And when it does, in the vast majority of cases, it's a tiny effect evident only on the very top or very bottom of the screen - mostly unseen in the overscan area. More than that, closer examination of the clips reveals that the game actually swaps between two different v-lock modes, only occasionally losing sync. This might be seen to skew results in 360's favour where it not for the fact that typically, a torn frame is only on-screen for 1/60th of a second before v-sync is re-established.
#GRAND THEFT AUTO IV XBOX ONE PS3#
One curiosity I found was that the PS3 version has v-lock enabled, whereas 360 can produce the odd torn frame. However, when the engine struggles to cope, the frame-rate falls and it drops harder on PS3, hence bringing down the overall average. By looking at the other comparison videos in this piece, you'll see that by and large the games generally run at the same speed. However, it is worth bearing in mind that the frame-rate detector can only produce an average rate. The bottom line is that no matter what material I put through the detector, 360 came ahead in all tests, sometimes dramatically so. 30.106fps average on a 360 runthrough, compared with 26.733fps and 26.696fps on two separate PS3 captures of the same mission. For example, the 'Ivan the Not So Terrible' stage has a nice range of in-car, on-foot, rooftop and cut-scene action. Tests on gameplay (playing through the same mission, but not rendering identical scenes, obviously) saw a similar range of variance too. Indeed, on the longer vids, with a larger average sample, we're seeing a good 17 to 18 percent variance. So the results clearly show that over the course of the entire clip, 360 out-performs PlayStation 3 in every one of the six scenarios presented here. Head over to the Editor's blog to find out why. These figures have been updated slightly since they were originally published. Links to compressed versions of the test material are provided, but please bear in mind that there's some pretty hardcore swearing. In all cases, the respective 3D engines will be dealing with 100 percent identical source material. As the cut-scenes are rendering identical scenes on the fly, it's the best test I could come up with. All of the game's cut-scenes are based on the same engine as the gameplay, so a variety of them were chosen, both indoors and outdoors, and of varying lengths. Digital Foundry's coder programmed a very useful little tool that does that count for me useful considering the first test is based on a video with over 15,000 frames.įor GTA IV, I performed six tests on a varied amount of material. Essentially, the basic method is simple - capture every single frame that is output over the HDMI port in a lossless format, then examine the capture to check for the amount of unique frames. In previous face-off features, where I've felt that it's relevant, I've always mentioned the difference in refresh rate, but now I can show you how I do it. In terms of GTA IV, its basic inconsistency means it's really difficult to say whether one version drops more frames than the other just by trusting your own eyes. Compare and contrast with, say, Project Gotham Racing 4, or Criterion's Black - both examples of games with a rock solid 30fps refresh rate. However, the amount of time any given frame will stay on-screen is variable, leading to a very inconsistent look. They'll pump out as many frames as they can, roughly averaging out to around 30fps (though it can go higher). What is clear is that both versions adhere to no specific frame-rate. But the one difference I couldn't help but notice was the sense that as well as possessing a higher resolution, the Xbox 360 version of GTA IV runs noticeably smoother than the PlayStation 3 code. Thanks NewEgg.So far, aside from the different visual approaches, there's not much to tell the two games apart. The others are pretenders and never can keep the consistency. NewEgg has been the most reliable source I have found for most things computer and electronic related. Overall Review: I am playing my 360 via D-Sub I bought from NewEgg on a 37" LCD I bought from NewEgg. not saying they are bad or anything though. NewEgg, do you know about that? Are you guys connected to Buy dot com now? I am pumped!Ĭons: It was odd that I had a flyer for Buy dot com in my package. I have not had time to play the game, but I watched the opening and drove the car to the first point. Don't think it can really keep people out though. I ordered at some crazy time in the night, basically 4/30. Usually 2 days with many occasions of 1 day. I think I might have had to wait three days twice in the history of buying.
#GRAND THEFT AUTO IV XBOX ONE FREE#
WITH no pre-order! NewEgg offers FREE shipping most of the time in the form of 3-day. I got this in 2 days after I ordered it online that night late after it came out. Pros: I don't know what everyone is complaining about on the single game version.
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