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exclusive_console on 04 December 2018

4K is the worst thing TV manufacture came up with. 1080P is fine. At most 2K or 1440P. More detailed gfx/affects is more important. This is the advantage that PC gamers have as they can scale gfx setting/resolution according to their preference.



 

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Mr Puggsly on 04 December 2018
exclusive_console said:
4K is the worst thing TV manufacture came up with. 1080P is fine. At most 2K or 1440P. More detailed gfx/affects is more important. This is the advantage that PC gamers have as they can scale gfx setting/resolution according to their preference.

I feel the jump to 4K is justified even if not absolutely necessary. It does create a noticeably more sharper image even if not exactly day and night difference. I also like games push higher native resolutions for super sampling on lower res displays.

Ideally though I don't like to jump above 1080p if its compromising graphics potential. The amount of pop in BFV on X1X can be jarring because the settings seem to be at par with base consoles.



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Mr Puggsly on 04 December 2018
curl-6 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Everything tends to run better than last gen because is a greater focus on stable performance. Later in the generation we saw greatly improved performance, but you still saw technically impressive stuff like Sleeping Dogs or Far Cry 3 running pretty bad. Meanwhile, GTAV was stunning and maintain fairly stable performance.

You keep saying bringing open world games to last gen was a struggle, but it was done many time over. It also depends on what the game was attempting to do. For example, we've seen Bethesda games struggle when there are too many changes in the world, which is saved in some sort of memory. But the average open world game isn't doing that. Maybe the way Bethesda games did it was also inefficient, their engine(s) aren't exactly praised. The way you speak though games like Assassin's Creed should never have existed on last gen or even improved with each release.

I started playing Gears 3 recently and it especially looks fantastic on the X1X. Halo 4 is the more technically impressive game of the two, because its a larger scale action. The campaign maps are like small open world with lots of enemies, vehicles, etc. It even does that in split screen which is like an anomaly in modern games. Even multiplayer can have up to 16 players on a large map with vehicles, some of the most fun I had last gen. I'm sure it took effort to make all of this work on ~500MB of RAM, but I feel the average game was struggling more with the GPU limitations and were more often pushing the limits of that.

GTA5 didn't run stable on last gen though, it could and often did drop hard when moving through detailed areas as the systems struggled to hustle data in and out of memory. And Assassin's Creed was a series notorious for uneven performance and characters popping in meters ahead of the player. Both were examples of the RAM limitations biting. It's not that last gen systems couldn't do open world, just that it was not their forte since of their three key components (CPU/GPU/RAM) the latter was the biggest bottleneck by far.

It depends on the platform and game. GTAIV ran poorly and still does on X1 BC. That's likely because its poorly optimized on CPU. GTAV was above average in performance, it stays pretty close to 30 fps while significant dips can be during driving and action. But that was par for the course on last gen.

In AC games you might see NPCs pop in fairly close, but they could also be seen from a great distances. You're exaggerating to make a point and ignore they were always raising the bar on visuals which is GPU heavy. These game also run better on 360 than you suggest, a lot of open world games performed better on 360. Many 360 games perform better on X1 BC because the bottleneck was on GPU. Meanwhile the game heavy on CPU still struggle. So Crysis 1 still runs bad while Far Cry 3 is a rock solid 30 fps.

Lastly, later 360 games actually required a HDD or USB memory sticks because external storage seemed to be used to give a memory boost, helped for streaming data quickly, etc. That suggest there was a bigger issue loading data quickly off a disc than just RAM limitations. Some games actually ran worse if you installed it on a HDD because it was using the HDD for cache, GTAIV was one of those games.



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curl-6 on 05 December 2018
Mr Puggsly said:
curl-6 said:

GTA5 didn't run stable on last gen though, it could and often did drop hard when moving through detailed areas as the systems struggled to hustle data in and out of memory. And Assassin's Creed was a series notorious for uneven performance and characters popping in meters ahead of the player. Both were examples of the RAM limitations biting. It's not that last gen systems couldn't do open world, just that it was not their forte since of their three key components (CPU/GPU/RAM) the latter was the biggest bottleneck by far.

It depends on the platform and game. GTAIV ran poorly and still does on X1 BC. That's likely because its poorly optimized on CPU. GTAV was above average in performance, it stays pretty close to 30 fps while significant dips can be during driving and action. But that was par for the course on last gen.

In AC games you might see NPCs pop in fairly close, but they could also be seen from a great distances. You're exaggerating to make a point and ignore they were always raising the bar on visuals which is GPU heavy. These game also run better on 360 than you suggest, a lot of open world games performed better on 360. Many 360 games perform better on X1 BC because the bottleneck was on GPU. Meanwhile the game heavy on CPU still struggle. So Crysis 1 still runs bad while Far Cry 3 is a rock solid 30 fps.

Lastly, later 360 games actually required a HDD or USB memory sticks because external storage seemed to be used to give a memory boost, helped for streaming data quickly, etc. That suggest there was a bigger issue loading data quickly off a disc than just RAM limitations. Some games actually ran worse if you installed it on a HDD because it was using the HDD for cache, GTAIV was one of those games.

360 was a better fit for those games because it had more RAM available to games than the PS3. Its OS used less and it was one big unified pool compared to the PS3 which loses more to its OS and could only use half for graphics and the other half for everything else. So the 360's advantage there came in no small part from memory superiority.

And Far Cry 3 on last gen is far from a rock solid 30fps, it runs very poorly when traversing detailed areas, again in large part due to aggressive streaming necessitated by severe memory limits.

But are veering pretty far off topic here, so to bring it back to resolution, last gen also offers a good example of the actual topic; let's look at 1080p games on last gen vs 720p games. The former may look crisper, but at the cost of vastly less detail and lustre. 

PS3 at (Dynamic) 1080p:

 

PS3 at 720p:

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Mr Puggsly on 05 December 2018
curl-6 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

It depends on the platform and game. GTAIV ran poorly and still does on X1 BC. That's likely because its poorly optimized on CPU. GTAV was above average in performance, it stays pretty close to 30 fps while significant dips can be during driving and action. But that was par for the course on last gen.

In AC games you might see NPCs pop in fairly close, but they could also be seen from a great distances. You're exaggerating to make a point and ignore they were always raising the bar on visuals which is GPU heavy. These game also run better on 360 than you suggest, a lot of open world games performed better on 360. Many 360 games perform better on X1 BC because the bottleneck was on GPU. Meanwhile the game heavy on CPU still struggle. So Crysis 1 still runs bad while Far Cry 3 is a rock solid 30 fps.

Lastly, later 360 games actually required a HDD or USB memory sticks because external storage seemed to be used to give a memory boost, helped for streaming data quickly, etc. That suggest there was a bigger issue loading data quickly off a disc than just RAM limitations. Some games actually ran worse if you installed it on a HDD because it was using the HDD for cache, GTAIV was one of those games.

360 was a better fit for those games because it had more RAM available to games than the PS3. Its OS used less and it was one big unified pool compared to the PS3 which loses more to its OS and could only use half for graphics and the other half for everything else. So the 360's advantage there came in no small part from memory superiority.

And Far Cry 3 on last gen is far from a rock solid 30fps, it runs very poorly when traversing detailed areas, again in large part due to aggressive streaming necessitated by severe memory limits.

But are veering pretty far off topic here, so to bring it back to resolution, last gen also offers a good example of the actual topic; let's look at 1080p games on last gen vs 720p games. The former may look crisper, but at the cost of vastly less detail and lustre. 

PS3 at (Dynamic) 1080p:...

The 360 had a memory advantage, it was often lead platform, it was easier to develop for, it could stream data off a disc faster, the general consensus is it had a GPU edge, etc. The 360 had numerous advantages before we focus on memory. However, the PS3 did have very impressive 1st party games, more polished looking 1st party games and performed better with Frostbite games like Battlefield (seemingly games that demand heavy use of memory).

Far Cry 3 ran terrible on 7th gen consoles. The frame rate struggled with little happening and also aggressive screen tear. I'm saying its a rock solid 30 fps on Xbox BC because the bottleneck was on GPU. Little proof the game struggled because of memory limitations.

Your picture comparison is silly. 360 and PS3 didn't have the GPU power to push high quality graphics of the time at 1080p. They more often went below 720p versus achieving 1080p. Your argument could be made about modern consoles as well. They often sacrifice performance and graphics settings to achieve a higher resolutions. It one of my current gripes with the mid gen upgrades.



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Spindel on 05 December 2018
exclusive_console said:
4K is the worst thing TV manufacture came up with. 1080P is fine. At most 2K or 1440P. More detailed gfx/affects is more important. This is the advantage that PC gamers have as they can scale gfx setting/resolution according to their preference.

Isn't 2K basically the same as 1080p? (1920x1080)

 

I see marketing departments rubbing their hands over ther successful marketing campaing starting to count the horizontal pixels instead of the vertical.



curl-6 on 05 December 2018
Mr Puggsly said:
curl-6 said:

360 was a better fit for those games because it had more RAM available to games than the PS3. Its OS used less and it was one big unified pool compared to the PS3 which loses more to its OS and could only use half for graphics and the other half for everything else. So the 360's advantage there came in no small part from memory superiority.

And Far Cry 3 on last gen is far from a rock solid 30fps, it runs very poorly when traversing detailed areas, again in large part due to aggressive streaming necessitated by severe memory limits.

But are veering pretty far off topic here, so to bring it back to resolution, last gen also offers a good example of the actual topic; let's look at 1080p games on last gen vs 720p games. The former may look crisper, but at the cost of vastly less detail and lustre. 

PS3 at (Dynamic) 1080p:...

The 360 had a memory advantage, it was often lead platform, it was easier to develop for, it could stream data off a disc faster, the general consensus is it had a GPU edge, etc. The 360 had numerous advantages before we focus on memory. However, the PS3 did have very impressive 1st party games, more polished looking 1st party games and performed better with Frostbite games like Battlefield (seemingly games that demand heavy use of memory).

Far Cry 3 ran terrible on 7th gen consoles. The frame rate struggled with little happening and also aggressive screen tear. I'm saying its a rock solid 30 fps on Xbox BC because the bottleneck was on GPU. Little proof the game struggled because of memory limitations.

Your picture comparison is silly. 360 and PS3 didn't have the GPU power to push high quality graphics of the time at 1080p. They more often went below 720p versus achieving 1080p. Your argument could be made about modern consoles as well. They often sacrifice performance and graphics settings to achieve a higher resolutions. It one of my current gripes with the mid gen upgrades.

RAM limitations become CPU limitations, because it's the CPU that has to manage the aggressive streaming and decompression of data that a tiny amount of RAM necessitates. Ask any dev who worked on PS3/360 whether RAM or GPU was the bigger bottleneck, they will all tell you it was RAM.

As for the last paragraph: that's my point.



Mr Puggsly on 05 December 2018
curl-6 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

The 360 had a memory advantage, it was often lead platform, it was easier to develop for, it could stream data off a disc faster, the general consensus is it had a GPU edge, etc. The 360 had numerous advantages before we focus on memory. However, the PS3 did have very impressive 1st party games, more polished looking 1st party games and performed better with Frostbite games like Battlefield (seemingly games that demand heavy use of memory).

Far Cry 3 ran terrible on 7th gen consoles. The frame rate struggled with little happening and also aggressive screen tear. I'm saying its a rock solid 30 fps on Xbox BC because the bottleneck was on GPU. Little proof the game struggled because of memory limitations.

Your picture comparison is silly. 360 and PS3 didn't have the GPU power to push high quality graphics of the time at 1080p. They more often went below 720p versus achieving 1080p. Your argument could be made about modern consoles as well. They often sacrifice performance and graphics settings to achieve a higher resolutions. It one of my current gripes with the mid gen upgrades.

RAM limitations become CPU limitations, because it's the CPU that has to manage the aggressive streaming and decompression of data that a tiny amount of RAM necessitates. Ask any dev who worked on PS3/360 whether RAM or GPU was the bigger bottleneck, they will all tell you it was RAM.

As for the last paragraph: that's my point.

I just remembered the 360 and PS3 had some 60 fps open world games. Burnout Paradise, Rage and Driver SF. Strange the tiny memory available didn't obliterate the performance of these games.

Again, you keep blaming RAM limitations but the bigger issue was often GPU limitations and optimization.



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curl-6 on 05 December 2018
Mr Puggsly said:
curl-6 said:

RAM limitations become CPU limitations, because it's the CPU that has to manage the aggressive streaming and decompression of data that a tiny amount of RAM necessitates. Ask any dev who worked on PS3/360 whether RAM or GPU was the bigger bottleneck, they will all tell you it was RAM.

As for the last paragraph: that's my point.

I just remembered the 360 and PS3 had some 60 fps open world games. Burnout Paradise, Rage and Driver SF. Strange the tiny memory available didn't obliterate the performance of these games.

Again, you keep blaming RAM limitations but the bigger issue was often GPU limitations and optimization.

Because Burnout and Driver were simplistic with basic and repeated assets. And Rage was not open world at all.

You are simply incorrect here. Again, in 2008 their GPUs were still quite decent, but even by then less than 500MB of RAM for games was a joke.



Mr Puggsly on 05 December 2018
curl-6 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

I just remembered the 360 and PS3 had some 60 fps open world games. Burnout Paradise, Rage and Driver SF. Strange the tiny memory available didn't obliterate the performance of these games.

Again, you keep blaming RAM limitations but the bigger issue was often GPU limitations and optimization.

Because Burnout and Driver were simplistic with basic and repeated assets. And Rage was not open world at all.

You are simply incorrect here. Again, in 2008 their GPUs were still quite decent, but even by then less than 500MB of RAM for games was a joke.

Many games use repeated assets, Rage actually boasted about not doing that. But it did have unusual texture pop in kinda like a UE3 game. Rage is indeed an open world game. 

500MB was fine for 7th gen games because it wasn't running Windows and the games were simply more efficient. It was also running textures at around low/medium quality compared to what PC was doing. VRAM at that time was probably 256-512mb.

Full circle by the way, the biggest asset drain is textures and that's exactly where 7th gen cut corners. They often used low quality textures or sometimes higher quality textures popped in depending on the game and engine. Crossgen (7th and 8th gen) games suffered from some of the worst quality or severe texture pop in.



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