The newly released NVIDIA RTX Video HDR feature can now be enabled in PC games thanks to a mod. It even works better than Windows AutoHDR.
One of the major additions of the latest GeForce driver is NVIDIA RTX Video HDR, which introduced an automatic feature to convert SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) videos to HDR (High Dynamic Range) for those who have a compatible display.
While NVIDIA RTX Video HDR was announced to be working only on videos viewed through browsers, some enterprising users on the Guru3D forum have found a way to enable it for PC games, thanks to hidden ‘TrueHDR’ profile settings.
Modder emoose, who previously brought PC gamers the DLSSTweaks wrapper that forces DLAA support in games with DLSS, has now released an NVIDIA RTX Video HDR mod that makes it fairly easy to try the feature in games.
You will need to be using Windows 11 with the 2022 Update (version 22H2), as the feature requires WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) 3.1. To use the tool, extract the download and run NvTrueHDR.exe, then enter the name of the game’s .exe file when prompted.
Make sure to disable NIS (NVIDIA Image Scaling) as it’s not compatible with it. The same goes for DSR/DLDSR and, of course, Windows AutoHDR.
Remedy’s programmer Filippo Tarpini, who added HDR to Control with his mod and also worked on the official Alan Wake 2 implementation as well as the Starfield Luma Native HDR mod, shared a brief but very positive review on Nexus Mods:
From a quick test, it looks better than AutoHDR.
