I could have sworn it was once possible to enable HDR on multi-display setups if the main display was HDR capable. Caused the other displays to look off though, so perhaps they removed that functionality.
Nvidia TrueHDR and Elite
- Thread starter de_richleau
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I could have sworn it was once possible to enable HDR on multi-display setups if the main display was HDR capable. Caused the other displays to look off though, so perhaps they removed that functionality.
rootsrat
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I'm on the same setup, I'll confirm it is behaving the same if I get the time to test out tomorrow.
Did you see if you could replicate what I'm seeing, by any chance?
I did a feedback to nVidia on it but it was anonymous so I won't see any reply.
EDIT:
Actually, there's a wider question here too: has anyone played around with settings for ED in this app? I haven't tried yet as there's some stuff I need to do first.
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rootsrat
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I've been messing around with some tone map curves that I pulled out of an ancient build of the game which coincidentally seem to work really well with HDR.
If anyone wants to give them a shot, merge this into your to GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml:
Reworking your HDR settings, regardless of the method you're using, may also be required. I'm not sure what settings NVIDIA TrueHDR exposes, but this is what I'm using with SpecialK:
If anyone wants to give them a shot, merge this into your to GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml:
XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsConfig>
<HDRNode>
<ExposureType>2</ExposureType>
<ManualExposure>0.0</ManualExposure>
<ShoulderStrength>0.491000</ShoulderStrength>
<LinearStrength>0.707000</LinearStrength>
<LinearAngle>0.704000</LinearAngle>
<ToeStrength>1.185000</ToeStrength>
<ToeNumerator>1.377000</ToeNumerator>
<ToeDenominator>1.976000</ToeDenominator>
<LinearWhite>5.242000</LinearWhite>
</HDRNode>
<HDRNode_Reference>
<ExposureThreshold>1.000000</ExposureThreshold>
<Percentiles>0.010000,0.540000,0.999000</Percentiles>
<ManualExposure>0.0</ManualExposure>
<GlareCompensation>1.25</GlareCompensation>
<ShoulderStrength>0.491000</ShoulderStrength>
<LinearStrength>0.707000</LinearStrength>
<LinearAngle>0.704000</LinearAngle>
<ToeStrength>1.185000</ToeStrength>
<ToeNumerator>1.377000</ToeNumerator>
<ToeDenominator>1.976000</ToeDenominator>
<LinearWhite>5.242000</LinearWhite>
<ACES_A>2.51</ACES_A>
<ACES_B>0.03</ACES_B>
<ACES_C>2.43</ACES_C>
<ACES_D>0.59</ACES_D>
<ACES_E>0.14</ACES_E>
</HDRNode_Reference>
</GraphicsConfig>Reworking your HDR settings, regardless of the method you're using, may also be required. I'm not sure what settings NVIDIA TrueHDR exposes, but this is what I'm using with SpecialK:
They iterated around it and as of 2024 you can do this IF you are on a fully patched Windows 11 (or Canary which is where they did all the iteration and I had to redo ClearType every damn reboot for about a month).
Meantime if you do want to "disconnect" an SDR display anyway @Tyres O'Flaherty you might find disabling that display in Device Manager is enough, no need to start physically unplugging things. (Every so often my dock decides it's going to redetect the unused external connectors on it, which then get presented over USB, so I have to keep redoing that...)
I am reanimating this long dead thread to update on the current state of the nvidia RTX HDR.
One of the disappointing parts when it first came out earlier in the year was that you couldn't use DSR at the same time. I'd been using the RTX DSR at 1.78x resolution to smooth out the aliasing in Elite (works well for that.)
Anyway, latest update allows RTX HDR and the DSR to be used at the same time, and the game looks pretty brilliant with it.
They have clearly been updating this, but I don't know if the multimonitor issue is fixed yet or not as I only use one - but for those of you who were having issues with this previously it might be worth trying again now to see if anything has changed.
One of the disappointing parts when it first came out earlier in the year was that you couldn't use DSR at the same time. I'd been using the RTX DSR at 1.78x resolution to smooth out the aliasing in Elite (works well for that.)
Anyway, latest update allows RTX HDR and the DSR to be used at the same time, and the game looks pretty brilliant with it.
They have clearly been updating this, but I don't know if the multimonitor issue is fixed yet or not as I only use one - but for those of you who were having issues with this previously it might be worth trying again now to see if anything has changed.
I tried that, now my game looks aboslutely trash, oversaturated, but also washed out, and I can't seem to revert it.
Following this thread I installed specialk to make Elite work with HDR. It is the only game where windows Auto-HDR does not look good for me but gives black a grey gain and makes the whole galaxy look bland. However after injecting specialk through steam properties into the game I am not able to open the ODS ingame with ctrl + shift + backspace. My monitor a gigbyte M27Q cabeble of hdr, I am playing on an AMD 7900xt. What could I do wrong?
I don't use Steam and am unfamiliar with this method of applying SpecialK to a game. Is the SpecialK launcher/tray menu running? Are there any SpecialK processes in listed in Task Manager?
Assuming SpecialK is launching correctly I'd then suspect some conflict with some other overlay.
Yes specialk was running and ED shown as injected process I was able to toggle HDR on and off with the keyboard shortcut. However the overlay would not come up so I was not able to play around with any options. Meanwhile I found out that AMD Adrenaline was interfering with the windows HDR settings. After switching that off and recalibrating win HDR I think can can life well with the result. Will keep specialk and try out in other games.
Tried to get some improvement with Elite for a while today with HDR, but to no avail. It just creates a lot of banding/grading of colors, that aren't smooth. I'm returning to SDR after this experiment.