#Grand theft auto iv xbox one ps3

#Grand theft auto iv xbox one ps3

And Finally.ДЄfter almost two thousands words of technical discussion, the bottom line is that it's clear that Rockstar had some issues matching the basic performance of the Xbox 360 game on the PS3 hardware. Truth be told, it's not really the visual differences as such that gravitates me slightly towards the 360 version it's just that the game runs more solidly on the Microsoft platform, and when the frame-rate does drop, it's not quite so jarring as it is on PS3. The hosted clips are from the 360 version by the way, in case you want to check.

Therefore, it's certainly not an issue during gameplay, and regardless, the figures above are compensated anyway to give the true frame-rate.

More than that, our tests showed that of the entire 60fps output of the 360, the amount of torn frames averaged between 2.35 percent and 6.07 percent. 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. 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.ДЇor 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. So far, aside from the different visual approaches, there's not much to tell the two games apart.