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•Created by WASTECH on 5/4/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Enabling HDR for Steam games
I have been pulling my hair out for several days now trying to figure out how the heck to enable HDR in games (specifically Helldivers 2 and Ghost of Tsushima). I read through the release notes for Bazzite 42, and it make it sound as simple as either switching to a Proton version with Wine Wayland or enabling vk_hdr_layer. I have tried both of these, but nothing ever launches with the ability to enable HDR. I have tried Proton 9.0-4 as well as the latest version of Proton GE (9-27). Neither of these Proton versions let me enable HDR in game. I then tried the settings for vk_hdr_layer. I set the registry key in Wine using Protontricks, then I set the launch options "DISPLAY= DXVK_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 %command%". When I do this, Steam says the game is running, but it never actually launches.
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