Horizon: Forbidden West - Quality or Performance Mode?
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It's pretty common with Switch games too. A lot will swear that there is nothing wrong image quality-wise and performance-wise with games like Shin Megami Tensei V
It's very responsive alright. I tried cyberpunk for comparison and it's so slow to move, may have to tighten up the settings there (or just play 60).
Do you mind recording a short video of the areas with grass and moss in performance mode on your 1080p TV? I'm really curious what it looks like.
It's flickering and aliased. There's a clear difference between P and R even on a 1080p screen.
So I tried out quality mode on my CX last night with the X/Y sensitivity turned down 2 notches and motion blur set to medium and changing those settings did make it feel a little smoother and not as much of a slide show, I still went back to performance mode however but I think with those settings changed I could cope with playing at 30.
Very curious to see how much this helps. They still list visual improvements as the first bullet point for their known issues, so I'm guessing it won't be a big impact, maybe it's just the lighting change when panning the camera?
Really good for a first patch. It's a bit early to expect anything for the performance mode problems, but I'm confident we'll get a solution in the next few weeks if this is what their update looks like less than a week after release.
It¡s probably based on older reports than what they've anounced working on Monday.
I guess they'll have to work on specific fixes for OLED panels here (at least for that shimmering effect that is unique too).
I suppose it makes sense that they focus first on fixing gameplay bugs which can break the game while optimisation takes a lot longer.
I downloaded the patch but played for a few minutes unpatched, then quit, installed it and went to the same place. Seemed the same to me but it was quite a dark scene. Im pretty sure I'm less sensitive to others of these types of changes though
Edit: oh, the shadows are fixed
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Seems exactly the same to me.
Something I immediately noticed post-patch though is now my Collectibles tab always has a "New item" indicator on it, despite nothing new being in there. Incredibly tiny problem, but really annoying.
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This was an issue pre patch too. I've had this bug since hour one basically lol
Borrow code from other studios that have better reconstruction techniques.
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Coming from PC where I played Horizon Zero Dawn at 4K using DLSS quality mode, forbidden west looks a noticeable downgrade in visuals even on the quality mode lol. The foliage was so much better on PC with DLSS that it looks atrocious to me now even on quality mode. i am definitely playing this in quality mode on my CX but this game really is begging for DLSS.
For me it definitely looks better. Of course there is still shimmering but lowering the sharpening on HDR makes the game looks so much better now. I went back to the gate where you cross to the west and that was by far the worse looking part regarding sharpening and now it looks fine.
Been on performance mode almost the entire time now. Can't imagine some of these battles in 30FPS. There just wouldn't be enough info to react in time!
I just got to the Arena.... the Resolution mode isn't holding up..... low 20s for sure. But on the regular game is very stable.
Switched to the performance mode in the Arena and things feels better (50s is way better than 20s).
Switched to the performance mode in the Arena and things feels better (50s is way better than 20s).
That's weird, I play in Quality and I have had perfect performance in that area
It's crazy big and for'me the game is plainly bad looking in performance. Low rez and aliasing shimmering everywhere. Something I though long gone.
Agreed. Not sure if its just an OLED thing or maybe some just don't care but I sit about 8 ft away and all the shimmering and aliasing is completely immersion breaking for me. Not to mention, ugly af lol. Hope they figure out a different approach quickly. I look at AC Valhalla as comparison, it has a lot of vegetation and doesn't look as bad.
i think they should begin to make 60 fps working ! Still working on it... 2 weeks not even news on how thing advance... i have a bad feeling.
Raising the image quality in performance mode would require a lot of work since they would basically have to change their AA method to a stronger type of TAA that would blur the image. Adding a 40 fps mode and using the performance left on the table to raise resolution and therefore minimize aliasing should be a much easier fix since they already got dynamic resolution scale. I would not expect a fix for the image quality in performance mode
Agreed. Switched to quality and it took a few minutes but my eyes adjusted to the framerate and I am satisfied.
True, but we are not a lot with 120hz panel to support this... But agree in ratchet it was amazing.
Yeah after today's patch I noticed they definitely cleaned the image up a bit in terms of shimmering and just overall less noise so it looks much better but you can still easily tell their AA/reconstruction method is holding performance mode back. Quality mode feels much better as well and that might be down to how the camera feels and less jitter but I find it way easier on the eyes.
Also is it jarring to anyone else that silent take downs with the spear seem to always be way out of place?? Like sometimes it's not even on the body.
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Necro bump, sorry but I just got a ps5 with this game. I don't know if Guerilla is still working on patches for this game, but the performance mode IQ is, well, trash.. I wish I could stomach 30fps, but it feels like a slideshow. Problem is, performance mode looks so bad, aliasing and shimmering galore. I know it uses checkerboard rendering, but I played TLOU2 just after and it looked miles better using what I understand is the same technique. Am I missing something?
I'm finally done with elden ring and ready to go back to this game but its depressing that they haven't solved this issue.
When I was playing it at launch both options were just bad. :(
When I was playing it at launch both options were just bad. :(
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