Xbox Series S/X: Thread 03

[Brad]

The Unofficial Patch. It's a mod, for PC and Xbox. It's absolutely essential.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/266

I'd honestly rather play at 15FPS with that patch than 240FPS without it.

You're a Skyrim man. Skyrim stutters like crazy on my PC. It's really weird; super smooth for a few seconds then badly misbehaves. I have no idea how to cure it.

[dataDave]

You're a Skyrim man. Skyrim stutters like crazy on my PC. It's really weird; super smooth for a few seconds then badly misbehaves. I have no idea how to cure it.

I do. Give me 10mins. Busy atm.

[dataDave]

Woah that sounds awesome. Looks like it's PC only?

That link might be for the PC version, but there's definitely an Xbox version too.

[dataDave]

You're a Skyrim man. Skyrim stutters like crazy on my PC. It's really weird; super smooth for a few seconds then badly misbehaves. I have no idea how to cure it.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/34705

That solved everything for me, plus more (it's the only way to go beyond 60FPS without the physics going utterly haywire). But then, I'm on Nvidia with G-Sync. YMMV. Applying this, and thus finally overriding v-sync with G-Sync, gave e-sports levels of responsiveness. It was like playing a new game.

It comes with a big fat .ini file which you can tinker with for hours on end.

[nonny]

Woah that sounds awesome. Looks like it's PC only?

Only thing with mods on the Xbox is you won't earn achievements. Might be an issue for some...

So the FPS boost apparently lowers the resolution a little in both Fallout 4/Fallout 76...

That's interesting because in Skyrim and Fallout 4 the was already a way to uncap FPS using that mod that tweaked the ini file and you could run that with achievements working and resolution didn't suffer.

Will be nice to see someone like digital foundry compare the two approaches but the good news is if you've got a Series console both can be used, depending on which you prefer.

I know digital foundry already did a video for the ini mod method but now this new official boost mode is out it's time to compare.

I did try Prey last night as well as Dishonored and those games are infinitely better thanks to this update.

[nonny]

[hudson]

Octopath Traveler is landing on Game Pass on 25th!

Mar 16	Undertale	Console, PC, Cloud
Mar 18	Empire of Sin	Console, PC, Cloud
Mar 18	Nier: Automata	PC
Mar 18	Star Wars: Squadrons	Console
Mar 18	Torchlight III	PC
Mar 25	Genesis Noir	Console, PC
Mar 25	Octopath Traveler	Console, PC
Mar 25	Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - Ultimate Edition	PC
Mar 25	Supraland	PC
Mar 25	Yakuza 6: The Song of Life	Console, PC, Cloud
Mar 30	Narita Boy	Console, PC, Cloud
Apr 1	Outriders	Console, Cloud

[dataDave]

****ing hell! That's a big win.

Top game, too.

[dvdx2]

I love what they are doing with older titles, but are there any actual new series x games coming out?

[nonny]

Outriders
Resident Evil VIII
Back 4 Blood

They're all confirmed as coming fairly soon. Past that there's flight simulator and the gunk as the exclusives but no confirmed date other than 2021.

[dvdx2]

Outriders
Resident Evil VIII
Back 4 Blood

They're all confirmed as coming fairly soon. Past that there's flight simulator and the gunk as the exclusives but no confirmed date other than 2021.

Jez that’s pretty grim....

[hudson]

It is strange like. Having these last gen games and getting almost PC grade performance out of them, but the next gen games are like a soggy newspaper in the grid

[nonny]

I just think you've got quite a few titles which just don't have a set date. After last year there's quite a few just listed now as TBC 2021...

Stuff like The Ascent, Scorn, Chorus, Exomecha, Crossfire X, 12 minutes etc... All just listed as coming this year but nothing concrete.

I think after last year every small dev is just taking a wait and see approach. Agree it's fairly slim pickings though..

[dvdx2]

Wtf have devs been doing though? You would have thought lockdown would have been an ideal opportunity for computer nerds to be coding furiously at home lol

[Yakumo]

I'm loving this boost in frame rates. Just bought the Xbox One release of Prey. Now a solid 60fps at 2K and better lighting, reflections and finally lag free controls. Plus loading on par with the PC at 13 seconds unlike the minute it used to take.