LegitHyperbole said:
Plenty had performance modes. Some games got rid of them but loads of games had them, they weren't advertised but they were in the settings on loads of games. Some were options to up to quality mode over a base mode like FF14. God of war ragnorok and Horizon Forbidden West were the most recent I remember. The games that didn't would improve in frame rate if you locked the console to 1080p, for example it had to be done with Cyberpunk, for fuck all difference it made to its brokenness it helped with fps. |
I just googled Horizon Forbidden West on PS4 Pro and there is no reference to any performance mode, it seems locked at 30fps on the console.
Generally speaking the performance modes you're seeing are likely either just uncapped frame rates or just more "performant" modes that are used to more consistently hit the target FPS the game is running at on base PS4.
FF15 was patched to have a "60fps modes" but that runs in the 40s most of the time.
https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2017-can-final-fantasy-15-hit-60fps-on-ps4-pro
PS4 Pro did not meaningfully have 60fps performance modes aside from a select few games, the hardware is simply not built for doubling the PS4s base frame rate unless a game already had plenty of headroom to spare (ala PS3 remasters/ports)
Last edited by Otter - on 27 February 2025
