High dynamic vary can add a brand new dimension of coloration and immersion to PC gaming, however provided that each the {hardware} and software program really assist it. The latter is turning into much more frequent — even finances displays and graphics playing cards can assist HDR out of the field. But should you’re enjoying an indie sport, or one which’s various years outdated, you’re out of luck. A software found within the newest model of Nvidia’s GPU drivers would possibly be capable of repair that.

“RTX Video HDR” is a function that may convert commonplace vary video into excessive dynamic vary video, one thing that was proven off lately at CES. Brad Chacos called it “truly transformative” when he noticed a demo on the present ground. It didn’t take Nvidia lengthy to push it out, the present launch (551.23) helps you to mess around with these settings on Windows 11. But a modder going by “eMoose” found that at the very least a few of these instruments may be utilized to PC sport visuals on the fly in a mode known as TrueHDR, it simply isn’t enabled but. A surprisingly straightforward tweak, released on NexusMods, can flip the swap on.

According to eMoose (whose work was noticed by Tom’s Hardware), the TrueHDR settings may be utilized to kind of any 3D sport that doesn’t natively assist excessive dynamic vary coloration, going all the best way again to DirectX9 and presumably engaged on OpenGL and Vulkan video games as properly. Exactly which playing cards are supported isn’t specified, however presumably you’ll want one thing from the RTX 2000 collection onward.

The 27Kb software runs as an executable within the background, pointing in the direction of a sport launch file and permitting the person to decide on between low, medium, and really excessive settings (with scaling efficiency impacts) and an HUD indicator for whether or not it’s really working. In my testing for 3 completely different video games I wasn’t capable of present the HDR HUD component, however others on Reddit and Guru3D have.

If a modder can get the software at the very least semi-functional inside just some days, I’d say it’s extraordinarily possible that Nvidia may flip this function on as an alternative to Windows AutoHDR within the very close to future. Then once more, it appears odd that the corporate didn’t point out the aptitude for video games when it introduced it for normal video at CES, so possibly there are greater than the same old quantity of kinks to work out of the system.