Analysis of Resident Evil Requiem HDR

x.com/FilippoTarpi...

Thoughts on tonemapping trends (ACES, AgX, HDR...).
Article from twitter (what is x?).

Links:
- youtu.be/ciCRiQmwTrs
- github.com/Filoppi/Luma...

There is no solution to this. Preset E was removed. Preset K and J don't work well in games that have a lot of fog or reflections as they trail behind. Preset M/L are too heavy for older GPUs.

No, it's bc Balanced and Performance use Preset M, while Quality uses F. On your GPU F is sensibly faster.

A "little" patch I worked on that alignes the experience to modern PC gaming.
Enjoy the light and shodow in HDR!

I'd love to hear what you think of the new alternative camera mode.

This Luma mod also supports FSR 3, however the game doesn't have proper motion vectors for Vegetation and Skinned meshes, and FSR 3 had troubles without a reactivity mask, which is not really worth adding here. FSR 4 would probably work but it's DX12 only.

HDR+DLSS+AF OFF vs ON

Download: github.com/Filoppi/Luma...

-Add HDR tonemap (+fix banding)
-Fix autoexposure: flickering due to bad downscaling
-Add DLSS: fixes shimmering & aliasing
-Fix FXAA&SMAA: bad edges detection
-Fix AF not affecting many surfaces: world was blurry
-Fix videos using wrong colorspace
-Toggle for anamorphic bloom (horizontal stretch)

1/2
Just finished adding DLSS to one of my best recent mods: Just Cause 3
As all open world games, they are mind blowing in HDR, due to the dynamic lighting conditions & explosions

Screenshots:
SDR vs HDR
SMAA vs DLSS
More here: tinyurl.com/46dk557x

Features in the thread!

Download:
github.com/Filoppi/Luma...

A few examples of Anisotropic Filtering + FXAA here

Given Nioh 3 just came out, it's a good time to announce my Nioh 1 Luma mod
Features:
-HDR+bloom & grading improvements
-Fix ultrawide (bloom & videos stretched, render resolution being halved)
-Fix most materials not using anisotropic filtering (blurry)
-Add FXAA (game had no AA)

A curiosity about HDR is that it's not really compatible with the classic "Invert Colors" effect you might have seen in image editors/games
Black mapped to SDR ~100nits white, and white mapped to black
In HDR this looks terrible: black would map to 10k nits, the only way is to pre-tonemap it

The HDR Den Discord server is hosting a community award for Best HDR Game of the Year (2025)🏆

These are the nominees:
- COD: Black Ops 7
- CONTROL
- Elden Ring Nightreign
- FBC Firebreak
- KCD2
- Split Fiction

Join us to vote!
Invite: VmQtNwUN
Post: discord.com/channels/116...

TBH I'd play some of these if they looked like the ads, somebody should make them 😅, it's a business opportunity for a certain audience, not everybody likes ads riddled Candy Crush clones with 0 difficulty

I really don't get why Google allows completely fake & misleading ads, often showing gameplay that doesn't exist or isn't of the same genre.
Why can't mobile games be as simple & hooky as they used to, eg Fruit Ninja/Temple Run?

I didn't expect Timothy Lottes (AMD/NV,FXAA,FSR) doing a response video to my HDR interview 😅
tinyurl.com/yxcxz3uy

He advocates we should re-adapt SDR standards instead of introducing new ones.
There's some fair points, but it feels a bit like nostalgia bias. Also that ship has sailed.
My response:

Hey
> Updating the Reshade DLL bundled with SpecialK works seamlessly
What does that mean exactly?
Loading the latest released ReShade through SK will hook to MSGV properly and let ReShade work?

YouTube video by Digital Foundry DF Direct Weekly #243: Metroid Prime Switch 1 vs 2, The Witcher 4-6, Crucial RAM Dead, 32-bit PhysX!

Quite excited to share Digital Foundry has discussed my recent HDR focused interview at length in their latest stream:
youtu.be/VG2xDC1ZjOc?...

Given HDR has both an awareness and knowledge problem, the more exposure HDR gets, the sooner we’ll be able to enjoy it in all games without hassle!

I gave a quite in depth interview about the state of HDR in the games industry with wccftech.

If you are an HDR gamer, or work with rendering or art, give it a read, hopefully there’s something useful in there!

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-If old games didn't have binaural/spatial/3D audio, should I set them to 7.1 and then expect Sonic to extract and reproduce directional information on 2.1?

Microsoft could do a much better job at explaining what Sonic actually does and what games support it.

2/3 Like:
-Does the "Virtual Surround" setting mean that the game will do fake surround on 2.1 or optimizes for your headphones to do that externally?
-Need to restart to apply changes?
-What if the mode I selected is not supported?
-Is Dolby Atmos/Sonic supported/engaged?

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I think Battlefield 6 might be the first game in the history to have a user friendly Audio settings menu!
It explains what each mode does exactly, whether it's currently supported and what it'd fall back to.

As a non expert, I've always been confused by audio menus.

4/4 We are in a situation where both of the biggest game engines in the world, UE & Unity, or OSes like Windows, use improper encoding/decoding for SDR content, causing irreparable, long-lasting damage

I'm praying for the day the industry will start taking colors seriously!

3/4 Devs think they can handle color science through AI, without experts
Reality is that it's highly unreliable on that; it's not any better than a non-expert human
Not even reading color standards papers will save you, given these are often not followed by display manufacturers

2/4 Jump to 2025: AI is still spreading & justifying these practices, due the code bases it's trained on.
I just got this response from it

Calculating luminance from gamma space as BT.601 is not a good approx of doing it in linear BT.709. Math proves it. FXAA had this error too!

1/4 AI usage warning post
AI is trained on human data. The problem?
They make mistakes that persist for years.

The BT.601 color space was dropped ~25 years ago, yet google insisted on its coefficients for any color questions, causing a snowball effect that kept spreading it.

I've release a Luma HDR mod for Heavy Rain, a game that was very influential on me growing up!

Download, HDR screenshots and full HDR playthrough video here: tinyurl.com/y9htk5h8