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Just Cause 3

Earlier today, Sony began rolling out firmware 4.50 for both the PS4 and PS4 Pro. Numerous pocket-sized UI and social tweaks are now in place, but the biggest user-facing changes revolve around external storage improvements and the addition of a Heave Manner for unpatched games on the PS4 Pro.

On the official PlayStation website, the most contempo patch notes reveal what's changed in 4.50. In addition to the much-lauded Heave Style, USB 3.0 hard drives betwixt 250GB and 8TB can now concur your games, Remote Play users tin can take advantage of vocalism chat, screenshots can serve as backgrounds, the PSVR tin play 3D Blu-rays, you tin can now export animated gifs, and much of the social interface has been significantly streamlined. Truth exist told, this is a massive update.

Back in February, the beta for 4.50 rolled out with support for Boost Mode, but Sony was relatively quiet most this exciting new feature. When enabled, games without explicit PS4 Pro optimizations can come across bumps in performance up to 38 percent, so it was a chip odd when it was barely mentioned. At the time, some of u.s. were even skeptical that Sony would keep the functionality in when 4.l shipped to the masses.

Thankfully, the smash biting was for naught. Boost Mode is available every bit a toggle under Settings > System > Boost Style, and it seems to piece of work but fine. In that location'due south always the possibility that enabling it could innovate oddball bugs, only nigh of the reports nosotros've seen have been overwhelmingly positive.

While Boost Mode was all the same under beta testing, the Digital Foundry team looked at some of the most popular non-Pro PS4 titles, and found that many of them benefited significantly. Games like Battlefield four, Batman: Arkham Knight, and Assassin's Creed Unity have damn-near all of their instability smoothed out with the extra horsepower, and some of the most problematic games get more than playable.

Only Cause three all the same can't stick to 30fps, but the additional CPU and GPU power offer a better experience. Until Dawn, one of our personal favorites, drops less frames on average, but the uncapped frame charge per unit means that it still wobbles betwixt the mid-twenties and mid-thirties most of the time.

For games with merely small bug, Boost Mode really pays off — zapping occasional hiccups is where it really works best. Unfortunately, information technology'due south no substitute for a full-fledged PS4 Pro optimization patch. If the devs added native support for the PS4 Pro'southward hardware, at that place'southward no doubt that these games would run across even bigger performance boosts. Sadly, additional patches to the PS4's back itemize seem unlikely at this point.

Even if you're still rocking a base PS4, there's still a lot to love with 4.l. The improver of the "Upload/Download Saved Information" push button in the Options card of any game on the dashboard is a huge usability improvement by itself, and now your affordable 8TB external bulldoze will permit yous keep your unabridged library installed at once. The update should exist making its style to all units, but you can download it manually right now.

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