007 First Light (PC) HDR Analysis

[KoKlusz]

Technical Info:

• Glacier 2 Engine
• HDR available in the windowed mode
• No apparent sRGB/G2.2 EOTF mismatch in HDR
• Defaults to the peak brightness provided by EDID/OS calibration

Note

Enabling Film grain effects breaks the peak brightness cap, see here.

HDR Settings:

• Brightness - Screen brightness / paper white; lowest value is 1 nit, highest value is 1000 nits, default is 250 nits.

Note

Also controls the brightness of the UI.

Review:

This is what I like to see! Outside the film grain bug (which still hasn't been fixed since May when the game came out), everything just works. HDR doesn't have any weird gimmicks, basically it looks like it should.

@Filoppi did his own analysis when the game came out, which you can read here if you want more technical details. As far as I can tell, nothing has really changed since then.

Overall, the film grain bug and some banding aside, I have nothing to complain about.

Comparisons

Warning

In order to view them correctly on Windows, you must use a Chromium browser with Windows HDR enabled and the brightness slider set to the value of 31

SDR Defaults, (250 nits, Gamma 2.2 EOTF)
HDR Defaults
HDR Defaults, Film grain effects disabled