Alright - I’m working through my own games … Let’s hear yours … working or not working!
If your game has HDR and you’ve tried it, please comment with whether it works or doesn’t work. No need to list games that don’t have HDR or if you don’t have an OLED :
Name | HDR Works? | Notes |
---|---|---|
Overwatch 2 | No | Says display isn’t compatible |
Pinball M (Demo) | Yes | |
Hogwart’s Legacy | Yes | |
Baldur’s Gate 3 | Yes |
Tetris Effect works if you use the fix mentioned here.
Using these launch parameters enable the HDR setting in the graphics options menu:
SteamDeck=0 %command% -dx12
for me overwatch says display is compatible, just resets it self to off immediately.
on experimental
Battle.net or Steam?
steam, I managed to get HDR properly working, it needed a restart.
Ah sweet!
Spider man remastered looks worse in HDR than SDR. Am I doing something wrong? If not maybe it should be noted on the table.
Have you worked with HDR before? Did you calibrate it?
There are HDR settings for max luminance and paperwhite on Spiderman. No matter what they are set to, the buildings and Spiderman’s suit look more washed out in HDR than SDR. I have Doom eternal and RE4 on my steam deck. Doom eternal looks incredible in HDR, and RE4 looks better in HDR than SDR.
Strange. I’ll make a note …
Works: Elden Ring Diablo IV MHW Disco Elysium
Doesn’t work: Tetris Effect
Cyberpunk looks amazing with HDR, works perfect. Forza Horizon 5 works perfect. Tiny Tina Wonderlands HDR works on Proton Experimental, but is questionable (too dark for my tastes, looked it up and it’s kinda of a common problem with the games implementation of HDR). Think the same with Doom Eternal, using Proton Experimental, looks good to me though. Overall, when the game implements HDR well, it’s incredible on the OLED Deck.
Works:
Pinball FX
Crysis Remastered
Horizon Zero Dawn
Spiderman
Cyberpunk 2077
Ori and the will of the whisps
Doesn’t work:
Control (thought this one was supposed to work?)
Pinball Arcade
NFS Unbound
Redout
Nex Machina
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Black Widow Recharged
Gravel
Star Wars: Squadrons
Inside
Grip, haven’t gotten it to work yet myself, look here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/396900/discussions/0/1652169858536175563/#c1644295067080498033
Mentioned files are here:
home/deck/.local/share/system/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/396900/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Grip/Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor/
These are Unreal Engine settings, so it might work for other Unreal-based games, or you could borrow well working settings from other Unreal games.
Mentioned settings might not be perfect for the Deck, I don’t know if the exact HDR standards the Deck is using can be found anywhere yet.
For Control, it’s actually a mod made by one of the devs who added native HDR. Kind of a weird situation where a person who worked on the game made it but it’s not an official patch. Maybe that’s why you thought it should work. Don’t know if the mod can be installed on deck but here it is:
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/2581-control-hdrultrawidedlssrt-patch/
That’s odd. It’s listed as HDR supported in Steam.