PS4 Pro Boost Mode

[seraf]

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.

The PC only version flopped because the game was running on the horribly unoptimized engine that powered FFXIII which was designed for linear level designs not open world maps. How can you sell a product to a market where the game is virtually impossible to run at a reasonable performance level? It wasn't even consistent at any point. We're not even getting into the plethora of other problems the game had outside of technical ones.

[DracotheDragon]

oh did't not know it on NDA

Yea all Sony betas in there agreements state that the features that are not made public are ment to be tested and given any bug reports while keeping to a NDA but becuse people leak the images with the name and icon blurred it makes it impossible to say who leaked the images. When features aren't mentioned it usually means they are in last stages of testing and the public "boost mode" may be different to the beta's boost mode

[Rei_Zero]

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).

Boost mode is not perfect, boost mode is using stock clocks for GPU (+100mhz) and CPU (+500mhz) that is the cause of boost performance on games, but they are disabling the half CU of GPU yet. If Square would patch this, the game would run pretty better than boost mode.

On boost mode PS4 Pro is around 2,1 TFLOPS. A patched game PS4 Pro is a 4,2 TFLOPS machine.

[Kosmos992k]

Boost mode is not perfect, boost mode is using stock clocks for GPU (+100mhz) and CPU (+500mhz) that is the cause of boost performance on games, but they are disabling the half CU of GPU yet. If Square would patch this, the game would run pretty better than boost mode.

On boost mode PS4 Pro is around 2,1 TFLOPS. A patched game PS4 Pro is a 4,2 TFLOPS machine.

Do you have a citation for that? I haven't seen any specific information about what Boost mode is doing, much of the anecdotal evidence suggests a bit more GPU oomph than simply a 100 MHz clock bump.

[yotsuffy]

hi
Before I forget it, here's another topic recently started, sharing the name. Just in case

To all PS4 PRO (edited!) players, I have a few questions:

1) Can you switch on/off the boost mode while XIV is running? It would help comparing its efficiencity vs normal mode.
2) In heavy populated areas - IDYLLSHIRE! - does your framerate fall much? And vs Normal Mode?
3) In heavy populated areas - IDYLLSHIRE! - is your framerate any good? ie. is XIV running smoothly or is your framerate seemingly below 40-50fps.

This could be a solution but, without any official "framerate option" for PS4s, it could also be only a momentary improvement, since XIV might be more and more demanding later - SB i see you!

Please! Look at those topics!
[petition] PS4 framerate
1080p60 cheap pc build

[Lexia]

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.

SE makes more money off having multiple platforms running then just having one, also SE is also one of the few companies that actually use cross platform playing dating back to XI in 2004. SE would spend more money having segregated servers and judging from the prices on mog shop they want to make more money not less.

[Maero]

I have not yet tried boost mode as i did not think of it, lol
I too am curious how it works in say Idylshire for example

[Lexia]

Maybe I just have crappy eyes but the game runs fine for me even in IDYLLSHIRE on regular PS4.

[Maero]

Yes but load times are a bit slow

[yotsuffy]

Yes but load times are a bit slow

With an SSD, my standard PS4 needs about as much time as the teleport animation to "black-screen" load Idyllshire after that teleport animation. With the original HD, it required almost 1min; often more than a DF popup window lasts.

edit:
It also helps with loading NPCs and players. An improvement too, but still not many fps at Idyllshire.