Cannot disable HDR

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I’m having serious issues with FPS drops when in certain areas/fighting certain enemies. Wanted to disable HDR to see if it’d help and the setting is enabled and greyed out, preventing me from disabling it.

NRftW HDR
NRftW HDR1920×1080 194 KB

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Try disabling it in the windows settings.

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I never have this one enabled, is there a different HDR setting in windows 10 I’m missing?

NRftW HDR 2
NRftW HDR 21920×930 294 KB

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I don’t really know, but is HDR even enabled if the setting is turned off?

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No, it is not. Usually games require that setting to be on in windows for the in-game HDR to even be toggled on.

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I’m reasonably sure the wrong setting has no performance impact. I’m not seeing washed-out colours or extreme brightness in the screencaps, so I am guessing HDR is not being applied.

Still, here are some ideas:

  • Wicked saves graphical settings in the registry; try [Software\Moon Studios\NoRestForTheWicked] and see if there’s any HDR settings. Might also be worthwhile to delete the key and let the game regenerate it (consider a backup).
  • Try setting an incompatible launch flag to disable HDR. Might be dumb, but the idea is to trick the game with a setup that doesn’t support HDR so it disables the option for you. You can maybe try -force-d3d11, maybe with -force-feature-level-11-0.

Normally I’d have suggested setting a display mode that isn’t exclusive fullscreen since I thought Unity HDR only worked with that, but you’re already in borderless/windowed and the setting stays on. (On second thought, Wicked doesn’t even have exclusive fullscreen, so my knowledge is definitely outdated.)

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I dont know if this will help but might aswell leave it here ^^

Go to: SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\NoRestForTheWicked\NoRestForTheWicked_Data

Open Boot.config with notepad but make sure you uncheck the box at the bottom so it doesnt always open with notepad.

Then change hdr-display-enabled=1 to hdr-display-enabled=0
Now just click “Save” or hit Ctrl + S and Close the Window

Just keep in mind that boot.config gets reset whenever a new patch comes out or whenever you Verify your Game Files

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Ended up enabling HDR in windows setting > launching game > disabling HDR in game settings > disabling HDR in windows settings and now its still off in game settings.

I don’t think HDR was ever on while HDR was disabled in windows settings (like a few of you suggested). Especially now that I’ve seen it active for a bit while I was going through this process.

Thanks for all the tips and suggestions!

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