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To 480p? The maxed out effects on PC take a lot more performance than a simply 1080p to 900p downgrade.
I'm thinking 720p....
I think you'd probably need to go lower than that to max it out. At max details (minus nightmare shadows too I think) the 370 which is a little faster than the PS4 only averages just over 30fps.
Overwatch DF face-off. Much Better anti-aliasing coverage (and better quality) on the PS4 version. Apparently DF completely missed it in their article. It's very easy to spot the difference on all their pics. Many areas completely lack any AA on XB1 when there is always AA on PS4. Notice how the PS4 images are still very compressed compared to the XB1 pics. All pics are the max jpg quality available.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-overwatch-face-off
PS4: http://images.eurogamer.net/2015/articles//a/1/8/2/9/4/6/4/PS4_002.bmp.jpg
XB1: http://images.eurogamer.net/2015/articles//a/1/8/2/9/4/6/4/XO_002.bmp.jpg
PS4 (zoomed in 500%): http://images.eurogamer.net/2015/articles//a/1/8/2/9/4/6/4/PS4_006.bmp.jpg
XB1 (zoomed in 500%): http://images.eurogamer.net/2015/articles//a/1/8/2/9/4/6/4/XO_006.bmp.jpg
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-overwatch-face-off
PS4: http://images.eurogamer.net/2015/articles//a/1/8/2/9/4/6/4/PS4_002.bmp.jpg
XB1: http://images.eurogamer.net/2015/articles//a/1/8/2/9/4/6/4/XO_002.bmp.jpg
PS4 (zoomed in 500%): http://images.eurogamer.net/2015/articles//a/1/8/2/9/4/6/4/PS4_006.bmp.jpg
XB1 (zoomed in 500%): http://images.eurogamer.net/2015/articles//a/1/8/2/9/4/6/4/XO_006.bmp.jpg
Silent_Buddha
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Interesting...
What? A game that actually uses DoF sensibly? Only being used when there's an extremely strong chance that the player will be focusing on those things anyway. Although weapon swapping is questionable, but reasonable. I think this may be the first game ever where I'd leave DoF on. Assuming it's only ever used in the events described in the quote.
OK, that impresses me. Focusing on gameplay first and fiddly bits after. No sacrifices made to gameplay in order to facilitate buzzwords or graphics checkmarks. Although I do wish they'd further reduced some of the settings for XBO in order to maintain a more steady 60 FPS.
One of the best looking games this console generation and 60 FPS to boot which makes it look even better than any 30 FPS game when in motion even if it'll suffer in comparison when stationary or in screenshots where there is no motion going on.
I may actually pick this up when it hits the bargain bin just to reward them for the graphics ability of their engine even if I detest some of their gameplay decisions and their horrible checkpoint saving system.
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From weapon swapping they just mean the when the weapon wheel pops up, you don't get any DoF when you simply switch back and forth between two weapons, or when you equip any of the weapons using a hotkey on PC.
Silent_Buddha
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Ah, OK, that makes a lot of sense. I really like how they attempted to only use DoF in situations when the user is highly unlikely to be looking at anything other than what is remaining in focus. If you are interacting with something directly, chances are you're looking at it. If you are picking something up manually, you're likely looking at it. Much better than games that just put it in because "it looks pretty" but has absolutely nothing to do with how human vision works where a person will focus on a great variety of different things while walking around.
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SB
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In the D.Va shot X1 seems like it is missing indirect lighting (or it's reduced), although it could be a scene specific bug
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So if I open the PS4 and XB1 screenshots and go between them, that's the real difference between 900p and 1080p ? If so it really isn't anything like the difference you see people talk about, I mean yes it's slightly crisper on PS4 and darker on XB1 but nothing to shout about imo. I have both consoles, I love the XB1 UI, achievements and controller but have always played my third party games on PS4 because of the apparent 'massive differences' in resolution. If those screenshots are indicative of the differences in most multiplatform games then I may just start playing them on XB1.
Silent_Buddha
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Wait, are they (DF not CDProjekt Red) blaming some of the performance shortcomings on console to the number of draw calls? I thought the consoles did better with draw calls than PC, especially since this is not a DX12 game on PC.
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Low frequency surface details benefit less from higher pixel count, and then you have geometry edge filters that make the difference somewhat less obvious.
Depends on the art direction how much it makes a difference for folks.
Silent_Buddha
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And depending on the size of your display and the distance between you and the display the difference becomes even loss obvious or disappears entirely.
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SB
Or the other way around. Native or non native resolution always stands out to me hugely. I think many gamers are probably pretty close to their TV when gaming. For me, 42" tv at 2.5m distance.
That said if both the 1080p and 900p have aggressive AA / blur effects, it becomes less noticeable of course. But it is still there, both when UI is native (contrast stands out) and when it is not (UI blurriness stands out).
That said if both the 1080p and 900p have aggressive AA / blur effects, it becomes less noticeable of course. But it is still there, both when UI is native (contrast stands out) and when it is not (UI blurriness stands out).
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Not a problem on a 4K TV, particularly a Sony 4K TV with "X-Reality Pro" which is going to be doing some very nice image processing during scaling which is lessening 1080p output jaggies. Jaggies that were apparent on my 40" 1080p set are less apparat on my 49" 4K set.
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steveOrino
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No because games aren't static screenshots. It's 1600x900 vs 1920x1080 and since this particular title uses morphological antialiasing (SMAA) the image stability across frames will be more temporary stable since there is more data to work with. higher resolution also makes it easier to see distant objects and players, which can be an advantage in competitive FPS.
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