How to turn on HDR in Oblivion Remastered? It's not easy, but players try nonetheless

Oblivion Remastered is not the greatest technical achievement of the year. As many others Unreal Engine 5 games, it struggle with crashes and poor performance. Additionally, it lacks at least one seemingly basic setting - HDR. To enable this feature, you have to use non-standard methods. So let’s talked about how to do this.

How to enable HDR in Oblivion Remastered?

Like I said earlier, you won’t find HDR in Oblivion Remastered settings. Unfortunately, alternative methods require some effort and can cause additional problems. However, if you really care, you can use one of the three options described by fans or third party software.

• Edit GameUserSettings.ini file
• Edit Engine.ini
• Use in game console
• Using RTX HDR or AutoHDR

Edit GameUserSettings.ini file

You can enable HDR directly in game files. First, you should find and edit GameUserSettings.ini. It can be found in the following path:

1. C:\Users\XYZ\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\Config\WinGDK

Next, you must open this file (Notepad is good option for that). Now edit the line presented below and save the changes:

1. bUseHDRDisplayOutput=False (change False to True)

Edit Engine.ini

In this case you must edit Engine.ini (again you can use notepad to open it). This file is located in the following path:

1. C:\Users\XYZ\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\Config\WinGDK

At the end of this folder, you should put these commands.

Use in game console

You can also enable HDR in the game console. However, this is the solution which requires you to type some of the commands every time you run the title. So, it’s quite annoying.

1. Type Altar.GraphicsOptions.HDR 1 to enable HDR
2. Next type Altar.GraphicsOptions.HDRWhitePoint XXX in the place of XXX you must enter peak white point of your monitor.
3. Additionally, you can also enter two commands: r.HDR.UI.Luminance = 100 and r.HDR.Display.MidLuminance = 20 to brighten or darken the game (depending on the numbers you write).

Unfortunately, this method has some downsides – some elements of the game may start flickeing and achievements will be disabled. So, you do this at your own risk.

Using RTX HDR or AutoHDR

You can also use third party software like Nvidia RTX HDR or AutoHDR. However, this works only when game is in bordelsess mode. Additionally, if you decide on the first option, there is one problem – game barely works without DLSS. Using both of these technologies at the same time will cause a long input lag.

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