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

I think you are right about RTX 4000 series.

HDR works perfectly on my RTX 3080 laptop, but it does not work on my RTX 4080 desktop and no workarounds help.
Both tried on two different TV's and result is same with RTX 3080 HDR working and RTX 4080 HDR NOT WORKING.

Either Nvidia or Criterion needs to update something :S

This has spuriously started working for me today. I didn't do anything special to make it work. Weird! It's working reliably too, survives reboots etc.

I didn't notice any game or driver updates come down since the last time I tried this.

Anyone else?

7950x, 64GB, RTX 4090 (latest vBIOS)

EDIT: Ok, it looks like the reason for this is that the driver is broken, as I've lost the ability to turn on DLSS Frame Generation in any game. Very interesting though that HDR starts working in this game if the RTX 40 features aren't available...

Armed with the knowledge above, I've come up with a solution to the issue for those willing to sacrifice RTX 40 features to get working HDR (a fine trade off imo, but it's situational).

- Browse to the Need for Speed Unbound directory (eg C:\Program Files\EA Games\Need for Speed Unbound)

- Rename nvngx_dlssg.dll to anything else (eg nvngx_dlssg.dllX)

...this will have the effect of disabling the RTX 40 features, and also fix HDR. Of course renaming the file back will return the game to its original state.

Enjoy a much prettier looking game 40 Series fam 🙂

EDIT: just to preempt the question, the DLSS upscaling and Reflex features should still work fine with this change,

Oh my god great thinking!

I will use this workaround until they fix HDR with FG, thank you!! 🙂

Yep this fixed it for me! Great job!!!

Oh great, have you tried other nvngx_dlssg.dll versions ?

I've read that the one from The Witcher 3 is not that good and needs to be replaced by another one (maybe the Portal RTX one I don't remember).

I'll try when I get home.

Ok so I tried two other DLSSg files and still no HDR, renaming it is the only ways to get HDR working.
The game has version 1.0.2, I tried 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 (found in today's Portal RTX update).

That's fine, no need for frame generation, the 4090 can handle 4K120 with ease anyway 🙂

After todays massive 9GB+ update the same problem persists.

Need to delete or rename 'nvngx_dlssg.dll' file to make HDR work on RTX 4000 cards.

I do not know what is causing this as other games seem to use DLSS3 FG with HDR just fine (ex Cyberpunk 2077).

At least make HDR work with DLSS3 FG disabled on the in-game settings if it can't work for some reason with it on. Now we need to fiddle with files :S

Nearly more than 4 months after release EA still can't provide working HDR for PC.
RTX 3080 here.

Same for 3070's too..

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@h3llf1re2012 wrote:

Armed with the knowledge above, I've come up with a solution to the issue for those willing to sacrifice RTX 40 features to get working HDR (a fine trade off imo, but it's situational).

- Browse to the Need for Speed Unbound directory (eg C:\Program Files\EA Games\Need for Speed Unbound)

- Rename nvngx_dlssg.dll to anything else (eg nvngx_dlssg.dllX)

...this will have the effect of disabling the RTX 40 features, and also fix HDR. Of course renaming the file back will return the game to its original state.

Enjoy a much prettier looking game 40 Series fam 🙂

EDIT: just to preempt the question, the DLSS upscaling and Reflex features should still work fine with this change,

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Thank you so much for this fix. Not only did it fix HDR, it also took care of the VRAM leak I was seeing. Before applying the fix, the 24GB on the 4090 would fill up within one hour, and the game would start to stutter. Now, it's steady at around 12GB usage.

And to EA, please take a look at your DLSS 3 implementation, as it apparently has quite a few issues.