Hello.
As most people already know, EVE Online is a very beautiful game when it comes to visuals. But, the game is only in SDR mode even if you have a HDR display and have HDR with ‘Auto HDR’ activated in Windows 11. And that’s kinda boring if you ask me .
However, there is a mod out now that will let you use HDR (not the fake HDR mode from Windows 11) in games by leveraging the generative AI capabilities of GeForce RTX GPUs (by using the Tensor cores) if you have a HDR capable display while running Windows 11. It doesn’t modify any of the game files for the games you are playing, so it’s safe to use with EVE Online.
It’s a mod that enables a hidden HDR setting in the NVIDIA graphic driver that was recently found in the latest NVIDIA graphic driver. This option isn’t made available in the NVIDIA control panel / settings yet. So, that’s why this mod exists.
There are 4 things that has to be meet before this mod can be used with EVE Online.
- You have to use Windows 11.
- You need to use a NVIDIA RTX card.
- You need to use the NVIDIA graphic driver v551.23 (or newer) + WDDM v3.1.
- A HDR capable display.
Here is what you have to do to get this to work.
First you have to ‘GO HERE’ and download the ‘NvTrueHDR 1.1-781-1-1-1707198245.zip’ file via ‘Slow Download’. You have to be logged in or have an account on the ‘Nexus Mods’ webpage before you can download the file.
Or you can go ‘this mirror link’ (MEGA) and download the file directly without having to log in or register an account on the ‘Nexus Mods’ webpage.
After that, then you have to do this.
- First enable HDR on all connected displays and disable Windows ‘Auto HDR’ mode.
- Extract the ZIP file somewhere and run the ‘NvTrueHDR.exe’ file.
- Enter the name of the game EXE file (exefile.exe in this case) when prompted, you will then be asked which action to take. Either choose a quality level, choose the ‘HUD’ option to display in-game indicator, or disable it. Make your choice and then press enter.
If the tool can’t find the game profile, try adding it in NVIDIA Control Panel’s ‘Manage 3D Settings’ page & apply settings after adding it, then try using the full path to the game EXE.
Recommend picking the ‘HUD’ option first to make it draw an on-screen indicator on top-left, letting you know if it’s active, once you know it works you can then re-enable it without the indicator (certain games may enable RTXHDR without drawing the indicator however)
- The tool should let you know whether the settings were saved successfully, now launch the game and hopefully it should then take effect.
‘VeryHigh’ quality has a noticeable FPS impact, measured ~10% difference between ‘VeryHigh’ and ‘Low’.
Admin permissions ‘shouldn’t be required for this tool’ in most cases. Some setups may prevent settings being modified for non-admins though, the tool will let you know if this is the case.
I have tested this with the ‘VeryHigh’ quality mode, and it both looks REALLY great and works great on my ‘RTX 3060 Ti’ GPU and on my HDR gaming display under ‘Windows 11’.
Source: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvtruehdr-nvidia-rtx-hdr-mod-can-convert-sdr-games-to-hdr