cobragt
You might know about res formats and all that jazz but to be honest, you are ignorant of what the ps2 can do. Now t5, or code, dont reply to me saying "teh emotion engine has the uber power
." Anyway, PD used software mode to gain 1080i. I know for a fact, the ps2's hardware doesn't support 1080i, I know this and your whole logic is based on that and that's cool but you must realize software mode can make wonders. We all know the ps2 doesn't support bump mapping but there are afew ps2 games with bump mapping, jak3 anyone? jak3 has to be the most technical ps2 game out there with unbeatable draw distance, on the ps2, and bump mapping with high-res visuals. Anyway, PD used software mode to get 1080i. I'm sure PD wouldnt allow gt4 to render images at 960x540p and then upscale it to 1080i
Imagine how terrible that would look 👎 👎 gt4 could be doing 1880x1080i or 1280x1080i, either way, the vertical line is 1080i.
KY has been asked in the past if the game would support 480p, the answer was always a very sound "NO". i'm not ignorant about the PS2 hardware at all, the console has 4 megabytes of framebuffer, wich means it's physicly imposible to get it to render 3d at 1080i. it's upscaling to 1080i and 480p, this helps a great deal in HDTV's with poor scalers and video will look great with that scaling (same goes for photomode, but i haven't heard from HDTV users about how photomode looks in 1080i, this is the only thing that they could actually render in high resolution.)
anyway.. why the hell i'm i even explaining this to you? if you want to belive in fairy tales that's your problem.
and who the hell told you that scaling images look terrible? have you even seen this? i play PC games at 1080i timings upscaling resolutions all the time on my HDTV with my ATi card, i can play anywhere from 640x480 to whatever resolution the game supports, evrything UPSCALED to 1080i, JUST LIKE GT4, and guess what? it looks great, since most HDTV's can't resolve more than 800 lines (CRT ones at least, digitals are generaly 1280x720, use that resolution for my Projector) i don't even have to use more than 1024x768@1080i timing to get great looking results. (on my PJ i can get native 1280x720, wich looks even better.. but i have to play with the lights off.)
someone even mentioned the type of scaling being used, (i won't bother searching this just for you).
all you have to use is common sense:
the PS2 doesn't have enough fillrate for 1080i
the PS2 doesn't have enough memory for 1080i
so, even if they were rendering at higher resolution it would still only be scaled up for the most part. mods... time to get a sticky on this, too many people are being misslead by their own assumptions (not even PD)
just compare ANY in game 1080i screen shot to a clean (no effects) photomode pitcure using even half the resolution, the photomode pitcure looks light years better, because it's actually being rendered at higher resolution.
if you want to continue this pointless debete search for the proper threads. i just tried to make you realize something, but if you want to belive in fairy tales.. well i suggest you go help Bush find those WoMD.