HDR In Games -- Suggestions

General
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I can get HDR to work in some games but in others like Uncharted, the colors look washed out. I do not think it is properly exposing the colors. Is there something I can do to remedy this? I have read lots of posts at various websites but nothing really helps so i figure I would ask here.

I am running Uncharted with Proton-GE-Custom v9.25-1

Launch options

PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 DXVK_HDR=1 PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 %command%

The Last of Us seems to be maybe displaying the colors correctly but some scenes look off to me.

Running same Proton-GE-Custom

VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11 VKD3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=12_1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 DXVK_HDR=1 PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 %command%

System

Monitor Asus PG32UCDM QD-OLED
Min brightness 265 nits
Peak 1000 nits
20% APL brightness 450 nits
Plasma Color Profile – Built In
Plasma Color Accuracy – Prefer Color Accuracy

Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.13.3-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
Memory: 94.2 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Manufacturer: ASUS
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Well don´t know what Engine Uncharted use… but if its the Unreal Engine then it looks goofy… like Hogwarts Legacy, Midnight Suns or FF7 Remake or Rebirth…, Games like Planet Coaster 2 runs great with HDR… but as far i know… HDR with Linux are still in Beta… maybe Alpha state

3

I think it is Naughty Dog’s engine. I even tried with Gamescope but the HDR still looks off.

4

Sorry, i dont have any game from them… so i can´t help you out… ohh owner is Sony… well no surprise about there PC Gaming Ports… are most time a mess^^ and most games nixxes do the port^^

5

It is a fun game and like being in an action movie.

Anyway, I will keep reading up on my options and see if I run across anything.

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Think I might have gotten it to work. I added these two commands to the launch options and it looks like it is working somewhat. In certain areas it looks off but that is probably due to the lack of HDR controls in the game.

DXGI_ENABLEUE4WORKAROUNDS=TRUE
DXVK_ALLOWFSE=TRUE

DXGI_ENABLEUE4WORKAROUNDS

I am using this because if you look at the program that is running in the process viewer, it say UE4.

The other one says in the description of it

# Allows the Vulkan driver to opt-in to exclusive full-screen mode on
# Windows. Certain features, such as variable refresh rate or HDR, will
# not work without this setting, however enabling it will break certain
# games that use additional GDI windows, and it will also break alt+tab.

Figured I would add that too since it said that about HDR.

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Nice find, will test it out, but Unreal Engine and HDR is always a mess^^