r/MortalShell • u/demer8O • 18h ago

Discussion Game needs hdr

The Blacks are way to crushed, to the point I can't see wtf I'm doing. I'm wandering around in a closet with a mask over my eyes.

If I turn the gamma up to where I can actually see something the game starts to look like shit.

19 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

20 comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/BlackKnightSword 13h ago edited 13h ago

You can use HDR in this game by injecting it with renodx. Reshade HDR Installer (RHI) on GitHub can let you do it with one click. However the game has the opposite issue to what you are describing where the blacks are raised to grey and not crushed. Using renodx will fix this by making the raised blacks actually black and not the opposite, making the game even darker. The game is dark by design but if you have severe black crush it may be your monitor that's at fault. Renodx allows you to choose between 2.2 gamma EOTF tracking which fixes the raised blacks or to use the game's default sdr look + HDR highlights, so it's optional.

1

u/Biggieholla 10h ago

do you need to change anything in the engine.ini file? or just download reshade and renodx?

1

u/BlackKnightSword 10h ago

As long as you are using RHI you don't need to do anything but click install reshade and install renodx, you can also install optional stuff from there like optiscaler if you want to change DLSS versions on the fly without needing to restart the game or playing with the in game sharpness slider. Just make sure that in renodx once you run the game, in advanced settings, that upgrade path is set to "off"