[Solved] Faded colors when HDR is on in SOTR (Proton Experimental) (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by hypertown@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hi, recently I bought HDR monitor I wanted to try out gaming in HDR so I downloaded Shadow of the Tomb Raider I got year or two years ago for free on Epic, turned on HDR in settings and well... It looks worse than SDR. Colors are way less saturated, everything is really faded.

I thought that maybe that's the fault of monitor or something but knowing HDR is kinda new in Linux I decided to spin up old windows partition to see if it looks any better. And to my surprise it looked great!

Is there a way to fix those faded colors?

I'm running Kernel 6.6, Plasma 6 (Wayland), Heroic Launcher, Proton Experimental with launch options: DXVK_HDR=1. GPU is RX 6700 XT and monitor is Gigabyte M27Q.

I tried running it also with gamescope but effect was the same.

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[-] 1adam12@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

HDR is enabled in Plasma? Does your desktop look washed out when it’s enabled as well?

What launch options did you use for gamescope?

[-] hypertown@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Yes, HDR is enabled in Plasma but desktop looks fine. Only game is washed out. As for gamescope I just enabled it in Heroic so no additional options. But with or without gamescope it looks the same.

[-] 1adam12@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

Try gamescope with the —hdr-enabled launch option

[-] hypertown@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

That option works, thanks!

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Is it enabled in the game?

[-] hypertown@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Yes I was comparing on/off since you can toggle it in game.

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