What are you playing now?

Doom Eternal has a feature that adjusts the rendering resolution to maintain framerate. My GTX970 was literally never dropping below 60fps which I thought was cool, then I noticed the game just gets blurrier instead of dropping frames. This is very cool.

 

Bad north, jotuun edition, which is nicer than anticipated.

 

Eh yo.

I'm playing Gears 5 , since it's free this week end (steam). I've all and ultra and stuff, but the textures are kind of blurry, my guess is another kind of TAA (I hate that on pc for modern gaming...). Any way in the .ini and stuff to disable it ? Because right now it looks way too soft... I know I can adjust the sharpness, but it's not very effective.

 

Yea it literally just makes the game blurrier. The UI and stuff stays at native res. It works really well. I mean like really well. Why more games don't do this?

Funny thing is, this only seems to kick in at slow/transition areas when I'm fucking around looking at the scenery. In actual fights the game seems to never drop below 1080p60. A testament to id's optimization and level design imo.

 

VRR is the lazy way out. Variable resolution is superior in almost every way from a gameplay perspective, IMO, but it requires work on the developer's part to make it responsive enough that it provides a stable framerate.

It also isn't something you can capture and show off in a screenshot which makes it bad for marketing or pushing your e-peen on a forum.

The question is, when the action kicks up, are you going to notice if it is or isn't 1080p versus when there is no action and you can take your time and just stare at the image? Also, in motion temporal resolution will kick in and the image will appear higher resolution than what each individual frame is.

Regards,
SB

 

I feel it shouldn't be either or choice. Combination of vrr + dynamic resolution would be more optimal. Allow some amount of variability in refresh rate to make it easier/more efficient to implement dynamic resolution. Also allow user to choose how much resolution is ok. to loose. If resolution is going way too low the framerate can give up some to keep up the clarity. If user targets for example 90Hz allow the combined algorithm to hover somewhere around 80-100 to make predicting what to render easier. Trying to hit solid 90 and never below would mean the rendering resolution likely would have to be slightly too low as it's rather difficult to predict perfectly what resolution is needed for each frame to hit exactly 90Hz.

Games might also occasionally hit cpu bottlenecks where lowering rendering resolution wouldn't help but vrr would help.

Big part of the vrr to me is that it tends to come with higher refresh rate monitors. 60Hz is too little, 144Hz is excessive for me. For my eyes the sweet spot is somewhere around 90Hz.

 

It looks like uplay will be giving away Assassin's Creed 2 from tuesday, since i will get it and I have quite a few of the ac games does someone who's played them fancy rating them
best to worst thanks...

 

Currently playing though Mario+Rabbids Kingdom Battle with my son. It has puzzles and battles, which are turn-based (X-COM hybrid with team selection, weapon selection and skill trees). Bought it on the current Nintendo Spring Sale for only ~$11. I also bought Breath of the Wild with the DLC on the same sale (for Switch this time, retired the Wii U) as well as GRIS.

 

still playing FF7R and D2. FF7R getting more and more boring after chapter 5 or 6. Now on chapter 9.

 

The ongoing grind which can't be saved by nostalgia?

 

i hadnt played the original FF7 tho. okay, actually i do play it years ago but it instanly bored me.

 

That's tough because gameplay moves on. What was considered revolutionary at the time of 2 feels primitive by today's standards. I learned this when I recently went back to play AC2 and just couldn't get into it.

That said in terms of story, the AC2 trilogy is probably the best. Here's my stab at the sequence overall but there's definite room for movement here. Oh and I've not played Odyssey (the latest one) yet.

Best to worst:

Black Flag
Origins
Rogue
Syndicate
AC2/Revelations/Brotherhood
Unity
AC1
AC3

 

Finished Gears 5 (thx you free on steam), and I just started Dragon Quest XI. I've it for months now, but I didn't have time. I like it so far, old school jrpg vibe. But Funny how it's using more power (on my Vega) than Gears 5 lol, even with limiting the fps at 85 (i do the same thing with all my games).

 

Why 85?
ps; tnx pj

 

It's noticeable if the res drops low enough. Also I have the in game analytics turned on which tells me if the resolution is dropping.

 

Because my FreeSync range is something like 37-90hz. So I limit my fps a little bit under that to be always in the good range.

 

Not a fan of it all in this title, kind of broken on Pascal GPUs. Resolution drops massively to claw back even small performance drops.

 

Seemed fine on my 1070.

 

Looking forward to the new XCOM2 mod coming out next week. XCOM: Chimera Squad let's you mix humans, aliens and hybrids as part of your squad, but does have some caveats.
April 14, 2020

https://www.computerbase.de/2020-04/xcom-chimera-squad/