Hey, I've just purchased this monitor and although it looks very good in SDR and insanely bright, the HDR mode is just broken for me. It is way to dim, with adaptive dimming set to Fast, there are like foggy areas in dark scenes around brighter objects, but overall it's very hard to make out what's there.
As the color settings cannot be changed in HDR mode, I can only change it from the NVIDIA control panel and it seems that setting the gamma from 1.0 to 1.40-1.55 does the trick, a +10-20% boost to vibrance and contrast can also help, but the gamma is the real deal. I have an OLED monitor next to this one so I can easily compare the two and with these settings, it's getting closer to that.
The same darkness can be observed in games and with a Nokia tv box connected to one of the HDMI ports, when the HDR is enabled.
I'm thinking about returning the monitor because messing around the color settings every time is too much of a hassle, especially that I use it for work 90% of the time and you also cannot change adaptive dimming in the Acer Widget, only in the OSD, which is a bummer…
I've seen there were similar issues with the predecessor: https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/679911/x32fp-hdr-issue-ive-been-having-issues-with-hdr-specifically-hdr-is-very-dark
And there is a new firmware for that, supposedly improving the HDR experience, any news about this model getting a new FW with a fix? Or can anyone suggest a solution for this?