Dragon’s Dogma 2: another impressive PS5 Pro upgrade marred by PSSR issues

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has seen its fair share of tweaks and improvements since launch, but none so drastic as the one afforded by PlayStation 5 Pro. On the one hand it utilises PS5 Pro’s PSSR upscaling to generate a cleaner, crisper picture – while on the other there’s a major performance boost over the base PS5. The bottom line: for those chasing a locked 60 frames per second experience, Pro now offers a way to do so. Sadly, and as with several other PS5 Pro patched games we’ve seen early on, Dragon’s Dogma 2’s use of PSSR has a few side effects. To be blunt, image quality suffers from extra break-up on fine elements – like grass – while the game’s ray traced global illumination also suffers from flickering and noise. So then, between all three graphics modes offered on PS5 Pro, which one ultimately gets us to the 60fps target – and which bears the fewest of these distractions?

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Source: Eurogamer.net