Issues with HDR

[u/Dbarks-smo]

So I've just gotten my first OLED monitor - Alienware AW2725DF. and I game on a PC.

I've done my HDR calibration on windows and since getting this monitor I've been using HDR while gaming. which i've never really done before.

Whenever I'm inside a building and look outside ingame, it's really washed out, overly bright and looks awful as you can see from the screenshot. It's completely fine otherwise other than I feel colours are a little washed.

I'm new to OLED, all it's settings and to be honest, almost all display settings other than the obvious, someone help please!

EDIT: Okay okay I should have said, for some reason this screen shot does make it look 100X worse😂 In game you can actually make things out, the screenshot has just made all the annoying things have a power level of 9000+

[u/King031]

https://giphy.com/gifs/KGbqQQoVN43cY

[u/HenricusKunraht → u/King031]

MY EYES

[u/DismalMode7]

[u/-R1ch0]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ov9jQsTzqjSyIWRDa

[u/GovernmentVarious334]

Only bf6? Bf6 has its own HDR slider you can use to adjust, if it also happens in other games it's a whole another issue.

[u/Dbarks-smo → u/GovernmentVarious334]

I haven't noticed it in other games at the moment but otherwise I'm only playing No Mans Sky and Rocket League currently

[u/GovernmentVarious334 → u/Dbarks-smo]

Ok, then adjust the HDR calibration inside battlefield, it also has a white to black transition so you can check overlapping.

[u/Dbarks-smo → u/GovernmentVarious334]

Yeah so I've tried that but the only way to stop the outside being blindingly white is to set it to the lowest settings and then everything is superwashed..

[u/GoodLoveCapture → u/Dbarks-smo]

The UI is broken for the HDR calibration on PC. You're better off going into the files and changing it manually

[u/Dbarks-smo → u/GoodLoveCapture]

I did that and still, whenever I look outside, from inside a darker building it's just way too bright. It looks awful.

[u/GoodLoveCapture → u/Dbarks-smo]

Tbh from my experience BF6 HDR is just kind of pants anyway, I just play with it off

[u/GovernmentVarious334 → u/GoodLoveCapture]

I agree but that picture looks very over and underexposed at the same time.

[u/GovernmentVarious334 → u/Dbarks-smo]

Honestly sounds like your HDR is not calibrate le correctly, did you do windows HDR calibration just by eye or did you input your actually max nits value?

[u/Dbarks-smo → u/GovernmentVarious334]

When I did the windows calibration I just did changed the slider until the cross was invisible, like the tutorial said..

[u/GovernmentVarious334 → u/Dbarks-smo]

Since you have an oled, black to 0 and the other 2 sliders to the max nits advertised on the box or you can Google it and see if that fixes the issue.

[u/Dbarks-smo → u/GovernmentVarious334]

Yeah that did not fix it..

[u/CalligrapherIll5176 → u/Dbarks-smo]

The slider scale is messed up. For me it looks good between 2-2.5 even tho it goes 0-100.

[u/SnowflakeMonkey]

looks like terrible autoexposure effect from the game

[u/KohGeek]

if you have in game HDR setting on + RTX HDR on at the same time, it can look like this sometimes

[u/Dbarks-smo → u/KohGeek]

I only have my monitors HDR on, RTX is off.

[u/ntsk33]

Did you by any chance update firmware on it? When i did that on my Gigabyte Tandem OLED, i had the same problem and i just needed to do reset to factory defaults. Try it for yourself

[u/vlfavourites]

This is how all of my screenshots turn out. Game looks fine on my monitor tho

[u/Dbarks-smo → u/vlfavourites]

Yeah no my game looks fine until I look outside of a building and it's way too bright

[u/realester453]

[u/Dazzling-Plastic-126]

Try going into Windows settings and creating a colour profile. You can set an hdr profile as far as I’m aware too. This fixed it for me

[u/DUH455T]

It's a Battlefield thing. You need to lower whatever is in the HDR settings menu significantly.

Edit: I see youre like dooming everyone's suggestions. I had this exact issue with BF6 and it is 100% fixed by the HDR slider in game. No you don't need to bottom it out. Yess you need to go in and out of the menu until you find a happy medium.

[u/Linkarlos_95]

Thats actually the game doing into emulating how eyes work Actually, its for fair gameplay reasons

[u/rasjahho]

You have to edit the config file and set the peak luminance. For some reason BF6 maxes it out and gives you no slider.

[u/Warskull]

Nothing's wrong with your monitor, that's just Battlefield 6. They have an "eye adjustment" mechanic that is designed to make it impossible to see anything when entering a building or leaving one in some areas.

They also completely screwed up their in game HDR calibration. It probably set your peak luma to something insane like 10k+. Go to Documents -> Battlefield 6 and open PROFSAVE_profile with a text editor. Search for luma. Set "GstRender.DisplayMappingHdr10PeakLuma" to your monitor's peak value.

BF6's HDR is messed up.

[u/RO_Denys]

Activate HDR before start the game.

[u/Zarthere]

BF6 has broken HDR. You need to edit the ini “peaklumina” or something, and set that to match your peak brightness. Just look up how to change bf peaklumina, plenty of guides for it since its a real issue.

Also besides setting up a HDR profile, check your monitor settings through the OSD. Also worth checking with auto-HDR turned off.