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DF: PS5s new 2.0 firmware update increases performance in some games (Control, DMCVSE)
- Thread starter brokenswiftie
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It's like how eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich gives you an extra 30 minutes of life. If we could just keep getting firmware updates every day, we'll be gaming at 1000+ fps in a few years!
These CPU's aren't breaking a sweat running last gen and some current gen games at 60fps. We're now GPU bound in some games so the opposite from last gen. The GPU boost in the inevitable Pro consoles will be more than worth it when they arrive in ~late 2023.
Eerie flashbacks of Kyle from Ars Technica who did pretty much that sort of math in a serious article.
I'm sure this happens a lot but with games being locked to 30/60 in many cases you don't always notice the new headroom. PS5 has drivers just like your PC does, and sometimes those drivers are optimized. You just don't see laundry lists of patch notes about it, you see "System software stability has been improved".
I'm surprised this narrative got any traction, it's really one of the sillier ones.
I know there were some searing hot takes before and after the PS5 launched...but this one here? Cot dayum....lol.
Yup. Although this was a thing at one point...that the PS5 tools were already maxed out with no room for improvement. That could be part of the other post I quoted above, lol.
I could have sworn Rich went over this in the video him and GN did, saying it wasnt that big a deal. Saying there was no cpu, gpu boost by Sony. Granted I didnt see this video yet so I dont know whats implied in it.
I think the problem of publicly listing bugfixes for a consumer product is that these are often hundreds of tiny bugfixes and optimizations that are impossible to explain to the general public. It's just better to group it in generic categories (performance and stability in the notes would means optimization and bugfixes, respectively). They only describe the patch notes when it's a user-facing change or new feature.
Do we really want to see a hundred things like... "#62273 (bugfix5553 branch merge) [resolved]: memory mapping exception in abcxyz.so when the alloc block size in abcxyz_alloc_map() is above 64k with indirect addressing and recently evicted from cache".
A.k.a, performance and stability was improved in some games.
I don't think most people actually believed that. When discussing early DF comparison and mentioning the state of Xbox tools, it was in my opinion more about people pointing out that Xbox API was a revamp (which Control dev, DF, ... confirmed) and in a much worse place than PS API. So there were more improvements possible than on PS side, which was already in a good place.
Yes, Ultimate Edition is the only way to get the current gen versions and there's no upgrade path from last gen.
Eh, had to check, i only have the regular PS4 one.
Will get on a sale i guess.
Yeah, it's a bummer, but the game does go on sale quite often. I bought it for $19.99 on a sale right before they announced it would be a PS Plus game.
Right lol. There was enough FUD, no need to invent stuff.
Any improvement is a good thing so this is cool.
Too bad, Ultimate Edition was up for free in February PS+ games
Well fuck. I only just got a PS5 recently and must've missed it.
In February. PS5 owners got both Destruction all-stars and could use the ps5 version of the Control Ultimate Edition.
Its out for everyone now.
I was in the beta and when this launched I was promptly kicked out the beta, lol. Before it was an option to remove the beta and go back to official firmware, that option was no longer available when this launched, just update to this.