HDR game analysis

@Labraphant Always trust your eyes 👍

@HDRgameAnalysis Set it to 40 on my G5 as well. Looks much more natural and nuanced.

Quick preliminary setup guide for Crimson Desert on PC and PS5. I have only had very little time with the game. But this is how I would set up HDR on a 1000 and 2000 nits TV. Picture 1 is my settings for a 1000 nits TV and picture 3 for a 2000 nits TV. HDR is implemented the same way on PC and PS5. Black levels: There are no setting to adjust black levels. Luckily they look fine, so those we don’t have to worry about. Max luminance: Max brightness is setup in-game. Set to what your TV can output on a 10% window. The game outputs the nits you set in the slider. Thats great because not all games do that. Screen brightness (exposure). The exposure slider adjusts the brightness on the whole screen. For a 1000 nits TV we want around a screen brightness (paper white) of around 203 nits. A setting of 40 looks to be around 203 nits to me. In picture 2 we can see brigntess is around 203 nits at exposure setting of 40. For a 2000 nits TV we want a higher screen brightness. When our TVs can output higher max brightness then there are room for higher screen brightness while our highlights can still pop. I suggest setting exposure to 50. In picture 4 we see screen brightness is around 280-300 nits. I won’t suggest going lower than 40 or much higher than 50 for exposure, because exposure slightly changes lower shadows and I think they will get to low or to lifted. I noticed that at night fire lights up everything with a red glow or color. It looks very unnatural. We can’t change that in-game, but maybe there will be mods for PC that corrects this. HDR overall looks punchy with great contrast and black levels.

Sorry, I thought you asked about Crimson Desert. I’m getting tired from answering all those questions ☺️ G5 can do 2100 nits in game mode, so here we usually want around 345 nits paper white or game brightness. But thats in theory only. Game brightness can’t be setup exactly, as peak luminance can. I have set to 267 nits because I think thats looks most natural to me on my 2000 nits TV in this game in my rooms lighting conditions. You can use that as a starting point and try and increase it further. Or lower it.

@HDRgameAnalysis I’m try that, I see you have game brightness at 267, how much higher should i go?

These are my RenoDX settings in Death Stranding 2 on PC. They will give you those inky blacks for our OLEDs during night time, out in the open world. The important settings to change are; - LUT strength 25 - Shadow contrast 55 - Shadows 50 Peak brightness is to be set at what your display can do on a 10% window. Most should set game brightness to 203, but if you have a very bright 2000 nits TV like me, then sit it a bit higher. Set UI brightness to the same as game brightness.

@DavidSMaki @MorritoBebe Thats a strange unnatural red glow 🤔

@MorritoBebe Por el momento encantado 🥰

Reembolse Crimson Desert 💀

@__PS7__ I would try and use 50 exposure as a starting point. Try and adjust upwards to 55-60 if that looks more natural to you. The LG G5 is a very bright TV, so it can handle that brightness, but it has to look natural to you.

@HDRgameAnalysis Looks great! What should game brightness be for a lg g5?

@melchori0 800 nits max and 40 exposure. Use my 40 nits exposure as a starting point and adjust to what looks most natural to you.

@HDRgameAnalysis what about for LG CX with ps5?

@Davide0526 800 nits and 40 exposure.

@HDRgameAnalysis What would it be for a LG C2 at 800nits on PC?

There is this new HDR brightness slider in the PC version too. In picture 1 you can see the settings in your picture. I don’t know if you are using these, but there is a massive black level raise, when you increase the new HDR brightness slider to 100. In picture 2 I use my recommend setting of 2 HDR Luminosity. I keep the new slider at 50. We can’t fix the black level raise anyway. It will just decrease overall brightness even more. I actually don’t see a use for the new slider. Maybe to increase brightness if you game in a very bright room ?

@HDRgameAnalysis Are these settings also in the PC version? They got added to console. It helps a lot with maintaining paper white with better black level

@JosephStPaul This is the massive black level raise at night time out in the open world if you don’t adjust LUTs. Thats why I think its worth changing the LUTs.

@HDRgameAnalysis Adjusting the LUT in this game is very questionable

@FilippoTarpini Here you can see the massive black level raise at night time at default values.

@HDRgameAnalysis Obviously, much appreciation for doing these guides and putting love in it! However, "best HDR settings" for RenoDX mods have limited value, as mods are already defaulted to proper values. Your taste is as subjective as the modder who made it.

@Adhil_nick Yes.

@HDRgameAnalysis So I should set 1100 on Max brightness. Thanks.

HDR analyses Death Stranding 2 on PC. HDR is broken if you use DLSS 😪 With DLSS the game only outputs 300 nits maximum so highlights, like the Sun in the sky, looks totally washed out. See picture 1. In picture 2 I have used the Pico upscaler instead and here HDR is not broken (or not so broken☺️). Other than that HDR is implemented the same way as on PS5. See my analyses in the link. The issues I pointed out in my PS5 analysis seams fixed in the RenoDX HDR mod that has already released 👍 Picture 4 is with the RenoDX mod. In picture 3 you can see the issues the Modder has fixed with RenoDX 👍 So PC gamers should use the RenoDX HDR mod, as always. I will in the next post link to where you can get the RenoDX mod (a version that works with DLSS). Turn on HDR in-game and leave in-game HDR settings at default. I will over the next days play Death Stranding more and make updates if relevant. I recommend visiting the RenoDX Discord Server to get updated info and to support the Modders.

@BenjaMv10 There will probably be plenty of mods you can use on PC to change tint.

@HDRgameAnalysis PC

@Adhil_nick LG C5 is 1100 nits on a 10% window.

@HDRgameAnalysis Just to confirm, LG C5 is 2000 nits?

@BenjaMv10 PC or console ?

@HDRgameAnalysis With my QN90F I'm noticing a greenish tint when using HDR. What could it be?

@Dk06C Keep it if you like it. Trust your own eyes.

@HDRgameAnalysis I have my exposure at 65 😂😬 mayve drop it a little then lol maybe 55

@Dk06C Your LG G5 can handle it. You don't mind the increase in shadows ?

@xAZERALx 920 nits and exposure of 40.

@HDRgameAnalysis For LG C4 what do you recommend the max brightness to be at ?

@Menwthmen I have never tried to use HDR10+ on my Samsung s90c, so I can't really say much about it.

@HDRgameAnalysis Would you reccomend hdr10+ gaming? I got a samsung qn90c and a s90f that I play on.

@JosephStPaul Why ? If you don’t then you will game with massive raised black levels at night time out in the open world.

@DevilishTay 460 nits on the peak brightness slider and 40 exposure.

@HDRgameAnalysis My AW3425DW has 460 nits at 10% and 260 nits at 100%. What should I set the exposure to?

3000 nits on the slider and 50 exposure. You can try and increase exposure a bit more because a 3000 nits capable TV can also handle a higher overall brightness. I have tried 60 and that lifted lower shadows to much for my taste. So try and increase exposure a bit more or simply stay at 50.

@HDRgameAnalysis For a 3000 nit tv