Cant you deactivate HDR in the game settings for those games?

Press the ... menu button while in the game, go to the gear icon for the per-game settings and at the top you should see an HDR badge with a toggle to turn it on or off.

If you search on YouTube for either Retro Game Corps or The Phawx review videos for the Steam Deck OLED they both show how to toggle HDR in their videos IIRC.

Originally posted by PopinFRESH:

Press the ... menu button while in the game, go to the gear icon for the per-game settings and at the top you should see an HDR badge with a toggle to turn it on or off.

If you search on YouTube for either Retro Game Corps or The Phawx review videos for the Steam Deck OLED they both show how to toggle HDR in their videos IIRC.

I've tried in Stable, Preview, and Beta on my new OLED. This option does NOT exist on any of them. It's very frustrating because I'm experiencing the same problem with some games that look absolutely atrocious having HDR forced on

It’s not in the quick access menu panel, that hdr colored box only tells you when a game has hdr. You can disable it in a game’s display/video settings.

Unfortunately if a game doesn't have the options to disable HDR you're ♥♥♥♥ out of luck it seems.

Originally posted by Renari:

Unfortunately if a game doesn't have the options to disable HDR you're ♥♥♥♥ out of luck it seems.

Not really. The good option takes time. You report whatever games which looks ugly in FDR to Valve or proton devs. They will write a whitelist for those games.

Originally posted by athcat:

Steamdeck OLED forces HDR

It does not force HDR, it enables it.
You can disable in-game...

Originally posted by athcat:

But some of them look reaaaaaaaly bad in HDR.

The game developers can fix it, probably.

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With that in mind, maybe an option would be good.
Defeats the purpose of having an HDR screen but options are always good, right. Right?

Originally posted by athcat:

Steamdeck OLED forces HDR into games that support it and there is no way to disable it. But some of them look reaaaaaaaly bad in HDR.

Please add an option to disable HDR

Can those who experience this, list the game or games this his happening in?

I have the same problem, I installed Diablo 2 Resurrected, when playing in desktop mode it’s fine, but playing it in steam game mode it forces hdr and looks terrible.

Why is hdr always a problem? Also on the PS5 Callisto Protocol had terrible hdr at launch, Diablo 4 had terrible HRD at launch. They often fix it quite soon, but man, how hard can it be to calibrate colors right? At some point I just forced HRD off in everything.

Originally posted by Mahjik:

Originally posted by athcat:

Steamdeck OLED forces HDR into games that support it and there is no way to disable it. But some of them look reaaaaaaaly bad in HDR.

Please add an option to disable HDR

Can those who experience this, list the game or games this his happening in?

Honkai Star Rail ends up with a permanent white filter on the screen.

As dawn falls looks terrible on oled, very washed out. Also the non HD textures don't help matters. I ended up sticking with the xbox version.

same here - Witcher 3 from Heroic looks fine in desktop mode where HDR is off but looks totally washed out in gaming mode. No possibility to disable HDR in game.

I will try the steam version of W3 now.

You can add an parameter in steam to disable HDR to an individual game.

DXVK_HDR=0 %command%
in Heroic just set the variable DXVK_HDR=0 for your game.

Works for me, could work for you too. Probably doesn´t work with every game.

also checkout this link to fix HDR for W3 and CP2077

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1865a46/psa_oled_users_launching_witcher3cyberpunk/

Diablo 2 looks better on my 1st 512gb top tier LCD. Then my new OLED limited edition. Can't play in forest too dark. Can't play in the desert too bright. PLEASE I've tried the DXVK_HDR=0 command. It works while in desktop mode. But not in gaming mode. Idk 🤷‍♂️ maybe I'm doing something wrong.

In game mode use Proton 7.0-6 in the advanced launcher options for any game you want to exclude HDR from.

That was the last stable proton prior to the HDR pipeline and forces it out in the render stage.

Can be used to fix games that break on or after first launch from HDR (like Hotwheels Unleashed etc) and will remove HDR as a visible option in the game as it is no longer reported as supported at a hardware level.