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XboxGamePreservation.com is an unofficial fan site with over 18,700 voters and 169,000 votes. There's no promise to bring any games forward, but this exchange on X is promising in that Xbox employees are aware and monitoring demand from the site

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Jason Ronald is the VP of Next Generation at Xbox. He recently gave a talk at GDC, with specific mention of game preservation.

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that was a ps3 era game though I think it had some downgrades running on a phone

inthink at minimum the ps4 version of GTA 5 should be able to run on modern phones, probably something even better if it didn’t take up so much space.

I wondered this after playing RE5 and DeadSpace recently. I know people joke about this, but is there a technical/hardware reason for why so many games (across different engines) in this era used browns and grays so heavily? Or was it just a ubiquitous aesthetic choice? Did people think this looked good at the time (and do they still think it looks good now)? I just don’t really understand why or how it happened.

>This is remarkable stuff - the iOS and MacOS port of Remedy's Control delivers almost everything from the original PC version of the game, delivering RT features we didn't even see on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. Almost all of PC's ray tracing features are present, there's MetalFX upscaling along with frame interpolation too - and it all works on the latest iPhone. Oliver focuses first on the game running on iPhone 17 Pro, before running the gauntlet of other iOS devices along with the MacBook Pro M4 Max. Is this the best triple-A Apple port yet?

Article: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/reviews/control-on-iphone-17-pro-ray-tracing-frame-gen-upscaling-this-has-everything

Kind of adding up that perhaps the Series X (and probably the Switch by extension) is based off the PC port and the PS5 is its own native port, and the Series X is likely an unoptimized PC port.

White cat as seen in Indiana Jones and The Great Circle with ray traced hair (also known as Hair Texel Shader eXtreme) enabled.

Ray Traced Hair produces some surprisingly nice-looking results on humans but it makes these furballs look like glowing porcupines.

>A new Q+A show sees John, Rich and Alex tackle a number of big questions. Is Project Helix a console or PC? What's the difference nowadays anyway? Will Microsoft's "K2" initiative win back users lamenting the Windows experience? Meanwhile, with more new games focusing on ray tracing, will rasterised fallbacks decline in quality going forward? All this and much, much more.

Check the cpu utulization. Does anybody know is this normal or the software HW info is messed up.

rig: i512400f , intel arc a750 LE , 32 gigs of 3200mhz ddr4 and 512gb SSD.

Here so people would see what’s actually going on with the Series X demo compared to the full release patched PS5 port.

Try not to pay attention to the HDR or brightness exposure since capture quality’s different between consoles.

Pragmata's PS5 Pro release was something of a strange one, as it offered the best way to play the game on console, yet it actually used a lower internal resolution than the base PS5 code in its 60fps mode. With patch 1.21, that's now been rectified, with the game moving from an 864p internal resolution to 1080p, the same as the vanilla PS5.

Played the earlier version on 8 Gen 2. Decent 60fps but not pushing the silicon.

New trailer shows way more environmental complexity. Wet track physics, particle effects, dynamic lighting shifts. Either better optimization or they're actually using the GPU this time.

Wondering about sustained performance. 8 Gen 3's Adreno 750 should handle it, but for how long before thermal limits hit?Anyone with retail devices tested actual frame times?

>John Linneman and guest Coury Carlson sit down in person in Coury’s basement for a DF Retro Super Show dedicated to arcade-to-home conversions. From Ghouls 'n' Ghosts, Bionic Commando and Thunder Fox and a slew of Sega super scaler titles through to truly massive ports like Street Fighter 2, the duo break down why some conversions shine while others completely miss the mark.