How many of you take advantage of HDR while gaming?

[GrahfsLament]

I have a 65" Bravia that does both 4K and HDR and, as a result, a PS4 Pro. I have to say that I absolutely love HDR in my PS4 games. It definitely makes particle effects really pop. My first exposure was RE7, and I was floored by how beautiful/believable fire in the game was. I'm not going to say I could actually feel the flames, but I think it was as close to feeling them as any visual representation is likely to get me (excepting, perhaps, VR, but I have not braved that new world as of yet). Of course, this all held true for the RE2 & RE3 Remakes as well. It definitely seems to me, going from those three games to FF7 Remake, Spider-Man, Horizon: Zero Dawn, God of War, and Days Gone, that non-HDR PS4 games just look a little less alive, a little less believable/cohesive, a little more...flat (these are all probably nonsensical descriptors, but I stand by my nonsense).

At any rate, while they are not mutually exclusive, I have to agree with others who've said they'd take HDR over 4K or feel it makes a bigger impact (though, on the Pro, this would be an easy choice since at least some of the games listed above don't actually hit native 4K but all do full HDR).

Peh said:

Chazore said:
I'd actually like an HDR monitor, but seeing as how poorly the tech is being supported on PC, I might just wait for a good OLED monitor and roll with that instead.

What do you mean by poorly supported?

Windows 10 has native HDR support which runs pretty good by now.

All of that HDR gushing gushed, the PS4 is, unfortunately, my only frame of reference for HDR gaming. I haven't played any PC games that support HDR apparently (https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_support_high_dynamic_range_display_(HDR)), but I can say that I find Windows 10 itself a bit more difficult to navigate when HDR is enabled (as opposed to the PS4's ...triple-decker XMB? which only looks slightly different to me under HDR). Regardless of which profile I select on my TV (HDR10, HLG, BT.2020, etc., etc.) Windows 10's desktop just seems to suffer from a sort of "black crush" that's not present on the console. Of course, there could be some hidden option (or likely a blatantly obvious one!) I'm missing, but I usually just have to leave the settings window open and toggle HDR on just prior to starting a video (at which point, the video looks fine).

Last edited by GrahfsLament - on 27 July 2020