I have never used an HDR display before so I’m not sure how it’s supposed to look.

I have been playing Spider-man both with and without HDR and unless I’m staring right into the sun there is literally no difference. I have always heard people talk about HDR as something incredible but I’m honestly disappointed.

I also played Tetris effect: connected and HDR seemed to just make all the menus darker, but the rest looked the same.

Have I done something wrong or is this how it is supposed to be?

  • pitninja
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    31 year ago

    Yeah, the difference should be easily visible assuming one has quality source material and a nice display. I was kind of assuming OP was talking about using the Steam Deck in docked mode, but maybe that was a bad assumption.

    • CralderOP
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      81 year ago

      Sorry I should have been more clear. I’m using the steam deck oled with the regular display, not an external display.

    • conciselyverbose
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      -51 year ago

      Someone else said the actual OLED doesn’t support it. I never paid attention because I talked myself out of needing one, but if that’s the case you obviously wouldn’t see it on the deck screen.

      I think you’d run into the limitations of render quality for most stuff 3D, though. There might be 2D games that play with it, and I’m guessing there are demo videos. I know my first (non-HDR) OLED I enjoyed trying some OLED demo clips out to really see what it could do.

      • CralderOP
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        131 year ago

        The oled deck does support hdr, dont know why some people are claiming ut doesn’t.

        General HDR is not supported in Linux yet though, only in games. So videos are unfortunately not a thing I can use for comparison.