PS4 System Software Update 4.50 Details (Updated: Beast Mode for Pro added)

[BananaKing]

Things that interest me:

Custom wallpapers - I don't take that many screenshots of games but this is a cool feature.

Quick Menu Refresh - Love this...Creating a new party through the quick menu is gonna be awesome and super convenient

That's it. Happy to see people getting external HDD support though.

i have some truly fantastic The Witcher  screen shots. so i might put those up.

[nnodley]

3D VR, awesome! I had no idea that was coming.

Agreed this is a big thing I wanted with PSVR and was disappointed it wasn't available at launch.  Looks like I'm gonna be watch avatar in 3d on this!! Can't wait for this to release fully for everybody.  I think I asked this one other time, but do the full release come about a month after beta starts?

Also having boost mode is gonna be so freaking awesome.  Hope it works really well for most games.

[DerNebel]

Evil Within boost mode comparison:

[ethomaz]

PS4 Amateur  

[Riderz1337]

i have some truly fantastic The Witcher  screen shots. so i might put those up.

read ur messages

[Legend]

The pro patch is actually really smart to release now instead of at launch.

Back then if any game had issues, it'd be big news and give a lot of bad PR. I mean we already saw a little bit of that with the non enhanced games.


But now if a game crashes on boost mode, people are just grateful boost mode exists at all.

[ethomaz]

The pro patch is actually really smart to release now instead of at launch.

Back then if any game had issues, it'd be big news and give a lot of bad PR. I mean we already saw a little bit of that with the non enhanced games.


But now if a game crashes on boost mode, people are just grateful boost mode exists at all.

Next move add Downsampling options... that is why I believe they removed downsampling from patches just to delivery a system option.

[GribbleGrunger]

GAF:
Just tried F1 2016 and it's turbo locked at 60fps and wet racing seems much smoother and higher framerate. Interestingly although F1 2016 was no slouch at load times, it seems even quicker than before.

Bloodborne loading times are noticeably better from comparing with and without Boost mode, hadn't progressed far with my current character so couldn't really get into any demanding scenes to compare performance.

Originally Posted by stargateheaven
I need yakuza 0 tests!!!
 
 it sticks to 60fps normally but it gets screen tearing.

Originally Posted by Withnail
Smooth as butter in boost mode.

I tried Rocket League. It feels so much better now.

Originally Posted by kristianity77
Right, I've had a mess around with boost mode for a few hours running games I've got that I know can be problematic. Non of this is science, just guess work!!!

Project Cars - Better, much better. Still frame rate issues in wet racing with lots on screen but its considerably better than before.

Bioshock Infinite - Pretty much a solid locked 60fps from the part I played. Could be different in other areas though maybe.

Darksiders 2 - Now locked 30FPS and screen tearing is gone

Lords Of The Fallen - Almost now a locked 30fps, screen tearing pretty much gone.

Tomb Raider - Now a pretty much solid 60FPS lock (not ROTTR here, the original reboot)

Sleeping Dogs - Still a bit rough when driving around, but much better and smoother on foot.

Evil Within - Great! Miles better than before!

COD Ghosts - Yes I know no one plays this anymore, but in multiplayer areas, game is now pretty much locked to 60FPS where it wasn't before on some maps. First 10 minutes of campaign mode is also pretty much a lock.

Dead Island - Seems the same as before, Frame pacing issues and not FPS problems perhaps?

Everybodys Gone To The Rapture - Smoother, still not perfect, but must now be a very close 30FPS lock

Oddworld New And Tasty - Now seemingly locked to 30FPS

Resident Evil 5 - No more frame drops that I can see where there used to be minor ones throughout.

[GribbleGrunger]

Spoiler for Large GIF:

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[Dr. Pezus]

Witcher 3 in boost mode pls

[GribbleGrunger]

[Dr. Pezus]

Lol. Same second

[GribbleGrunger]

Lol. Same second

Yeah, I noticed lol. Rainbow 6 110fps ...

[Max King of the Wild]

So all along it was Sony with the secret sauce and they now just finally released it?

[GribbleGrunger]

So all along it was Sony with the secret sauce and they now just finally released it?

Naaa, Cerny mentioned they'd capped the framerates on the Pro to match the base PS4. What they've done is remove that cap, something DF actually suggested in a vid a while back

Originally Posted by Elios83
Just tried Assassin's Creed Unity in the most taxing zone of Notre Dame and the difference in controllability due to higher frame is absolutely evident.