Immediately noticed it last night while playing. John makes a really great point too about how can totally change the way you play the game.
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My video covering Fallout 4 in FPS Boost mode went up last night. Would appreciate any and all feedback.
Edit: also I have no idea what happened with the video error at 1:07. It wasnât in an earlier draft of the video, never touched that section of the video in further edits, but the final edit had it and I missed it.
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nice comparison @KageMaru. Interesting that the dynamic resolution isnât robust enough to kick in with the mod enabled. Will probably use the mod and if my VRR tv canât fix the stutter then FPS Boost will do.
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Hey thank you! Iâm guessing DRS doesnât get flagged or kick in until a frame takes longer than 33.3ms to complete. So when running the mod, youâre always over 33.3ms and thatâs why it never kicks in. Same reason why itâs always at a native 4K resolution when running at 30fps on the Series X. The game thinks thereâs no reason to drop the resolution if the frame rate is at or above 30fps.
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could be.
such implementations with hard coded timing values could prevent other titles from even getting FPS Boost 
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Nice video!
I wonât be playing Fallout 4 anytime soon, Iâve completely played that game to death and the expansions, just like Skyrim. But I would have went with the mod because that resolution downgrade and view distance that you showed is not worth it. The mod really isnât too bad at all.
I bet that if this game had been made fully for Xbox Series it would easily do 4K/60fps, thereâs just no way it wouldnât.
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Ooooh, I would love if XboxEra started diving right in those technical analysis videos!
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KageMaru is really John Linneman with a mask.
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I KNEW it.
Which is the mask and which is the real Visage?
I saw that on Twitter :
https://twitter.com/madzgamingpl/status/1372205330134921216
Would you be able to verify if that could be true ?
Official Marvelâs Avengers next-gen native version details.
Remember when Dusk Golem had his âVerifiedâ tag taken from him on Resetera and received a ton of hate for saying we would see a ton of games on PS5 run at lower resolution than 4K and at lower resolution than on the X? WellâŚ
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Itâs true. This is from someone who would know better than anyone else. 
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While I donât doubt itâs a bug because of how extreme the resolution drop is, they directly stated that the resolution would drop (could be the intention was a much smaller drop) for those two games which is why they have it off by default. So what heâs saying there is a bit confusing.
Ran a couple analysis videos and it seems to be somewhat trueâŚbutâŚit does make me question some things. While you can trick Fallout 4 to remain 4K and keep the same draw distance, the performance is pretty unstable. A good chunk of the footage Iâve looked at runs in the 50s instead of a locked 60. So is the original output a bug or is this trick the bug?
Problem with his comment is that Jason has already said some games will lower the graphical quality. So the question is does Fallout 4 fit in this category?
The FPS upgrade seems solid for Xbox Series X. Iâm hoping it stays a locked 60FPS or close to it throughout the game.
Dusk Golem actually stepped down as he accepted a job at some other company. Heâs been pretty accurate but his expertise is definitely in regards to Capcom, Resident Evil and survival horror games as that seems to be his passion when it comes to games.
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It would never? But the dashboard itself clearly states âIncrease frame rate. This may reduce the display resolution of the game.â directly beside the FPS boost option.
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Does anyone think that the bug might be with the DRS? In the video KageMaru mentions that DRS doesnât activate if the game doesnât drop below 30fps as a possible trigger, so could it be possible that the method use is tricking the game to think its running below 30fps but instead of ignoring/not being aware of it like other games, FO4âs DRS is kicking in and trying to maintain the fps by lowering graphics?
I dunno, but folks on Reddit and twitter were saying rebooting fixed the issue and others reported not ever seeing it happen in first place. /shrugs
Jason is honestly less connected to this than James is tbh. Not to say James canât be wrong though, but it sounds like folks on Reddit found ways to correct it via rebooting and others seemed to say they never got any res drops at all using boost. So it seems to me like stuff is adding up in the direction of it being a bug. It could also be both, i.e. a bug they knew about (hence the language noted in the release) but one they also know should not be happening and will be fixed (hence what James said and in line with Redditors/twitter peeps).
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