PS4 Pro Boost Mode

[aesteval]

Oh really. I have long loading times in packed areas. Limsa and Shire can take 40+ seconds when its peek time and bursting. Other places can feel long too.

The stock hard drive in a PS4 is a terrible piece of garbage. It's actually one of the biggest limitations in the system. You can get a fair increase in loading speeds by upgrading to a hybrid drive. I'd recommend against going straight SSD because it's hard to find info on whether the PS4 supports TRIM or not.

[Khel]

The stock hard drive in a PS4 is a terrible piece of garbage. It's actually one of the biggest limitations in the system. You can get a fair increase in loading speeds by upgrading to a hybrid drive. I'd recommend against going straight SSD because it's hard to find info on whether the PS4 supports TRIM or not.

I'll second this. I have a PS4 Pro with a SSD and zoning only takes a few seconds.

[Anera]

The stock hard drive in a PS4 is a terrible piece of garbage. It's actually one of the biggest limitations in the system. You can get a fair increase in loading speeds by upgrading to a hybrid drive. I'd recommend against going straight SSD because it's hard to find info on whether the PS4 supports TRIM or not.

or put in a SSHD 1TB cheap as, the more you play less load time it get DigitalFoundry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hftHjOvcUtc

[Kosmos992k]

it seems stable 30+ fps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyT4BRVKU38

According to another video, the game is stable at 60fps (cap), but presumably it's possible that in very crowded areas, the Pro will start to slow a little - just as average PCs do.

Boostmode enables what should have been there when PS4Pro launched, the ability to boost performance for games not specifically coded for the extra resource. It's very nice to see Sony enabling this feature, it gives a existing owners of standard PS4s lot more reason to buy a PS4 Pro now since you can be relatively assured that the majority of games will run better at 1080p60 than on PS4 (original).

[Kosmos992k]

I know this'll cause frictions but I wonder when they'll drop full console support or at least put them on seperate servers from PC as I feel it's not only affecting the games ability to progress performance wise but the community is seeming to be getting worse due to none typers its becoming wow with better graphics and I feel the consoles add a barrier between players and communication.

That's not going to happen and you know it. The PC only version of FFXIV flopped hard, and SE have seen the success and profit of FFXIV on multiple platforms including PlayStation. Fortunately SE are smart enough to learn the lesson that you are deliberately ignoring.

[NeoMagus]

Cannot wait for them to push the 4.5 firmware so I can give this a try on my Pro. I'm hoping it helps in Idyll, especially when it rains. Its amazing a free MMO like ESO on PS4 has been patched for native 4k and HDR, yet it looks like were gonna be waiting til Stormblood to maybe get some sort of Pro patch. I'll take any increase in framerate I can get for now til that happens

[Maero]

I switched to a PS4 Pro, and FFXIV already runs great on it. Wondering if they are going to have an actual PS4 Pro patch come 4.0

My guess would be later in development, PS3 will be dropped by 4.0 but perhaps by 5.0 there will be optimization for PS4/Pro

Cannot wait for them to push the 4.5 firmware so I can give this a try on my Pro. I'm hoping it helps in Idyll, especially when it rains. Its amazing a free MMO like ESO on PS4 has been patched for native 4k and HDR, yet it looks like were gonna be waiting til Stormblood to maybe get some sort of Pro patch. I'll take any increase in framerate I can get for now til that happens

Very true, was rather nice of them having PS4/Pro support. I have never really had any lag in ESO but in ffxiv while in Idylshire (and other areas sometimes) load times are a bit long. Question is will the boost work for this game

On another note the new update for PS4 will allow external hd, i actually regret not having re-installed my 2TB drive from my PS4 unto my Pro

[Anera]

According to another video, the game is stable at 60fps (cap), but presumably it's possible that in very crowded areas, the Pro will start to slow a little - just as average PCs do.

Boostmode enables what should have been there when PS4Pro launched, the ability to boost performance for games not specifically coded for the extra resource. It's very nice to see Sony enabling this feature, it gives a existing owners of standard PS4s lot more reason to buy a PS4 Pro now since you can be relatively assured that the majority of games will run better at 1080p60 than on PS4 (original).

I Send message to DigitalFoundry ask them to Tech Analysis/ Comparison/ Frame-Rate Test see if they reply back

[ShadowHunterrX]

I Send message to DigitalFoundry ask them to Tech Analysis/ Comparison/ Frame-Rate Test see if they reply back

They wont make a video about it yet. The new firmware update is a *closed* beta and we are still under NDA. I dont think they will break it and the feature is not stable yet.

[Anera]

They wont make a video about it yet. The new firmware update is a *closed* beta and we are still under NDA. I dont think they will break it and the feature is not stable yet.

oh did't not know it on NDA