Baldur's Gate 3 4K HDR OBS Recording Test (Vulkan) - Round 2: Success
0This was my own personal quest to figure out what was going on with HDR recording in OBS and transcode to YouTube.
Similar to the test video I did on Mass Effect Legendary Edition; putting BG3 through the paces using Nvidia's recommended OBS settings on my RTX 4090. Local recording this time appears correct so now I am testing the YouTube transcode of the source on BG3 which previously was failing.
If you're curious as to the settings I used you can check out this guide from Nvidia:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/broadcasting-guide/
It's not perfect. For example, you might have a monitor that also needs to be set to 10-bit which could mean you have to drop down the refresh rate if it can't push the space at higher frequencies. Also, there are a couple mistakes in the screenshots vs. the text of the article (notably the B-frames.)
In my experience testing this vs. SDR you can achieve very similar colors using the control panel enhanced mode overrides (vibrance, contrast, brightness) for color and resolution and run it at 8-bit with a butter framerate and not fuss with HDR at all. Which for most people who want to stream or upload recording is better anyway because HDR is not a perfect science -- and some people just don't want their eyeballs burned out by radiant damage. .... That's a joke. ;p
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