Greetings everybody, the Steam Deck OLED is the first device I’m actually using HDR on and I’m having some trouble figuring out how to actually configure HDR (not how to enable it but how to find the right values for brightness, white-/blackpoint etc.)

Are there any guides or can you share any tips how to configure HDR for the best results? Currently looking to set it up in Baldur’s Gate 3 and Diablo 4.

  • gangstazn24@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    HDR for handhelds is very nice thing this is the first handheld to implement the tech it’s goin to be awhile before it gets better it will tho with updates Linux and even windows OS still not great with HDR

  • ihave3apples@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Right now is a rocky time, but there’s a lot of hope out there that the Steam Deck will provide a common baseline for an HDR screen that developers can optimize for, something that has never existed before for HDR.

    I have 1 primary recommendation, which is to never set your display brightness above 75%. Your highlights will start clipping and you will lose detail.

    If a game’s HDR implementation is good (unforunetly this is not the case most of the time) you will be able to turn on HDR and go. Steam Deck’s OLED display is very similar to the most popular gaming OLED TV’s and monitors that are out there today, and even if it’s not absolutely perfect settings, it could be close.

    I’ll give you a headstart on BG3. Set Brightness to 150, which calibrates the display to 1000 nits peak. I set contrast to 1.10, but raise it to 1.15 or 1.2 if you love a super contrasy look.