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[PSA] FPS Boost On Xbox Series Comes With a Resolution Downgrade To 1080p In Some Games
Tickle My Tendies
Member
the meat of what this is saying:
Dishonored was always 1080p, it never had mid-gen upgrades.
According to ElAnalistaDeBits Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 drop from their enhanced resolution to 1080p.
Curious to see this confirmed by someone else, and also if so, is it working as intended, or is this a bug? FPS Boost is still in pretty early stages. I also didn't know that Fallout 76 was 4k on One X.
Dishonored was always 1080p, it never had mid-gen upgrades.
According to ElAnalistaDeBits Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 drop from their enhanced resolution to 1080p.
Curious to see this confirmed by someone else, and also if so, is it working as intended, or is this a bug? FPS Boost is still in pretty early stages. I also didn't know that Fallout 76 was 4k on One X.
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Stuart360
Member
According to DF, some boosted games are boosting the XB1 version, and some games are boosting the OneX version.
Its a weird situation to me, but like i said, framerate is king.
Hawking Radiation
Member
Whatever the case I'm just happy these old gen games are running so much better via BC to the point I'm enjoying replaying them and the FPS boosts helps to make it feel like new games lol.
Kagey K
Banned
It's literally 2 games so far, but I'm sure it'll somehow get twisted into all of them do. Just watch.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
That’s lame, but I am confident it will be fixed on the mid gen refresh. These next gen consoles are not as powerful as I hoped.
NeonGhost
uses 'M$' - What year is it? Not 2002.
Why prey is 1440p
Stuart360
Member
They are not super powerful, but this isnt really power related as there is already a 4k/60 mod for Fallout 4 on XSX.
Also Fallout 4 1080p on X and S, Prey 900p on S, 1440p on XSX.
Some games are boosting XB1 versions, and some games are boosting OneX versions, for some reason.
papersleeves
Member
So basically Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 are dropping to 1080p and the entire rest of the fps boosted games are as is. We're panicking for 2 games?
bender
What time is it?
The fallout is justified.
Stuart360
Member
You know they could of just not bothered with developing this 'FPS Boost' at all, and just kept games at a stuttery 30fps.
Imagine losing it over something very positive that you are getting for free.
NeonGhost
uses 'M$' - What year is it? Not 2002.
Yeah that’s the bug because the performance starts tanking after about a minute of play
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PontiusFeeb
Member
You can also tell which games have resolution drops because they are the ones that have to have 60 fps enabled manually.
Stuart360
Member
Maybe its something related to Bethesda's engine, and it doesnt like the way Frame boost works?. I wouldnt be surprised knowing Bethesda's engine lol.
Nikana
Go Go Neo Rangers!
What's weird to me is Skyrim rez is untouched.
Stuart360
Member
Yeah true. Maybe they were just rushed for time because the games were about to hit Gamepass. None of us know how much work is involved to do this workaround to games.
Nikana
Go Go Neo Rangers!
Skyrim would be built on an older version of the engine as it's a 360/ps3 game. Only thing I can think of.
Zeeed
Member
Only thing I can guess is that the game began as a X360 game, and was updated to other platforms with higher textures and some tweaks.
But at the end of the day, it is still a game that started out as a X360 developed game. So maybe it doesn't have as many particle effects, triangle thingies, and lighting do-dades, etc. to bog down seriesX so it can do 4k@60fps.
Darlingcognito
Member
Hmm yeah well just as well I stopped caring about resolution on the 7th of November 2017 right!?
Stuart360
Member
Skyrim Special Edition is a full remaster and a much harder game to run than old Skyrim, and thats the version on last gen consoles.
Plus there is already a 4k/60 mod for Fallout 4 on XSX.
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Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
You are right framerate is king and I bet users can still choose 60 FPS with the changes or 30 FPS without any other change (as it was before), right?
They created a bit of unnecessary confusion hyping this up as same exact BC experience as you have now, but at 2x the framerate. If 60 FPS were to mean using the Xbox One S version of the game instead of the Xbox One X version or reducing the resolution or anything similar... it could have been clarified before a bit for transparency’s sake.
Bernd Lauert
Banned
Seems like a quirk with the Fallout games.
NeonGhost
uses 'M$' - What year is it? Not 2002.
What about it the solution the backwards compatibility team have to do the frame rate boost can’t do that large of a game in 4K and do the boost to the frame rates andit doesn’t help any that both of those games are probably horribly optimized
I’ve not been following but why exactly is this a mod and not the official release?
Chris_Rivera
Member
Tried Prey, looks nice at 1440p and input latency seems right. Sucks about Fallout, hopefully they can fix it as fps boost shouldn’t have any effect on res, based on its method.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
They mentioned that the resolution in both Fallout games would be lowered, so it seems to be a necessary concession rather than a bug.
NeonGhost
uses 'M$' - What year is it? Not 2002.
They cant set the resolution to 1440p. We also don’t know how much extra power we need from the backwards compatibility teams method of doing the frame rate boost
Zuzu
Member
The Series X can run the Xbox One X version of Fallout 4 with the popular 720p/60fps mod perfectly fine (and it doesn't drop the resolution down to 720p -- it maintains the rez of the Xbox One X version). Recently, there's also been a new mod released on the Xbox which sets the game at higher than ultra settings and runs the game at 60fps. I don't know what resolution the newest mod runs at but I'm pretty sure it's higher than 1080p on the Series X. Considering what the Series X can already do with mods, this official 60fps update needs some more work.
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Yep, seems like a bug.
Especially if the fallout 4 mod, that unlocks fps give us almost 60fps all the time at dynamic 4k. So it really seems that it is a bug. Quarter resolution but double the framerate does not even make sense from a hardware perspective. I guess that somehow those games runs always like on Series S.
Question is, why would they not detect something like this before releasing such updates?
From their description of the method it doesn't need any more performance than just rendering at twice the framerate. It is more or less just a timer that instead of asking for a frame every 33.3ms asking every 16.6ms.
But as they now really poses the Code of these games, a "repackaging" just with the unlocked framerates (more or less just an ini-file entry) seems more like the way to go. But I guess they don't want to bind any additional development resources.
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Superayate
Member
the time of ''Eats Monsters for Breakfast'' is long gone
wtf this answer when that's not linked to the console performances ?
(the 60fps mod runs the game at higher resolution)
Evilms
Banned
Sorry but when you base your whole marketing campaign on Tflops and power only you have to assume afterwardswtf this answer when that's not linked to the console performances ?
Silent Viper
Banned
You need 60fps in prey and Fallout way more than 4k. Trust me
I believe that the mod is game specific but this FPS boost is general, cheaper/easier and is implemented at the engine level for all games. There was a news article about MS working to boost engine performance a while back and FPS boost is the outcome.
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