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Nvidia says its surprisingly high $3.3B gaming revenue is expected to drop but 'not to worry' because next year will be fine wink RTX 50-series wink (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anyone who has a 4090 more than likely already has an HDR monitor.

Otherwise, what are they doing?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have a 4090 and my display supports HDR and its disabled because fuck HDR. Do people actually like getting blasted with a floodlight because HDR automatically maxes your screen brightness? Like fuck I think my screen with HDR enabled is brighter than my lamp.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's not at all how HDR works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You don't have it configured correctly. That's not what HDR is supposed to do. Or you have a fake HDR monitor.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's default behaviour on windows11, I have an MSI titan laptop that definitely supports it. I've done 0 to configure it. My brightness is typically at minimum or near to, enabling HDR immediately and consistently maxes brightness on the majority of the screen. It's utterly unusable. It goes with things that people say matters like 1000nits of brightness or whatever when I actually want like 300, so my eyes don't start bleeding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'll say it again. You have it misconfigured. That isn't what HDR is supposed to do. You either have settings wrong in Windows, or in the games.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That is default windows, if it's misconfigured then it ships misconfigured. I've done nothing except click the slider that turns it on, and then 5 seconds later off again as the dark mode settings menu blasts me with the full force of the screen.

If default doesn't work, I don't really feel like repeatedly blasting my eyes with full brightness until I figure out how to make it not burn out my retinas.

I think the issue is HDR requires the r part, being range, and I want it to not blast my eyes which anything above 20% brightness does if I'm inside, and default probably uses 100% of the brightness range and that actually causes pain.

Edit: to be clear, never made it to a game. Getting flash banged by the settings menu was bad enough thanks, don't need to deal with something intended to be a flashbang.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Okay you clearly have zero interest in what people are telling you so I'm not going to bother. Enjoy your misconfigured HDR.