God of War to Get PS5 Enhanced Performance Update Tomorrow - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 February 2021 / 1,777 Views
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Sony Interactive Entertainment Santa Monica Studio have announced an update for 2018's God of War title will be adding enhancements to the game running on the PlayStation 5. The update will release tomorrow, February 2.
The game on the PlayStation 4 Pro gives you two graphics options. One of them favors performance and one favors resolution. The update will replace the current options with a new default setting for those that are playing it on the PS5.
The PlayStation 5 enhanced performance update syncs the game to run at 60 frames per second and 4K checkerboard resolution.
God of War is available now for PlayStation 4.
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Good, a game that deserves support.
Yeah, boi.
I though god of war on ps5 already ran at 60fps. Whats changed here?
I'm assuming further optimization. It was running on ps5 through backwards compatibility, but now it's getting an update to make it natively run on ps5.
Maybe I am wrong, but I think the game had a 1080p and uncapped frane rate mode for PS4 Pro. So I would assume PS5 was making that mide locked at 60 fps.
Checkerboard, really?
They just keep the same resolution as PS4 Pro but unlock the framerate to 60 fps which is what happened to most Sony backwards compatible games. Look at the digital foundry analysis of various games. Sony's checkerboard 4K with temporal injection is a really good solution.
Even Nvidia is continuously boasting DLSS because native 4K is just using resources that can be used far better for other things.
Absolutely, although I haven't seen direct technical comparison the checkerboard solution is not at all just a dumb upscale from frame but uses internal object ID and temporal info which is more comparable to DLSS like approach (not saying it is directly equivalent). I always wished Sony continued to support it in native games (I would not yet say this is really native, as it is just minimum solution) at least as basis of one "performance mode". Certainly while they are still releasing crossgen games for PS4 Pro it makes alot of sense to use that as basis of semi-4K rendering mode (and would leave plenty of head room for high end effects and 60 fps on PS5).
There seems to be confusion here about what his mode is about, but seems pretty clear to me from reading the announcement: while PS4 Pro had modes prioritizing resolution or FPS, PS5 obviously has the power that it doesn't need to compromise and can achieve the benefits of both at the same time. Actually it could probably do better up to "real" 4K for what that matters, but that would involve alot more work in reworking the game that isn't really worth it (it still wouldn't be a pure nextgen remaster).
Even the Series X struggles to stay at 60 fps in BC titles with a high resolution.
Checkerboard can be from any sub 4k resolution, not saying it is the case here but could even have changed from 1440p to 1800p native then checkerboarded to 4k and that would improve IQ as well. And that having 60fps instead of 30.
OH HELL YEAH!!!!
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