Does ESO PC version include HDR colors?

IcyDeadPeople

I know there is HDR support for the PS4 Pro version, but how about PC? If I buy an HDR display and connect to my desktop PC, will I be able to see the HDR colors?

PlagueSD

https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-implement-hdr-support-directx-12-windows-10-xbox-one

starkerealm

...I mean, the game's rendering does include HDR functionality. I'm pretty sure every Elder Scrolls game since Oblivion has. I'm honestly not sure what you're asking about?

I mean, okay, HDR is a system where you shift the brightness dynamically in order to convey brightness more clearly. In the last 15 years, it's become a standard rendering function, and it's a really significant part of how images are displayed in most games. So... yeah, ESO does that.

Rohamad_Ali

Every screenshot I've seen of HDR display was too bright for my tastes . Sometimes those monitors work great for Movies but games display a strange fluorescent color everywhere .

Panomania

Absolutely not needed with PC. Graphics card ssettings now can be tweaked easily enough to make this unnecessary.

Rohamad_Ali

This is a ss I found from pspro but I've seen this posted from PC players with HDR settings .




So you understand better what I said by fluorescent looking .

IcyDeadPeople

starkerealm wrote: »

...I mean, the game's rendering does include HDR functionality. I'm pretty sure every Elder Scrolls game since Oblivion has. I'm honestly not sure what you're asking about?

I mean, okay, HDR is a system where you shift the brightness dynamically in order to convey brightness more clearly. In the last 15 years, it's become a standard rendering function, and it's a really significant part of how images are displayed in most games. So... yeah, ESO does that.

No I'm referring to expanded 12-bit color space HDR video / Rec.2020 or Rec.2100 color gamut. My understanding is with games on PC this is a feature that must be deliberately implemented by the developer.

ESO Patch 1.19 added this feature for the PS4 Pro, but so far haven't heard anything about this becoming available for PC users yet.

According to someone on NeoGAF

What actually happens is that the game internally renders HDR lighting and then in order to display this dynamic range on TVs (which are incapable of displaying the full range) they have to tone map the image to a limited range. For normal TV this range is 0-255 and games have been doing this for years and years since Half Life 2.

However the new HDR TVs are capable of displaying range from 0-1023 for HDR10 and higher for Dolby HDR but in order to use this ability the developers now have to tone map to this range instead of tone mapping to be displayed on 0-255. This process is not automatic and this is why developers need to support HDR displays in order for the games to use them. And yes you guessed it right even HDR TVs don't really display the full range it's just that they are capable of displaying a lot more range than older non HDR TVs.

PlagueSD

Ah, so basically going from 8-bit to 10-bit graphics.

256^3 = 16,777,216 colors (your standard 16 million colors)
1024^3 = 1,073,741,824 colors (1 billions colors)


Nice!!!

starkerealm

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

This is a ss I found from pspro but I've seen this posted from PC players with HDR settings .




So you understand better what I said by fluorescent looking .

I think my eyes are bleeding.

IcyDeadPeople

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

This is a ss I found from pspro but I've seen this posted from PC players with HDR settings .




So you understand better what I said by fluorescent looking .

Well it's kinda difficult to accurately assess the color of these images until I buy an HDR display