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shikamaru317 on 21 June 2023
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Ryuu96 said:
shikamaru317 said:

Interesting, because Digital Foundry previously cited the poor FF16 performance mode as one reason why they think Bethesda made the right call locking to 30 fps on Starfield. As you can see here with FF16, when a game is CPU intensive (as Starfield will be), lowering resolution doesn't do much, the dynamic resolution scaler on FF16 performance mode drops as low as 720p during combat, and yet even at 720p, framerate can still fall into the 30-40 fps range, too low to look good even on a VRR screen (which work best between 40-60 fps).

This is the 4th? next gen only title which struggles to maintain 60fps.

  • Gotham Knights - Locked 30fps.
  • Jedi Survivor - Poor Performance Mode.
  • Final Fantasy XVI - Poor Performance Mode.
  • Starfield - Locked 30fps.

All semi or fully open world too.

Noticing a trend, Lol.

Jedi Survivor was at least patched, it now runs way better on it's performance mode, good enough for VRR at least. Guessing it was more of a GPU issue there rather than CPU, considering they had it working well in performance mode within about a week of release. If the issue is CPU though, like it seems to have been for the other 3 games, there is alot less you can do to get the game running at a framerate that is even high enough for VRR screens to work properly, let alone a locked 60 fps performance mode. Lowering resolution does little to nothing to improve framerates in CPU limited areas of the game world, so the only ways to get better performance on consoles there would be to either cut some of the CPU intensive features, or wait until a stronger CPU Pro console or next-gen console releases and then update the game. Seems like Bethesda will take the latter route, instead of cutting core features from Starfield which are CPU intensive, they are locking to 30 fps and we presumably won't see 60 fps Starfield on consoles until they release a next-gen port for Xbox next-gen console, since it seems like Xbox doesn't have plans to make a mid-gen Pro console like Sony seems to be doing.

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 21 June 2023