Silent Hill: Townfall (PC) HDR Analysis

[KoKlusz]

Technical Info:

• Unreal Engine 5.6.1
• No option to enable or disable HDR in-game, relies on the system toggle
• HDR available in the windowed mode
• Peak Brightness capped at 1000 nits with no way to adjust it
• Possible sRGB/G2.2 EOTF mismatch in HDR

HDR Settings:

No options outside SDR Gamma Control, which goes from 0.80 to 1.20; the default is 1.00.

Review:

As stock as you can get. But honestly... it seems to be working better than expected?

All the usual UE caveats apply, so if the game uses any LUTs for color grading, they will not apply in HDR. Prerendered cinematics are decoded incorrectly, resulting in the 10k white and oversaturated colors, though outside the studio cards and intro, all cutscenes seem real-time. It's probably mismatched (though HDR can still get pretty dark, as seen in the shots below), but from the little I've seen so far, it doesn't look too bad. Magic of good art direction, I guess.

Comparisons

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SDR Defaults (203 nits, sRGB)
HDR Defaults