From Software 30 FPS Stutter Finally Fixed, But Only On Hacked PS4s

Look we get it From software. You can make an amazing video game that doesn't have a good framerate. <claps> Bravo!

Now gives us 60FP updates for the love of god.

FromSoftware has never known how to make a stable frame rate.

Never noticed stuttering in Bloodborne and I've played it for ~600 hours on PS4 Pro and PS5.

Frame dips yes, on PS4 Pro, most present in Lecture Hall 1st Floor, in the big room with ~15 scholars. Get all of them to chase you until they come closer together, then turn around, lock on hit them with a Tiny Tonitrus. That kills at least 6-7 of them at the same time. So on the screen you get at least 6-7 simultaneous dissolve animations while the rest of them either stretch their arms or puke liquid all over. This is too heavy for the PS4 Pro and the framerate dips to around 15 FPS methinks (don't have a way to measure, but it slows a lot for a few seconds).

Alas, unless it's a heavy stutter (which doesn't seem to be the case), it's best to live with it than to introduce lag.

Lag will impact the game much more severely, especially for experienced players, who have formed certain reflexes, who know when an opening in the enemies defenses will form, when that split second will come around, and when to start a hit that will take advantage of that opening. If something like LAG messes with those time intervals it will immediately break their rhythm, and get them to miss or to be hit.

Lag is the reason I could not play Bloodborne on PS Now on PC. Tried it after a few hundred hours spent in this games on the console, and it was a bad experience. Efficient parrying is the first one out the door, followed closely by quickstepping away from / or through an enemy's hit (making use of those few invincibility frames).

best example I can give is switching your light bulb with an intelligent one with WI-FI (like the Wiz bulbs from Philips). The intelligent ones always take 1 second to light up when you hit the switch. It doesn't seem much but if you used normal bulbs for years and switch, that split second will take a lot of getting used to. If the light does not turn on the instant you press the switch, your brain instantly thinks there's something wrong. Anybody who tried this at home can attest to this :) Imagine going through those "there's something wrong" feelings in an intense Bloodborne fight, with lag going around, throwing your reflexes out the window. Yeah.... good luck winning it under those conditions.

I play with my tv's my smoothing options enabled so I never notice any stuttering.