HDR10 PC Games! Incredible HDR quality for Unreal Engine games and more! 

This new HDR10 Mod (MajorPainTheCactus) plus Lilium's inverse tone mapping works for all Unreal Engine games that I tested, and it looks like the best HDR you've ever seen. However, I tested some of the games reported to crash at startup and I believe that the problem is that this Mod is actually activating the HDR from the engine and can't work if that call isn't answer. I changed the title of the previous video to be more correct, but I got really excited, and I oversold it. Keep in mind that I use a no script, no editing approach, and I couldn't help my hype. It was real. We'll figure it out, and I'll follow this up. For now, we can play UE games without HDR support and more with absolutely amazing HDR10 GUIDE: Download Reshade reshade.me/ Download Lilium shaders github.com/EndlesslyFlowering/ReShade_HDR_shaders Guide to install Reshade and the Lilium shaders ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jPmtvUCJORU.htmlsi=hNmep9CfBkZbs8N_ Download the MajorPainTheCactus files github.com/MajorPainTheCactus/AutoHDR-ReShade?search=1 Go to Add-ons tab on Reshade and select the MajorPainTheCactus folder path and then check the boxes AutoHDR64 and EnableHDR Use Lilium's inverse tone mapping shader: Inverse tone mapping Bt2446 Method A Content TRC 2.4 Target Brightness (here enter the Maxcll your display works the best with) 800 for LG C1 OLED HGIG

Thanks for the shoutout! I was worried you might get lost setting this up but you figured it out easy. Glad you are getting good results with it!

Amazing job and news! Thank you!

Damn I am so glad I found this channel. It was taking ages to troubleshoot hdr in games. Who would have thought that filthy frank is a hdr pro😂

Games that don't have native HDR, work without problems. If the game has native HDR support, it starts to crush, as soon as I specify the path to this addon and restart the game. This is how it works for me.

Do you think you could look into Special K HDR next? It does the same thing as this mod (upgrading the game swapchain) but uses scRGB format instead of HDR10 which is theoretically better. Also doesn't require much tuning in most games as the default profiles look good on LG OLEDSs, and works on older and less used game APIs like DX9/Vulkan/OpenGL.

Your work and dedication for helping everybody to get the best picture/video quality is unbelievable ! we all appreciate your efforts , I wanted to ask this question which is rather stupid : do we have to max out the slider when activating windows hdr before using this method ? Thanks in advance !

I love your energy in your videos

well done man, great work. 👍

this is interesting. I'll test this when playing a game with no hdr. I was using special k to do this.

Incredible effort and hard work. Congrats to you, Sir, and thank you so much for sharing this with us all. Have a great gaming weekend. All the best. One question, is this only for games without HDR support natively, or am I missing the plot?

Going to dig into this now! Pumped!

Great work Ariel!

this is one of the best videos ever on youtube!!!!!!!!!!!!!

amazing work again!! i will try that with starfield

Very interesting, gonna test it out on the weekend and post my findings later. Also have LG C1 here

Hey Plasma, do you think is possible that you can do a video fixing Star Wars Fallen Order HDR. I will appreciate that. And thanks for all the contributions that you gived to the PC HDR.

Thank you very much Works perfectly

Alright we figured out how to play these new PC games from now on.... You wait 6 months after the release, then you have to install bunch of mods, than you have to fix hdr... and you're all set 🤣

The good thing is in the unreal engine self made project if you turn it on its works always even with no support

2.4 is likely in reference to gamma 2.4. Gamma 2.4 is what makes a rec.709 image look "correct" in the same way that st.2084 gamma (PQ) makes a rec.2020 image look "correct." That's probably why 2.4 looks the best, as the game is running in rec.709 2.4.

It works in Deus Ex: HR after setting color space override to CSP_HDR10. I had to apply in addition black floor level emulation and lilium tonemapping set to adaptive with gamut expansion to 1.00 for bigger DCI-P3 and BT2020 coverage. - But the black level floor emulation introduces color banding a bit if set too high, but if you do it right, it's a compromise for wider color gamut with tiny percentage of crushed blacks... Not a complete solution by any means, but it works so much better than anything we had to date. Also, the HDR analysis tool helps so much with the tweaking. PS: And it also works with specialk - I use it in all games mainly for steady framepacing due to its VRR nvidia reflex framerate limiter.

Amazing video man! One question, how do I know what is the max CLL that I need on my monitor? If you have a video about this I'll gladly check it out. Thanks!

I have a note about the new reshade There is a loss of some details highlights ( The light appears saturated ) Like light lamps , for example

Crazy how I discovered this 2 days ago and I've been testing with different Reshade too. Sadly it doesn't work on "every" game out there. Spider-man Remastered is crashing, RDR2 doesn't work using Vulkan, and games that have anti cheat like BattleEye don't let me use the addon... But this is sure a much better option when the game doesn't have native hdr or have a shitty implemented native hdr (RDR2 xD)

Have you tested this in games that have native HDR but have black level raise to see what looks better? I'm wondering if this would just be a much easier solution to fix black level raise in native HDR games rather than messing with the other illium shaders? This seems like an easier setup.

I dont know if the full add-on support version of reshade is needed to get the mod working but it's probably worth bringing that up if you do a follow up to this guide. The regular reshade variant might be the root cause of some of the issues people are having.

The latest lilium shader update as of this week includes a new "map SDR into HDR" preset and a bunch of other changes. I got your method here to work but I wonder what the new changes bring.

Just got a 4070 ti and am waiting for a 25ft Hdmi 2.1a cable to run to my C1. I am excited to play games at 4k HDR on PC!!!!!!!

Since I couldn't get the Cactus add-on to work, I switched back to the Native HDR mod and configured Lilium according to the instructions in your previous video for now, which works great. With the Native HDR mod, do you recommend switching over to the inverse tonemapping that you're recommending in this video instead? I'm curious if there are differences between the two HDR mods that require using different lilium shaders, or if they're the same and inverse is now the best option?

Tried it on Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Cactus shaders load, but lillium load with error and do not work Tried it on ELEX 2 both DX11 and 12 - after loading Cactus shaders, game doesnt launch anymore. Oh well..

I tried your settings but hdr analysis says maxcll is at 6196.5 nits even though I set it to 400.

Great stuff 😁😁😁

when i am choosing the files path nothing is there no box to enable hdr as if the add-on dosnt exiscet i am using the latest reshade version if anyone having the same problem give it a thumbs up or down so maybe can solve this problem

Can I use it for multiplayer official games? I mean I want to try to see a difference as already I play on one HDR 600 certified gaming monitor and increased digital vibrance, brightness, contrast, deep blacks on Fast IPS type of monitor and lowered Gamma. Everything I see on movies, games, photoshops it's pretty HDR already. Respect that you are reading all the comments. I love your passion for gaming communities, no gay mode activated, no offense!

Awesome :) How does this compare to Special K?

Try to put less exposition on your game with the natives shaders of reshades for the avg cll it could help i think

Thank you very much Sir for this HDR fix. I will try this after work today. So this works on Windows 10 and 11? Do I turn auto hdr on in windows for this native hdr to work? This is amazing.

this dont work at all with newest version of reshade/mod. Tried it in mass effect legendary edition and it crash when loading and also in remnant 1(UE4 game) also crash when loading.

hey man thanks for yor great content this method needs a revisit as it doesn't work anymore could you pls test again and give complete installation tutorial for reshade 6.1.1

Yeah! I was also looking for a way to get autoHDR for win10 (as opposed to win11 since I really don't wanna use that) and I did see that autoHDR reshade addon. But I didn't know if it was true HDR, or if it'll work for win10. Thanks for the video tho! I'll try it myself and see

Hello Ariel, I have a question: I know you offer your solutions for everyone, no matter what kind of screen or TV they have. I'm now specifically asking people who use an LG CX C1. Is it the same or even better if I leave the target 1000 nits as it is in reshade and only set the maxcll to 1000 on my cx? I played around with it a bit and found e.g. In the game Kena I see the most in the highlights with this setting and dynamic tonemapping on. and what do you use hgig dton or dtoff? Even in Windows I could leave maxcll at 1000 because most HDR videos e.g. be sent with 1000 nits or am I completely wrong?

You ever going to live stream gameplay?

Thanks for all the effort you put into your videos, I tried this with Guild Wars 2 and couldn't get it to work.. The add on works, but when I try the Lilium Tone Mapping it has errors next to everything and it says it can't detect any HDR colours, is this game just too old do you think it's not possible to get it to work?

i appreciate your work! would be the next or even final breakthrough. I am still a bit sceptical but will test it out! would be amazing if we finally overcome the ignorance towards HDR of the multi Billion dollar gaming industry through a community effort. Edit: i tried to get it to work in star citizen but it blocks any addons in the reshade program, i guess because of anti cheat program.

All the time I searched this folder AutoHDR the game crash every time in all games, now I tested in the Callisto protocol (UE4) the game crash again. I’m following exactly what you showed. Download, search the folder and that select box with autohdr don’t appear, so a restart the game and it crash after some seconds.

I got this to work on Remnant 2 on PC (PC game pass version) including the MajorPain mod. It looks good but the Lilium analysis (latest version as of a few days ago) says the game is still SDR gamma 2.2. Is this normal? Should it say HDR10 instead?

Hi Plasma, any chance you could do video on how to set up RTX 3/4 Series on an OLED TV, setting up Nvidia control panel settings and HDR. (I have a RTX4070 & LG C2)

I just can't get this to work like you, I'm sorry. I have the plugins of Cactus installed, AutoHDR is activated as a plugin but the Lilium plugin doesn't work cause it's not detecting the HDR as HDR10 and says ERROR. I have no idea how to fix that. And if I add it as add-on starfield crashes while booting.

If a game does not have native HDR and does not support majorpain (like dying light 2), is it okay to use liliums blackfloor fix in auto HDR or their is no need for that in your experience? Just simply use sRGB to gamma 2.2 icc profile and thats it?

My reshade (5.9.2) addon not show AutoHDR toggle when I set search path. then starfield(gamepass version) will crash on starup.

Work this for pcsx2 too because has also reshade

Ok, after i installed reshade and added lilium shaders, i went to add-ons page in reshade and added auto-hdr folder, but what now? nothing happened. i dont see that enable hdr box or that autohdr box.

i wonder if the win hdr calibration profile should be default or calibrated for yor display and then put under the hdr profile? or renaming to csp _hdr10 makes this mod like latest hdr profil...

Just tried this with elite dangerous, doesnt seem to work. gives me error code 193 when trying to start hdr10

So what's the other alternative to Reshade in order to correct the horrible funky shadow detail crushing/darkening effect when using the MotionPro settings on the C1? going from MP low, medium and then to high @120fps(or even MP High @60fps) gradually shrouds the image in this weird darkness that destroys the picture, nuking so much shadow detail. It's unbearable and completely unnatural Vs MP by just reducing brightness. it's clearly doing more than just that. :P I don't currently have a gaming PC, and only use Switch & PS5, so I'm guessing reshade is out. And it's baffling how LG could choose to release MotionPro high with this shadow black crushing issue, and they should of settled for an 8.3ms persistence instead of 6.2ms, because increasing it by 2.1ms would of produced a noticeably brighter picture(Every ms make a difference it seems). Game mode can't afford to lose any brightness as it is, so 8.3ms instead of 6.2ms would of been a better happy medium brightness wise. C1 just doesn't have enough SDR brightness under it's hood to do BFI justice. With a big brightness boost for MP High(8.3ms) @60fps, and zero darkening/black crush for MP Low + 120fps(Medium and especially high would probably be too dim for most people), i'm betting my money that more people would of used the MP settings. As is, they're just crippled settings due to the black crushing and lack of brightness for 60fps unless you do your research and put in the time to mitigate or do some tweaks to improve these issues, which most people aren't willing to do! :P I mean lets face it, the vast majority of OLED owners will not get a service menu remote and plop in the service menu to turn Module HDR on for a brightness boost, and whatever else it takes to correct MP black crushing. People just want a TV that works.

Can i do this while having the hdr black point raise mod? Cause i followed your video on hdr black level and i use that and it looks amazing but can i just turn it off and use this mods now?

Do you recommend that for oled motion pro high? If yes there is something to change in the settings of the tonnemapping?

HDR better than RTX :)

Amazing 😅

The AutoHDR64 is not showing up for me. I tried everything in this video with Heavy Rain. And the graph doesn't show. Did it work for you with all titles?

If you want a way to control the average luminance, use pumbo's shader instead of liliums -- you can change it via the paper white setting You set up everything the same, except make sure OUTPUT COLOR SPACE is set to HDR10 -- its scRGB by default

Great vid... I installed cactus hdr fine and activated it via addons... But all my liliums effects are saying error no hdr color... any idea what i could be doing wrong?

Reshade AddOn doesnt seem to recognize the AutoHDR folder for MajorPainThe Cactus, I wonder what I'm doing wrong

How do you do that your Maxcll in the HDR analysis is dynamic and not static?

perfect job . whats the settings game slider and the oled settings?

I got the ASUS Republic of Gamers Swift PG42UQ 41.5" 4K HDR 138 Hz Gaming Monitor but I have hdr off, for some reason it looks kinda dark but it still looks amazing when off

Thanks but crashes as soon as I try to launch the game with the add on. Are you using "5.9.2 with full add-on support" or an older version ? (Windows 11, Steam version of Starfield with only Lilum shader's installed)

i cant add any addons to reshade. it says "this build of reshade has only limited add-on functionality"

Gran trabajo!!! Esta mañana lo acabo de ver y es super interesante porque facilita mucho las cosas. No obstante me he encontrado con un problema, a ver si me puedes ayudar. He bajado la última versión de reshade la que tiene full support a los Add-ons ( con la normal no me permitía añadirlo ) Bueno te comento, una vez pongo la ruta de la carpeta de archivos de MajorPainTheCactus no me abre nada ( reconoce la ruta porque es la correcta pero no me da la opción de habilitar lo que tu muestras en el video... Te puedo mandar fotos o un minivideo a tu correo para enseñártelo, no se que puede ser que falle. Y me da mucha rabia porque este método es muy bueno para cualquier juego. Quería probarlo en Starfield a ver que tal, pero nada si no me abre los archivos necesarios de la carpeta de MajorPainTheCactus no puedo activar nada.

When i set the path to the addons folder it doesn't do anything after setting up the path.

@plasmatvforgaming9648 I downloaded the shader and then went to add add and gave the path but Reshade doesn't show the option of AutoHDR. Also after doing that, when I close and reopen the game, it won't launch game and error out. I then have to uninstall reshade and install again and then game words but I can't get the addon to become available. Is there a specific version of Reshade we need to use?

This is awesome I just wish he would showed us how to package it so we can copy and paste it into all games easily. Also don't know exactly why but it crashes starfield on startup.

Dude nice, whats Name of the Game? Thx again

So I downloaded the Lilium shaders for HDR analysis and I found out that my screen is close to 0 in color gamut for DCI-P3, while BT-709 is close to 100%. This is really weird, I always found my display to be washed out in HDR but I can't find a way to fix this (I used to tweak the colors in the nvidia control panel to make them look "okay"). I have the Zephyrus duo 16 2023 with a NE160QDM-NM4 screen (it's advertised on ASUS's website that this laptop cover 100% DCI-P3). I can't find a way to fix this, even with messing around with Windows 11 color management. Any ideas?

Does this not work for non-unreal games?

As soon as I specify the path to the addon and restart the game, it starts to crash. Tested Uncharted 4 and A Plague Tale: Requiem.

What is the best hdr option for Starfield steam version? This new addon for reshade or the other mod?

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You know of anything like this for vulkan? Ive been trying to get Liliums shaders working with Yuzu for ToTK for ages but even with Native HDR10 from Special K I still get errors.

At least with DOOM it does not work. Looks like the Game has to support AutoHDR from Windows or something... In Assassins Creed Orgins it works really nice =)

The add-on path button dont work and dont searching at all.

Could I use this with my 2021 Razer Blade OLED 3080? My laptop has an HDR OLED screen.

I got it to work, but for some reason the Lillium anaylysis tool still shows 10000 nits as peak, even though the inverse is set to 840 nits. Any idea why it's not mapping the max value correctly?

Does Assassin's creed Odyssey support this mod?

Just tested the game pass version of starfield. After I add the addon path in reshade when in game, I cant select the AutoHDR like you can. Even after restart, the game in fact even crash to desktop. Yes I have installed the latest reshade and uninstalled and installed reshade multiple times. Once I edit the reshade.ini file to remove the addon path, the game works normally, but of course, no AutoHDR addon possible then...

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Hi, i tried your tips ... Results : Diablo 4 , when i active "major..." addon , diablo 4 crash and i'can't launch it anymore Dark souls 3 : lilium shader made me an error "Only hdr space color can be use..." Elden ring : Anti cheat engine stop reshade dxgi.dll and can't launch reshade without it SO...

The dlss mod and this mod its imposible to install when I put the addon path not appear the AutoHDR64 some body have a solution?

Between this and the previous Starfield video is there any difference? Should I update that to this?

Are you using native hdr in every game now? Maybe there's not a need for it in every game like Frostpunk or Heavy Rain for example?

Can I use this in red dead redemption 2 ?? Do I just turn off hdr in the game menu ??

Lilium filter says that HDR is turned off, but i can see it is working. Cant change any setting ;/

does not work for me , It doesn't appear for me Add-on search path When I go to Add-one , the following message appears : This build of reshade has only limited aad - on functionality

For some reason reshade does not work at all in starfield. It worked before but something happened and it won't trigger at all. I use frame.gen but that should not be a problem

WHERE TO Download the MajorPainTheCactus files in that page your share? i went to code and download a zip file, is that the same?

This looks amazing in the games that I have tried, but i've been having crashes on startup[ on some games (even tried both dx11 and dx12)

whats the game at 8:40

could you do this on Halo Mcc or Halo Infinite?

Sadly every single game I've tried with this crashes right off the bat.