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pclamer
5 years ago
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How to disable HDR in Squadrons (PC)?

After purchasing Squadrons a few weeks after release, I noticed HDR could be turned on or off in settings. I have an HDR compatible monitor but its not the best, so I don't always want HDR enabled. ...
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    Cave_Waverider
    5 years ago

    If you're on the PC, go to Documents\STAR WARS Squadrons\settings\, open ProfileOptions_profile with a text editor, and set GstRender.HdrEnable 0. You can (or maybe should) also add this flag to the BootOptions file to be sure it's set on every game start.

    Naturally, setting this flag to 1 will enable HDR again.

    Note that the folder above is the one for Origin/EA Play, it can have a slightly different name if you're using the Steam or Epic Games Store version.



    If the above doesn't work and you don't want HDR at all for whatever reason, you could download Custom Resolution Utility (CRU) and remove the HDR Information from your Monitor's EDID (don't worry, it isn't permanent). That way HDR should be disabled for good in Windows and Squadrons as well. This would be a last-ditch workaround, however.

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80486DX4
5 years ago

I have GstRender.HdrEnable set to 0 but it does nothing.  Since they removed the HDR toggle in game, my monitor and now my VR are using it and both look terrible.

Changing from full to borderless or back also has no effect, neither does setting post processing to low, or any other Windows setting I can think of.

Quite frustrating anyone would think it a good idea to remove the HDR option.  More so after waiting months for them to fix the fps bug.

Any ideas?  I can't figure out why that GstRender setting apparently works for others but not me.

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80486DX4
5 years ago

I may have solved the problem by uninstalling/reinstalling the game and (or) deleting the settings folder in Documents.

It appears to be leaving HDR off now when I set GstRender.HdrEnable to 0.

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