In summary, the patch is a good one for Xbox Series consoles and while compromises have been made, the pay-off is worthwhile. For Series X, it may now be running at a significantly lower resolution than PlayStation 5 in stress points, but the frequency of the off-putting screen-tearing is massively reduced. Worries that PS5 may now be running slower seem to be mostly unfounded, but widening the DRS window there may have also improved the overall experience for the Sony console, just as it does on Series X. Remember - resolution only drops in order to sustain 60fps, otherwise itâll run at whatever pixel count the GPU can manage. Meanwhile, the option of 60fps gaming on Series S is a good one, but the very low resolution may be off-putting. Overall, thereâs progress here, and itâll be fascinating to see where Ubisoft goes next with further optimisations - but weâd also like to see further bug fixes: the camera stutter issue that affected Xbox Series X still hasnât been addressed.
Hopefully all these re doâs, patches and different results each time cause people to move on and focus on the games themselves. This whole meta console score keeping game people play on forums is just a side effect of toxic fanboyism.
Some gamers need to get into sports or something instead of pitting one console against each other.
Alex speculates lowering the dynamic resolution scaling minimum target is likely just a quick fix, until the issues get properly dealt with.
All in all, itâs a good enough fix for now. The resolution lowering a bit more at 0.01 percentile moments of the game is imperceptible and wonât impact on the experience outside placebo. A steadier framerate and less tearing, however, is a big upgrade.
So DF say they should lower the PS5 resolution bound too in order to improve performance. Yet internet ignores thatâŚhilarious. Arenât these consoles all said and done performing exactly the same - itâs just that for some reason the tearing which is now far reduced on Xbox compared to PS5 just seems to happen more noticeably which I think is down to Xbox using the same DRS as on PC which is kicking in too late in the frame buffer so tearing is more obvious. My bet is that performance wise the two are identical.
Itâs exactly that: A quick fix, but it is the right one to make. The game has just been released, so I doubt Ubisoft has had the time to really go in and resolve the issues. However, you are undoubtedly having a better experience with this patch than before.
Strange that after extensively hammering the point that resolution didnât matter when SX was outputting twice or over the amount of pixels in BC comparisons, but the more stable framerate was preferable, now a much lower resolution gap is seen as significant and more framerate drops are seen as positive compared to the lower resolution.
For the time being itâs a fine fix but I honestly look forward to a time where these analysis videos just tell us that XSX is taking the lead, or at least isnât having lower resolution, no matter how little it might happen or not. It just shouldnât. But we know why itâs happening, and with that in mind itâs probably quite impressive what they manage to get done.
Itâs odd though. Wasnât it said a few days ago that ACV was significantly worse on PS5 now and that it was probably a bug according to DF? Donât get me wrong, itâs a good thing it isnât as bad as people thought, but for a day or two it seemed to be the worse version now.
I see resolution matters again. Why does no one call out the 1440p resolution on ps5, which still tears heavily? Isnât that embarrassing for a 2020 500$ console as well? When Xbox One X was doing 4k games back in 2017? What would be an acceptable performance that is not embarrassing ?
The sooner developers can utilize DirectML and go with 1080p natively upscaled to 4K while saving the resources for 60FPS, HDR and Ray Tracing, thatâs when everything will be so much better.
As for Valhalla, I donât know why Ubisoft (and other companies) use dynamic resolution instead of just lowering it and having it fixed for the entire game. This way it doesnât fluctuate.
By the time I play Valhalla, it should be perfect. lol.
hmmm look like XSX version become worse, this is just easy fix and UBI donât know anything about XSX Hardware and what cause the problems in the first place.
They initially reported that the patch made the PS5 version worse, but after further analysis concluded that that the PS5 is basically the same as before.
720p is 4x less than 1440p, but with higher framerates than ps5.
Honestly, no next gen console is performing well in this game but SS is the best of the bunch given its targets (it also stays at 1080p most of the time while the big boys almost never hit that).
SX and Ps5 are running at resolutions below X (which apparently stays at 1800p and above most of the time) and struggling to keep the framerate doubled. So nothing to brag about in either showing
