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Flagg_4077
5 years ago

BF1 not displaying properly in full screen mode

I just recently got a new gaming monitor: Samsung G5 Odyssey 27" monitor and it looks awesome but I'm having issues with it in BF1 where the bright are overly bright and the darks are super dark. The contrast all out of whack.  At first I could correct it by turning the monitor off and on, or tabbing in and out (windows and back) but recently that hasn't worked. The only way I can get it to correctly display the games to run the game in windowed mode which reduces FPS and prevents Freesync mode. I'm at a loss, especially since everything ran fine on my old Asus 24" monitor, and even when using this new monitor it was only a minor annoyance to turn the monitor off/on or tab in and out to windows a couple times to get it right. Im using the latest nVidia drivers and the monitor has the latest firmware.

Some specs:

Running windows and BF1 @ 1440p 144hz

Video card is an nVidia 1060 6gb

Using Display port as the lone HDMI port on the monitor seems capable of only 60hz

I've tried turning the HDR off to see if it would help, but it did not (it looks better in HDR anyway)

I've tried lowering the resolution to 1080 but it didn't help. 

I've tried enabling DX12 but it didn't help

Anyone have this monitor and experience this issue? What did you do to resolve it?

battlefield 1

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  • OskooI_007's avatar
    OskooI_007
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago

    The Samsung Odyssey G5 doesn't really have a bright enough screen to support HDR. A monitor needs around 600cd/m2 of peak brightness, or more, to properly display HDR colors. The Samsung Odyssey G5 maxes out at 300cd/m2 peak brightness.

    Battlefield 1 also suffers from a HDR bug, which causes the HDR option in BF1 video options to say it's turned off, but really it's still turned on.

    Instructions to turn off HDR in battlefield 1:

    - Turn HDR off in battlefield 1 video settings

    - close battlefield 1

    - relaunch battlefield 1

    If the contrast still looks wrong, keep closing and relaunching Battlefield 1 until HDR is actually turned off. The menu bug says HDR is off, when it actually isn't.

    HDR doesn't work in windowed mode, which is why the game looks better in windowed mode. Eventually you can turn HDR off for full screen mode too. Just keep repeating the above steps over and over again until HDR actually shuts off and your game looks normal like it does in windowed mode.

    PS: You probably just need to turn HDR off once, then just keep closing and relaunching the game until the setting takes hold and 'sticks'.

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