Sony Interactive Entertainment and Shift Ups upcoming action adventure game, Stellar Blade, suffers from a high amount of input lag.
Using a high speed camera, YouTuber MierdaMeGusta performed an input lag test on the recently released Stellar Blade demo to measure the delay between controller input and the action beginning on-screen. Based on their findings, the game suffers from 13.8 frames or 230 ms of latency in Performance mode, which is very high for a game that runs at 60 fps.
I'm not sure if it's an issue with Stellar Blade, but the TV/Game mode is a stupid feature in the first place, and I sometimes wonder how many people don't even realize it's set to that.
a friend of mine didn't know about game mode and just got used to the input lag shrugMy sister and BiL had that frame rate smoothing shit on their TV the first few months I moved in. They didn't even know what I was talking about when I brought it up. I stealth changed it all to game mode and they have noticed 0 difference and haven't said anything about it
i made her set it to game mode and they immediately said it was way better
I didnt notice that when I played the demo and I havent seen anyone else bring it upI noticed it immediately. The input lag and how locking on forces you to walk is a big part of why the game is disappointingly clunky
Did anyone expect this to be good?
a friend of mine didn't know about game mode and just got used to the input lag shrugYup. One of my buddies went his friend's house, and his PS4 was set to that, and was surprised at how much better they played after changing it. They went through two console generations of 10+ second input delay on every game.
i made her set it to game mode and they immediately said it was way better
I didnt notice that when I played the demo and I havent seen anyone else bring it up
No idea what the technical reason is for TVs to have such a delay by default.Games require a much higher interactivity than is normally expected from your TV. Normally they "underclock" (it's more complicated than that, but whatever) to keep the TV's lifespan as high as it can be, which hits games pretty bad.
No idea what the technical reason is for TVs to have such a delay by default.Post processing. Game mode will look worse because it will disable most of it.
What causes delay lagUsually it's the frame and speed of the game vs. the speed and frame rate of your TV, which aren't designed with games in mind, per se. Hence "game mode" setting, which does either sync or "upscales" the rate, for lack of better word. This is why gaming desktop monitors make a point to point out their frame rate, refresh rate, etc. And why GPUs can sync all of this together.