Turning off HDR for more FPS
Also searched as: disable hdr fps · hdr off performance · turn off hdr fps · hdr lowers fps · hdr performance hit
What it does
Switching HDR off in Windows or in-game to claw back frames.
The honest verdict
HDR widens the range of brightness and color the display shows — it is mostly more information per pixel, not more pixels, so on a modern GPU the extra work is a sliver, often too small for any frame counter to show. It does use a little more video memory (VRAM), and a game with badly tuned HDR can look washed-out or dim — and THAT is the honest reason to toggle it: image quality, not performance. If your frame number does not move, it did not help. Turn HDR off because you prefer how the standard (SDR) image looks, or because a game's HDR is mis-calibrated — not for frames.
How Compy treats it
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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