Re: An HDR monitor is a big upgrade

On 28/04/2024 18:31, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

So it's not that I wouldn't notice the benefits of an HDR monitor...
but I don't think it would have as much an effect on me. It's like the
supposed advantages and increased fidelity of raytracing being added
to games bypass me entirely. I've reached a level with satisfaction
with modern visuals that the minor gains from such trickery barely
register anymore. I'm more likely to see the underlying flaws that
remain - the repeating textures, too-static world design, stuff like
that - than I am to notice that the HDR effects make the lighting
flicker 5% more realistically.

I did watch a video of a blind test for RTX and although this wasn't science it did have some interesting results. The three people who didn't really understand how traditional lighting effects worked where pretty much guessing but the one person who did understand got it right every time.
As a slight aside I did also read an interesting article that look at 'perceived' frame-rates of the human eye. What that pointed to was there was quite a lot of variance between individuals so maybe the answer to that long standing debate about how much frame-rates matter isn't yes or no but instead it depends.