The engineers at Digital Foundry have used GT5 Prologue to demonstrate one of their new video performance analysis tools. As you can see in the clip above, their software graphs the frame rate at a given point in time while marking each torn frame. They cite all of the criticism that the game has received for “tearing”, yet their objective results show the game performs exceptionally well. Another revelation: frame rate is cut down to 30 FPS during the “pre-race drive-by”, with lots of torn frames. Once the player gets control of the car, the game rockets up to 60 FPS, with no obvious explanation. Watch how the FPS is, otherwise, only really affected when other cars are in very close proximity.
What the Digital Foundry guys found most interesting, though, was how the actual level of anti-aliasing changed depending on what resolution the PS3 was set to output:
GT5 is a very special game in that while it runs with 2xMSAA in 1080p mode, at 720p, it renders at 1280×720 but invokes 4xMSAA – one of the few games on PS3 that actually does this.
You can learn more about what MSAA means, or just head on over to Digital Foundry’s blog entry for more details. Thanks for sharing your results, guys – we’ll be watching for a follow-up the next time the game is updated.
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d3br34k5 Says:
April 14th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Try running that app at Suzuka with a full grid. Turn 1 is ch-o-p–p—y.
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totally agree…………. CHOPPY as hell in certain situations… with all due respect to KY, this didn’t happen in Gran Turismo 4… Hope they polish that up for the complete version…
lol he’s driving like that to induce screen tearing wow just wow. i mean he can’t be serious because my 11 year old nephew plays better than that.
@Matt
30fps in replays is for performance reasons. The same happened in Forza2.
It may be better to see what happen in different condition of contacts to do the test. In order to see if collisions affects framerates. I imagine a drop of performance can be caused from IA getting adaptive to the situation you put him in.
And offtopic: this guy really can’t drive…
Zetsubou, there’s also a number in the top right corner of the screen.
The reason why the frame rate is at 30fps is because it can create that dramatic motion just like movies. Kaz is a photographer amateur himself so he takes that into consideration as well. Once you switch to drivers mode it would make you feel like you’re in the real thing
You can barely even tell where the FPS is at because of the dark blue line on a dark background…
Should’a done it at Fuji, at the chicane where the tearing is the worst
Amazing stuff. It just have lil hickups, but FPS stays really solid during gameplay.. Kaz never lied ;)
On their blog, they say : “Running at 1280×1080 scaled up to proper 1080p”.
“Another revelation: frame rate is cut down to 30 FPS during the “pre-race drive-by”, with lots of torn frames. ”
As mentioned above “Replay Mode” used for pre race.
Any Proof of the following:
“GT5 is a very special game in that while it runs with 2xMSAA in 1080p mode, at 720p, it renders at 1280×720 but invokes 4xMSAA – one of the few games on PS3 that actually does this.”
1280X1080
Try running that app at Suzuka with a full grid. Turn 1 is ch-o-p–p—y.
But didn’t we already know on replay framerate is 30?
Otherwise, interesting to see how solid the 60fps in game are.
Thanks.