Digital Foundry analyzes Microsoft's upcoming 30fps no ray tracing game

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

You see it, right?

Controller latency is something that Playground Games/ Turn 10 and Criterion have taken particular interest in improving. To the point to where you can almost, key word almost, make the feel of the game feel 60ish fps or at least faster than 30fps.

If you listen to the video, that's why Richard kept saying, they've unlocked the code.

Note, Richard wrote this in 2012

Digital Foundry vs. Forza Horizon

Over and above the fluidity of the screen update, the biggest challenge facing Playground in making Horizon feel like a Forza game was in retaining the signature physics and precision response. Forza Motorsport, famously, operates a 360 update per second system to ensure the authenticity of its physics, which ties in directly with the fast response from the 60Hz screen update. You can feel those calculations through the pad: input lag is very low indeed at 66ms - up to twice as responsive as many other racers we've played. Dropping down to 30Hz can have a fundamental impact on that low latency response. Up until now, only Criterion has managed to get close to giving that precision feel in a 30Hz title - famously, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit cuts frame-rate in half compared to Burnout Paradise (and indeed, Forza Motorsport) but only adds 16.67ms - or one single frame - of additional latency.

Our input lag tests - measured with a combination of a Ben Heck latency controller monitor board and a high speed camera - suggests that Horizon adds two additional frames of latency to that found in Forza Motorsport 4, giving a total of 100ms. This isn't quite the same level of achievement as Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (which based on the games we've measured is the most responsive 30Hz game ever made) but it's damn close. Indeed, prior to the release of NFS, many believed that 100ms was the lowest input latency possible on a 30Hz current-gen title.

In simpler terms, save for Hot Pursuit, Forza Horizon 4 is the best playing 30fps game ever in relation to controller latency. Looks like it has been improved in this game. So, sounds like Playground has hit a holy grail of sorts when it comes to controller latency at 30fps.

 

[ItWasWritten]

What a world

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

What a world

 

[DaSk8D00D]

“Yeah, this is the best 30 fps I ever played”


Listen to these nikkaz

You see it, right?

4K/60FPS performance mode is the best Horizon yall will see all anytime soon

We can revisit the conversation in 2022 when it's yall turn

 

[ItWasWritten]

4K/60FPS performance mode is the best Horizon yall will see all anytime soon

We can revisit the conversation in 2022 when it's yall turn

Y’all turn, as if we move according to Xbox. It’s always our turn.

sit down.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Y’all turn, as if we move according to Xbox. It’s always our turn.

sit down.

They think more halo and forza is moving the needle.

 

[DaSk8D00D]

Y’all turn, as if we move according to Xbox. It’s always our turn.

sit down.

They think more halo and forza is moving the needle.

I'd be mad too if Skyrim 10 Year Anniversary was the best game coming to my platform this holiday season

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

4K*/60FPS performance mode is the best Horizon yall will see all anytime soon

We can revisit the conversation in 2022 when it's yall turn

You should put an asterisk next to "4K."

 

[DaSk8D00D]

You should put an asterisk next to "4K."

For what? DF already confirmed it runs native 4K LOCKED 60FPS on Series X

 

[ItWasWritten]

I'd be mad too if Skyrim 10 Year Anniversary was the best game coming to my platform this holiday season

More mad then the previous 8 years before this with no games coming at any season ?

 

[DaSk8D00D]

More mad then the previous 8 years before this with no games coming at any season ?

Not sure what the last 8 years have to do with your Cold Winter...but my gamertag across all platforms would show that I've been quite content with my games

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

For what? DF already confirmed it runs native 4K LOCKED 60FPS on Series X

Because it uses DRS.

 

[Chef]

Will I enjoy the game less with out ray tracing?

Gamers counting pixels instead of enjoying the game.

 

[Hood Critic]

Oh 30fps is perfect for this type of game face ass...

But Digital Foundry said....

 

[Fatboi1]

*Laughs in Driveclub*