Love how they mix up PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC videos every other day. Makes all gamers happy with DF content.

@orosztamas1158

3 жыл бұрын

almost as if they are tech enthusiasts first and foremost, and not some shills like some lowlifes would have you believe

@aszneehitme8691

3 жыл бұрын

@@orosztamas1158 yOuR wRoNg. ThErE MiCrOsOFT sHiLls.

@Vyscera

3 жыл бұрын

@@aszneehitme8691 dude look at the videos posted. Twice as many Microsoft videos even after some embargo lifts. A 13 video on raytracing (entirely new tech to consoles)bin spider man but an 18 minute video on how lighting is the problem in halo infinite (despite other games using the same technique and not looking awful) and defending the game. Its not that hard to see.

@aszneehitme8691

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vyscera Wait, they posted more Microsoft related content therefore there Microsoft shills? And made an 18 min video critiquing Halo infinite's lighting, which also makes them Microsoft shills? How?

@undead2481

3 жыл бұрын

@@aszneehitme8691 Don't interact with fanboys, they'll only lower your sanity and make you realize how dumb people can truly be.

HDR is such a mess. When it looks good, IT LOOKS GOOD but it's so hard to get that. So many panels don't have the brightness or have far to few dimming zones or none at all. Heck there are so many cheap monitors/TV's that advertise HDR but meet literally no standards for HDR, they just accept HDR signals. Even some of the vesa standards are suspect. HDR 400 for instance is barely worth turning on in most cases and the TV/monitor your buying is probably bad for HDR in a bunch of other ways if it's using HDR 400. For the average person not buying a super high end display with 10 bit HDR 800, or higher, you are just going to be left with the impression HDR is all hype when it's really not. Good HDR is sadly only available on expensive stuff and I feel like before it trickles down people are going to have decided it's crap because they've only ever seen bad HDR.

@grahamt19781

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Imo it should be treated as false advertising if the panel's nits are sub 1000. People don't realise how significant HDR is on a proper display.

@EspHack

3 жыл бұрын

if only we could just move on from LCD... for now if you want ACTUAL HDR just get a phone, or an LG CX

@AdaaDK

3 жыл бұрын

HDR is worthless on ANY pc monitor,. unless your using a highend TV from within last 2 years or so, with Oled Or backlith zones VA/IPS panel.

@Kornholic

3 жыл бұрын

@@grahamt19781 LG C9 has less than 1000 nits yet the HDR is great.

@grahamt19781

3 жыл бұрын

@@AdaaDK Wow please don't comment unless you know what you're talking about.

Modding community is one of the most wonderful communities out there, so god bless those who works so hard to deliver such great results, and god bless those who support them!

Wouldn't mind seeing a video on this topic revisited now that Auto-HDR is on Windows now; maybe do a comparison on Xbox Auto-HDR, Windows Auto-HDR, and Special K which no doubt has had more HDR improvements made since this video.

@GucciGamerTV

Жыл бұрын

Came back to this video for this exact reason.

@DarkAurora2002

Жыл бұрын

Special K is 10 bit HDR and Windows Auto HDR is only 8 bit HDR but Auto HDR is a lot more compatible with games. I still recommend using Special K if it works fine with your game

@fabiandrinksmilk6205

Жыл бұрын

@@DarkAurora2002 Auto HDR uses a whitelist for game compatibility. The game Control isn't currently supported by Auto HDR, but it will work with Special K.

I've found when tweaking this mod on my LG CX that you want to find like a reference point in the image, such as the sun. If whatever game you're playing doesn't have a sun to look at, play around with the heatmap and brightness settings until you find some element in the scene that's hitting max luminance like say 1000nits. Once you've done that, lower the max brightness until the sun or whatever bright spot you've found contrasts quite well against the surrounding visual elements, but it's still quite bright. I've found by doing that it creates a fairly balanced image.

@sharpkatana1178

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this! I'm considering buying a CX. Have you experienced any image retention?

@waleskillz2795

3 жыл бұрын

@@sharpkatana1178 I have had the CX for 4 months now and I have not witnessed any so far.

@TheRacePig

3 жыл бұрын

@@sharpkatana1178 Nope, it's pretty much perfect.

@sharpkatana1178

3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant from all the research I've done this seems the best TV for gaming. Im console gamer and like playing and a big screen. I've got the Samsung mu7000 which is good but it won't be great for the PS5. How are the apps on the TV do you still get Iplayer, ITV and Channel 4?

@TheRacePig

3 жыл бұрын

@@sharpkatana1178 I'm Australian so I wouldn't know about the UK app stuff, but it has all the local TV apps and even Apple TV, so it should have all that stuff.

That starting music brings lots of memories of DS3.

@MarcLevins

3 жыл бұрын

God I love it so much, wish I could wipe my memory and replay it

@lotus1219

3 жыл бұрын

I want to replay it again but I'm afraid I'm rusty af now

@LavosYT

3 жыл бұрын

That Majula theme tho

I’m all for games that can “particularlarlarly” benefit from auto HDR.

@KingOfTheWiadro

3 жыл бұрын

So now it's confirmed - Alex is indeed a reptilian and his human form is malfunctioning.

@RealisiticEdgeMod

3 жыл бұрын

It works wonders in the corridor of "dewm". 5:10

@remasteredretropcgames3312

3 жыл бұрын

Some guy got into the reversible jacket of the lonely alien. No one has upscaled it yet. Shame on you world. Shame. DF should have the ultimate graphics archive of objectively superior renders and push for a new era of PC Master Race Enthusiasm since standardizing greatness has not been established. Divine Lords ascend to the throne of Legends. Give unto the planet your adoration, loyalty, and total reverence for the purity of raw texture renders with DLSS and FidlityFX 32bit accuracy tuned down to noise defying clarity at 16x AF. Praise be he to the ultimate Majesty of demuddifying textures and halting the Satan of FXAA at the Gates of Wonderous Steams Noble Gates.

@remasteredretropcgames3312

3 жыл бұрын

We all make mistakes. I was there when the strength of windows failed, that the memory leakism, UI collapsing, multi explorer.exe drunken blur effect, single thread maxing out for no listable reason in task manager..... I was there when the greed of x86 licensing faltered via SSE3 roads to emulation, and the days of system and compressed memory being interminable. My list of grievances far exceed the edges of our observable universe into a multiverse of idea generated multiverses when it comes to software engineering competence as if team work was a sort of tap on tap off.

@zachsteiner

3 жыл бұрын

Bahaha

Even just the words "Recommended for viewing on HDR displays" looks incredible in HDR. Like no joke if you're viewing this on a good OLED with a super high peak NIT value, that white on black text literally blazes in HDR, looks fantastic. To be fair, I have smoked a little wacky tobacco but regardless I think the point is valid.

@hbsamurai3173

3 жыл бұрын

you had us in the second half, not gonna lie

@user-pn1fe6sg2w

3 жыл бұрын

My A9F still blows me away.

@HueyTheDoctor

3 жыл бұрын

Having now watched the whole video, I have to say that the blacks are obnoxiously crushed by this PC injection software, I wouldn't personally use it until it's tweaked to not lose so much detail in dark scenes. Like Alex said, I suspect it's a contraindication problem with some kind of post processing effect like depth of field or whatever.

@SzymonKasperczyk

3 жыл бұрын

@@HueyTheDoctor OLEDs doesnt have super high peak nit values.

@BigLukeyBoi

3 жыл бұрын

@@SzymonKasperczyk and they don’t need to. Because blacks are literally black , whites stand out much more and don’t need thousands of nits to do so like on an LCD , burning your eyes in a dark room

I've been playing around with this over the last days after someone mentioned it in the comments under the Auto HDR video and got some great results in some games, especially unreal engine titles. As you mentioned, a lot of games don't really work yet, but I played Vampyr quite a bit which greatly profits from the HDR feature. Long story short: This is a tool I've been waiting for for years, basically since I bought my Oled 3 years ago. I'm glad the interest in HDR gaming on PC is finally picking up!

@Keivz

3 жыл бұрын

Curious as to how it compares to the 'auto HDR' setting that already exits in oled's or actual hdr in games that support in but set to sdr mode. I'll likely pass on this since it isn't quite the 'artist's vision' and overall looks off to me a lot of the time.

@DigitalDesires87

3 жыл бұрын

@@Keivz The setting in the OLEDs isnt really auto HDR, it just is fake interpretation of the colors and looks off and wrong all the time. My experience is that Special K can improve the visuals quite dramatically when it comes to HDR. It's not fake HDR, but the real deal, when it works as intended.

@Keivz

3 жыл бұрын

@@DigitalDesires87 makes sense. Thanks!

i don't have a 4k or hdr display. i just love watching these videos because the guys at DF have such relaxing voices. keeps me sane during my hectic work load

Watched this video on my new HDR TV. Very educational and cutting-edge content, thanks Alex!

It's really cool y'all put Kaldaien's Patreon URL in the actual video (not just the video description). I imagine a channel as large as y'all's doing something like that can have a pretty big impact on a modding tool author such as the legendary Kaldaien.

Speaking of HDR tone mapping, you might want to make REC2020 versions of the overlays (such as your name or the subscribe thing) - as they really look out of place.

@SeanBarkerNegaScott128

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, all the text and graphics look grey in the SDR version.

@i3l4ckskillzz79

3 жыл бұрын

Is rec 2020 better than rgb? I have the option to set my colors to rec 2020 and I noticed the colors are much more natural. Can someone explain that?

I love this channel so damn much - thanks for the info on this!

Great video. Watching it on an HDR and SDR screen side by side was quite enlightening.

Very cool, I had only just recently heard about Special K being able to do something like this. Excited to try it out on my LG CX.

I don’t know if it’s because it’s KZread with the blackening decoding, but most of the games shown here in the video are all “black-crushed” to my eyes. Or maybe it’s the mod. Maybe it’s the display I’m looking at.

@Kuranghi

3 жыл бұрын

Your display sounds normal, mine is a professionally calibrated £4000 TV and it looks the same as you describe. The highlights look awful too, all blown out giant white circles, even in the "ACEScg tonemapping mode".

@commercio3564

3 жыл бұрын

This comment is confusing. He literally said in the video that it's the ASCEG mod that's causing the black crushing.

@mrcraggle

3 жыл бұрын

I watched it on my Pioneer Kuro and it looked better there in SDR than it did my iPhone 11 Pro in 4K HDR. Sure the screen is tiny but is HDR worth it when the colours look so wrong?

@MKR3238

3 жыл бұрын

I found it very noticable in the ds2 comparison when standing at the cliff All the detail of the mantle is crushed in darkness (watched on an LG BX)

@Keivz

3 жыл бұрын

Use Microsoft Edge. Chrome screws up youtube HDR videos for me.

2:25 Particularllrlrlrlyy 😂

@ryan222074

3 жыл бұрын

haha!

@johnjohnhasabashat...2279

3 жыл бұрын

I do this all the time myself 🤣

@parisarnett87

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🤣🤣🤣 I knew someone did it

@raytheconsolepleb2893

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't that how you pronounce it??

@francisj4058

3 жыл бұрын

dude had a mini stroke

So wait control is a game that has a lot of ray tracing implementations but no hdr? 😂 That's so weird

“This video is brought you by Kellogg’s Special K cereal.”

@Happymonday2015

3 жыл бұрын

HDR cereal yum

It still kills me knowing I won't get another MGS game.

@pacomoreno1315

3 жыл бұрын

I feel the same bro

@hoesmad8626

3 жыл бұрын

Never say never - Justin bieber

@sherlockholmes7630

3 жыл бұрын

according to some leaks, we might get lucky.

@femto8402

3 жыл бұрын

@@sherlockholmes7630 Yeah a remaster/remake at best not a sequel from Kojima... I don't feel so lucky with Crapnami

@ozzyg82

3 жыл бұрын

Konami own the rights now. I reckon they’ll make more MG. It just wont be a Kojima game...

Me, watching a video about HDR on PC, while not owning a HDR monitor or PC, perfectly sums up my relationship with Digital Foundry. I basically have no idea what is being talked about most of the time, but still get unreasonably excited when a new video pops up.

@Pokedude1013

3 жыл бұрын

they all have soothing voices. Alex could do Crysis themed ASMR

@mikek92

3 жыл бұрын

I feel your pain ! I have an 65" Hisense TV in the living room . Cannot watch KZread in HDR on the built in app because Hisense removed HDR on it . My Xbox one X does the 4k just fine on it , but no HDR on KZread . The old HTPC I have hooked to it can't handle 4k@60fps , much less HDR ...

Love the Special K mod. The swap chain settings have fixed a number of games for me, like Tales of Vesparia. Kaldaien's been doing great work for years and his HDR mod has been getting better and better.

Nice video, Alex!

Thanks for the video, its stuff like this that keeps DF as my number 1 source. Definitely want to try out this mod, looks really interesting. Do wish there was a HDR brightness warning tho before the Witchery sunset and the plasma blow torch, because damn did they make my eyes water they was so bright (regret watching on a device with over 1k peak brightness). Apart from that, keep up the good work and stay safe.

Thanks for K-mode shotout! Really great for FFXV!

Great video and very informative as always. Thank you. Why i really like the bravia series on Sony HDR TVs. the X1 processor expands on SDR by itself. Of course its not the same like real HDR or when Special-K works as intended, but already much better than the usual SDR.

Auto HDR is huge and looks stunning. Really lookin forward the Series X

This will breath so much new life into older games, im stoked! Technically almost all games are hdr, but due to the lack of hdr monitors up until now they had to be tonemapped to work correctly on the display. Glad we are finally getting true HDR!

Would help with sharing what settings gave the best look in each game you tested. Witcher 3 was just a quick mention while the primary focus was on Control

I have dual monitor setup, one is HDR. I moved the video from one to the other and.... OMG it is truly showing!

I am one of those that was feeling a bit left out, Xbox bringing auto HDR? Can't we have it on Windows also please, but this does look good. Always wanted some HDR in Witcher 3 (especially in Toussaint) and in Dark Souls could also be quite interesting

alex hast mir ne menge zeit erspart danke brudi

As i scrolled through KZread videos on my phone the screen changed as I scrolled past this video so I knew something was up. So I can confirm that the HDR on my s9 and this video are working :)

@LavosYT

3 жыл бұрын

Same, first time I notice I have hdr lmao

@Skylancer727

3 жыл бұрын

Note 8 and S8 already had HDR so the S9 obviously would too. Though I believe the S9 also added dolby vision support.

OK I've just found out that my phone can display HDR and the screen brightness increased by a lot by itself when I've started this video! And the KZread's white background just became blindly white! Thanks for pleasant surprise Digital Foundry!

Wow, Control looks spectacular in hdr (zero surprise)!! With your influence, can you make Remedy patch in hdr for dx12? Or someone to help update Special K to include dx12 support... would love to see hdr and ray tracing all at once.

HDR videos can be viewed with the Edge browser on PC. Also how does this compare to Windows' default HDR tonemapping feature?

Man, Mirror's Edge already blinds me when playing on my ~300 nits TN laptop display at full brightness, since outdoor areas are almost fully white with a few very saturated colours (red/yellow/blue)

I think a revisit to this tool will be very apreciated by now. If the tool evolved.

Me watching this in 240p on an LCD non-hdr screen: Ah yes

@FlorentChardevel

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't even know that KZread supported HDR until DF said so...

@SoNobodyToldYaBaby

3 жыл бұрын

Yawn we get it you're poor

Starting a video with the Dark Souls 3 Theme guarantees an instant like

Beautiful how with XSX will implement in retro games , can’t Wait!

This is amazing to convert sdr to hdr automatically automatically automatically but i wish that someone do this manually for selected titles . great job keep on

Thanks for the Special K cereal recommendation Alex

Your videos are awesome!

Thank you for this 🙏

I hope you appreciate the sacrifice that I had to watch AN ENTIRE AD in order to see this in HDR :P

Ds2: Sotfs is a game that Really benefits from HDR and I've been saying it would since it came out It actually features some of the best lighting in the Dark Souls series but is hindered by a sort of grey filter that washes out the contrast and saturation of colours I remember that when I played it on PC I actually added a SweetFX profile that tries to eliminate this excessive ambient light and makes lights and shadows more stark to give the effect of HDR, and it does look very good but I could never help but think that it would look better on real HDR, and alas, it does!

Had to watch this video with my LG B8 oled. Nice quality.

I tried this months ago with DQXI and it was pretty effective! Better than a badly implemented support.

Alex, thanks for the great work as always. This is very informative. :D I wonder if you've had any personal experiences playing SDR games on a Sony Bravia such as x950g or x950h, with X-tended Dynamic Range enabled. This is an algorithm developed by Sony to enhance the contrast of image by 3 times, so it makes your SDR games look like HDR ones. I'd say the result is very splendid. The only difference noticable between it and real HDR to my eyes is that it lacks the fine control of light sources in real HDR, but this is due to the way that lights rendered in SDR are coded to have a larger bloom area, not the TV's problem. I'd say some of the dark areas could lack visibility of details compared to HDR, but still it's only a bit worse imo. And I wonder how the Special K Mod compares to Sony's X-tended Dynamic Range in terms of effects?

Would love an update on this topic looking at AutoHDR in W11

Amazing content as usual! No need to pronounce all the letters from ACEScg. Actually, in the movie industry, we just pronounce it as if it was one word and two letters: ACES (assess) and c.g. ^^

As an LG C8 owner, this makes me happy. It's worth the investment if you plan on doing any type of casual laid back gaming with the optional extra controllers.

@tydendurler9574

3 жыл бұрын

"Casual laid back gaming" Where you have to tweak your settings a million times yet it never looks right. Sounds awesome

@ApexMissedxD

3 жыл бұрын

Not familiar with the situation. I fiddled w mine the first time for setup and everything just looks fucking juicy every time. It's important to only use 1 screen at a time (using the windows menu to switch between screens in "show only" type) and to restart after making the adjustment... This to make sure the native res is booted into. Little shit imo.

What's the effective difference between using Special K, over ReShade with basic tone-mapping and bloom adjustments? You could always simulate an HDR-like experience up to your monitor's maximum brightness and contrast ratio with ReShade anyway...

@MrGencyExit64

3 жыл бұрын

Color gamut, absolute luminance, color precision... you'd get banding if you tried to do that with ReShade.

@KITOMERO

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrGencyExit64 But color gamut has to do with the monitor specification itself rather than HDR. Color precision is a toss up too, especially when calibration exists, and also some games are overly exaggerated and much less "precise" looking in HDR mode anyway. Finally, luminance not an issue if you play in a dark room or completely in the dark. The only thing I did suspect was increased banding when faking HDR, but then again, banding shouldn't be an issue for most scenes anyway (unless single RGB values are used or the scene is extremely dark). Other than that, the only thing left with HDR is the better contrast ratio with good local dimming displays, but even that gets beaten if you own an OLED.

@MrGencyExit64

3 жыл бұрын

@@KITOMERO Color gamut has to do with rendering too. We typically render into Rec 709, but our available HDR colorspaces for rendering are scRGB and Rec 2020.

This is a great start!! Hopefully these developers can make a few bucks on this project so the keep working on it!

Deus Ex: Revision with the DX11 renderer and HDR lighting rendering looks amazing, especially with the Helios Texture Overhaul. I don’t have an HDR monitor so I can only imagine how beautiful the game can look in true HDR.

Alex, ACEScg is pronounced Eh-sys CG. Thanks for the great video, as always.

People who are saying this looks worse are not watching it on an HDR display. The difference is huge and this Mod works magically.

Kaldeien is a legendary modder

Outstanding work Alex. Please do a gears of was 5 pc vs series x comparison when you get a chance 🤞

I’d like to see side-by-side comparison with this running on games that do include HDR, and with this running with HDR turned off, to see if you can get it looking very similar while the game is running with HDR on.

Well this caught my attention.

Hello, thank you for the content. I was wondering do you think that perhaps MS could get something like special k for fine-tuning all the auto HDR games.

Thanks for this educational video 👍 I hadn't heard of this feature yet, even though I've used Special K to fix some infamous PC ports of Japanese RPG's. AMD and Nvidia need to start working on driver implementation of Auto ✨HDR✨

Why at the start of the video it is mentioned that we have to have HDR on youtube we have to use either TV app or smartphone app? There is HDR on youtube on PC if Windows is set to HDR image and videos. Is it working working worse on windows, even when HDR is enabled?

When I go to sleep at night and I turn all the lights off, my environment is black crushed. Please Alex help me fix it. I'm tired of all the black crushed lighting when the lights are off. It's very unappealing for my eyes.

Thank you for this. Witcher looks fantastic on my monitor and it makes me want to buy it on PC if the mod keeps advancing.

Thx for this. New to Speacial K and didn't find any video that goes into how to use it. Yours did to a good extend :-). Question... Would you use Special K in pc games where there is already an HDR implementation of it? For example, Hell Blade now supports HDR. Would you then rather use Hell Blade HDR implementation and save some performance or go with Special K because it provides more control over how HDR looks?

Gods, I love Scholar of the First Sin, would love to have an HDR TV to see it with the toned down middle grey

I know it’s not just me, but I really wish that there were decent comparisons between HDR and non HDR visuals. I’m using an HDR display and I can tell that a lot of these games look different - but I really wish that we could have a good way to compare them side by side to really get the full effect

Black crush looks extreme with every game here watched on Sony x900f, but I really hope it can improve a bit over time without much tweaking as it's bound to be exhausting doing it for every game.

@isaiya6799

3 жыл бұрын

(copypaste) this reviewer missed one step posted by mod creator, it is to set gamma to 0.725~0.8 instead of 1.00 like hes using. I have no idea how he missed it and keep repeating about blackening issue

I’ve found that 4k often has better lighting for some reason, anything lower I see that crushed black you were talking about.

I wonder if this is something Valve would be interested in implementing to Steam officially. If Steam had internal support for select titles to apply auto-HDR I bet many users would try it out, especially if Steam Workshop has presets for certain titles to produce the best HDR image made by the community.

@MrGencyExit64

3 жыл бұрын

That was my original intention with the software, but I had a falling out with Valve and I'm independent now.

Isn't this a little like making a copy of a copy and fiddle with the levels in-between? I mean, many games are using HDR/PBR internally and then have a tonemapper (often filmic or unrealic) down to SDR before sending it to the screen buffer. Games with built in HDR support can convert the internal HDR to HDR10, scRGB, etc. and then bypass the tonemapper before sending it to the screen buffer. I assume that this solution is doing some kind of reverse-tonemapping (like with HDR MSAA) to pull things back up to HDR levels. Wouldn't that mean that information (luminance resolution) is lost and banding will occur?

@ArcadiaP

3 жыл бұрын

This is also one of the larger concerns in attempting to autoHDR games for precisely the reason you stated, they already employ an HDR to SDR tonemap. AutoHDR will be at its best if such a system could be disabled, but I don't think that's easily feasible and may provide other issues.

@meatsafemurderer7743

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArcadiaP It's possible. ENB grabs the untonemapped HDR buffers. The problem? You can't really do that in a generic one-size fits all fashion. It would need to be done on a per-game basis. Special-K could in theory do this, 3DMigoto can let you access the HDR information...of course with 3DMigoto you still need to perform quantization (and thus tonemapping to SDR) before output but in theory you could retain much of the color correction and such that is often done in that final post processing shader (depends on whether it's done before/after tonemapping) while outputting to a HDR buffer instead. Again, it'd be per-game and would require a level of shader programming knowledge that most people just don't have...but it *is* doable.

This looks so much different on the youtube app as Alex said, than watching on a browser using windows 10 HDR, its day and night comparing them, on the majula cliff comparison i can actually see a difference in wath Alex it's talking rather than just all bright. I always thought that it was my display or HDR wasn't worth, if anyone think something isn't right try using the native youtube app, HDR looks really Good When it works.

played my monitor (sdr) and S9 hdr side by side, wow HDR is impressive when its not too dark

Thumbs up for the deep analysis DF! However, I see a problem that appears in a few games you've analyzed with this HDR mod. HDR should mostly affect lights but I see a lot of saturated images here, which in my opinion make everything look fake and flat. Naturally it's a work in progress but HDR should not be mistaken with overly saturated images, but more details in grey, dark and light tones.

A 10% performance hit isn't 'light' for injectors or shades like this, it's quite big

@MrEditsCinema

3 жыл бұрын

What? It's definitely light. ENBs for example can hit the performance by half lol

@therogueforce

3 жыл бұрын

Considering that HDR normally is a small but noticeable hit on fps on its own, this really isn't that much.

@PardonMySanity

3 жыл бұрын

@@therogueforce integrated HDR is like a 2 fps hit on 1440p. You're playing yourself if you think you can notice that

@PardonMySanity

3 жыл бұрын

That's as big a hit as some games are raytraced for me

I did some special k at a legalise cannabis rally...it was real bad ass stuff and I snorted 2 huge lines as had tried it before and found it had little effect on my HDR perception! This time things were different!! All colours were richer and brightness had increased many nits and blacks were very much crushed. Then everything turned into a hole and sucked me into it! A while later my perception returned to SDR. People were looking at me in horror...apparently my HDR experience had impacted others. As I left the Hyde park rally someone said 'thx a lot m8 now they will never legalise it!" Let this be a warning about modding with special K !

@tydendurler9574

3 жыл бұрын

😁

FakeHDR with ReShade tools, while not quite as impressive as this, is a pretty decent alternative I find. It also works well on non-HDR monitors to improve the quality of image overall.

Strawberry Special K is an underrated cereal.

@sherlockholmes7630

3 жыл бұрын

notoriously underrated comment.

@AtracBreezy

3 жыл бұрын

Fax

@dan_loeb

3 жыл бұрын

There's a fruit and yogurt version with bits of strawberry and oat clusters and dried yoghurt clusters that is absolutely killer.

@melxb

3 жыл бұрын

lemon blueberry

@melxb

3 жыл бұрын

@@dan_loeb yes that one too is the newer i been wanting to try

8:47 best part of this video

It's amazing the work that modders do 👍.Just wondering is it free? with donations optional or a payed app/mod?

@MrGencyExit64

3 жыл бұрын

Free, donations are appreciated but not necessary :)

Any reason why no comparisons to native support HDR to this Auto/Mod HDR? Watching on a Vizio PQ-F1. There's no details in the HDR with this Mod HDR.

Watching on my Xperia 1 in 2160p 60 with HDR looks amazing!

@tydendurler9574

3 жыл бұрын

No, it does not. You are just an idiot with your Dumbphone. Sorry, but it's the truth.

Reshare already has HDR in this I'm surprised you didn't look at this first. I added HDR to a number of games one being RE5 and it works great with many other filters I even got rid of the nasty green filter with it. Curious how this compares.

Well now there's officially auto-hdr support coming for windows 10. It's already in insider preview build 21337

My new Samsung QLED has an option to convert Non-HDR to HDR in the menu. It's actually hidden by default, but you can turn it on in service mode. I actually think it works pretty dang well! I'd be interested to test it side / side vs this. But i have no real way to capture that.

This looks great on my CRT

The problem with an implementation like this is it doesn't really do anything other than map the sdr range to a greater brightness scale. That's why when adjusting it in that outdoor scene with the sun the entire center of the image goes from orange to black at the same time. There is no detail in the buffer for this to make use of.

@MrGencyExit64

3 жыл бұрын

You're thinking of the Xbox implementation. Mine actually increases the precision and range of the intermediate render targets (8-bit, 10-bit and 11-bit can all be promoted to 16-bit per color and allowed to go beyond the 1.0 brightness limit of SDR / fixed-point render targets), Microsoft's just takes the final image and does funny AI stuff to it :P AI can produce interesting results, but cannot create detail where none existed. Additionally, in a handful of games, I can control the luminance of the game scene and the HUD independently. That's not a general feature at the moment, but the tools to find the game's UI shaders are built-in to Special K. It's just kind of time consuming :-\ Still, a million times more than what Xbox does :)

@helloguy8934

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrGencyExit64 Oh heck. It's the developer himself.

@UltraCasualPenguin

8 ай бұрын

​​@@MrGencyExit64 4K, 144hz, 16bit, 4-4-4? What display and cable has bandwidth for that?

@MrGencyExit64

8 ай бұрын

@@UltraCasualPenguin What are you talking about? The format rendered into has nothing to do with the signal output (beyond you should render into a buffer that's higher precision than your display output). But plenty of displays can do 4K / 120 / 12-bpc over HDMI 2.1. DisplayPort 2.1 can easily do 4K / 144 / 12-bpc.

@UltraCasualPenguin

8 ай бұрын

@@MrGencyExit64 All SDR content is masteted with 8bit color depth (24bits/pixel in PCMustardRage slang).

Thankfully I was watching this on my QLED Samsung in HDR and it looks great. Where can I download Special K? I just downloaded Control to try this out.

I don't get it. Why is it causing black crush where a lowering/darkening the black levels reduces dynamic range? it seems to me that the software automatically adjusts the contrast/black levels so that it doesn't look flat

I'd love to know more about this. The app has changed somewhat since you last reviewed it. The thing I care most about is the heat mapping functionality. Sadly, it looks like you need to run HDR through Special K to get luminance heat mapping which means I can't use it to analyze HDR in games that actually include that feature.

@s9roo

2 жыл бұрын

Special K will allow you to use a Native HDR function (i.e. use the game's HDR) and tweak if necessary. In theory, that means you can also use the heatmap function.

@Saturn2888

2 жыл бұрын

@@s9roo maybe that's possible. I wasn't seeing it.

Disappointed with the amount of time spent with The Witcher 3 since it was the thumbnail.

The problem with most HDR capable displays is usually the (most common) SDR performance. Anything that's remotely affordable usually has (a) horrendous SRGB mode(s)! Of course that *can* be fixed through an icc profile, but a lot of programs don't adhere by that profile so you end up with a dilemma. Do I want great image quality sometimes & blown out colour performance most of the time or consistent decent image quality...

So the video started to autoplay on my phone as I came to check out the channel (as I often do) and I was suddenly reminded of the fact that my phone supports HDR, because it very clearly immediately switched to the HDR mode and suddenly everything looks way better on my phone. Now I don't wanna close the video because it'll go back to the boring normal visual mode. XD

Love your videos but I have a request. Can you put the original image (before) on the left and the comparison image on the right (after). Think of it like reading.

Please more HDR content. My phone loves it 😍

@tydendurler9574

3 жыл бұрын

😒

how do u torn off that HDR calibration pop up screen in the top right corner? also works amazing thanks for this!