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Steam on Linux (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 25 points 7 months ago

Last time I tried it, it was a nightmare on Windows as well.

I have an HDR monitor and I turned that off because it looked awful. Nex Machina was completely unplayable even then, as it detected it anyway and shows a completely washed out picture.

Only consoles and set top boxes seem to support it properly. It looks really good when it works.

[-] TwanHE@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Might just be your monitor, HDR certifications mean barely anything and it's not uncommon for them to look worse with HDR than without.

My last 2 monitors supposedly had hdr but are unusable in reality.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 7 months ago

Nah, it looked shit on my TV as well, and that's an LG OLED. Everything just a lot darker than normal, and only the actual HDR content looks right. The settings for SDR were next to useless.

It looked OK in a full screen game I did get working (one of the recent Tomb Raiders), but such a mess outside it, and it even corrupted the screen when trying to play full screen videos, leading to full system crashes.

The monitor isn't super bright for HDR content, but the issues go well beyond just that.

[-] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

One of my monitors is "HDR ready", whatever that means. Sure as shit doesn't look like HDR though

[-] Rev3rze@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago

I had the exact same infuriating experience the first half hour of using my OLED panel but it turns out it was simply because Firefox doesn't support hdr. You have to use edge or chrome for hdr content online. So now I use edge purely for YouTube and Firefox for everything else.

[-] metaldream@sopuli.xyz 0 points 7 months ago

HDR is plug and play windows, you just need to turn it on in the settings

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 7 months ago

If it all worked for you out of the box and you're happy with it, then great.

But your experience was not my experience.

[-] metaldream@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Your comment was in the past tense though. I had issues with hdr on windows 10 but not windows 11.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

It might be fixed in W11. I wouldn't know. They won't let me upgrade to it even if I wanted to.

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