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

Try this....
but game in borderless windowed -> open browser in corner of display over the game. -> open a hdr video on youtube:
Now check in the background if it looks normal to you.

It's a weird bug I had too.

If you put the game in windowed mode then ALT+TAB it will be like 'regular' HDR brightness that you want where the colors are much more vibrant in the game in the background. When you ALT+TAB back in, the game will go back to being smudged up. So to fix this...
1...-> Turn off FreeSync if you don't have FreeSync 2/Premium or its equivalent, GSYNC (Ultimate). HDR support with VRR enabled with non 'premium' VRR monitors is not good. Additionally If you are running at 4K.. You NEED to cap your frames @60FPS. Unless you have the newest display standards that output HDR above 4K@60. I believe that is exclusive to HDMI 2.1
2... -> HDR=ON in Windows and in game... Set the Lightning effects in game in (Accessibility) = ON. It will make the game darker.. but the gamma is better. (Less washed out). Trust me on this. Also turn gamma correction in (Display/Graphics) settings = 0/100. Your game will be darker then ever now.
3...-> [ALT + TAB] then go to YouTube, put it in a small window over your game, and search up a HDR Video. Whichever one works. Your desired HDR settings will blast on. With the game running in the background, you will see that it corrects itself. (I was like wtf?? when I saw this lol.)
4...->NOW HIT [WIN+ALT+B]. This will turn HDR in Windows off. Then you hit [WIN+ALT+B] again to turn it back on. Then [ALT+TAB] into the game and pray it works. If it doesn't, try again.
5...-> Now with the corrected REAL Vibrant HDR... You can adjust your monitor brightness, color corrections, + in game gamma correction to your flavor.

Yes. you will have to do this every time.

Same Problem here and i won't use a workarround that costs me 10min everytime i want to play the game... fix it EA ffs. 

i'm using a RTX4090 aswell if thats somehow related to the problem. 

Jesus christ WHATABOUTMEBOSS, that's crazy. You actually got it to work by doing that? 

First off, great job for finding any fix, but as another has pointed out, it's simply too much for most people, including me. I only have a few spare hours in the day...

Also, HDMI 2.1 has more than enough bandwidth for 4k 120hz 10-bit 4:4:4. In fact I've overclocked my S95B to 144hz and I can still get full chroma HDR at 4k. HDMI 2.1 is literally the best option we have right now, highest bandwidth, until Displayport 2.0 comes out with the new AMD GPUs in a couple of weeks. 

And yeah, playing an HDR youtube video is the easiest way to see if HDR is actually working. Especially for me, as I run the SDR brightness in windows HDR settings at zero. This keeps my screen at about 120-150 nits for everyday desktop use, which is more than enough for such a giant screen and doesn't risk burn-in as much on the OLED. So then I never have to change any setting when I want to view HDR content, as my screen and computer are already perfectly tuned for HDR. SDR is dark, which contributes to Unbound looking so bad, but all HDR gaming or video content is bright as !@$#. That's another reason why I don't want to have to re-balance all my colour settings anytime I launch Unbound. 

@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.

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! 

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@WhatAboutMeBoss wrote:
@hv6478i am able to reproduce my workaround, but i am on a 2070 Super

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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.