Has anyone put together a list of games that advertise HDR support but it doesn’t work on Steam Deck, or just general test results? (including on OLED’s internal display and when LCD Deck is docked to an HDR display)
Here are games I’ve tested where HDR is offered but didn’t work on Steam Deck:
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Hitman
- Hitman 3 / World of Assassination
- The Division 2 (DX11 + DX12 modes)
- Redout Enhanced Edition (DX12 mode)
Typically the game fails to detect the display’s HDR capability, but in the case of Redout, enabling HDR in settings causes the screen to freeze until you disable it.
Fwiw, here are games I’ve tested and verified that HDR works correctly on Steam Deck OLED:
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
- Days Gone
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Talos Principle (requires manual .ini change, looks terrible)
My Hogwarts Legacy test was shortly after the game’s release (via docked external HDR display on SteamOS Preview) so the situation may have changed since then.
I’m not sure why Control is listed as HDR supported on Steam when it requires installing an unofficial patch. When I tried installing that patch, the game wouldn’t launch for me.
Right, I forgot that there was an unofficial patch for Control made by an employee, haven’t looked into that. I wonder why they just didn’t add it to the game though…
I checked Hogwarts again and HDR does work.
It’s a bit surprising that not much is being made of this issue outside of a couple of mentions on Reddit. As someone who is a bit obsessed with HDR on OLED I really wish the situation improves as if implemented well it makes a big difference. The best game so far for me is Lies of P which is just stunning in HDR and runs like a dream with Ori Will of the Wisps a close second.