Video: Digital Foundry showed what Bloodborne looks like at 60 fps and in 4K with intelligent scaling
Digital Foundry specialists John Linneman and Richard Leadbetter, in a new video on the YouTube channel of the publication, showed how Bloodborne could look in 4K at 60 fps.
As in the case with the video from SnazzyAI, Bloodborne’s functioning at the mentioned values in real-time is out of the question, but this statement is only half applicable to the Digital Foundry video.
The fact is that a few weeks ago, Digital Foundry sent a recording of Bloodborne’s work on the PlayStation 5 devkit with the unofficial Lance McDonald patch installed, which adds 60 fps support to the game.
In this mode, Bloodborne gave out almost iron 60 frames / s, but the image quality remained at the level of PS4. This was not enough for Digital Foundry specialists, so the resulting video was passed through the Topaz Video Enhance AI program for intelligent image scaling.
The process highlighted the graphic problems of Bloodborne (like weak anti-aliasing) and turned out to be quite lengthy (processing each image on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 took 0.5-0.6 seconds per frame), but the result was worth it.
According to Linneman and Ledbetter, the resulting video does not reflect what a potential upgrade of Bloodborne to the PS5 version might look like but offers “an interesting vision of playing on next-gen hardware. “
Digital Foundry noted that such an update would require a lot of effort on the part of the team, and the best option for Bloodborne would be to release a full-fledged remaster or even a remake for the PS5.
“The task is not an easy one, its implementation would take years, but the result would undoubtedly be worth it. Here and now, the Smart Zoom-enhanced MacDonald patch running on PS5 is the best we have. But we cannot help but hope that this is not the end of the Bloodborne story, ”concluded the Digital Foundry.
Bloodborne was released in March 2015 exclusively on PlayStation 4. This week, the game celebrated its sixth anniversary with fans staging a massive Return to Yharnam.
