Steam screenshots are washed out when using Vulkan renderer

When I take screenshots using Steam while the game is rendering using Vulkan, they come out very bright and washed out. The game looks normal to me, and if I capture the screen using Windows or OBS, it comes out fine. If I capture a screenshot using Steam while in DX11 mode it also comes out fine.

OS: Windows 11
GPU: Radeon RX 6700 XT

Steam Screenshot in Vulkan:
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Steam screenshot in DX11:
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Windows screenshot in Vulkan: Screenshot 2024-05-01 20.23.03.png
 
Unable to replicate on Build 4197 on my GTX 1060 using Vulkan. Patch logs do not mention this being fixed unless I am blind.

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I'm also unable to reproduce the same under Vulkan, though I'm playing the game under Proton, so I'm not sure if that's having any impact.
Driver: AMD AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (radeonsi, navi21, LLVM 17.0.6, DRM 3.57, 6.8.0-31-generic)
Driver Version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.0.5-1ubuntu1
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 239 Hz
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x73bf
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 23.62" x 13.39" (27.13" diag), 60.0cm x 34.0cm (68.9cm diag)
Primary VRAM: 16384 MB
 

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I am able to replicate. Screenshots come out super white and washed out.
Vulkan with AMD hardware.

Here is an example:
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Played again after lunch, here is a comparison between how the game actually looks like (image taken with the snipping tool) vs how steam screenshots the game:
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Additionally: From some research I have done, this issue might be due to how Windows 10 & 11 handle HDR. There are some other games on Steam that have this problem.
 
This absolutely looks like an HDR issue, I've seen plenty of other games suffer from this when taking screenshots or even streaming
Good to know that we are zeroing-in on the issue. I hope this makes it easier for the devs to fix.
My monitor does not have HDR, and I have it turned off in my OS settings too, so it might be an issue with the game code.
 
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