really hate to keep giving Nvidia W’s but i have to say that RTX HDR blows Auto HDR completely out of the water now that it’s not single-monitor only. like holy SHIT it looks good.
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I’d recommend using the windows HDR calibration tool (made by Microsoft) to ensure it’s properly enabled & tuned for your panel too! And then just turn off windows Auto HDR and any in-game HDR and make sure the Nvidia overlay is working and shows RTX HDR on globally.
#1 thing that sucks about nvidia is that they actually make really good products.. they suck as a company and their constant genAI dickriding is awful but damn is the hardware good
I agree that AI-everything is annoying, but the massive advances in tech in that sector will bleed over into gaming for sure. So I just try to tolerate it.
I think it just hit in the new driver release this week. I’ve been using integrated graphics for my side monitors just to be able to use RTX HDR on my oled because it really is a world of difference from Auto HDR. Honestly it even looks better than in-game implementations half the time.
can't wait until next gen where they justifty raising the price again using the features they added retroactively to this generation
wait, that's an apple thing to do
Yah, get the newest Nvidia update. Activate it through the control panel. Also activate hdr in windows *not autohdr*.
Now you should be able to tweak HDR in game by holding Alt-F3
In case you don't know, there's a native HDR mod for FFXIV. It's absolutely fantastic. The only downside is if you use reshade normally, there's a good chance some of your shaders are incompatible with scRGB HDR. https://github.com/clshortfuse/renodx/wiki/Mods
the effect is SO much more nuanced than Auto HDR, you get so many more individual points of peak brightness that look almost intentionally tuned. AND on top of that you can customize it per-game with filters. it’s… just extremely good.
My screen sucks for HDR, so I never bother with it. But nvidia honestly is just better, much of the time over AMD. I say that wishing there was more competition. But stuff like the hardware Ray Tracing and the great DLSS just puts them a league ahead.
I believe that Intel's XeSS is much closer to DLSS in image quality than FSR, since it's also based on machine learning. Especially true if running on XMX-capable Intel hardware (Arc dGPUs primarily). I've heard rumors that the next FSR version is much better, though.
In Arkham Knight I'm playing with a mod that unlocks native HDR by intercepting the render pipeline before the tonemapper is applied. Looks much better than either Auto HDR or RTX HDR imo. Wish more games would have that.
For real, as someone with an OLED monitor, RTX HDR is basically the killer feature that's going to keep me on Nvidia cards for the foreseeable future. Damn their team for being so good at their jobs to keep me locked in their ecosystem like this.
For me it’s definitely the Nvidia video upscaling, anime looks so crisp on my 4k monitor when I turn it on. without it everything looks really low quality since it does not upscale well normally
NVIDIA has has the lead over AMD in terms of performance and quality for a long time now, and AMDs inability to close the gap especially in the high end has unfortunately led to NVIDIA having no real competition so they have artificially inflated their prices. over 50% of a new build price is GPU.
I especially like RTX HDR's debanding filter. Many enthusiasts complain it's too aggressive, and you lose dark detail, but I'd rather have smoother transitions between bright and dark. The only thing that would make it better is UI detection with a separate brightness for static elements.
or... y'know... you could just get a good VA with high color accuracy and good contrast 😜 cheaper and more ethical than giving daddy Jensen your money, tho not as viable with faster paced and competitive games
What's the starting price for a VA panel that doesn't have the ghosting issues you get on budget and mid range VAs? I wanna get one but there's no fkn guide for this stuff
so, i have a curved ultrawide VA. it's an MSI MAG342CQPV, 34in, 1440p 100hz screen with a 1500R curve. cost me $300 ish, got it on a Prime Day sale. there are unfortunately no guides for this stuff XD can vouch for my monitor, suggest you look up reviews and cross reference prices, sales are common
I appreciate this in sentiment but a good panel is not at all the same thing as good HDR haha. Two completely different process that can absolutely combine into something awesome but one does not automatically facilitate the other in the slightest.
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wait, that's an apple thing to do
Now you should be able to tweak HDR in game by holding Alt-F3
https://github.com/clshortfuse/renodx/wiki/Mods
My old galax 1070 is still going strong, but no ray tracing makes me sad, and it's starting to show in min specs.
I need to try it now