Shadow of the Tomb Raider might be getting optimized for Xbox Series X|S soon

[Staffy]

@KageMaru

Unfortunately not. Spent Friday and almost all day yesterday looking at the patched version to create a video but chose not to because there is no difference. I maybe saw a couple frame difference in some scenes, but that could be margin of error.

FPS Boost Update:

So since the game already was native 4K on XSX, this whole update pretty much does nothing for the game? So the actual only new thing about this patch is for PE5, because I believe it wasn’t native or dynamic 4K yet on that?

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@Staffy

So since the game already was native 4K on XSX, this whole update pretty much does nothing for the game? So the actual only new thing about this patch is for PE5, because I believe it wasn’t native or dynamic 4K yet on that?

Oh it does something

It makes the FPS Boost Update irrelevant

[KageMaru]

@ganaconda

I don’t think that’s true. If so, it’s surprising because it is definitely something that is allowed. I don’t have a list in front of me (not sure there is even a handy one out there), but Ori and ME: Legendary Edition are two Gen9Aware games that come to mind which provide different resolution options over last gen. Granted those are games with multiple modes so it may not be fully apples to apples, but that’s actually more complicated than just changing the resolution.

Edit: Sea of Thieves is another (only XSS)

Yeah you’re right! I thought Ori was a proper Gen 9 GDK updated title. Thanks for the correction. Makes this update even more disappointing lol.

[Mort]

So… basically nothing new? Wtf.

[SpiderLink]

I guess as long as it doesn’t mess up Quick Resume, make the game much bigger, or make it so it can’t be played from an external HDD, I’m OK with an update that doesn’t add much.

Especially if it smooths out whatever issues apparently crop up in the later parts of the game, or if it means people without an Xbox can still get a good experience.

[Knottian (Daniel)]

@KageMaru

…you understand the point of FPS boost nor do you know how it works. It’s not a marketing tool, it’s an optional performance boost without needing the developer’s involvement. Acting like games such at TEW2 and Dark Souls 3 should be able to easily look and run better proves you don’t know why FPS boost exists in the first place. For TEW2 to run at 4K60, it would require the developers to produce a Series patch. Many of these games wouldn’t see any update at all, so are you suggesting it would be best to not do anything at all to provide some form of enhancements? FPS Boost =/= new gen update. Let’s try not to mix the two because they are nothing alike. Let’s also try not to pretend that there isn’t a space for features like FPS boost. I guess I’m curious, how would you handle it differently?

Thank you Mike! I’m not sure how much clearer MS could have been with FPS Boost, and all the interviews with Jason Ronald specifying its function. FPS Boost is precisely as its name suggests: purely a method of boosting framerate. Furthermore, I’m not sure how much clearer they can be when they’ve had over a dozen interviews with Jason and other engineers to specify that the feature requires no additional work from the original developers, whilst making it clear that this is not a resolution boost (a la Heutchy Method) or a substitute for ‘Optimized For’ featuresets. At this point, I think it’s pretty easy to argue that those negating the merits of ‘FPS Boost’ because it doesn’t improve resolution or other graphical features aren’t arguing in good-faith.

As for the rest of the community, there are plenty of threads to discuss the hardware, comparisons of the Series consoles, and other technical elements not related to Shadow of the Tomb Raider