Sony released Beta Firmware 4.50 today which adds Ps4 Pro Boost Mode. All games with no pro patch can now run with a higher framerate. I allready tested Neverwinter and it runs A LOT smoother now. If you can get your hands on a Pro and like this game i think it´s a must have because everything just feels more responsive and fluid now. It´s much closer to a stable 30fps then before.
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Time of Day: for example 8am EST
Your location: for example NJ
These two items can impact if Pro will help or not. If you are on the East Coast and tested this out early in the morning I can confirm that on a standard PS4 I get 30 fps without any issues. However, starting around 4pm EST the frame rates dip a bit.
This update is great if you are playing PS4 games that are set to hit specific FPS and you notice stutter in them and want better flow for the game. This update along may make me buy a PS4 Pro. There is talk of removing this update from the next firm ware, because the original design also had this but was later remove due to various game actually having negative impact by this option.
If PS keeps this in the next firm ware, I'm about 50% in on a Pro; what is keeping me from going all in is the lack of a 4K HDR drive.
Now i hope Cryptic will improve there servers over time. At the Weekends the lag is most of the time horrible for me in Germany. I played a ton of Elder Scrolls Online, Final Fantasy 14 and World of Warcraft and none of these game had any absurd server lag like Neverwinter.
Now that Microsoft and Sony have both opened the flood gates to allow cross platform play I wonder if MMOs will start to get XBox and PS players on one platform and even PC.
I know DCUO did this for PS and PC. Why not get all platforms to share. I believe FF also does this as well.