Red Dead Redemption 2 - HDR Optimized Settings (Patreon)

The game is NOT using/applying Xbox/Playstation HDR Calibration app settings.

The initial RDR2 HDR implementation was probably the worst ever seen in the history of HDR games so far, with "worse-than-SDR" luminance and washed out colors with no option at all to adjust.

Almost 2 years after its release the game was patched by Rockstar introducing a totally re-done HDR implementation which resulted in a fairly good HDR proposition.

After the patch, the game now has 2 distinct "HDR Style" modes:

Cinematic: the same horrendous one as before;

Game: the improved one you want to tweak. It includes an actual Peak HDR Brightness slider in nits which can go up to 10.000 nits + a Paper White slider in nits to control in-game menu luminance and exposure in gameplay.

If you have an LG OLED and:

> you're using Dynamic Tone Mapping or Dynamic Contrast:

Set Peak Brightness slider to: 4.000 (nits)

Set Paper White slider to: 150 (nits) or 200 (for G3)

> you're using HGIG:

Set Peak Brightness slider to: 800 (nits) or 1.000 (for G2) or 1.500 (for G3) or 2.400 (for G5/G6)

Set Paper White slider to: 200 (nits) or 280 (for G3/G4/G5/G6)

If you don't have an LG OLED and:

> you don't have an HGIG option:

Set Peak Brightness slider to: 1.000 (nits)

Set Paper White slider to: 200 (nits)

> you're using HGIG:

Set HDR slider to the corresponding real Peak HDR Luminance of your TV in "nits"

Set Paper White slider to: 200 (nits) up to 1.000 nits peak, 280 for 2.000 nits peak and above