The big news of this week from an Xbox perspective was the announcement of 'FPS Boost' - a new program that will be improving the frame rates of select backwards compatible games on Xbox Series X and S.
So far, an initial five games have been given the 'FPS Boost' treatment, which are:
These games are all available to test right now on the new systems, with four of them receiving 60FPS boosts, and New Super Lucky's Tale even going all the way up to 120FPS. Better yet, the original developers haven't been required to put in any work - all of this has been implemented by Microsoft directly.
According to Xbox exec Jason Ronald, more games will be added to the program every couple of weeks over the next couple of months, but for now, how are you finding the initial five? We want to know your thoughts.
Have you tried FPS Boost on the first five titles yet? Give us your thoughts on the feature below.
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I have so much to play at the moment, I don't have time to go back! Assassin's creed is taking so much of my time!
I'm eagerly waiting the next batch of games to try it out. I considered just buying Far Cry 4 for the sake of it, but I'm just not interested enough in that game. If they do Far Cry 5, I'll get it. That game looked more interesting.
On New Super Lucky's Tale you can tell some animations on enemies and objects like coins were keyframed at 60fps, since they look "jumpy" compared to the smooth ones like Lucky himself.
It's a great feature but these are games I have no interest in playing to be honest, I'd have probably given Fallout 4 a go if that had have been available
Skipped out on Far Cry 4 originally. So I am going through it now. Played a bit pre update and some after.
Night and day difference. What felt like it was running at 25FPS or 30FPS with horrible frame pacing is now a buttery smooth 60FPS.
My only wish is that since they gave it this, they prioritize bumping the resolution up. It looks beautiful aside from that graininess.
Waiting for the big ones
I tried Watch Dogs 2 and Sniper Elite.
Watch dogs did benefit from the frame boost, but the 900p resolution does still hold it back. Otherwise, I still ran into the same bugs that game has always suffered.
Sniper Elite on the other hand is enhanced with no question. I had a hard time playing that game on One X because it felt like the frames were all over the place. Now the game is excellent. I was able to pull off some quick shots that would have been impossible without the framerate boost. It made the game SO much more playable and enjoyable.
@carlos82 I’m hopeful that the delay on Fallout 4 having FPS boost May be because an official patch may come now that MS (almost) owns Bethesda
Watch Dogs 2 is 100% better in terms of how it feels. That game used to chug something fierce.
Downside: I hadn't yet seen it on a 4K TV. Holy crap is it pixelated. I almost wish there were some kind of mild blur filter I could use. Still a blast to play though.
Tbh, some of these updates make me want to wait until I get a Series X to clear out the old backlog...
Haven't tried any of them yet but i'm gonna give Farcry 4 a go soon.. Hopefully they upgrade Farcry 5 as well..
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