^^.
It would be interesting to find something that could be displayed during the game even smaller than the calculator.
SHAME ON DICE !
PS: Sorry for my english i'm a belgium guy and normally i speak french.
Big news everybody!!! With the new update today the HDR issue is………..still a * PROBLEM!!!! I have been a DICE defender for the longest time. This is *. DICE need to fix this *! It’s been months!
Dude!! You are the man!!! After months with no fix or not even a single care from the pathetic pos dice team you have figured it out! I re-downloaded it after seeing your work around and it works. The nice part too is that I have a secondary monitor and I just moved the calculator over to that screen and it doesn't block my gaming on my main and hdr still works with it on the secondary screen. Haven't played this game in almost half a year because of this issue and the lack of interest from the pathetic dice team. I mean why would they care? They already stole our money when they released the game in it's pre-alpha state for full price. But anyways thank you!! I'm sure a lot of people in here are not caring anymore and have uninstalled this game but if they happen to come and check this thread for fun I'm sure they will be happy to see a very easy work around to the issue that has plagued this game for almost a half a year. .
I was hopeful that the calculator would work for me, as I still haven't found a reliable work-around. But no luck for me sadly.
Great idea though otherwise 🙂
Did you check the box on the calculator so that it always stays on top of the other applications? (See photo)
I'll summarize the procedure.
1. Launch the game
2. Do "windows flag" to be on the desktop
3. Activate the calculator and check the box that allows the calculator to be always on top of the other applications.
4. Return to the game and calibrate HDR via the Battlefield 2042 options.
5. If this doesn't work, leave the calculator and switch to borderless window mode.
If dual screen available:
6. Before launching the game, extend the display on both desktops and place the calculator after point 3 and before point 4, straddling the two screens (as far as possible towards the screen not displaying the game).
When this doesn't work, always remember to calibrate HDR and switch between full screen and window with border.
Of course, you can do all this with HDR enabled from the start under Windows ;-)
I've been using PC's for 23+ years, I know how to set something to always on top 🙂
First time I've seen the windows key be called "windows flag" though I must admit.
@SubSonixI'm a belgium guy and normally I speak French 😅
Ah, I hadn't considered that 🙂
I am so sick of it being the only game that doesn't work. Hopefully one day they'll fix it.
The calculator app is unreliable as it can still get affected by improper monitor HDR gamut settings instead of locking it in correctly.
Use the VESA DisplayHDR app, I posted basically this exact fix here months ago, except if you use that app it will always work because its made to force HDR on your monitor:
EDIT: And also wanna say, if this fixes it for you then its moreso a windows HDR issues rather than a BF2042 issue. There are still ways BF2042 could have implemented HDR to avoid this, but this happens in almost every HDR game for windows for me and I need to use this fix.
If this works for you, then perhaps your HDR is malfunctioning if it doesn't work in any game for you.
HDR functions perfectly for me in games that support it, except for 2042.
I've noticed that toggling HDR on then off again also keeps the colour broken for SDR until I alt-tab. They've really stuffed something up with the game colour settings.
It honestly feels like there's some sort of overlay or something intercepting the setting. This is with the Steam and IGO overlay off and all other possible overlay programs closed.
I FINALLY FOUND A WORKAROUND THAT HELPS ME!
I finally tried swapping ports on my GPU and It actually worked. I hadn't tried it sooner as it just seemed to stupid imo.
But If I click on "HDR CALIBRATION" in game, it completely breaks it again until I swap ports again.
Hopefully this helps EA fix it.
I reached out to a DICE developer working on 2042 and he responded. I sent him a link to this forum and he said he would let the team know. 🤷🏻♂️
How reassuring, good to know they're finally informed after 21 pages /s
Another season update and still NO FIX for the nightmare HDR bug that 4.2.0 blessed us with. * you DICE. This is horse *. At this point we should get a friggin refund. Idc how many hours we’ve played.
Just went to AM5 platform, new motherboard, new cpu, updated bios, clean windows 11 install, clean Nvidia drivers, and then loaded up 2042. HDR is 🥁 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
STILL BROKEN!!!!!!!! DICE PLEASE!!!
Still broken for me too. The calculator work around no longer works for me. It did for a little while but will not work now. I've lost all hope for dice and this game. I want to play it but sdr isn't enjoyable and blown and looks terrible unlike hdr when hdr worked. I paid over 1k for my oled monitor so i'm going to use it as i should. Which is hdr mode. Only game in my library that does not work with hdr.. Dice just has the ear plugs in on this topic and acts like they have no idea this problem has been here since 4.2.0 dropped... scum bags.
for me it worked with 5.1 and then stopped working again with the next updates. I tried all the suggestions, changing ports etc, but nothing helped. It's really strange when I enable hdr in-game options I see that HDR is on for 1s and then all colors become washed again.
Holy * guys! It’s fixed. Check and confirm.
Still broken for me, can't see any changes
Man I don’t get it. Idk why it’s working for me now. I’ll try and figure it out.
Holy crap! It’s not working again! lol my monitor yesterday was swapping between HDR and SDR without flashing like it usually does and it worked great. Today it’s back to the bulls*#t! Wtf
This just screams "user issue"
