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Sony Issues Update To PS5 Pro PSSR That Improves Image Quality

While the PS5 Pro has been out for a few months already, Sony is still hard at work improving the biggest selling point of the console – the PSSR. The PS5 Pro launched with Sony’s own in-house upscaling called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, which is essentially similar to AMD’s FSR. The tech takes game visuals and uses AI and machine learning to increase resolution and frame rate in certain scenarios.

If anything, PSSR will play a major role in the future of PlayStation as console hardware is still limited in performance due to the general design of the SoC. Physics prevent consoles from being as powerful as, say, a fully-fledged desktop GPU, so the hardware needs to find ways to improve the experience by other means outside of added raw performance.

So far, PSSR has resulted in some mixed results. Some games have seen nasty downgrades to their visuals as a result of moving to the PS5 Pro hardware. Silent Hill, Alan Wake 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, and others have suffered from visual bugs. Many of these games now have flickering, shimmering, and asset pop-in.

Developers are working on fixes with the majority of these games slowly improving over time. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor just got an update yesterday that polishes up some of the problems. Granted, it doesn’t fix the problem completely, but progress is being made.

According to ResetEra, games that are suffering from these problems will take some time to get fixed. That’s because while developers are trying to improve visuals with new game updates, Sony themselves are also working on PSSR improvements, which can be implemented into games as they roll out to the SDK.

A developer on ResetEra commented on the recent Star Wars Jedi: Survivor update, claiming that there are many versions of PSSR available for developers to use in the dev kit. These versions come with fixes to the reported visual hiccups. Sony seemingly releases these updates regularly, and the general tech is improving.

The developer claims that the latest so-called PSSR update comes with improvements to both the performance and the hardware RT implementation. So, developers are at the whim of Sony to issue these updates to games.

Certain titles with rough PS5 Pro upgrades are likely waiting on Sony to make these enhancements available to them before patching fixes into the game. While this is cool to see, it does mean that developers have to wait before they can even begin working on patches. So, if you’re playing a PS5 Pro game and it looks a little rough (I have been experiencing a few), you’ll have to be a little patient.

PSSR is still in the early days, so we’ll see Sony improve it in the future. PSSR 2 and later versions will likely come with major enhancements to the tech. It will likely be a big driving force for future PlayStation hardware.

Source: ResetEra

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