Ratchet and Clank’s fidelity mode gets performance boost for 120Hz TVs
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Reported today in The Verge.
Ratchet and Clank's fidelity mode gets performance boost for 120Hz TVs
The latest patch for Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart has given the game a small but significant performance boost when playing using its fidelity mode on 120Hz displays. According to the patch notes for version 1.002 of the game, fidelity mode now runs at 40 frames per second when used with 120Hz displays, up from the 30 frames per second previously. That's over a 30 percent improvement, which should make the game look a lot smoother and feel a lot more responsive to play in this mode.
It's a change that mainly affects just one of the three display modes the PS5 game shipped with, but it's a fascinating example of the kinds of things that will become possible as 120Hz TVs become the norm. It's also an interesting workaround for Sony's current lack of support for variable refresh rates (VRR) on its console, a feature which the company has said it plans to add in a future software update.
For the uninitiated, Rift Apart originally shipped with three display modes: Fidelity, Performance, and Performance RT. Performance runs the game without ray tracing at 60 frames per second, at a resolution of between 1620p and 1800p, according to Digital Foundry. Performance RT adds ray tracing support and still runs at 60fps, but resolution is lower at between 1080p and 1440p. Finally, there's fidelity mode, where you get ray tracing and the highest resolutions of between 1800p and 2160p (full 4K), but at the cost of frame rate, which was previously limited to 30fps.
But now, if you've got a compatible 120Hz TV, that frame rate sits at 40fps rather than 30. You might be confused about why this requires a 120Hz TV in the first place, and why it won't work on regular 60Hz TVs. After all, 60