For the first time since I bought the 5700XT last July, my HDR Windows game display is working as advertised--and I must say it is excellent! The thing is, it's has never worked well before now! I could get it to work, sometimes, but the display was never very good through HDR. Really poor, actually. I had chalked it up to my otherwise great monitor not being so hot for HDR. But that is no longer the case!...;)
Every Windows game with an HDR mode I have is running perfectly under HDR now and looking fantastic. I'll list three that I can think of atm...RDRII, NoMan's Sky, ACOdyssey--all of them look so good I'm amazed frankly. The 1000-nit HDR mode in NMS is the best looking of the modes supported in NMS--400 and 600. (My monitor is nowhere near 1000nits--but it looks fantastic!)
But I don't know what has brought this about. Was it the 20.5.1HWS drivers, particularly the new "10-bit" switch under Global/Graphics/Advanced? Was it the new v2004 WDM 2.7 display drivers in v2004? Was it somehow the hardware scheduling in these drivers that fixed it?
Anyone have any ideas? this is quite the pleasant surprise--but don't know when or what has suddenly completely fixed it. It looks really nice now at 4k. Just thought I'd pass it on!
My hardware:
*Windows10x64 v2400, build 20161.1
*Latest Adrenalins--20.5.1 HWS
*AMD 50th Anniversary 5700XT
Aorus Master x570 UEFI bios F20b
Corsair HX-850 PSU (72a x1 12v rail)
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
RAM 16GB 2x8GB, Patriot Viper Elite @ 3733Mhz
LG MultiDrive DVD writer SATA
Boot: Samsung 960 EVO NVMe 250GB (UEFI boot partition)
2x 1TB WD Blue 7200 rpm S3
ST2000DM S3 2TB
ST4000DM004 S3 4TB
*BenQ EW-3270U 4k, HDR10 monitor, standard BenQ monitor driver
*Display Port 1.4 cable
* = The hardware and software I think is responsible.
