I don't play on console so I can't really compare to the options there, but I do use reshade to get HDR-like effects (at some small performance cost). Having had a bit of opportunity to look at the new HDR on a new alt account that isn't locked, it looks good, really good. Maybe not enough to give up reshade entirely (like for the sharpening effects) but in terms of adjustments to brightness and color? This is some seriously great work and will 100% be replacing those reshade effects!

Whilst the settings work before in some areas, this is what I am seeing from within the trial

I am also finding it hard to get a good balance between dark and light areas, its headtorch or sunglasses

This is my semi-happy level at



Everything feels a lot more vivid than windows HDR taht I ahve been using and the HDR Mode setting for Vivid is on steroids

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on PC. My TV is HDR capable and I can play HDR games.

ESO's HDR on does not activate the HDR video mode on my TV at all, and it just looks awfully white.

Did you make sure to go to your display settings in windows for the TV and enable HDR mode?

Note: on PC when you enable HDR mode, most monitors don't come properly visually balanced. In my case, I needed to go into my NVIDIA control panel and mess around with the sliders to make the colour distribution look correct. At default, HDR enabled looks like I'm viewing everything in old timey sepia tone.

moo_2021 wrote: »

MashmalloMan wrote: »

moo_2021 wrote: »

on PC. My TV is HDR capable and I can play HDR games.

ESO's HDR on does not activate the HDR video mode on my TV at all, and it just looks awfully white.

Did you make sure to go to your display settings in windows for the TV and enable HDR mode?

Note: on PC when you enable HDR mode, most monitors don't come properly visually balanced. In my case, I needed to go into my NVIDIA control panel and mess around with the sliders to make the colour distribution look correct. At default, HDR enabled looks like I'm viewing everything in old timey sepia tone.

Yep "Play HDR games and apps" is enabled, but full screen games are supposed to turn on "HDR" signal. That was not on - the TV screen is still in non-HDR mode.

Just to clarify, I'm referring to this windows setting which doesn't sound the same as the one you're mentioning. It sounds like you're referring to a TV menu setting:

What's weird is the windows setting will not even allow me to turn HDR (off) for my TV (which I play ESO on my 55" HDTV)... the screen blinks and reverts back to original setting. I'm hoping I can turn it off in the game settings (I'm not on PTS), since I DO NOT like HDR and have it turned off in every device I own. My PC monitor is not HDR, so I don't have to worry about it there.

I've been playing with HDR and it has been great. However today I encountered an issue with toggling HDR off then back On:

I wanted to take a screenshot in non HDR mode, so I quit the game, turned off HDR in my Windows settings, launched the game, and loaded my characters just fine. I then quit the game again, reenabled HDR in my Windows settings, and relaunched the game but whenever I tried to load that character the game instantly crashes to the desktop.

I had to go to the Settings > Video > HDR and toggle it back to ON (it was OFF) in order to stop the game from crashing and get back in. I can't remember if I had turned it off myself before quitting the game the first time, or if it turned itself off. But it appears that attempting to load the game while your system is in HDR enabled mode, but the game is in HDR OFF mode can cause the game to CTD while loading characters.

Edit: just had this happen again on launching the game without touching the HDR settings form ON, I had to turn it off System Side to stop my game crashing on character load.

Edit 2: I'm 95% sure this is caused by HDR, but it actually seems to be getting worse. Now even after repairing my game and toggling HDR I'm still getting CTDs trying to load characters.

Edit 3: This might be a bad interaction with addons somehow? I toggled off all my addons using the global setting and was able to load in, but these addons weren't causing any issues an hour ago, and this is the first time I've touched the addon settings during this whole process.

Can we get a saturation slider? It's dramatically over-saturated on the default profile for me and the vivid profile is.. vomit inducing. It actually looks worse on screen than Game Bar's HDR grabs can convey.

Default:


Vivid:


In between the saturation being so off (and so much like so many modern phones.. right down to the way overblown blues) and the way the UI interacts with HDR on, honestly "auto-HDR" does a better job (despite being pretty bad).

HDR UI is just for the User Interface, so why have it?
Why not have HDR settings separate for indoor and outdoor?

awww this sucks, I was wondering why the game looked so weird and here is the answer, I almost lost my head seeing if the option was moved somewhere else.