@khjsaw: There still isn't a game that's been built from the ground up on DX12 or Vulcan. All the games so far have had DX12 tacked onto it. If the game has a DX11 option, then it had DX12 tacked on. Which is why you're not seeing much of a difference. Not Microsoft's problem I'm afraid. Also I think this game mode is just going to allocate resources which would otherwise be available to a tech savvy PC gamer to all PC gamers. Virtual paging, CPU priority and core parking, etc.
@spartanx169x: Dual core i5? Are you referring to a laptop here? If so I'm afraid it doesn't work that way. It may work but might require a stronger power adapter for the added power consuption etc etc.
@spartanx169x: Sometimes you may need to upgrade the bios depending on the CPU and how old your motherboard was when the CPU refresh hit. Usually you don't have to but it's something you should Google to be safe.
@GunEye: Frametime is arguable more important than framerate. Framerate tells you how many frames are rendered within a second, where as frametime tells you how long each frame takes to render. For example, say your GPU takes 0.9 seconds to render a single frame then quickly renders 59 frames in 0.1 seconds. You would see horrible stutter yet framerate would be showing a solid 60. FFXV suffers from bad frame pacing. It's not terrible, but it definitely has the potential to pull you out of the experience depending on how susceptible you are to it. Bothers the hell out of me. Doom gave me terrible frame pacing on my gaming laptop to the point where I decided to just wait till I upgraded my main rig to play it :)
As far as my gaming PC specs go, 6600k at 4.5 GHz, 32 GB of DDR4 3000 and a Strix GTX 1070. I play on a 27" 1080p screen and my 40" Samsung 4k TV.
@GunEye: If you play the game on the PS4 Pro on the high def setting it also suffers from frame pacing issues. The lite mode does not. I'm playing on a 4k TV. The game looks good in both modes. I'd say if you didn't know what you were looking for you probably won't notice a difference, but since I'm a PC gamer I can definitely see a difference. I did sell my standard PS4. I sold it to a friend for $250. It was the power efficient revision with a 1 TB drive. I just bought the model about six months ago so I'd say he got a great deal. Just don't sell it to any retailers and you won't get ripped off.
@GunEye: The lite and high def modes run at the same 30 FPS. The difference being the lite mode has less detail and the resolution is lower but the frame times are rock solid so you won't get that annoying judder the high def mode and the regular PS4 version suffer from. I too am waiting for the 60 FPS patch as I recently purchased a Pro.
@Dark_sageX: 20%? Yea maybe with water cooling.. but at that point you might as well just buy a 1070. The Strix has the best cooler and OCing potential of all the 1060s and it only gets FPS gains around 12% with boost hitting almost 2.2 GHz. Unless you know something I don't lol.
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