Remember also that HDR isn’t just raising luminance but widening the range between very dark and very light, so shadows and night scenes aren’t washed out, as they would be if you just cranked up brightness and contrast on your monitor.įar Cry 6, Auto HDR off Far Cry 6, Auto HDR on (Note! This is a PNG image, which plays nice with our CMS but doesn't show true HDR data. It’s a colourful game in SDR, but Auto HDR helps bring out the many shades of lush green, and the extra brightness intensifies the sense of being beaten down upon by the sweltering Yaran sun. In fact, Far Cry 6 might pull off Auto HDR the best of all the games I tested. I got it working on brand-new games like Far Cry 6 and New World without any fuss at all. It’s a completely system-level tweak, so game developers don’t even need to do anything on their end to enable it – you, the discerning user, can just switch on Auto HDR and see it brighten everything up (assuming that you have an HDR monitor). Auto HDR can’t do much about that first point, and you’ll still need an HDR monitor to take advantage of it, but it does get around the second by using tone mapping techniques to replicate HDR on games without a native implementation. The catches, as far as PC gaming is concerned, are twofold: one, you need an HDR-compatible monitor that can actually output the brightness levels needed to show a visible difference, and two, support comes on a game-by-game basis, with most games launching without native HDR capability. HDR makes it easier to make out fine details in brightly-lit areas of the screen, too.
If you’re unfamiliar, HDR (High Dynamic Range) content is presentedusing a wider range of colours and luminosity levels than the much more common SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) in short, games running in HDR tend to look more vibrant, with a higher ceiling for retina-searing brightness.
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