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I ran into this problem as well initially. What I learned through researching other forums is Madden 25 uses HDR10+ to display its color profile. I noticed in my television settings after activating HDR through Madden 25 graphical settings the television's system switched over to HDR10+ input once I confirmed AUTO HDR in the game's system menu. I was then able to go into my television brightness settings with the HDR10+ input active on the television and bumped up the contrast to 100 over the factory's setting of 50. This improved the darkness dramatically. Now Madden 25 is crisp and colorful. The shadows dancing with the sunlight at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami are eye-popping, for sure. I'm sure I could probably dial-in an exact number on the contrast number with my Spears and Munsil calibration disc, but unfortunately, I do not have a 4K player that outputs HDR10+ to my television that supports HDR10+ at the moment.
Don't know what to say if your television doesn't support HDR10+. I do know you can still play the game without HDR, which I did for the first four hours but also felt it didn't look as good as the PS5's HDR output in terms of lighting. Once I learned of the HDR10+ correction, I committed to purchasing the game for PC for the 120hz refresh. Super smooth gameplay thus far and the visuals are impressive. I'm happy with it.
- loopgoot7912 months agoNew Scout
I notice - HDR works fine if i load Madden 25 as soon as i startup my PC
if i launch it after any other applications, then the HDR suddenly looks washed out
i just cannot figure out what is causing this
Madden 25 is the only game that does this
Madden 24 worked fine
any solutions ?
- loopgoot7912 months agoNew Scout
For anyone having this issue - figured it out
turns out that if you play any other game that uses HDR, and then load Madden 25, the HDR on pc is completely washed out
to fix this, you need to restart your graphics driver and it works fine using this app
is very annoying, but is an interim fix
https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-Custom-Resolution-Utility-CRU
devs- can you please fix this in next patch ?