RTX Video HDR Modded For Games... And The Results Are Excellent

Nvidia recently added driver-level RTX HDR support for video, adding impressive HDR to any SDR video - but modders have discovered that it works for games too - and the results are impressive. There’s support for more games than Microsoft’s AutoHDR, the HDR delivery is much improved, and it even works on emulators too. Alex Battaglia has the full lowdown. Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: Join the DF Patreon to support the team more directly and to get access to everything we do via pristine quality downloads: Want some DF-branded tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more? Check out our store: For commercial enquiries, please contact business@ 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:46 Legacy API Support better than Windows 11 Auto HDR 00:11:15 Image Quality advantages over Windows 11 Auto HDR 00:13:23 Performance cost 00:14:28 Experiments in OpenGL and Vulkan 00:16:03 DirectX 8, DirectX 6, and 3Dfx Glide in HDR? 00:18:51 Conclusion