• Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Is HDR just so amazing that it’s worth the hassle of using windows though? Games get shinier all the time, it’s not really exciting to me anymore. Give it a year and it’ll be in anyway, and people will be on to the next randomnhotness that they can’t possibly live without that somehow they were fine without the year previous.

    • sheogorath@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If you’re using an actual HDR capable display, HDR is pretty amazing. I know it’s weird reading about it online, but the lighting seems so much more “real” when you’re playing games on HDR. You actually have to “see it to believe it” as you can’t see it from screenshots or from people taking pictures of their displays.

      Windows 11 actually has a calibration tool similar to the ones at the console so you can get good HDR on Windows.

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      I see so many people struggling to get HDR working even on Windows I wonder if it’s really worth the trouble

      • halva@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        i think it’s mostly due to how prevalent fake hdr monitors are

        most people don’t understand it’s essentially impossible to get hdr without an OLED/microLED or MAYBE VA and keep buying into marketing bullshit, which leads them to having pretty shitty experiences

      • UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        It’s not even implemented well in very many monitors. I think a lot of people just turn it in cause it’s supposed to be “better” even if it doesn’t make much of an actual difference.