![]() But great HDR can be had on other displays, too. For the best possible HDR experience, you’ll want something with VESA’s DisplayHDR 1000 certification, like the ROG Swift PG32UQX, or the Nebula HDR display available on this year’s ROG Strix SCAR 16, ROG Zephyrus M16, or ROG Flow X16. I’m here to tell you: it's time to take the leap. If you’re still using an SDR display, you’ve probably wondered whether HDR is worth it for gaming. For more information on setting up this feature, check out our Auto HDR settings guide. The wacky beans in Fall Guys’ chaotic races are bursting with color, and The Witcher 3’s open world gets a touch more realistic. The neon signs and plasmid powers of BioShock Remastered’s Rapture flare just a bit brighter with Auto HDR turned up, for example. Not every game was made with HDR in mind, but with Microsoft’s addition of Auto HDR to Windows, even classic or casual games can take full advantage of your display too. If you haven’t played Doom Eternal with ray tracing in HDR, you are missing out on something truly special. The flaming heart of my rocket launcher burned brighter, the demonic fires of hell scorched the skies with red-hot fury, and the colorful ammo drops I got from sawing a Revenant in half were more colorful than anything I’d ever seen in a video game before. I originally played Doom Eternal on a high-resolution, high-refresh, standard IPS display - and while it was one of the most intense, heart-pumping gaming experiences I’ve ever had, firing up the game in HDR years later was like re-entering Hell all over again. This extra brightness can also be combined with a wider color gamut to create more vivid, saturated colors than SDR content is capable of. Where an SDR image might show some white puffs against a blue sky, the same scene in HDR shows every ripple in every cloud, allowing for a more lifelike overall scene. ![]() Driving through the Mexican desert of Forza Horizon 5, for example, doesn’t have many dark areas on the screen in daytime scenes - but the reflection of the bright sun on my blue Corvette burned vividly, while the clouds in the sky showcase more detail than ever before. It also allows for far more detail in bright areas. HDR’s extra brightness isn't just about making images “pop,” though. Merchant Kale's campsite burned with a fiery intensity, and the extra brightness afforded by the HDR signal made it pop right off the screen when contrasted with the dark, dying lands surrounding the Church of Elleh. But once I flipped HDR on, the world truly came to life. The juxtaposition of its repulsive, twisted monsters with the beautiful, glowing Erdtree was truly something special. When I first fired up Elden Ring, I was enthralled by its unique, horrifying-yet-beautiful open world. But it also allows game developers to master their games with a wider range of brightness and color in mind, giving rise to a new standard: HDR, or High Dynamic Range. That allows deep, inky blacks to coexist alongside bright, detailed highlights in the same scene, making the picture look much better - even in SDR. ![]() The latest Nebula HDR and Mini LED displays from ROG use a technology called full array local dimming, which allows the backlight to dim or brighten certain parts of the screen independently. You could crank the brightness higher than that, but your blacks would get brighter or “greyer” alongside the whites, so the dynamic range - the difference between the darkest and brightest parts of an image - would still be rather narrow. Plus, games and movies have been mastered in Standard Dynamic Range for years, which uses a limited color palette and assumes a rather low level of brightness (about 100-200 nits). ![]() As a result, black can sometimes look more like dark grey. Typical edge-lit displays can look excellent, but they have one major shortcoming: they can’t show true black, since there’s always a backlight shining through the “black” pixels.
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