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Battlefield 6 - HDR Optimized Settings

The game DOES USE/APPLY Xbox & Playstation HDR Calibration app settings, but not PC ones.

Battlefield 6 has a great HDR implementation as by default has perfect black levels, great con...

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Ghost of Yōtei - HDR Optimized Settings

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

The game on paper has a good HDR implementation as it accurately reads and applies system level HDR Calibration values and still provides additional in-game Brightness and Contrast settings, but final picture may h...

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Dying Light: The Beast - HDR Optimized Settings

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings.


Even if the game doesn't leverage system-level HDR Calibration, it offers one of the best HDR implementations ever made with accurate in-game HDR sliders in nits value (which can go up to 10.000 nits and actually show you the in-game changes you make in real-time, even cycling between d...

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Silent Hill f - 4K/HDR Gameplay (with PC + HDR Optimized Settings)

More info in the YT video description.

Enjoy :)

-P

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Silent Hill f - HDR Optimized Settings

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings.

The game has an average HDR implementation as you can't exactly control Peak HDR Luminance (which seems fixed around 1.000 nits) but only generic Brightness and Contrast sliders which, when used together, can at least improve the overly dim/muted picture the game will have by default...

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Borderlands 4 - HDR Optimized Settings

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings.

The game has an average HDR implementation as while it has good black levels (with no black level raise) it only offers a single Peak HDR Luminance slider (in nits value) which can only go up to 1.000 nits...but with a very curious bug.

2025-09-12 08:31:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Cronos: The New Dawn - HDR Optimized Settings

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings.

Unfortunately the game by default has terrible, elevated black levels when in-game but thankfully it can be mitigated with in-game settings. In this regard, the game offers many in-game HDR controls including a proper Peak HDR Luminance slider (in nits value), but strangely the valu...

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Mafia: The Old Country - 4K/HDR Gameplay (with PC + HDR Optimized Settings)

More info in the YT video description.

Enjoy :)

-P

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Hell is Us - HDR Optimized Settings

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings.

The game has a good HDR implementation as it actually offers an in-game Peak HDR Luminance slider (in nits) which can go up to 4.000 nits, along with additional HDR controls.

Black levels by defaults are not great but they can also be adjusted/fixed in-game.

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Gears of War: Reloaded - HDR Optimized Settings

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings.

This Re-Remastered (yeah) has a fairly good HDR implementation by offering precise in-game HDR controls in nits value.

If you have an LG OLED and:

> you'...

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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater - HDR Optimized Settings

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings.

The game has an average HDR implementation as it seems using a fixed Peak HDR Luminance of around 1.000 nits and only has a single in-game exposure slider.

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[PC] How to easily keep all DLSS + Streamline files updated Globally (no more manual swapping!)

With NVIDIA constantly releasing newer and better versions of both DLSS Super Resolution, DLSS Frame Generation, DLSS Ray Reconstruction and all the .dll files related to them (in the Streamline SDK), both devs and users are struggling to keep up as (more often than not):

  • Developers used outdated DLSS versions d...

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Mafia: The Old Country - HDR Optimized Settings

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings. The game has a very good HDR implementation by offerin

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings.

The game has a very good HDR implementation by offering almost perfect black levels and precise in-game HDR sliders including a Peak HDR L...

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WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers - HDR Optimized Settings


The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings.

After latest game patch, the game HDR implementation is now fairly good, as it now includes proper HDR sliders including a Peak HDR Luminance control (in nits) which can go up to 2.000 nits

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Cyberpunk 2077 (2.3) - 4K/HDR Gameplay (with PC + HDR Optimized Settings)

More info in the YT video description.

Enjoy :)

-P

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Donkey Kong Bananza - HDR Optimized Settings

The game DOES USE/APPLY Switch 2 HDR Calibration app settings.

Even if the game supports and reads system level HDR calibration, the Peak HDR Luminance is always a lot lower than what we've setup so the overall contrast of the image is flatter than it should be.

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PC Gaming: Optimized - The Ultimate Guide (including NVIDIA/AMD CP + G-Sync/Freesync + HDR Best Settings)


Many of you asked me to provide the most Optimized Settings for PC Gaming for a very long time, so (since the launch of Starfield) I finally decided to dig deep into the PC optimization void and, after months of research and direct testing, here's my complete guide and suggestions for it.

The goal is to noti...

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Ultimate Engine Tweaks (UET) Mods for Unreal Engine 4/5+ Games

If you followed my PC Gaming: Ultimate Anti-Stutter Guide you know that I worked hard (and for months) to find, test, integrate and improve all available optimization tweaks for Unreal Engine 4 & 5 in order to remove most stutters, increase performance, lower input latency an...

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Death Stranding 2 - HDR Optimized Settings

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


Unlike previous game, DS2 will correctly read and apply system level HDR Calibration values so you basically don't need to adjust anything HDR related in-game....except one thing.

2025-06-25 14:41:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Switch 2 HDR Calibration app - HDR Optimized Settings

Like Xbox, Playstation and PC: finally Switch 2 now also provides an official system-level HDR Calibration app with the same goal of all the others: 1 time setup HDR for your display on system level so for the (supported) games to automatically apply the settings they find there.

It can be accessed from Display settings -> Adjust HDR

2025-06-05 14:19:54 +0000 UTC View Post

You can now follow me on Bluesky!

P40L0 | Technology: Optimized (@tech-optimized.bsky.social) — Bluesky

That's it, that's the news. :D

See you there as well!

Have fun,

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Doom: The Dark Ages - 4K/HDR Gameplay (with PC + HDR Optimized Settings)

More info in the YT video description.

Enjoy :)

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Doom: The Dark Ages - HDR Optimized Settings

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings.

On paper the game has a good HDR implementation as it offers many different in-game HDR controls (in nits value) as Peak HDR Luminance (up to 10.000 nits), Paper White, Saturation and more...but in reality the HDR presentation is pretty washed out with very raised black...

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - SDR to HDR Optimized Settings

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings.

Unfortunately the game is native SDR only and its default in-game SDR setting provide a slightly raised picture which can be partially improved with a small change.


For all TVs/Displa...

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - SDR to HDR Optimized Settings



The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings.


Unfortunately the game is native SDR only and its default in-game SDR settings provide a slightly washed out image.

The game has also a bug on PS5 when the console is set to HDR "On When Supported": even if this system setting is the recommended one, this will almo...

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South of Midnight - HDR Optimized Settings

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox or PC HDR Calibration app settings.

 

The game has a decent HDR implementation as Peak HDR Luminance seems fixed to 1.000 nits and there's no way to change it in-game.

Luckily though, black levels are almost perfect with it.

The only available in-game slider is related to a generic "Gamma" setting

2025-04-05 10:06:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Atomfall - HDR Optimized Settings


The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings. 

The game has a fairly good HDR implementation as it has reference black levels and good contrast but with a fixed Peak HDR Luminance to around 1.000 nits, which unfortunately cannot be changed.

2025-03-28 14:31:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Assassin's Creed Shadows - HDR Optimized Settings

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox, Playstation or PC HDR Calibration app settings.


The game has a mixed HDR implementation as even if doesn't support system-level HDR calibration it does provide different in-game HDR controls including Peak Luminance (in nits) which can precisely go up to 4.000 nits...but like recent AC entries like Valhalla, it suffers from black level r...

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Split Fiction - HDR Settings Optimized

The game DOES USE/APPLY Xbox , Playstation and PC HDR Calibration app settings.

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Avowed - HDR Optimized Settings

The game DOES USE/APPLY Xbox HDR Calibration app settings but only partially while does not use the PC one at all.


The game has not a very good HDR implementation, I would say it doesn't even have one as it's SDR-only on PC while it will leverage AutoHDR on Xbox in a way li...

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