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PS4 firmware 4.50 add Boost Mode for PS4 Pro.
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Schrade
Member
ROFL at John's voice when he talks about BroForce
Confirms my own experience with pCARS. It's bloody lovely when you unleash The Beast in the wet.
He mentions a sixty lock in the dry - would have been nice to see extended analysis.
Good to have Assetto Corsa at a sixty lock now too.
Liabe Brave
Member
Planetside 2 did get a Pro patch.
The framerate is consistently about 15fps higher than on standard PS4.
The video comparison thread is here. I've added a rough list every so often, alongside the great videos multiple people are linking to. Almost all of the enhancements shown by Digital Foundry were already known. Through online research and eyeballing videos, I was even able to estimate the performance gaps pretty well (though some are definitely higher than I thought).
Note that once the firmware becomes official, I will add a detailed list to my Pro enhancement thread. It'll be updated and live alongside the list of patched games.
The one challenge to that idea is Rainbow 6 Siege. In Terrorist Hunt, the game has been reported to have--through the fps counter in the game itself--huge increases with Boost mode. We're talking potentially ~30fps or even higher. This would be an extremely big jump to achieve solely through the clockrate change.
That said, I haven't actually seen like-for-like footage showing the precise gap on the same content. And it's also possible the onscreen fps counter is giving roughly-calculated results.
RedAssedApe
Banned
i kind of want to go back and play some more BF4 now...BF1 already gotten stale.
That would kill the chances of them using the 2nd virtual GPU for whatever they have planned for the 2nd virtual GPU
Uprendering
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
I think we should get a list of the games that run worse or have erros when boost mode is enabled, this is easier and enough to know since most of the games run better with this mode enabled. So to make thing easier is to know the very few games that run in bad shape in order to just avoid enabling that mode for them.
Theonik
Member
Finally! Now we need a re-do of the SSD test. The Witcher 3 should load REALLY fast with boost and an internal SSD if my hunch is correct.
I updated to the beta firmware at weekend. I've had an issue this week where my monitor which currently has my PC connected via DVI and PS4 Pro connected via HDMI takes several attempts to switch over to the PS4's HDMI output, it just goes black for a few seconds and then switches back to DVI.
Has anyone else experienced this? I don't recall this happening before the firmware update so I'm thinking it could be causing the issue somehow.
Has anyone else experienced this? I don't recall this happening before the firmware update so I'm thinking it could be causing the issue somehow.
xenorevlis
Member
The Terrorist Hunt mode with v-sync disabled runs anywhere from 40 to 90 fps on regular PS4 - with lots of tearing. You can see this for yourself if you own the game, and with boost mode to see the difference. If not, I can make a quick video to show you the difference in like scenarios.
Liabe Brave
Member
That standard range falls in line with what others have reported. But they've also reported giant gains with Boost mode over that. The lowest number I've seen is 70fps. Are you saying that the floor is actually a lot lower than that? If so, it would be nice to see like-for-like videos, if it's not too much trouble. No hurry on my account.
SomedayTheFire
Member
when is 4.5 officially releasing.
nismopower
Member
Can someone hook me up with an 4.50 beta account share ?
Really tired of waiting on email from sony...
Pm me please if u can hook me up!!
Really tired of waiting on email from sony...
Pm me please if u can hook me up!!
no one knows but they're usually released 1-1.5 months after the beta release apparently.
finalflame
Member
Can't speak for Warframe, but the Digital Foundry video has a section on KZ: SF, and it helps smooth out the framerate quite a bit.
Maintenance
Member
To the surprise of no one, Fallout 4 Pro Patch fucked up the performance in previous places where Boost mode fixed it (mainly Far Harbor).
astroturfing
Member
oh ffs.. i was just thinking of playing Far Harbor.
Maintenance
Member
The improved godrays absolutely murder the performance. Same for the extended draw distance.
Liabe Brave
Member
I believe there's a mod to turn the godrays off. Does performance improve if you do that?
Unknown Soldier
Member
Not any more than playing any game which has a Pro patch?
Why would it?
Maintenance
Member
Sorry, I didn't know that. I'll try it later.
Why would allowing unpatched games access to some of the better hardware, tax the system more than Pro-enabled software that has full access?
petran79
Banned
Because the latter have been officially tested and approved (probably). But beta testing is a given on consoles too nowadays. I mean even official games used to cause hardware issues on previous gen consoles. Let alone unofficial patches.
Lets wait and see
Stealthcobra
Member
Has anyone noticed the blank screen for a second or 2 even. Though not connected to the vr breaker box?
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Has Borderlands 2 been tested yet?
xenorevlis
Member
I don't think you understand how this works.
If anything the PS4 Pro enabled games ask more of the system, especially in 4K and high frame rate modes.
Letting normal games use half the GPU cores, CPU, and RAM at their normal speed won't do much.
I've had the screen going black a couple of times for a second or so when I start a new game, but it then seems to sort itself out.
1080p display fed through an AV amp by HDMI.
Stealthcobra
Member
Mine is directly connected.. Where do we report this?
Stealthcobra
Member
Is it me or does wolfenstein look better and run smooth as butter?
PsihoPerihelion
Member
I did yesterday and the game's now completely locked at 60.
Karspankey
Banned
The megatextures are probably loading in way faster.
Beer Monkey
Member
Hm, any word on Garden Warfare 2?
Caayn
Member
Good to hear. Was hoping that the boost mode would have a positive impact on SO V.
Dust-by-Monday
Member
Will I have any issues if I try to downgrade from 4.5 beta 2, to 4.07?
Was already locked 60fps.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Not really, as you could create local hot spots the cooling system is not as efficient to handle as it should. More CU's means more heat, but spread over a larger surface area.
Could be better texture streaming.
That seems to be the biggest gain in iDtech games.
It's not just about cooling. I run my 6700k at 4.7Ghz, I can't turn 2 cores down to 1Ghz and then run the other two at 5Ghz. It just doesn't work.
The chips in these devices will have been speed binned to meet the speed they wanted to hit. There are undoubtedly some that can go higher, but if it can't work for all then it won't happen for any.
I think you're missing the point...HALF of the compute units in the GPU are OFF...I don't think anyone is advocating overclocking the GPU...They just would like to see what would happen if Sony allows access to the other half of the GPU...
MadClacker
Member
Apologies if I'm just being dumb, but after doing a search in this thread for Alien Isolation, I've yet to find a concrete answer. Does Boost have any effect on the game? As it stands, it's a pretty solid 30FPS, but terrible aliasing and such. Can't imagine the game jumping much higher in framerates, but maybe load times?
On the beta forum?
xenorevlis
Member
Has anyone rolled back their beta firmware? I'm tempted to since my multiplayer games seem to have strange hitches every 20 seconds, but I also have newer firmware on the PSVR so I don't know if I should attempt to roll back or not.
JustinJ004
Banned
I got a new OLED 4k TV on Wednesday and the game I'm playing the most is the Witcher 3 thanks to boost mode!
Not only is it much smoother but the gameplay is better now too in subtle ways like the footprints that you have to track load in quicker so I'm not stopping all the time.
This has to go down as one of the best updates ever in my book.
Not only is it much smoother but the gameplay is better now too in subtle ways like the footprints that you have to track load in quicker so I'm not stopping all the time.
This has to go down as one of the best updates ever in my book.