
Did you know PUBG has native HDR support? It seems HDR-capable monitors are becoming more popular, and it is nice when games actually have native support for it. I don't care for artificially-added HDR features like SmartHDR or RTX HDR, so it is nice to see when games actually have native support. PUBG has native support, but for some reason does not expose it in the game's settings. If you open up the settings file:
C:\Users\Clay\AppData\Local\TslGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\GameUserSettings.ini
replacing Clay with your username, and scroll right to the very bottom you'll see this setting:
bUseHDRDisplayOutput=False
If you change False to True then it'll enable HDR support. I find the game looks a lot better with it on as long as you have a nice HDR monitor and have run MS's HDR Calibrator to make sure your dark and bright extremes are properly set. You'll have to keep in mind that if you stream, as far as I'm aware, Twitch doesn't support HDR yet. YouTube does support HDR, but something to keep in mind is that when they tonemap to SDR the result looks pretty washed out, so anybody that watches in SDR is going to have pretty poor image quality. Their tonemapping results seem to be identical to what you get in Handbrake if you use their colourspace filter to tonemap to BT.709, so you can try recording in HDR and then use that to check out what the tonemapping will look like. I think it looks pretty bad. But just gaming for myself, I really like how the native HDR support looks on my QD-OLED monitor.