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11 Oct, 2018 @ 6:33pm

borderless windowed needed!!!!

the game is way too dark on windowed with HDR -- and even without

in windowed it's fine, but the glaringly white window bar would burn into my OLED in no time.

and even on a display without OLED, it is just too bright and very distracting

thanks

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Trese Brothers [developer] 11 Oct, 2018 @ 8:27pm

Thanks for the feedback, we'll keep working to improve. What OS and version?

info

12 Oct, 2018 @ 1:51pm

Originally posted by Trese Brothers:
Thanks for the feedback, we'll keep working to improve. What OS and version?

win 10 pro
newest patches

the issue is clearly that the game disables HDR (which is enabled in windows -- but when I minimize, it shows as off. closing the game sets it to 'on' again)

unfortunately if I use windowed, since I got an LG OLED 'tv' as a monitor, anything really bright that stays in place all the time would burn in -- so the window bar ontop is really bad

and visually, since it is perfect white on a black background, it's blazingly bright and is hard to look at, as well...

switching HRD off is also no solution, because then the game is generally too dark, since I have to optimize windows/nvidia/tv overall brightness so it chimes well with HDR once I turn it on.

as a workaround, simply having a brightness slider in the game may well do the job.

I literally never had this problem in the last year since I own that OLED 'tv' (which I can really recommend, btw... LG's newest OLEDs have basically no input lag and look godly in slow games that only need 60fps @ 4k

once you play fps, of course, you'd need something faster

Last edited by info; 12 Oct, 2018 @ 1:57pm

info

12 Oct, 2018 @ 2:02pm

Originally posted by Trese Brothers:
Thanks for the feedback, we'll keep working to improve. What OS and version?

I've just tried on my other monitor and (as expected) the ultra-wide 144Hz 49" Samsung 3840*1080 looks horrible in the game...
half the screen space is just black

brightness looks much better though since that runs with no HDR on

strategy isn't for ultra-wide anyway, so I get that.

Bobbyaxe

2 Feb @ 7:41am

This is still very bad. Playing this with HDR enabled on Windows disables windowed mode altogether. And the game for whatever reason is disabling HDR when it launches. If I click outside the screen, both monitors go black for a second when the window switches focus. Please use a game engine for your next game. The game is fun but issues like this shouldn't happen nowadays. HDR is not new, and every mainstream game engine has proper handling of these things built in.