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First downsampled 1080p screens from PS4 Pro (Titanfall 2)

MaKTaiL

Member
Titanfall 2 looks good enough on the standard Ps4 IMO. I don't spend a lot of time examining the edges of palm fronds while playing the game, TBH. If I didn't already have a Ps4, the pro would be an obvious choice, but I'm not seeing anything here that's going to make me buy a second console, mid-cycle. That's just foolishness.

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Fisty

Member
I have a few more Pro titles but I don't know if anyone cares about those: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, inFAMOUS Second Son, Knack, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Ratchet & Clank, The Last Of Us Remastered, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, PSVR Worlds, DRIVECLUB VR

Please do every VR title you have, especially DC VR, social screen screenshots might show res/aliasing improvement.

Honestly I'll take impressions if that's all you can give lol
 

MaKTaiL

Member
That doesn't dispute anything he said.

Titanfall 2 looks good enough on the standard Ps4 IMO. I don't spend a lot of time examining the edges of palm fronds while playing the game, TBH. If I didn't already have a Ps4, the pro would be an obvious choice, but I'm not seeing anything here that's going to make me buy a second console, mid-cycle. That's just foolishness.
The picture comparison is there to prove it's not JUST looking at palm fronds. The difference is quite noticible.
 
The picture comparison is there to prove it's not JUST looking at palm fronds. The difference is quite noticible.
He's saying that he's not going to look closely at how sharp our not sharp everything is while playing the game. It's not enough for him to care. People need to understand everyone will have a different threshold of caring. He's not saying he doesn't see the difference in the comparison. I imagine there are plenty of people who think the difference is huge but then will pick streaming video over a Blu-ray.
 

ghibli99

Member
Titanfall 2 looks good enough on the standard Ps4 IMO. I don't spend a lot of time examining the edges of palm fronds while playing the game, TBH. If I didn't already have a Ps4, the pro would be an obvious choice, but I'm not seeing anything here that's going to make me buy a second console, mid-cycle. That's just foolishness.
Why do some folks who aren't buying the Pro feel they have to insult those who want one? If you don't want it, fine, but there are a lot of others who clearly see and want the benefits. It doesn't just have to do with static screenshots either. There are performance benefits to be had as well.
 
Technically a 1080p PS4 Pro title has better IQ and it does look better, there's not doubt about that, but I can't see how it elevates a games visual appeal as much as other benefits would like a little more geometry here and there, more particle effects and better alpha effects (they still seem to cripple hardware systems) to create fuller, richer worlds along with better frame rates.
PS4 Pro has been demonstrated to provide all those things--better geometry, better effects, better framerate, etc.--from the very first time Sony showed footage. It's up to the developers which elements they wish to improve.
 

pottuvoi

Banned
Well here is the final comparison for now. Thanks to Taker34 for sending me a native 4k skyrim shot and the 1080p supersampled mode.

Ps4 Pro Native 4K
skyrim_20161105194834_by_raziel1992-daniqe9.png


Ps4 Pro Native 4K top image downscaled to 1080p (nearest neighbor in photoshop)
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PS4 Pro 1080p direct capture
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Yes that is finally supersampled 1080p it looks literally the same as the downscaled image.
Nearest neighbour shouldn't be used, it discards information when downscaled and duplicates texel when upscaled. (Reason why Vita version of Ratchet and Clank looks crappy.)
In 4k to 1080p scaling it would discard 3 of 4 samples.

Binear is the cheapest usable method.
 

TAJ

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
It would be perfect running at 25fps, you mean? The game would benefit much more from performance improvements than from improved IQ.

The clock upgrades alone are enough to go from 25ps to 30fps.
 

BIG_V-G-V

Banned
Curious to see what the improvements are, and how NBA 2k17 looks seeing as it just recieved it's hdr and pro support patch a couple hours ago.
 
Neogaf has changed so much it's almost parody. ConsoleGAF sounds like PC gamers from a decade ago.

Eye can't see higher than 720p. Now everyone is waking up to 4K.
Eye can't see past 24 FPS. Now I frequently see people desiring 60 FPS games. Wait until you guys see 144FPS, butter.
Buying new hardware in the form of upgraded consoles. "I don't want to upgrade every two years," is still frequently seen in PC threads despite it being wildly inaccurate.
Desire for remastered games in higher resolutions. Always been one of the huge upsides of PC games is buy it once, play it in the future at whatever resolution is relevant.

I'm not exaggerating, PC threads used to be inundated with some strange opinions that seem completely ironic looking back. They seemed absurd at the time as well, but they were so pervasive that it was difficult to struggle through the noise.

It's been quite a turn to see but not entirely unsurprising considering the original complaints were fabricated concerns to begin with. The biggest turn around to me has been the 'being forced to upgrade' line. It used to be trotted out in almost every PC thread, and now has been strangely absent since the Pro and Scorpio were announced :)

Next to go is 'I just want to simply put in disc and play without having to tweak settings' since some patched Pro games will have multiple graphics options to choose from.
 

Melchiah

Member
Next to go is 'I just want to simply put in disc and play without having to tweak settings' since some patched Pro games will have multiple graphics options to choose from.

At this point they have two options per display type; quality and performance. I wouldn't say that's the same as actually having to tweak the settings to get a game run properly, or altering between several settings until you get the optimal ratio between quality and performance, which I've had to do on PC.
 

geordiemp

Member
It's been quite a turn to see but not entirely unsurprising considering the original complaints were fabricated concerns to begin with. The biggest turn around to me has been the 'being forced to upgrade' line. It used to be trotted out in almost every PC thread, and now has been strangely absent since the Pro and Scorpio were announced :)

Next to go is 'I just want to simply put in disc and play without having to tweak settings' since some patched Pro games will have multiple graphics options to choose from.

The biggest 2 issues with me for PC gaming are

1. Cheats - Its far too common on PC to gain an advantage, whether its a plain cheat or optimised fire rate for gun, wall hack or the like. PC gaming is rife with mods.

2. Mouse and keyboard and sitting 1 ft from a gaming monitor with wide FOV does not mix with players on a couch wanting to sit back with a controller.

Yes cheats do exist on Console, but anyone claiming PC games have less issues is a google search away from being proved wrong.

I have always desired PC like performance in a console with controllers in my living room.
 
It's been quite a turn to see but not entirely unsurprising considering the original complaints were fabricated concerns to begin with. The biggest turn around to me has been the 'being forced to upgrade' line. It used to be trotted out in almost every PC thread, and now has been strangely absent since the Pro and Scorpio were announced :)

Next to go is 'I just want to simply put in disc and play without having to tweak settings' since some patched Pro games will have multiple graphics options to choose from.

Having 2-3 options some of with will be no-brainers depending on your setup is far from having to tweak settings.

And no one is forced to upgrade since games still are going to run on the original hardware. :)
 

Melchiah

Member
Why is this thread still going when the shots are made in photoshop?

Well here is the final comparison for now. Thanks to Taker34 for sending me a native 4k skyrim shot and the 1080p supersampled mode.

Ps4 Pro Native 4K
skyrim_20161105194834_by_raziel1992-daniqe9.png


Ps4 Pro Native 4K top image downscaled to 1080p (nearest neighbor in photoshop)
nearestneighbor4kresau1j2i.png


PS4 Pro 1080p direct capture
pro1080psupersampleocjzt.png


Yes that is finally supersampled 1080p it looks literally the same as the downscaled image.
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Taker34

Banned
Please do every VR title you have, especially DC VR, social screen screenshots might show res/aliasing improvement.

Honestly I'll take impressions if that's all you can give lol

I can upload some Deus Ex and DC VR 1080p comparison shots today - would do a lot more if I wouldn't have to swap my 2 and 1 TB HDDs and basically re downloading everything on my Pro again.
 

Corky

Nine out of ten orphans can't tell the difference.
Neogaf has changed so much it's almost parody. ConsoleGAF sounds like PC gamers from a decade ago.

Eye can't see higher than 720p. Now everyone is waking up to 4K.
Eye can't see past 24 FPS. Now I frequently see people desiring 60 FPS games. Wait until you guys see 144FPS, butter.
Buying new hardware in the form of upgraded consoles. "I don't want to upgrade every two years," is still frequently seen in PC threads despite it being wildly inaccurate.
Desire for remastered games in higher resolutions. Always been one of the huge upsides of PC games is buy it once, play it in the future at whatever resolution is relevant.

I'm not exaggerating, PC threads used to be inundated with some strange opinions that seem completely ironic looking back. They seemed absurd at the time as well, but they were so pervasive that it was difficult to struggle through the noise.

Reminiscing about that period makes me almost nostalgic...kinda miss it.

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zoukka

Member
Is "made in Photoshop" the most misleading description you could come up with? You can do better.

???

Downsizing in photoshop is not the same as taking a shot of a native PS4 pro game... At all.

But I see there are some legit shots here as well.
 
The biggest 2 issues with me for PC gaming are

1. Cheats - Its far too common on PC to gain an advantage, whether its a plain cheat or optimised fire rate for gun, wall hack or the like. PC gaming is rife with mods.

2. Mouse and keyboard and sitting 1 ft from a gaming monitor with wide FOV does not mix with players on a couch wanting to sit back with a controller.

Yes cheats do exist on Console, but anyone claiming PC games have less issues is a google search away from being proved wrong.

I have always desired PC like performance in a console with controllers in my living room.

I play MP games on PC often, and I don't think cheating is as rife as you think. Rainbow Six Siege had issues with it because Ubisoft released the game without any client side cheat detection, but has since fixed that and the game has been fine since then.

If you are that concerned about cheating I don't know how you would be ok with the way people are using completely undetectable mouse and keyboard adapters on PS4 and XB1 now. That is something that is only going to get worse as more people buy them just to keep up with people they perceive to be using them. They have gotten much more advanced and absolutely do provide an advantage now, and there is no way to detect and ban them since they emulate a controller's signal to the console.

There is also things like the CronusMAX allowing people to create hardware macros that are undetectable as well. Neither console or PC 100% cheat free right now and I don't see that changing anytime soon. The best you can hope for is a good deterrent that turns off 99% of cheaters.

As to your second point I'd agree with that, those are two seperate audiences and it doesn't mix well.Not a lot can be done about that really unless people want to accept new inputs.


Having 2-3 options some of with will be no-brainers depending on your setup is far from having to tweak settings.

And no one is forced to upgrade since games still are going to run on the original hardware. :)

The floodgates are open though. Tomb Raider will have 3 modes to choose from. Considering all I do when I launch a PC game is maybe turn VSYNC off and that's been overblown by console gamers as 'fiddling with settings for hours' I think that compares.

Also, no one was forced to upgrade before to have games run, either. Now you understand what it's like to have to correct people's assumptions on that matter.
 

Melchiah

Member
???

Downsizing in photoshop is not the same as taking a shot of a native PS4 pro game... At all.

But I see there are some legit shots here as well.

The post shows, that there's no difference between a direct capture and downscaled image.
 

Latimer

Banned
Neogaf has changed so much it's almost parody. ConsoleGAF sounds like PC gamers from a decade ago.

Eye can't see higher than 720p. Now everyone is waking up to 4K.
Eye can't see past 24 FPS. Now I frequently see people desiring 60 FPS games. Wait until you guys see 144FPS, butter.
Buying new hardware in the form of upgraded consoles. "I don't want to upgrade every two years," is still frequently seen in PC threads despite it being wildly inaccurate.
Desire for remastered games in higher resolutions. Always been one of the huge upsides of PC games is buy it once, play it in the future at whatever resolution is relevant.

I'm not exaggerating, PC threads used to be inundated with some strange opinions that seem completely ironic looking back. They seemed absurd at the time as well, but they were so pervasive that it was difficult to struggle through the noise.

Those people were of course just downplaying PC's advantaged due to bitterness but I think these people really wanted a PC like experience all along, but without actually owning a PC. Whether this is due to the perceived complexity of PC or just that gd ol brand loyalty I'm not sure but you definitely see less and less embarrassing posts like that now. Now they have a much closer experience to PC to choose from from the consoles, they are loving it. Now we can all bask in glory with our super IQ gameplay experiences, now consoles just need to up their game on performance and they're almost there!
 

zoukka

Member
The post shows, that there's no difference between a direct capture and downscaled image.

Yes there is. Surprisingly at a first glance the Pro shot has less aliasing in the distant mountains, the photoshop downscaled image has bigger jaggies much like the native 4k shot. I'm positively surprised by this.
 

Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
So it seems like the thread has gone to heck in more ways than one.

Hopefully the information dump on Monday can ease some folks concerns either way.
 

Melchiah

Member
Yes there is. Surprisingly at a first glance the Pro shot has less aliasing in the distant mountains, the photoshop downscaled image has bigger jaggies much like the native 4k shot. I'm positively surprised by this.

I opened the images in a new tab, and I guess there's a slight difference in that regard. It's a good thing though, if the direct capture actually looks better than the Photoshop image.
 

Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
You know better.

I'm not just referring to those people concern trolling, but also folks who are legtimiately concerned about their PS4 experience being compromised, people who actually want to be able to fully understand what they should expect from the Pro uniformly, ect.

Whether its PC players against console, console against PC, console players against console, it feels like tensions are unnecessarily high ATM.
 

RMI

Banned
Why do some folks who aren't buying the Pro feel they have to insult those who want one? If you don't want it, fine, but there are a lot of others who clearly see and want the benefits. It doesn't just have to do with static screenshots either. There are performance benefits to be had as well.

Sorry. No insult intended,and not passing judgment on people who decide to upgrade to the pro. Enjoy! It's just not for me.
 

MadYarpen

Member
Ouch, I was sure not to buy it after some thinking, but seeing these screens... I am not that great in spotting differences, but the pro images are so much more clear, I think I'll try to buy pro after all.
 
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