Day one patch makes Call of Duty: Ghosts single-player 1080p on PS4

Activision will issue a day one patch for the PlayStation 4 version of Call of Duty: Ghosts that improves the native resolution of the single-player campaign, Eurogamer can exclusively reveal.

[MorePowerOfGreen]

WoW

So some reports were right? People laughed at a resolution patch the other day related to XB1.

[bicfitness]

There's no patch to fix a crap GPU and complicated memory setup. But whatever you need to tell yourself, Green.

Don't ever change. You will be one of my main sources of amusement this coming gen.

[Mike134nl]

But it is possible for a day one patch to fix cod to 1080 p. Strange that people didn't notice it was running 720p.

[mikeslemonade]

That means the patch could fix the frames too. Regardless, the reviews are too early when people are not reviewing multiplayer.

And PowerofGreen and his hoodlums are coming out of the woodwork. Where's that bloodmask though. He's the most intelligent one lol

[4Sh0w]

OK a patch to fix framerate, lol even those usually need more patches before the issues are resolved, OK but got it, but a patch to fix 1080p??? lolz, seriously IW???

Didnt IW and sony confirm it was 1080p? Wow truth is coming out after all the focus on X1, seems some behind the scenes BS. What a mess.

[Ju]

This is a "configuration bug", means someone messed up when doing the master built and nobody noticed. You can't fix resolution without changing code and you can't do that without digging deep into the engine - nothing what you can do in a couple of days. This was always meant to be 1080p. Guess someone threw a XO config in instead. LOL

[NMEMEDIC]

Funny how Sony fanboys are in denial. Knack is proof that all this 1080P nonsense is worthless. If the game sucks who gives a ish about res.

[mikeslemonade]

^
Bayonetta frame rate was fixed and that was a big fix. We're talking about fixing frames from 50 to 60. Not 12 to 30 like it was in Bayonetta.

^medic
Atleast Knack is trying to do something different.

[pyramidshead]

SO apparently this game is clearly a development train wreck judging by this news, sheesh. Well at least it's actually getting the patch lol.

[Drekken]

Resolution is just a setting. A patch can fix that. A bottlenecked system with an underpowered GPU cannot be patched. People laugh at you for most things you say.

[Comnnsence]

@Drekken, good one. buuuuuuuuuuuuurn..

[starchild]

Resolution is just a setting? lol
Tell that to my PC games.

Increasing resolution puts a much greater burden on the GPU.

So if a system doesn't have the graphical overhead available you can't just simply patch it and magically have a higher resolution.

[DOMination-]

You can't just easily fix this with a patch. It will require a huge download as the difference in assets between 720p and 1080p is surprisingly large. You can't just flick a switch and magically the game is a higher resolution.

To me this sounds like it will just upscale to 1080p. But maybe I'm mistaken

[Ju]

You guys care to actually read Activision's statement? It was always 1080...someone messed up the settings on the disk (image). That's getting patched. Obviously the engine always ran 1080 - like the MP in that version already does. Without patch.

[Blacksand1]

The XB1 is 720p with a 1080p up-scaled because MS tried to make it a t.v hub first and a gaming console second. My Fios is 720p reg. channels and 1080p on HD channels. When you mix the two that's what you get 720p with a up-scaled of 1080p, because of t.v part of the console.

[Drekken]

I am amazed at the lack of knowledge in some of these responses.

You guys have never played on PC. That is all I can think. OPTIONS>GAME SETTINGS>Choose from 20 different resolutions. It is a setting. If IW said it runs at 1080p then there is no performance issues.

[Sarcasm]

The difference is that the PS4 version was designed and meant to run at 1080p. There's no patch that will ever make the XB1 version run that.

[Golden_Mud]

Patch available after while ........ "it's ok , the PS4 version is still better" , please stop saying it's impossible cause we all know it's not , NBA 2K14 is running 60 fps and 1080p with more powerful graphics than CoD G (CoD as a whole after MW1 is already destroyed)

[Sarcasm]

^Seriously you think NBA 2K14 is more powerful than COD? lol A game that is limited to a basketball arena vs an entire shooter.

http://www.quickmeme.com/im...

[GTgamer]

@IHass
Ooh just stop it

[mistertwoturbo]

I don't see why Xbone owners are doing a happy dance. Their version will forever remain 720p, while the PS4 version will run at what they stated it to run at.

[Boody-Bandit]

IHassounah

I don't know what's worse. Your lack of knowledge or the fact that 3 people agreed with you. Sports, along with racing games, are some of the least taxing games to be made. FPS an open world games are the most intensive / taxing.

[Blacksand1]

15 = PS4

[GTgamer]

I think its time we Tell InfinityWard to take a break from creating games for awhile :/

[SpecialK]

You mean the developers that just released a game grossing more than GTA5??? The guys who make the highest selling, most popular FPS series in gaming?

Honestly its getting irritating people hating on cod because its 'cool' it may not be imaginative but the fact is they're one of the only developers with the sense to realize that people still like to have friends round to play games and accommodate for that.

if I ever have people round, COD is easy to pick up an play, supports split screen online, multiple game modes everyone can join in on. Who else makes a game like that??? Theres halo for the xbox and that's it.

So although its not imaginative, Infinity should never stop until other developers get it out of their heads that we all want to be PC gamers and sit in a dark corner alone playing online instead of on a couch with friends.

/rant

[Ju]

^^^ Yeah, the more embarrassing this is, tbh. Making billions (with a B) and messing up trivial things like a simple config. No money can buy sleep, I guess.

[USMC_POLICE]

Notice how it was single player only that had the 720 mistake not the whole game like xbone :)

[FamilyGuy]

They laughed because the X1 won't be receiving any resolution related patch. Not until devs start using titled rendering or MS optimizes their drivers to a level that fixes the space issue if that's even possible.

Personally I was surprised by how close they looked in the comparisons so this makes sense to me. I had read some CoD guy state that people "might think the X1 version looks better" so I just assumed that the X1 upscaler was doing a really good job.

I wonder if we'll see any reviews get retracted/changed because of this.

[Blacksand1]

One more day

[HammerKong]

its cod and its better to play on pc ,pc dvds are cheap and i will not spoil my both new consoles playing this game wether its ps4 or xb1 . and i used to play fps most on pc and will buy only excluive shootrs for my both consoles,like halo and kzsf.i'am having kzsf right now and i wont to get rid of it.

[Convas]

Well would you look at that. Dirty Pimp? Abriel? Lukas? You all doubted Qualz from NeoGAF who has a pixel counting reputation on level with the all-glorious CBOAT.

ResolutionGate 2.0

So I guess the folk that claimed that the difference was noticeable ... all credibility is lost?

And will we learn anything from this? Nope. Not a damn thing.

Edit: No one is claiming that the PS4 can't run COD @ 1080p. This is about facts and the way the game was reported by certain members of gaming media IN LIGHT of the ResolutionGate with the Xbox One version of the game.

[GarrusVakarian]

I seriously have no idea who Qualz is and never have known who he is (i never visit Neogaf), so don't call me out on that please.......I doubted that the PS4 COULDN'T run this game at 1080p.....and i was right. I also said that IW already stated that the PS4 version is 1080p....again, i was right. So....uhm maybe you should take my name out of your comment, but you probably won't.

Any word on if the X1 version is getting a patch? Genuine question btw.

"Edit: No one is claiming that the PS4 can't run COD @ 1080p. This is about facts and the way the game was reported by certain members of gaming media IN LIGHT of the ResolutionGate with the Xbox One version of the game.
"

I have no idea what is going on lmao, i saw an article saying it was 720p...so i commented saying IW already stated it was 1080p....who the f is qualz and wtf does the X1 have to do with this? Confused is me.

[Neonridr]

Weird why IW would say on twitter that it was native 1080p. You would think they would say with a patch it's 1080p just to avoid any confusion.

If people would just word things correctly all this damn shite could be avoided.

[kiz2694]

I don't think his credibility is lost, he may have seen a difference in visuals between the xbone/ps4 regardless of resolution which seemed to be infavour to PS4, and without the 1080p, with it it should look better.

[kneon]

It's quite possible that the PS4 version used higher resolution textures even at 720p, which would account for the difference people have reported. That's assuming there really was a difference in the preview releases.

[CrossingEden]

People who talk about resolutions and stuff usually have this to say "if you look closely," Um, looking closely is literally the last thing I or ANYONE else is going to be doing when they actually play the game. Especially on the first run through. That's why I never take comparisons seriously if they look identical unless you "hurr durr look closely guys, that leaf on the ground has a slightly different shade of green" -_-
EDIT:Seriously I feel like there's a guy following all of my posts and instantly giving them a disagree.

[Neonridr]

@kneon - if you use a higher resolution texture (say a texture that is 1080p) but you only render it at 720p, how can you see the difference if natively they are rendered at the same resolution?

[kiz2694]

Neonridr@ Take it this way, if I have a 720p camera, and record a game off-screen which is displaying 1080p and also do the same game but its running at 480/546p and compare the footage you would see a difference, subtle but its not impossible, this is the same concept of texture resolution and native in-game resolution.

[nukeitall]

@kneon

Infinity has stated identical on Xbox One and PS4, except for the resolution.

That means, the asset must be identical too.

[Ju]

I'm loosing hope in humanity. Do we really have to have a degree to comprehend what the cause for the issue is? Really? The game was always 1080 (repeating myself here), but settings where hard-coded to 720 on the disk. Oh man...

There is no difference in texture resolution (not even on the XO).

[Stsonic]

Meow!! Do I scence a cat fight? Somebody put some milk in my bowl and fill up my litter tray because this is going to get promiscuous.

[DarkLordMalik]

I guess i will just leave it here

http://i.imgur.com/thEeG3L....

How does Digital Foundry determine the resolution? They also count pixels so it was strange to see people bashing pixel counting as a method. Of course, to accurately count pixels, we need direct screen grabs and we had that as well, not only the YouTube video.

[GrimWykydtron]

@Neonridr- its completely different thing, resolution of textures on most basic level is just how much detail that texture have just becouse u run game in 1080p doesnt mean textures will have a lot of detail etc like in lets say vanilla Skyrim on PC.

[xXxSeTTriPxXx]

All that means is the ps4 looks better then the x1 even @ the same resolution.

And somebody had to notice it or their wouldn't be a patch for it.

[MegaRay]

Xbox what? XP

[NeloAnjelo]

The fact remains... Even at 720p the game still looked better on the PS4. No? It certainly did to me.

At 1080p this may me even greater.

[jackanderson1985]

i'm no expert in this field but if they're patching the PS4 is it possible the could patch the X1? please no smart a** xbox comments serious question

EDIT: @below fair enough i suppose but hey maybe you never know

[kiz2694]

its possible but it still comes to the question if it can handle it tho, and with the MP on X1 still being only at 720p it wouldn't seem to likely it would be patched.

[Elit3Nick]

Ghosts isn't running anything demanding, a computer that's weaker than both would be able to play it maxed out if IW actually tries to optimise it.

[Salooh]

X1 obviously can handle ghost on 1080p and 60fps , this game doesn't need a lot of power. It's just that MS made the standard resolutions are 720p and upscaled 1080 . That's my theory . They are using the power on something else like multitasking or kinect or something like that. That's why people/developers saying ps4 focus on gaming.

[LordMaim]

I wouldn't count on that happening. This was an isolated case of an issue affecting the game, rather than the multiple instances of Xbox One games failing to make 1080p.

[Deividas]

Yes they would be able to, but they would only do it to games that would still maintain a high enough fps for it to be worth it and the hardware can handle it.

For example Dead Rising 3 is 720p @30fps...But with the framerate videos out there, it dips to 20fps a lot, therfore dont expect that game to go 1080p because it would just be unplayable. So all in all depends on the game for the most part.

[Idba]

Maybe, but i dont think is likely or possible, bc if it was ms would have probably already have said that imo

[sAVAge_bEaST]

It seems they Patched the Single Player game, because they shipped it 720p,.

Maybe, .but will the esram allow it???? -Mark Rueben said he doesn't know if it's possible, which means probably not.

[jackanderson1985]

it's allowing it for 4 EA games, an MS Studio game and it'll probably allow it for many more down the line so why would COD be the special case?

[sAVAge_bEaST]

I don't know, you'll have to ask Activision yourself.

I would guess -(hard ware limitations)

[u got owned]

It is possible, but question should be, Does Activision will spend the time and resources to do it?

[M-M]

No. If you read the article you'll see that the game was running natively at 1080p on multiplayer(PS4). The game being 720p on single player was a mistake made by Infinity Ward, the single player campaign was supposed to be 1080p from the start. On the other hand, the Xbox One is running at 720p across the board.

[LeCreuset]

"'Call of Duty: Ghosts runs natively at 1080p on the PlayStation 4,' an Activision spokesperson told Eurogamer this evening.

"'There was a configuration issue in the retail version on single-player mode only. This has been addressed with a day one software update. People will be able to download the day one update when PlayStation 4 launches in their territory and play at native 1080p.'"

From these quotes, I take it that it is unlikely the same could be done for Xbox. This seems more like an issue where IW screwed up something in the retail version of the game that caused it not to run at 1080p, as opposed to being unable to get it to 1080p. I also wonder if reviewers got the retail version of the game, or some other version.

[cyclindk]

Jeez who disagrees?

[MRMagoo123]

No its not possible at all , the thing is the ps4 version is already 1080p the game was just set to 720p and they forgot to change that before it was put on disc, all the patch will do is tell the game it can now run in 1080p and thats that, with the xbone version nothing is meant to be 1080p and it wasnt made for 1080p so just changing it to 1080p would be the same as it being upscaled, which is useless because it will already be upscaled via the console.

The game looked better on the ps4 before the patch i can imagine the gap will be even more apparent after it.

[ThatEnglishDude]

Strap in guys (and girls, for the politically correct of you out there) another generation of endless downloading, patches, DLC, and day one updates are upon us!

[Christopher]

That's the future of everything.

PCs get patches all the time.
Consoles get patches all the time.
Phone apps get patches all the time.

...

It will only continue considering everything must update with changes in architecture, features, bugs, and so on. Software is extremely complex and it's only going to get more complex as we go on.

[starchild]

Yeah, but PCs have a lot of advantages that go along with that small inconvenience.

Consoles were always supposed to be something straight forward and convenient. Now they are just like PCs, only with fixed hardware and locked ecosystems.

[Revolver_X_]

Lets go back to the N64 days, when games with glitches and bugs had them there forever. /S

[MidnytRain]

Let's ship games that aren't broken from the get-go.

[LeCreuset]

You just made me recall playing Prince of Persia: Warrior Within on the PS2. Yeah. I remember running around that room for hours near the end of the game, looking for a way out; wondering why the sand portal wasn't working like it did every other time. I'll take the patches. At least they have a chance of fixing glitches and what not.

[Nujabes_]

double post.

[yarbie1000]

So I guess you can patch 1080P

[snp]

Less of a patch to 1080p and more of a patch fixing it from artifically, and accidentally, constricting the game to 720p output.

[MasterCornholio]

Only if the console can handle it.

Don't get your hopes up for XB1 they already said that the ESRAM is giving them issues.

Nexus 7 2013

[MRMagoo123]

its exactly what SNP said , its not a patch to make the game 1080p its a patch that tells the game to not downscale to 720p, they arent adding anything at all its just a switch telling the game to be 720 instead of 1080p, the xbone wont be able to do that because the game is made to run at 720p and that is all its has.

[skoorydook]

So does this mean IGN etc who all said the PS4 version LOOKED better than the X1 when getting reviewed were all full of it ?

Also when patch applied to fix frame rate does the game get the review updated ?

[svoulis]

No, not entirely there is still a distinct difference in texture quality, and the XO version has some weird green filter on it.

http://www.ign.com/videos/2...

make sure to watch full HD.

[NoLongerHereCBA]

I honestly didn't see the texture quality difference you are talking about. Atleast not from the vid that I saw (though that was with colorblind mode on)

[NoLongerHereCBA]

woops double post somehow

[Hicken]

No, they weren't full of it.

As an example- this should work- go to one of those wallpaper websites and download the same image: once if your monitor's native resolution, and once in a higher(or lower resolution). If you set them both to your wallpaper, you'll notice the difference between the two, even though they'd be displayed at the same resolution.

I THINK that's about an equivalent to what happened here.

[MasterCornholio]

So their upgrading the resolution and frame rate for the PS4 version nice for fans of COD.

But seriously, IW screwed up with this game.

Nexus 7 2013

[boeso]

What a beautiful shit-storm! All hail next gen!

[wcas]

That is for single player only. All of the reviews with multiplayer for PS4 were 1080P. So those referring to the single player comparisons saying there wasn't much difference in resolution between the two for single player, wont be saying that now. Even single player campaign at 720P on the PS4 was said to look better.

[snp]

So, basically all the reviews have been of a version which wasn't demonstrating its visual strengths as it should have been on the PS4. Well, that's handy.. for it's competitor/s.

Wonder if they'll redo the reviews to factor in this enhancement they should have been seeing?

[EffectO]

hilarious

Fanboys successfully trolled.

[snp]

If there's no difference besides resolution in sp.. they certainly have been. Placebo effect:)

[sandman224]

That's a fast fix. And all it took was a quick patch. Either way I'd rather have multiplayer at 1080p and campaign at 720p if we had to comprimise. But we don't. I wonder if Xbox one will get a patch for 1080p native and rumble for the triggers?

[ziggurcat]

wasn't it already 1080p on PS4?

[wcas]

On multiplayer it was 1080P.

[svoulis]

Why is anyone surprised, these are both new consoles, this will happen, they both will have bugs and failure rates. Its normal for electronics.

Its not the end of the world, its called "Growing pains"

[snp]

True, and it's getting fixed so obviously alls well that ends well.. but... that's a pretty horrible bug to not notice. I mean effectively the reviews have been of a ps4 version showing less than half of the pixels it's pushing.

[bjmartynhak]

After the mess of what is COD Ghosts on PCs, yeah, not "dat" surprising.

lol, at least makes the next-gen launch more entertaining :p

[Gore-Content]

I don't see anything wrong about it. This explains why those comparisons are so similar. And, it's Infinity Ward's fault, not the console's. Because after the patch, it will run at 1080p, because the console is able to do so.

[testerg35]

Are the textures made for 1080p or 720p? Just curious how that works.

[hello12]

I think you guys have forgotten reviewers said last week the PS4 version of Ghosts/single player running now at 720p it seems was having issues with bad frame rate drops.

The XB1 version ran better. How is the PS4 going to run it better by upping it to 1080p, when it had issues at 720p

No sense this at all!

[snp]

It's outputting at 720p. Internally it's running at 1080p, but a bug is preventing the resolution showing up on screen in retail version. At least, that's way i'm reading it.

And the frame rate drops - i'm not sure many have described them as 'bad' btw, Edge, for example, said they didn't really effect gunplay - these have already been acknowledged are being addressed in a patch. No one's debating it, so i'm not sure what you're doing there...

ed: You didn't read anything i wrote. Yes, they've acknowledged frame rates 'issues' in spots. And yes these are being fixed. No, those sites didn't say the ps4 version had 'bad frame rates'. They said it had dips, but that was it. And everyone has acknowledged this - hence the patch.

Second, if i understand it right it's 'already' rendering the game in the ps4 hardware at 1080p. It's performance is that of a machine pushing >2million pixels (as opposed to <900k of 720p). A glitch is preventing the game 'showing' those 2 million pixels on the 'screen'. Downresing the video output. There's not 'performance' needed to be found to get it up to 1080p - it's already rendering at 1080p. There's a 'glitch' or 'bug' to be removed to allow this to show up on the screen.

[hello12]

Polygon, Gamespot, Giant bomb, IGN all reported issues with the PS3/PS4 versions.

The x box 360 version and XB1 version had no issues, go read their reviews.

If it the PS4 version is having issues at 720p and the XB1 can't get above 720p, but it runs better than the PS4 version.

I can't see how the PS4 can be better at a higher resolution.

WCAS@ Thats a lie and you know it is. Show me a link to prove otherwise? I can post links for what i just said if needed!

[ziggurcat]

@ KNWS

"Thats a lie and you know it is. Show me a link to prove otherwise? I can post links for what i just said if needed!"

please do. because the same issues have been reported for both systems.

[MasterCornholio]

Easy.

They will fix the code in the PS4 version and bump up the resolution to 1080P. After the patch the PS4 version shouldn't have any frame rate issues.

Don't you know that the PS4 is more powerful and easier to develop for?

Nexus 7 2013

[wcas]

Reviewers have reported frame rate drops on both consoles.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Egg meet face.

All those pixel counters look mighty dumb now.

[Shadonic]

1080p and its still looks like something you would see at the begging of the xbox and PS3.

[HappyWithOneBubble]

Good for PS4 but who plays COD for the single player?

[MikeGdaGod]

I do....I suck online

[jimmyateham23]

why so many patches for the most powerful console, i thought every game was so easy to make. rushed system and games

[Jeedai Infidel]

I don't envy reviewers if this kind of thing is the norm going forward. They already don't care for reviewing remakes, much less something like this a few weeks after their initial review. Hopefully, after developers get used to both consoles, we won't see this kind of thing, otherwise, people will just start waiting out games; that could affect first week sales, making investors weary in the future.

[jimmyateham23]

and how much is sony paying infinity ward to make it better then the xbone.

[MikeGdaGod]

#POW

[theRell]

I wonder where IGN's comparison went. I can't seem to find it.

[Sadist3]

I don't know if you weirdos know this, but so you stop yourselves from further sounding like incompetents, the Xbox One has games that are native 1080p. So the fact Call of Duty isn't native 1080p is a developer issue, not a console issue. That much is obvious if you kinda use your head.

[Hicken]

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

The fact that Call of Duty is only 1080p on one console sounds more like a console issue than a developer issue. Especially given Call of Duty is one of the least-taxing games out there, graphically.

[Soldierone]

I'm just sad we can't even make it one damn day into next generation without friggin day one patches..... you'd think 8+ years of developing games they would suddenly go "hey lets make sure the game isn't broken before we release it"

[GinkgoID]

How does a company accidentally release a game at the wrong resolution?! I mean really.

Talk about fodder for conspiracy theorists. Can they really be that inept?

[jocomat9]

i said that the same thing. I saw this comparison on FB and lots of people actually thought the Xbone had better visuals because of the brighter settings on it compared to the ps4 pic. I knew they were way to similar to begin with and i was right. When has then ever happened before??? Exactly its to suspicious and MS always like to twist truth.

[melemelnyc]

So did anybody hear about the framerate issue for the ps4? Is that a day 1 patch also?

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Wait...I am a bit confused. I could have sworn Activision said already that COD was naitive 1080p on the PS4?

[cyclindk]

It is, read the entire article.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Yeah read the article...interesting how this one has played out.

[cyclindk]

What do you mean? You were wondering about the game being 1080p by your statement correct? Article indicates it always has been and that a configuration setting issue resulted in this predicament.

[melemelnyc]

Did anybody hear about the framerate issue for the ps4? Is that a day 1 patch also?

[jcnba28]

You know what they say folks, Karma is a b****

[cyclindk]

Ah, so it was just an error that made it onto disc without being addressed first.

Game is 1080p across all modes.

[mrdeli]

I heard Inifity Ward say they are not upgrading the bone to 1080p right ?

[mrdeli]

It is a dishonorable black mark that the XBONE cannot pump out native 1080p. But there's not really any difference with the hardware upscaler that Microsoft uses. I am serious ! My head is not in teh clouds. When engineering looked at Ghosts it was like it plays fabulous as is.

The limitation with the 1080p is more Infinity Ward's problem not Microsoft. The game's new shaders are a total pig. It's a mess on PC although it's pretty if you can get it running properly.

http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-...

[Skynetone]

if you cant tell the difference between the 360 version and the xbox one version then you wont notice the difference between the xbox one version and the ps4 version, for me personally theres a night and day difference between 1080p and 720p

[NikonSteve]

XBONE: 720P, PS4:1080P, WIIU: 1080P PC:1080p/and beyond Problem with Infinity Ward? I don't think so.

[quenomamen]

Well I have it from the highest authority that Infinity Ward did in fact have a fix for the Xbone
http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.c...
But MS shot it down last minute.

[pwnsause_returns]

meanwhile on neogaf..
http://i.minus.com/izeQSvMd...

[mrdeli]

@quenomamen

A DDR5 Expansion Pak -- SWEEET!

[NicSage]

A turd is a turd no matter how fancy it is.

[NikonSteve]

PS4 patch makes CODG 1080p. XBONE patch makes CODG.....720p......still...... ..forever...................... ............................... ............................... ............................... ............................... ............................... .........yes still 720p.