Cyberpunk 2077 HDR Is Broken On PS5/XSX, Here's How To Make Sure It Is Disabled

Cyberpunk 2077 is another high-profile game that suffers from a broken HDR implementation. Here's how to make sure you can disable it on PS5.

[ziggurcat]

How did this dumpster fire go gold in the state it's in?

[jznrpg]

Money and shareholders

[ClayRules2012]

🤦🏼‍♂️I hear you. The current state of CyberPunk for millions of gamers is appalling, and those gamers out there defending CDPR, it just is beyond me.

I’ve seen some say “Well, like with TW3, wait a couple months or a few more patches in than it’ll be more stable and playable” Ummm, It should’ve been playable from DAY 1! Some bugs here and there, it happens, but to use the excuse that TW3 shipped in bad shape but the devs over several several several patches (which took days, weeks and months) made the game the amazing experience we’ve all come to know and love is not an acceptable answer.

We don’t buy games only to have them not be playable when we buy them and pop them into our machines.

I wonder, with their next game, will history repeat itself “Game gets announced. Some fans hype it to unrealistic levels. It’s shown off. Journalist claim it’s the most stunning thing ever seen in video games/never seen anything like it. Gameplay is shown and some are amazed and some aren’t impressed and feel it’s generic, from the gameplay perspective. First person view gets switched to 3rd person this time (let’s have a little fun😝) this is where I think maybe things in development maybe started going downhill for them, but I could be very wrong. Anyways, You all get the rest, game delayed a few times and than when released it’s another broken game.

BUT...it’s CDPR, remember, they release games which aren’t playable or just completely messy and buggy/glitchy and so forth across the board (TW3 ran darn well for me, I gotta be honest tho😁minus a few little issues, nothing game breaking, ONLY to have some fans say “They’ll fix the game in several patches over the course of many months” I guess this is an acceptable practice to some gamers, but not to myself and so many others, because while this studio is a pro consumer company, and in time we’ll get our money’s worth, I know millions, myself included didn’t spend our money in advance or on day 1 to experience not only these issues, some worse than others (PS5 player) played a little bit and it ran alright, but for older gen owners they didn’t pay to experience the game months and months later after patches hoping to possibly make this game become not only completely playable in a smooth manner, but still enjoyable for last gen owners, if the hype or excitement is even there still.

They earned all that money back, even more than what they spent to make the game, if I’m not mistaken. So, I’m sure they’re happy. But isn’t the goal to make a great game, that fans can enjoyable, when they get their hands on it???

The studio has no one to blame but themselves and a delay was needed and if fans got upset, so be it. This state of release was in no way the right move.

[neutralgamer1992]

ClayRules2012

Too much defending for a game that had 7 million pre orders. If this was any other publisher they would get hammered yet CDPR are celebrating sales milestones while millions can't play the game they paid full price for. Why wasn't it delayed were they scared people would cancel their pre orders

No early console reviews
No personal footage

Any other publisher and by now reddit would be on fire. When we were bringing up witcher 3 bugs we were told there were not many bugs or major issues and now they are saying wait just like witcher this game will improve overtime. People do realize it took CDPR over 6+ months to get most of major issues resolved and bring some well needed quality of life features. So it means we wait till summer 2021. Also this game has issues on pc too regardless of how many PC gamers defended it

We are settling an bad example and other publishers will be watching this very closely

[BLow]

I just want to know is where did all that energy go like that other game called Days Gone? Remember that game and how "the bugs" ruined it? Where's that same energy here? And I'm just talking about the bugs too lol?

[ClayRules2012]

@Neutralgamer1992

Yes, thank you for bringing up the 7 million pre orders. That’s such a big number for pre orders alone. Dang! And yeah, if this was any other publisher, they would infect get hammered, but not CDPR (who even when releasing a broken game) can’t seem to do any wrong. Yet, had Naughty Dog released TLoU2 in this shape...oh you better believe not only would fans be tearing them apart, but I myself would’ve been disgusted by their actions, in releasing a game that myself, their fans and they as a studio know all to well the standard that they go by the “NAUGHTY DOG STANDARD” is to hit perfection. And that’s not possible. But they also strive for that with each new game. However, with each game, the quality of their games across the board (regardless of story) all subjective and with this sequel it wasn’t gonna please everyone, many criticized U4’s story too although nowhere to the lengths of TLOU2’s not even close, their overall game, the polish, the sheer detail and care given into literally EVERYTHING is staggering and shows how much that studio and their team respect, love, appreciate, and understand what making games is about. It’s art. They don’t

I know, to some of you reading this and your gonna say TLoU2 was an exclusive and they know the hardware and didn’t have to go off of multiple other consoles and their game wasn’t as ambitious as CyberPunk, alright. However, that doesn’t matter. The game was delayed time and time and time again, but regardless of the struggles and circumstances, you keep pushes forward in working on your game and delay it until it’s in an appropriate and genuinely well great stable state that’s ready for everyone to play your game. As we saw with TLoU2 the studio wasn’t willing to diminish its name and quality of their games for the sake of sales. Some say it already happened with the story, I disagree.

Back to CyberPunk, I believe they were scared of losing their pre order sales, if another delay happened or if review footage that was taken and shared by reviewers was their own and not some BC B Roll footage from the studio from however many months or years ago.

It was shady all around on them, and they took the cowards way out, I believe.

And yeah, that’ll be summer by the time that’ll all possibly be fixed. I say possibly because remember, the upgrade enhancements for Next Gen, which is all great. I’m excited. But I also do feel genuinely bad for my fellow gamers on last gen, how does this effect them. Does CDPR put enough effort into making sure those patches do the game justice for the next 6+months or will they redirect their time into that update for Next Gen consoles because that’ll be the focus and “EVENTUALLY” everyone will own those machines and can experience the game there. Ugh, not the way to do it. I hope that doesn’t happen.

Yeah, I’ve seen many PC players defend it and while some can play it well it seems some can’t and I read someone say the update made it unplayable for them on their PC I believe it was. I mean, it’s a hurricane in all directions, hurting everyone when you think there’s possible light and land nearby.

I agree, buddy. We’re setting a bad example and other publishers will be watching and will possibly do the same thing,

CDPR has released an ever corroding/erupting volcano, that seems to get worse as time goes by for some, better for others, but either way, it’s a continuous lava stream of glitches, bugs and broken game that pollute the gaming industry and players consoles and their gamer hearts this Christmas season.

CDPR, I’d rather put my trust in the GRINCH this Christmas than you, at least he’ll be honest when he takes my heart and breaks it into pieces. Damn...

[Bobertt]

I honestly don't know what they were thinking. CDPR is usually one of the best when it comes to being for the consumer but they obviously knew it needed work after all those delays and this was what they came up with. I put this on management the only possible reason to release it this year would be for the shareholders so it would be on their Q4 earnings but the game being unplayable on last gen tanked the stock. I'm sure it will come back once they fix everything but clearly they could of delayed the game and took the stock hit and had a better launch next year.

[porkChop]

Even if you disable it in-game on PS5 it still runs in HDR. You have to completely disable HDR in the system settings. That's weird, I guess the HDR toggle is broken.

[Profchaos]

Yeah I find it weird that the toggle was set to off by default I could of sworn it was on

[predex84]

It is only wide color support, you can switch HDR off on PS5 and it looks awesome

[Redlife2g]

I find it pretty shitty on pc too.. Other games work fine.

[jbrock11]

DLSS is broken on PC. I have a 3090/10900k and the game literally runs sub 30 fps if it's not on.

[jznrpg]

Yeah that sounds bad . If you have the best rig possible it should at least be pretty good sheesh. It should be a bit easier for them to code for PS5 XSX as they are closed systems and only have to program for those 2 specs but they should have at least tried to get a few high end PC configs working well . I get that it’s not easy for PC as there are so many different combinations of parts It shows how much work is left . I really like CDPR , but they grew so fast after Witcher 3s popularity and had so much to live up to it’s really a shame they had to send it out this way.

[DFresh]

Such a shame.
I’m waiting until it gets fixed before I buy.

[jznrpg]

I bought it for my son as he just built a new PC but I’m waiting myself for the PS5 version

[sourOG]

I bought it on PS4 but all I did was create a character and then I went back to finishing immortals. I’ll probably just wait for the free upgrade too before I get into it again. Everything I’m reading says it’s good but the bugs are game breaking. Could be hyperbole but it could be worth the wait anyways. I have other shit to play.

[DFresh]

How does it run on PC?

[Artemidorus]

I turned it all off and it works better

[badz149]

Turn what off? The game? Hahaha

[Artemidorus]

The grain, blur etc but yes that works too

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Poop!!!

[ZeekQuattro]

8 years in the making. I feel sorry for anyone who was on board for this game in the very begining. I just started getting interested in the game in recent months and even I feel burned.

[Artemidorus]

It's still worth playing

[Reefskye]

I loving the game but on PC the crashes are so fucked, i played the first 3 hours had 5 crashes then it started working, i been doing a mission for Delamain taxis and I have crashed on the 6/7th taxi for the last 3 hours over 30 times, its been a joke. i have Skyrim with 300 mods more stable than this!

[vikingland1]

So how do you disable HDR on the Series X in the game ? I know how to disable it in the system settings already.
This is a stupid headline by the way, it says it's broken on PS5 & Series'X but only tells how to disable it on PS5. Why even mention Series X then?

[FullmetalRoyale]

Well there actually isn't a way to disable the hdr in game on Xbox. Apparently only the Playstation version has that.

[gamer7804]

Yup. Really strange how some of the options differ between the systems

[gamer7804]

You can either do it on your tv or at the system level on Xbox, there is no in game option as far as I can tell, but yah hdr is not good on this game. It’s so hit or miss with games these days but I’m very visually picky.

[Eidolon]

I can't believe there's people who ABSOLUTELY have to play this mess day one enough to ignore all the bugs. I thought the whole point was enjoy it with a full and immersive experience, these bugs would kill it for me.

[AriesBear]

Good God what isn't broken in this game

[ClayRules2012]

Good question. And remember, Keanu said he loved the game...what’d he love about it? The fact that it’s broken, messy, painful to experience? Maybe it reminds him of his time and experience playing John Wick. A broken man, who’s devastated, without hope anymore, lost and so forth. That’s basically the state of Cyberpunk right now🤦🏼‍♂️

[gold_drake]

what the hell is going on with this game? why did they let it ship out for consoles?

[predex84]

Consoles? Its the same on PC

[gold_drake]

ah fair enough ha.

[P_Bomb]

This is quickly becoming meme fuel. Don’t remember the last time I saw a game this busted, this protected.

[Farmer_Mike]

@dfresh runs horribly. It's like the graphics settings have little to no range between low and high. I'm trying to run it at the lowest settings at 1080p on a laptop 1650ti (fair enough not a great GPU) and I get 30fps avg with highs of 40 and dips to 20. It's super inconsistent and therefore unplayable. Months of optimization needed no doubt.

[Flawlessmic]

Been watching youtube comparisons and by god does the ps4/xbox version look terrible, i mean its looks like a ps3 game on a non hd tv.

Boggles my mind how blurry and poor its looks, i been waiting for this game for so long, im praying the ps5 update brings it close to the pc version as outside of the problems the game when working sounds amazing.

Atleast my wait for the ps5 version has gotten easier as i literally have no intention of playing it as itnis now

[AsunaYuukiTheFlash]

I can't believe Fallout 76 runs better than Cyberbug 2077. This is unacceptable, CDPR went from a respectable developer to trash.

[Pretentious]

You know, I think I'm alone with this opinion but CDPR gave me The Witcher 3. Literally one of the best games I've ever played. Knowing what kind of game Cyberpunk is, I never got hyped. It came out and its all buggy. K, I don't care. They gave me TW3. Take my money. Fix it when you want to fix it guys, I don't even care.