As the title asks, how does one actually use HDR for games after upgrading to Plasma 6?

This was the feature I was most excited about, and I can hit the HDR button on my display configuration and it looks like the desktop is going into HDR mode, but so far I have had zero luck enabling the HDR feature in games. Every game I’ve tried had the HDR toggle disabled with no way to enable it.

I am running these games under Proton and I’ve tried both 8-GE and 9 Beta. Any tips?

Edit: probably important to note that I am using an AMD GPU under Wayland

  • thadah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    Hi! To enable HDR in most games you will need to set your game in fullscreen. Windowed or Borderless won’t allow you to use HDR functionality.

    You’ll also need to use the DXVK_HDR=1 %command% startup variable in steam to enable HDR in any Proton game. Proton 8 and 9 should support HDR without issuez although there are some games that might need additional configuration.

    If you use an NVIDIA card, you might need to enable NVAPI with DXVK_ENABLE_NVAPI=1

    Happy gaming! :D

    • zelifcam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      NVIDIA Latest Drivers:

      Fixes Game Flicker:

      file: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf

      options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords="PowerMizerEnable=0x1; PerfLevelSrc=0x2222; PowerMizerLevel=0x3; PowerMizerDefault=0x3; PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x3"

      General Wayland Fixes:

      These can also be set under modprobe, but I was troubleshooting a while back and it was easier to edit them this way before booting. So here’s my kernel parameters I have set:

      nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nvidia-modeset.hdmi_deepcolor=1 nvidia-drm.fbdev=1 nvidia.NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp

      ENV Variables

      LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
__GL_GSYNC_ALLOWED=1

      https://lemmy.world/comment/8500390

    • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      This only lets you enable hdr in game. Since proton runs under xwayland the hdr info won’t reach the compositor.