Kind of annoying how the graphics providers have to update their own drivers for all new games. I guess it's because their drivers are broken beyond belief, that they need to do these changes every time. At least this seems to be happening with Nvidia's drivers, I don't know if it happens with AMD, too.
Especially when they try to make you install what used to be Geforce Update and became the bloated, evil mess GFE on the premise that you can download profile updates only, then go and release a new 300 MB driver for each and every game, including those using 2+ year old engines.
No mention in the release notes if DV is limited to Pascal or Pascal and Maxwell or also available to other lines. Dolby Vision metadata can be streamed using HDMI 1.4 as well as 2.0. Either way you need a DV compatible display to get the benefits so the distinction is likely moot.
LOL I had to laugh at Dolby Vision where do these idiots come up with these dumb a** names these days you see kinder garden mind set thinking all over the place now days...Just saying.
I have my a TV with DV (LG OLED HDR) and I run my PC on it (2xTitan X Pascal). I own 3 games with HDR so I decided to do some quick testing.
ME:A & Obduction - Only used the TV's HDR10 both before and after the patch. Hitman - HDR was turned on but didn't activate on the TV, neither (HDR10 or DV). It that Hitman's HDR has always been buggy (at least for me). This may be a separate issue entirely.
Based on my limited testing. None of my games, perhaps no PC game period, can use DV. This is most likely a developer issue. Nvidia PCs are now the only device that can use DV. So why develop something that may not be used. It's also possible that DV only works on the lastest Nvidia card (1080 Ti) but if that's the case. Why not tell us. Either way I don't think we'll see DV in our games for a awhile. Best case, BioWare patches it into Mass Effect Andromeda.
Obviously I glazed over the note that Mass Effect: Andromeda supports Dolby Vision. My bad. Regardless, I can't get it to use Dolby Vision. Just HDR10. I'll do some more testing, maybe contact BioWare support, and then post the results.
First thing I tried. Same result. Checked my drivers and even disabled SLI. Same result. I did some searching with google and the support site. This seems to be a common issues. No one has found a fix yet. The Game can't detect DV and you can't select DV manually. Guess we'll have to wait on support to find the issue. http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=413407 http://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/dolby-vi...
Since you have a PC connected to HDR enabled TV, what other content besides games have you been able to play in HDR on the TV? I am considering getting a 4K HDR TV to connect to my PC but not sure how much of the content available (Netflix, Prime Video, YouTube) actually works in HDR on the PC.
To answer your question, krazyfrog, I have been unable to try any other apps. To my knoldge the only other PC media that supports 4K is NETFLIX but that requires the latest Intel CPU's that support 4K. Even then, I don't know if it supports HDR. Keep in mind, 4K media support on the PC has been slow. This is mainly because content providers strongly prefer systems that support the latest version of HDCP.
Back to the issue of DV. I've done some more research and the problem is on my TV's end. LG 2016 TVs support DV but not over HDMI. I don't blame, external DV support was almost non-existent. No word on if they will add it via firmware update.
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Chaser - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
Because Nvidia rocks!Krysto - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
Kind of annoying how the graphics providers have to update their own drivers for all new games. I guess it's because their drivers are broken beyond belief, that they need to do these changes every time. At least this seems to be happening with Nvidia's drivers, I don't know if it happens with AMD, too.MrSpadge - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
Or because they do some fierce optimizations, which are never universally useful.darkfalz - Thursday, March 23, 2017 - link
Especially when they try to make you install what used to be Geforce Update and became the bloated, evil mess GFE on the premise that you can download profile updates only, then go and release a new 300 MB driver for each and every game, including those using 2+ year old engines.kn00tcn - Wednesday, March 29, 2017 - link
sure, keep pretending all new games require a new driver... very few are actually broken, almost all simply run a few fps slowernathanddrews - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
No mention in the release notes if DV is limited to Pascal or Pascal and Maxwell or also available to other lines. Dolby Vision metadata can be streamed using HDMI 1.4 as well as 2.0. Either way you need a DV compatible display to get the benefits so the distinction is likely moot.prime2515103 - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
Will it do anything for the animation is Mass Effect? lolSorry... Somebody had to say it...
prime2515103 - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
oops ...animations in...Where's the dagnab edit button?
HomeworldFound - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
I'm sure they'll fix it, it seems pretty embarrassing not to.rocky12345 - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
LOL I had to laugh at Dolby Vision where do these idiots come up with these dumb a** names these days you see kinder garden mind set thinking all over the place now days...Just saying.Phattio - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
it's kindergarten, you kindergartner.Manch - Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - link
^^^This!! LOLHomeworldFound - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
Wow, SLI profiles. That makes me pretty happy considering how many games have had SLI profiles removed lately.Adm_SkyWalker - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
I have my a TV with DV (LG OLED HDR) and I run my PC on it (2xTitan X Pascal). I own 3 games with HDR so I decided to do some quick testing.ME:A & Obduction - Only used the TV's HDR10 both before and after the patch.
Hitman - HDR was turned on but didn't activate on the TV, neither (HDR10 or DV). It that Hitman's HDR has always been buggy (at least for me). This may be a separate issue entirely.
Based on my limited testing. None of my games, perhaps no PC game period, can use DV. This is most likely a developer issue. Nvidia PCs are now the only device that can use DV. So why develop something that may not be used. It's also possible that DV only works on the lastest Nvidia card (1080 Ti) but if that's the case. Why not tell us. Either way I don't think we'll see DV in our games for a awhile. Best case, BioWare patches it into Mass Effect Andromeda.
Adm_SkyWalker - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
Obviously I glazed over the note that Mass Effect: Andromeda supports Dolby Vision. My bad. Regardless, I can't get it to use Dolby Vision. Just HDR10. I'll do some more testing, maybe contact BioWare support, and then post the results.nathanddrews - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
You might have to enable 12bpc 4:2:0 in order to make it work.Adm_SkyWalker - Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - link
First thing I tried. Same result. Checked my drivers and even disabled SLI. Same result. I did some searching with google and the support site. This seems to be a common issues. No one has found a fix yet. The Game can't detect DV and you can't select DV manually. Guess we'll have to wait on support to find the issue.http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=413407
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/dolby-vi...
krazyfrog - Friday, March 24, 2017 - link
Since you have a PC connected to HDR enabled TV, what other content besides games have you been able to play in HDR on the TV? I am considering getting a 4K HDR TV to connect to my PC but not sure how much of the content available (Netflix, Prime Video, YouTube) actually works in HDR on the PC.Adm_SkyWalker - Monday, March 27, 2017 - link
To answer your question, krazyfrog, I have been unable to try any other apps. To my knoldge the only other PC media that supports 4K is NETFLIX but that requires the latest Intel CPU's that support 4K. Even then, I don't know if it supports HDR. Keep in mind, 4K media support on the PC has been slow. This is mainly because content providers strongly prefer systems that support the latest version of HDCP.Back to the issue of DV. I've done some more research and the problem is on my TV's end. LG 2016 TVs support DV but not over HDMI. I don't blame, external DV support was almost non-existent. No word on if they will add it via firmware update.
xchaotic - Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - link
Are there any true 12 bit displays out there? As I understand even OLED is 10bit?Jad77 - Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - link
Meh, I turned off Auto-Download/Update. When driver releases are so frequent they become annoying there's something wrong with the model.