Quite what is happening here is difficult to fathom though, as there's a lot of noise in there, a touch of stippling suggesting a technique similar to the MSAA 'hack' used by Rainbow Six Siege, as well as some vertical interlacing on certain effects suggesting that at some point in the pipeline, Nier Automata is rendering at half-res 1920x2160.
#NIER AUTOMATA PC PORT MOD#
The FAR mod can dial back its quality levels with only limited impact on visual quality, and right now this is the only way to get Platinum's brilliant game operating at anything approaching a sustained 60 frames per second at 4K on GTX 1080 Ti-class hardware.īy extension, this makes the idea of a full 4K Xbox One X game seem unlikely, and looking closely at our footage, the evidence points to some form of reconstruction algorithm, with extra detail extrapolated out from a lower resolution base image. Over a year on, this release still has issues - most of them thankfully resolved by the FAR mod - but the big takeaway is that the global illumination system used in Nier Automata is remarkably demanding on GPU resources.
#NIER AUTOMATA PC PORT 1080P#
We know this not just from the PlayStation 4 Pro version's relatively low 1080p resolution but also because of how difficult it is to extract decent performance from the PC build.
But native 4K? That's quite a push bearing in mind that Nier Automata is actually a really demanding game. And it's clear straight from the off that there is a resolution advantage on Xbox One X, delivering a significantly crisper image. It's a decent enough workout for the engine, featuring an expansive stage to explore with a variety of scenarios, including some taxing boss encounters. The content we had to sample was effectively a mirror for the existing PlayStation 4 playable demo, delivering the entirety of the first full level beyond the prologue.
So is the upgrade as substantial as Microsoft suggests? Indeed, Microsoft's list of X-enhanced titles suggests that we'll be receiving a 4K ultra HD experience (with HDR, no less) - a substantial boost over the PS4 Pro's 1080p showing.
Better yet, the game is due for release next week and our E3 hands-on suggests that Xbox One X is set to deliver the best version of the game yet. A welcome announcement at Microsoft's E3 2018 media briefing, Nier Automata is receiving a long-overdue port onto Xbox One.
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