Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Beta (2022) - HDR Optimized Settings

The game DOES USE/APPLY Xbox & Playstation HDR Calibration app settings.

The game has a very good HDR implementation as it will actually read and apply the system HDR Calibration app settings directly to the in-game HDR sliders as soon as you open the game, with a measured Peak HDR Luminance up to 10.000 nits.

Currently, on the Beta, there is a strange behavior/bug which I will explain later tho...

In my case, the first HDR Black Point screen when I opened the game was already correctly set to 0.0

The second and third HDR White Point screens were already correctly setup at 0.90 (which corresponds to around 4.000 nits as I calibrated the system HDR Calibration app for Dynamic Tone Mapping)

So, if you've already calibrated the system HDR Calibration app for your TV, just Accept all three in-game HDR sliders on the first boot of the game and you're good to go.

Otherwise, if you want to be sure:

If you have an LG OLED and:

> you're using Dynamic Tone Mapping or Dynamic Contrast:

• Set HDR Black Point slider to: 0.00 (nits);
• Set the other two HDR White Point sliders to: 0.90 (which is around 4.000 nits in-game)

> you're using HGIG:

• Set HDR Black Point slider to: 0.00 (nits);
• Set the other two HDR White Point sliders to: 0.73 (which is around 800 nits in-game)

If you don't have an LG OLED and:

> you don't have an HGIG option:

• Set HDR Black Point slider to: 0.00 (nits);
• Set the other two HDR White Point sliders to: 0.76 (which is around 1.000 nits in-game)

> you're using HGIG:

• Set HDR Black Point slider to: 0.00 (nits);
• Set the other two HDR White Point sliders to one of those values and the corresponding real Peak HDR Luminance of your TV in "nits":

BUG ALERT:

Currently, on the Beta, you won't have access to the in-game HDR settings anymore after the initial setup (which will be prompted only at the very first launch of the game). So be sure to dial-in the correct HDR settings since the beginning or you would be forced to uninstall/reinstall the game to access the HDR settings again.

BONUS SUGGESTIONS:

On default video settings, the game is a bit too "blurred" and "grainy" both on Xbox & Playstation, but you can fix both issues with the following suggestions:

• Set the Cloud Streaming Textures Cache from "Automatic" to "Large": as long as you've enough free space on disk, this will increase the high quality textures saved locally for a faster streaming (and less internet data consumed) during the game;
• Disable Film Grain: by setting it to 0.00 as a first step to improve picture clarity;
• Enable FidelityFX CAS (on Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and PC only): and set its intensity to 100 to much improve image clarity without noticeable over sharpening artifacts and no performance drops at all on current hardware. The most "negative" thing you may notice by doing so is having back a bit of "film grain-like" effect added again, but even less compared to the default, actual, Film Grain option we disabled earlier.

When the final game will release I will re-test all of this and update the post accordingly...if needed.

Until then, enjoy! :)

Cheers,

-P