As Bethesda’s best looking game of all time (which, really, is relative) as well as their most ambitious, there’s loads of little details to get lost in Starfield. It’s a very cinematic game from the opening credits, so if you’re wanting to do a Star War in the best settings possible, you’re going to want to enable HDR (high dynamic range) to really make those colours pop.
Curiously, at least from what we can tell while playing on PC, Starfield does not support HDR in-game, and any HDR settings must be enabled on a system level. This means that your console, PC, or monitor must all have a HDR option that is enabled before you can play Starfield with HDR, which itself currently does not seem to be working as advertised.
On Xbox, go to Profile & system > Settings > General > TV & display options > Video modes, then select Allow 4K, Allow HDR10, and/or Allow Dolby Vision to enable HDR10 with Starfield.
If you’re on PC, you can simply search HDR in the start bar if you’re on a more recent version of Windows, or go to Settings > Display > use HDR and then toggle it on that way.
If you cannot enable HDR in any way, it may be an issue with your display and you may need to go into those specific settings, the full possibilities of which are far too endless for us to get into here. There aren’t many of them these days, but there are HDR-ready displays out there that can recognise a HDR signal and do nothing with it, which means it doesn’t actually display HDR images.
At the time of launch, there are reports that HDR isn’t working for Starfield quite as intended despite being advertised as working with HDR. If some of your colors are looking a little flat and not very vivid, it might unfortunately just be a case of waiting for an update.
Starfield is available on PC and Xbox.
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