PS5 takes on PS4 and the maxed-out PC experience.

If you’re coming from the last-gen console experience, what kind of upgrades are you getting?

I’m not just talking about loading, but also installation.

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Returning to the game today, it’s unacceptably high and just about bearable in the 60fps modes.

Not only that, but compared to the PC version, Rockstar has improved the 60fps implementation.

Still, this is an improvement over PC and a night and day boost compared to the last-gen consoles.

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Adding to this enhanced fluidity are changes to image processing.

In the new version, per-object motion blur is universally applied throughout the full game.

Another aspect of this new sense of smoothness is due to image quality improvements.

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You could improve console image quality on PC then, but the costs for doing so rendering-wise were significant.

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So, which of the three quality modes should you use?

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Shadows from small details are retained where often they disappear with shadow maps, the so-called Peter Pan effect.

This term describes how light leaks through objects as the area of contact cannot be rendered correctly.

It was good for its time, but RT gets the job done properly.

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This is perhaps not surprising bearing in mind that the effect is resource intensive.

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