Resident Evil 4 Remake: Patched Visual & Frame Rate review - PS5, Xbox Series X 

Great work as usual Michael, for a one-person outfit your analysis is bloody awesome

my view here... hair settings look worst when its turn ON. so not only does it harm the performance but visually as well.

No, the difference is HUGE on SX. It looks terrible now with tons of aliasing, ant crawling, and shimmering everywhere. They have no right to downgrade what I paid for. This is absurd. Why have 2 modes that are both full 60fps? Makes no sense. Res mode was 45fps at worst and looked amazing before this garbage patch.

The resolution mode on PS5 has been brilliant, especially after the latest update. It very much feels like a locked 60fps, with all other graphical effects turned off.

keep up the amazing work❤❤

When you guys have both PS5 and Xbox on screen, can you be consistent about which side is which? It feels like you flipped them several times throughout the video. It’s not a huge deal of course, just a nice quality of life change for future videos.

This is a bad update. Resolution mode on Xbox should not have had its visuals downgraded. This is disappointing. Give people without a VRR display a 30fps cap option. Don’t downgrade the game for everyone.

Do you had the loading textures problem or bug when leaving the inventory screen? It is now present on XSX as far as I know, but maybe it is a bug as just only some people noticed

Today's gaming industry is dogsh*t. Many problems on day 1 such as bugs , glitches, framerate issues and more. Then they roll out 50gb patches to address the issues. Personally i don't and haven't pre-ordered a game in my life and saved many $$$. Now if i need to play a game i might buy it after a year or so cause they'll fix the issues. I recently played RE3 remake for the first time on PS5 and it was basically flawless cause they fixed the issues. I can name many more games but it's gonna be a long list. If anyone bought Ghostwire Tokyo you'll know it had many issues on every platform. Now i want to buy it cause it comes on Series also and they should address issues also.

They need to patch the shimmer. Its pretty bad on certain objects to the point is is distracting in some cutscenes. If HFW can look 20 times better than this and its an open world game there is 0 excuses why a AAA developer cant' implement a better AA solution.

There was no reason to downgrade resolution mode on SX to help the frame rate. There is a performance mode option for people that prefer frame rate over graphics. The superior VRR on the SX took care of frame drops on the LG C1.

This dude is a one-man Digital Foundry. I’m curious, what tools are you using to measure framerate? DF has their own bespoke tools I think??? (I could be wrong)

Can't wait to play this in PSVR 2! Hopefully it's the full game.

Thank you, great video! ❤️👍

40/60 Hz modes should be the new norm on console.

Disagree. A couple fps for blurrier quality on series x is not worth it.

Right now, which is the better version?

So buy the disc version on Series X if you want the best console version. Or is the disc missing the actual game?

Honestly the image quality is good for the ps5 I don’t care about minor aliasing and shimmering ; still leagues ahead of the RE2 / 3 image quality on ps4

Thanks for the update. Debating buying for XSX or PC, thinking mouse control is worth getting off the sofa for with the questionable responsiveness. The original felt great with a GC controller and CRT.

The new 1.05 update has seemingly fixed texture pop in and the bad image quality the last update introduced on Series X. A new video would be interesting.

Still cracks me up knowing they didn’t even bother with an xb1 version.

great work brother

30fps 4k with higher settings etc & a 60fps performance mode would've been ideal imo. Glad, I finished it on SX before the patch. VRR/120hz res mode, hairstrands and raytracing on -> zero problems. "Shimmering Evil 4" - I knew this was coming.

Great video!

good job❤

I wanna know how is the fps mode with rt and everything else off?do i get 60 fps all the time?specially in rain and intense areas.

This game is so poorly opimized compared to other Resident Evil games. It's a mess. Hair strand still not fixed, xbox controller not totally fixed, image quality is weird on both versions, what the fuck are they doing

Thank you for the update NX Gamer. I was just wondering if they fixed anything yet on this game. Hopefully they fix the grass jitter now

I take it this patch also fixed the broken chromatic aberration effect on PS5?

I don't understand why you didn't do testing of performance mode with all other graphical effects off? This is by far the most interesting mode, because it basically feels like a locked 60fps on PS5.

Would you say it's worth playing on PS5 now I have pc copy to 3060ti ?

Any news on them fixing the lighting on the hair with hair strands turned on? Or is it just going to stay like that forever?

Hey NX Gamer, what is this exactly actually with RE4 on PS5? The fringy, frizzy shimmering I mean. Is it simply the Anti-Aliasing? This drives me crazy because I play close to a 4k high ppi screen. I don't exaggerate when I say it's a little bit disgusting. There is this cornfield area in Village, it's super clean on PS5 and if you would put that area in RE4 it would be shimmering like crazy. Capcom readjusted the Series X version w/ patch 1.05 and the shimmering aliasing is fixed but the PS5 version has it since release. This can't be a hardware issue when Guerrilla could fix similar issues and still have the same resolution and performance with a much better image quality.

Holy shit! Capcom instead of solving the interlaced mode on PC to match consoles they just broke the console's version to match PC lmao

Is the response curve/input lag/deadzone still weird on PS5? From what everyone is saying, the xbox was apparently way worse and needed fixing sooner, but I found the controls in the PS5 demo very unresponsive and annoying which stopped me from buying.

What is the performance on PS5 in resolution mode with both RT and hair off? I dont have VRR screen.

Funny that you have locked 60 fps on performance + RT, and yet i have constant dips on performance mode without using RT. Guess im unlucky😢

On Series X game is a laggy mess outdoors. Massive frame rate dips. Got a 4K tv, Calibrated hdr, resolution mode on, RTT off, hairstrands off. I played my ps5 copy with the most demanding options and it plays better. Is anyone else experiencing this, or any help?

This is the 2nd time within a month that Series X users cop a graphics downgrade to match crappy PS5 visuals. The exact same thing happened with Outer Worlds Spacers Choice where they too totally ignored the superior VRR window of the series consoles and downgraded foliage density to match the PS5. This needs to stop or they need to allow a mode for VRR. Xbox needs to wake up and say something about this as they were the ones that touted VRR as the game changer that it is for consoles back on Xbox one x. That console couldn’t really take advantage of VRR on most titles due to an inadequate CPU though. I am sick of devs just making the game for PS5 and not properly optimising for the superior GPU in the series X and Microsoft does nothing and says nothing about this. They even allow lies on the store about a game being Series X/S optimised when it clearly is not in any way shape or form. Being native Scarlet code base is not the same thing as optimised for the platform. We saw the exact same thing happen on Xbox one X even thought that has close to a 40 percent advantage over PS4 Pro. Now even though the gap is 18 percent in Xbox favour we will rarely see it due to favouritism by devs and obvious behind closed doors money being handed out by Sony to the devs to make the Xbox version suck if you are a conspiracy theorist. In all honesty after the shady practices Jim Ryan has been going on with lately I would not put outright bribery past him anyway. Capcom should be ashamed of themselves screwing with people like this after they have bought the game . I am just glad I no longer fall for AAA dev lies.

They should have done like Gears of War 4 did and had framerate/resolution settings for Mercenaries seperate from the main campaign rather than downgrading the entire image quality (on Xbox) to make it a one size fits all solution. I'm disappointed and hope they restore the better image.

7:59 the frame rate always drops at this turn, but why doesn't this show up in the graph?

How is the PS5 outperforming the Xbox series X in almost every game when on paper it's supposed to be the other way round? Please do a video on this.

Would have liked to have seen the frame time graph for Res mode with RT and hair off.

what about series s ?

"The PS5 can't manage it so the Xbox Series X won't manage it either" - please explain the logic in that statement as since the Series X is a more powerful hardware platform, albeit only by about 15 to 20%, why is it assumed that just because the weaker PS5 platform cannot reach a certain fidelity/frame rate level the Series X automatically cannot either? Are you insinuating that since the PS5 was the lead platform for development that if the developers cannot manage to push the PS5 to a certain standard of performance that they won't bother even trying on the Series X?

PC gamers always used to answer this question with: both. Not anymore, with all the shitty pc ports.

That's how you should play games on current gen consoles...in framerate mode only. Cause if you enable one or all of the graphical options it will be lower with too much input lag and you don't want that. Or you can play with all options in 30fps. Now whoever still plays at 30fps good for you but for me i don't like it anymore cause since the PS2 till PS4 era most games had 30fps and seeing devs implement this framerate on PS5 or Series means that either they're not utilizing the full potential of the hardware or the big corpo heads want this too.

VRR missing is a bummer. They need to unlock the120hz.

Maybe now they can patch the ps4 and one versions? Some textures look like vomit

Strange how 5 fps less than ps5 with identical graphics is seen as some kind of win today because of an abundance of bad xbox series x ports while the console still is more powerful than the ps5 on paper.

Third party Developers have always used Sony as the blueprint for game development. And that’s still the case today they always put Xbox second. With the exception of the 360 and PS3 generation 👍🏻

Running it in high frame rate mode with ray tracing on it is a solid 60 FPS hair strands is still garbage so I always keep that off

"It's a very small portion of the market that has VRR screens" 28.4% according to VGA's survey. A quarter isnt a "very small" portion

Looks terrible of series x, they fucked it! I’d take the lower frame rate any day, that’s what vrr is for. I had no problem enjoying the game in resolution mode.

You have ZERO evidence that it is a small amount that have VRR. Damm near all monitors have VRR that are worth it for consoles and so do tvs. Unless you are saying all fans of consoles play on Walmart 130 dollar tvs. Give me a break

The texture streaming in Resident Evil 4 Remake on the PS4 is awful. 2023, and to see low resolution textures almost everywhere...

I wish you would do a test on Framerate mode with RT on. The thing for me is that Framerate mode's resolution looks crisp enough, but the SSR is horrible. So I choose Framerate with RT. I keep the hair off for the same reason I avoid SSR - it looks bad. In all my playtime with Framerate + RT, I have seen minimal, if any framerate dips. At least noticeable dips. On a display that lacks VRR, I would say any drops have been so negligible that they didn't even register. Would love to see how stable this combination actually is, because for me, RT replacing the ugly SSR is a big win and, again, I have hardly noted any drops in FPS this way on PS5.

Framerate is important in performance mode , I don't understand the purpose of it anymore...lol

Wow series x looks significantly worse here. I'd be pissed if I bought it from demo and they butcher the best looking mode.

The Series X looks like ass now. Texture streaming is way to slow and some textures never load out of low quality at all. The DoF is so low res that it actually clips edges off objects in cutscenes. Trash patch for Xbox owners….but hey….I guess it’s smoother now 😂

I have VRR, so for me the Xbox Series X version is now ugly... The deadzone fix is nice, but the image quality hurts so much.

What about PS4?

Lol they've made this game graphic like ps1 games on xbox series s on purpose. Surely good money Sony has given them. Also after update they ruined it on XSX. Capcom ☕

PS5 has big stuttering issues at the castle. The maze seems even worse since the patch. Extremely annoying. Series-X has texture loading delays since the patch, where if you go into your case then back out, textures take seconds to load back in.

genuinely wondering why PS5 outperforms XSX.

Frame rate RT mode when visiting village at night drops fps in my experience.

Is there a reason why the 12 teraflops console consistently gets beaten by the 10 teraflop one? Did Phil lie to us all?

The anti aliasing looks like shit now on series x :/

Ahh fuck it i just want to play the goddamn game and i can't because I'm poor

I couldn't really tell the difference between res and framerate with rt on my ps5 either way is good 👍

No way I want a rez mode on series X locked at 30 FPS

Big bug I found. Any scopes you use will drop frames quite a bit. Ps5 ptw

Dude you keep changing ps/xbox gameplay from left to right. Just stick to a pattern across entire video.

So as I thought then Capcom have destroyed the series X version parity springs to mind disgusting from Capcom my game in resolution mode ran fine with VRR 🤦😡

I have Steelbook edition PS5 since day one and the game run good with or without patch. And with the last patch (1.004) it weighs 4 GB on PS5, not 18 GB like xbox Series 😅

I played through the game with frame rate setting , but I tried it after with performance settings and it runs excellent..ray tracing really looks great in re4

Dices que el rendimiento de PS5 no ha cambiado, pero no coinciden las métricas de rendimiento con tu video anterior. El framerate de XSX es muy similar al de PS5 en tu anterior video, y ahora en este es inferior.

Mark Cerny advised to not focus on tflops numbers alone. PS5 is a very well-rounded machine and the games are showing that.

Bet there's hack proof code in this that's hurting performance

I'm always surprised about the PS5's performance, that 13% or so TF performance advantage hardly ever shows up.

XSX runs at 120hz.PS5 at 60hz it means resolution RT runs absolutly smooth even if fps 38 ,cuz 38×3= ~120.on PS5 resolution RT mode staters as hell. Armored Core 6 resolution mode runs smooth on XSX( ion120 hz TV) PS5 runs at 60hz and have many statering

Did Sony again pay for parity here? Image quality on Series L seems to be lower now.

Looking more and more like Microsoft lied about the xbox hardware and it being "the most powerful console" or "12 tflop beast".

This game should so have been delayed, seems the console versions of RE4 have all the downsides of previous RE games on PC, like broken AA, and terrible streaming stutter.

Sony always getting shit gimped on the xbox and this is why I don't support Sony and I just play my xbox and pc. The xbox is more powerful than a ps5 but by magic games have been running worse on xbox.

PS5 wins as always

Yes, the Playstation 5 is the Greatest Console of all time.

PS5 taking Ws as always 😂

Another win for the PS5 😂 I’m not surprised

I'm I the only one, but doesn't the colours look better and richer on PS5

The 60% delta has yet to show up on the Series X more than 32 months in to the console generation. Oh dear! Lol

Another game sony has marketing for runs better frame rate wise on ps5 but if the dont have marketing xbox version have higher resolution and frame rate its because every game sony has marketing for tye put in there contract that game most run better on ps5 over xbox or they will not market the game its dirty as hell and im so glad that that its came out sony has been doing this and all the other shitty things they have been doing wnd i cant wait for the government to stick it to them anti consumer anti competitive garbage company that they are sony dont want Microsoft to own call of duty because Microsoft is not going to hold it back to have ps5 version run the same they will get the most out of ps5 and then the most out of xbox and call duty will run better on xbox because of the power difference developers have come out and said xbox has more power but while they are still delvoping with crossgen in kind its easier to devlop the game on ps5 and port it to xbox because ps5 is a cross between last gen hardware and current so its easier to devlop crossgen titles on ps5 but once crossgen is over the power difference will show more theres already more games that run better on xbox then ps5 digital foundry did comparison out of 20 games xbox won 18 times ps5 2

So now PS5 is the best version. Callisto protocol Hogwarts legacy Wild hearts Atomic heart Gotham knights Resi 4 remake All run best on PS5!👍

I felt lower fps on ps4 after update

Series X now really is a joke. Hope Phil Spencer steps back.

PS5 wins.

amazing how much weaker Series X is than PS5. People actually believed the hype of Series X being "the most powerful console" because of a few TFlops 😂

Series X once again gets the worst version.. are people really still buying the Series X ?? 😂

PS5 👍