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Metal Gear Solid 5 Metal Gear Solid 5 Gameplay

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Late last year PC gamers were treated to Metallic Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes, the showtime Metallic Gear game on PC since 2003's Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance. A tasty morsel of Metal Gear gameplay, Ground Zeroes acted as a prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Hurting, giving gamers a preview of the action, story and themes of the master event, which is now available to purchase and play on all platforms.

Using the same Fox Engine equally Ground Zeroes, The Phantom Pain features Physically-Based Rendering, Subsurface Scattering, and a multitude of other techniques and furnishings that impressed those who played the prologue. In-game, footling has changed in the nine months between the release of the 2 games, bar a remix of the graphics settings, though as expected The Phantom Hurting is a more demanding title due to its greater scale, new gameplay options, and frequent visual effects.

With extensive cognition of the Fox Engine, and dozens of hours of easily-on time with both titles, we've run the numbers, compared the settings, and demonstrated why Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Hurting looks and plays all-time on PC in our latest Graphics & Functioning Guide. So gear up aside some time, and bank check out the info and images below to see why y'all should play The Phantom Pain on PC, and preferably with a GeForce GTX GPU.

Guide Contents:

• System Requirements
• Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain: The PC Difference
• Graphics Settings
• Ambient Apoplexy
• Depth of Field
• Furnishings
• Lighting
• Model Detail
• Mail Processing
• Shadows
• Texture Filtering
• Textures
• Volumetric Clouds
• NVIDIA Dynamic Super Resolution
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain 4K Screenshot Gallery
• G-SYNC: Eliminating Stutters & Tearing For The Ultimate Experience
• Game Ready Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Commuter
• GeForce Experience: Optimal Playable Settings With A Single Click
• NVIDIA Command Console HBAO+ Ambience Occlusion
• Metallic Gear Solid V: The Phantom Hurting NVIDIA GeForce GTX Packet
• The Definitive Metallic Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Experience

Organisation Requirements

Konami's Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain system requirements reflect the game'southward scalability, enabling y'all to reduce graphical detail to previous-generation levels, and up to and across the capabilities of current-generation consoles.

Konami'south Minimum Specifications

• OS: Windows vii 64-bit or Windows 8 64-scrap) (64-scrap OS Required)
• Processor: Core i5-4460 (3.40GHz) or meliorate; Quad-cadre or better
• Retentivity: 4GB RAM or above
• Graphics: GeForce GTX 650 or to a higher place
• DirectX: Version 11 or above

Konami'south Recommended Specifications

• Processor: Cadre i7-4790 (3.60GHz) or better; Quad-core or better
• Retentiveness: 8GB RAM or above
• Graphics: GeForce GTX 760 or to a higher place

To achieve those higher item levels requires much more in the way of GPU horsepower, our testing shows, and as such we'd recommend the post-obit GPUs for high settings at a variety of resolutions:

No longer will you receive a locked sixty frames per 2d with max settings on a years old PC, as you lot did in Ground Zeroes. To find out why, keep on reading.

Metallic Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: The PC Difference

Equally with Ground Zeroes, The Phantom Pain looks and plays significantly better on PC thanks to higher-resolution effects, higher-quality shading, support for 4K and 5K resolutions, and support for PC-only technologies, such every bit Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR), ShadowPlay, GameStream, GameStream Co-Op, and G-SYNC.

To highlight in-game enhancements, Konami created a couple of comparisons showing the same scenes on PC and PlayStation iv, where the virtually technically-avant-garde console edition of the game can be found.

Note the increased number of lights, the higher levels of detail, and the higher-resolution shadowing, along with many other smaller improvements.

In the second comparison, detail all effectually is of a higher quality once more, particularly then on the route, and on distant trees and cliffs. Note also the improved ambient apoplexy shadowing effectually the sandbags, and across the scene.

In general, but almost every effect, feature and texture is of a college quality on PC, where Kojima Productions can demonstrate the full capabilities of the Fox Engine. For a look at how Depth of Field is improved on PC, enabling the creation of cinema-fashion cutscenes, skip to the Depth of Field section.

Ambient Occlusion

Ambient Occlusion (AO) adds contact shadows where two surfaces or objects run into, and where objects block light from reaching some other nearby game element. The AO technique used and the quality of the implementation affects the accurateness of AO shadows, and whether new shadows are formed when the level of occlusion is low. Without Ambient Occlusion, scenes appear flat and unrealistic, and objects float on surfaces. In The Phantom Pain we meet Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) employed, as it was in Basis Zeroes, admitting with a name change in the settings card.

While far from the best technique available, SSAO is nonetheless a welcome improver; without its inclusion image quality would be diminished equally the post-obit comparisons demonstrate.

The above comparisons were from Ground Zeroes, where the result of settings can be more clearly seen due to the tight packing of content to fit inside the game's modest play area, and an abundance of man-made structures with detailed industrial-design. In The Phantom Pain, in contrast, the massive zones are wide-open, punctuated by the odd structure, the occasional enemy outpost, and a few larger settlements and locations. To appointment, the places we've visited have yet to rival the detail and density of Ground Zeroes' military base, though once The Phantom Pain servers are online players tin import Ground Zeroes' relieve games to revisit the location. Equally such, the furnishings of settings are more often than not better demonstrated in Ground Zeroes equally the on-off differences are immediately evident.

In comparison, here is the much-more subtle impact of Ambient Occlusion in The Phantom Pain:

Interior locations typically differ in The Phantom Pain, too, with many being dark or pitch black, though in some cases Ambient Occlusion can nevertheless exist clearly seen.

Performance: Equally the Ambient Occlusion technique and implementation is unchanged in The Phantom Pain, the comparative performance impact of the setting's options are almost identical in the most detailed area nosotros could locate.

Note: Ambient Occlusion is dependent on "Mail service Processing" Medium, or higher, also being enabled.

If you're seeking extra performance simply lower Ambient Occlusion to High and regain a scattering of frames per 2nd, equally during gameplay yous're unlikely to notice the difference in fidelity, especially when itch along your belly at night.

If you're interested in a superior Ambience Occlusion implementation for The Phantom Pain, try our NVIDIA Control Panel Ambience Occlusion override.

Depth of Field

In Footing Zeroes, Depth of Field, Post-Processing Anti-Aliasing, Bloom, and other effects were grouped together in the Screen Filtering setting, with no options to adjust each individual outcome (until modders found a way).

Like Motion Mistiness, Depth of Field divides opinions, and so to salve everyone the attempt of modding files Depth of Field is at present available as a dedicated setting. Notwithstanding, this only affects gameplay, as famed game director Hideo Kojima progresses The Phantom Pain'south story with Hollywood-style cine, replete with simulated out of focus camera effects.

On PC, Depth of Field is upgraded from a 'gather' technique to a 'scatter' technique, enabling ameliorate transitions between focal areas, and variable blurring per frame. The resolution of the mistiness has also been greatly improved to reduce artifacts, and artist-controlled Bokeh effects are at present included, enabling Kojima and co. to use out of focus shapes to specific game details, every bit demonstrated below.

Using identical frames from the PlayStation iv edition of Footing Zeroes, we can exemplify this engine-wide improvement to PC Depth of Field beneath in a similar interactive comparing.

Depth of Field is focused and applied by the cinematic director. Without it, the fidelity and 'style' of cut scenes suffers greatly.

A 2nd comparison from the PlayStation 4 edition of Ground Zeroes further highlights the PC's massively improved Depth of Field effects, which apply less blur in the foreground, and higher quality blur in the background.

During gameplay, Depth of Field is used when aiming with weapons, when crouching, when driving and riding in vehicles, and to blur portions of the screen for stylistic upshot, as the post-obit interactive comparison demonstrates.

Performance: Extensively used throughout the game, Depth of Field adds an actress chip of style, and in our opinion is well-worth using. With a functioning cost of around five frames per second though, it may be a tad besides expensive for some. Our recommendation: sacrifice things like Extra High Ambience Apoplexy first, and only plough off Depth of Field if absolutely necessary.

Furnishings

The main mission of Ground Zeroes had footling in the way of special furnishings until an in-game, non-interactive cutscene at its decision. In comparison, The Phantom Hurting is filled with effects from the off, taking a major price on functioning in many scenes, and causing sudden framedrops throughout the game. These effects take the grade of fog, dust storms, pelting storms, thunder storms, explosions, weapon impacts, grenade smoke and visual furnishings, gadget effects, dust effects from movement and deportment, and much, much more.

This dramatically-increased use of effects has one of the largest impacts on performance in The Phantom Pain, and will undoubtedly forcefulness max settings Basis Zeroes players to lower settings or resolution.

As in Ground Zeroes, the difference between item levels is in the number and quality of particles, and the density and quality of other effects. Direct comparisons are catchy equally effects are ever moving and slightly randomized; below, you can view ane of the clearer examples we managed to capture, highlighting the accuracy and fidelity of the effect, and how the quality of its interaction with shadows decreases with the detail level.

Further complicating capture and benchmarking is the introduction of dynamic atmospheric condition, a day-night cycle that constantly changes lighting and shadowing, and a deject arrangement we'll get to subsequently. Every bit part of that dynamic conditions system, pelting returns from Basis Zeroes, though information technology is now supplemented by heavier storms and thunder and lightning.

Every bit in Ground Zeroes, the number of rain drops and their quality is reduced equally the particular level is decreased. Drops that remain are stretched out to simulate the advent of heavy rain, but unless you're looking up through a spotlight axle, as in our comparison, it'due south unlikely you'll discover the divergence during gameplay.

The other effects are too random to properly show in comparisons, so instead please peruse the post-obit screenshots that show some of the new effects in action.

Performance: As touched upon earlier, the number of effects being rendered tin put serious strain on performance in The Phantom Pain, as exemplified past our operation numbers below.

If "Off" were an available item level, its number would exist a solid lx frames per second, meaning even on Low an intensive set of effects tin can send frame rates plummeting past over one third. A farther sizable drop comes from enabling Extra Loftier, which ramps upwardly the fidelity of the effects far above what'south possible on consoles, and improves the quality of low-cal and shadow interaction, blurring shadows cast on fume, for example.

At lower resolutions the impact of Furnishings and its Actress High setting aren't as farthermost, but even on our GTX 980 Ti arrangement Extra High managed to button our performance below a locked threescore frames per second at 2560x1440, which didn't happen with any other setting.

If y'all're an all-guns-blazing actor be prepared for a rougher fourth dimension, every bit your guns, gadgets and grenades will spawn many more effects, and every bit the enemy fights back with mortars, automobile guns, tanks, and helicopters, your field of view volition be filled with explosions and fume. For sneakers, functioning is much more than consistent, but you'll nonetheless encounter Effects' performance impact at college-resolutions during cutscenes and when initiating multiple Fulton extractions.

Regardless of your gaming style, Furnishings Extra High is worth trying at lower resolutions, only to see if your system can cope. If it can't, kick it downwardly to High. At 4K or even 5K, you'll need a pinnacle-end system or loftier-finish SLI system to avoid framedrops below thirty, such is the intensity of Effects Actress High at higher resolutions.

Lighting

Recent years have seen game engines gravitate towards deferred rendering and lighting, enabling the creation of realistically-lit scenes that comprise additional dynamic lights and improved lighting all effectually. As with most everything newer and better, the functioning impact is college, especially when making full use of its capabilities. On consoles, the number of dynamic lights in Footing Zeroes and The Phantom Pain is limited, as clearly shown by the comparisons from each game below:

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes PC vs. PlayStation four Interactive Comparison

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain PC vs. PlayStation iv Interactive Comparison

On PC performance isn't an issue, enabling Kojima Productions to render all lighting simultaneously, greatly improving image quality when looking beyond Basis Zeroes' tightly-packed Camp Omega. In The Phantom Pain, however, settlements and developed locations are spread far and wide, and in our fourth dimension with the game have never approached the density or visual complication of Camp Omega. Nevertheless, Lighting has a high impact on epitome quality during any night mission, with its Actress High setting being a must-have on any arrangement.

Throughout The Phantom Hurting you'll frequently return to your base of operations, which expands every bit y'all invest in its capabilities. Here, the impact of Lighting Quality is best seen in The Phantom Pain, with the base of operations'southward many lights being disabled beyond a curt range. It'due south besides worth noting that with the game's massive draw distances and level of detail scaling, even Actress High tin can't enable lighting on the distant, connected base of operations buildings, which is unfortunate every bit this would greatly enhance the appearance of the zone as you fly in at night.

Operation: With near Phantom Hurting locations having fewer lights, the performance cost of Lighting is e'er slightly lower than it was in Footing Zeroes, accelerating performance by one whole frame per second.

With a high visual affect in near night scenes, it'southward strongly recommended that you lower other settings before downgrading this high-affect setting, which offers considerable benefits above and across the obvious due to its influence on shading and shadowing.

Model Detail

The Fox Engine's poorly-named Level of Item setting adjusts the corporeality of visible geometry in a scene, the number of objects rendered, the quality of said objects, and the density of foliage. Beyond our screenshots and comparisons you'll see thinner tufts of grass, fewer cacti and bushes, fewer ability lines, less detailed objects, and less detailed buildings, all at medium to long range distances. At shut range, the occasional bush or piece of grass is thinned out, but on the whole Model Item has a minor bear on on image quality.

In The Phantom Pain, the sparser environments make the impact of Model Quality even harder to spot. For instance, in this set of images the most visible modify is the reduction in quality of copse, but under closer examination we tin observe the removal of detail on and effectually buildings, and the eventual removal of terrain ornament and small tufts of grass.

Operation: Lowering the setting's detail level has a minimal impact on epitome quality in screenshots, only during gameplay yous volition encounter additional pop-in and fade-in as objects and other afflicted items are approached. Your tolerance for this volition probable dictate your pick of setting if you're in need of performance, but fifty-fifty looking out across the about detailed locations you're merely going to regain a couple of frames per 2nd past selecting Low. In our opinion, information technology'south a poor trade that only diminishes the feel.

Mail Processing

In Ground Zeroes, players could enable Screen Filtering, a collection of visual effects that included Anti-Aliasing, Bloom, Depth of Field, and the PC-exclusive Screen Space Reflections, which helped differentiate the PC release from the console launch nine months prior.

Now, the setting's known equally Post Processing, and with that proper noun modify come several other adjustments for The Phantom Pain. First and foremost, Screen Space Reflections no longer feature, to the all-time of our knowledge, having failed to discover examples in whatsoever unlocked location or mission. If y'all checked out our Ground Zeroes guide you lot'll have seen that only specific puddles could clearly reflect item, while a few other select surfaces could reflect low-cal or blurred detail, such as the truck in our comparison.

In The Phantom Pain, said puddles are nowhere to be seen considering the dynamic weather condition system doesn't dynamically create and destroy them, and similar-looking trucks announced to lack the aforementioned reflective properties. In areas where bodies of h2o can be found, such as the marshes and rivers in the second gameplay zone you unlock, we have notwithstanding to discover whatever real-time reflections, and in many cases not even pre-canned, simulated reflections.

In one interior gameplay location, highlighted in a comparison below, reflections of select objects were cast on the flooring, only even with Post Processing set to Off they were still rendered, suggesting a unlike implementation than the one used in Ground Zeroes. In cut scenes, sun glasses and gas masks are occasionally rendered with reflections, as are a couple of mirrors at the showtime of the game (which we can't show for fearfulness of spoilers), but their level of fidelity and the fidelity of the aforementioned gameplay reflections fall far below that of Ground Zeroes' real-time Screen Space Reflections.

The quality of the reflection is marginally better on Extra High, but nowhere virtually the level of allegiance seen on Ground Zeroes' special Screen Space Reflection surfaces.

September 7th Update: Having now played almost all of The Phantom Pain, nosotros can confirm that reflections are but used in a few locations, typically under very specific lighting conditions, and are merely viewable from select angles and distances. Furthermore, their quality is far below that of the reflections in Basis Zeroes, and they are always enabled regardless of the settings chosen, which is probably why they are of a lower quality.

Outside of a few scenes in the Prologue, the previously shown floor found in a couple of buildings, and some subtle uses in Female parent Base under very specific conditions, the most visible use of these reflections is in a late-game mission that we're hopefully not spoiling in the interactive comparisons beneath.

For reasons unknown, the reflections are slightly more visible on detail levels other than Extra High in this mission.

Ultimately, we'd much prefer Ground Zeroes' higher-quality reflections in the overworld, where'd they accept a much larger touch on on image quality; an unfortunate step backwards.

Elsewhere, Low sees select low-cal flares and light halos complement Blossom Lighting, though the sometime pair of additions do announced to require "Effects" Low, or college, to also be enabled.

On High, Post-Process Anti-Aliasing is enabled equally it was in Footing Zeroes, and as before its quality remains uneven: moderate screen-wide blurring is observed in all scenes, withal aliasing remains on sure game elements, even at 4K. In Ground Zeroes, modders discovered a workaround to enable and disable specific elements of "Screen Filtering", allowing for the injection of superior mail-processing solutions like SMAA, which tackled aliasing issues. Expect the same to occur hither soon later on launch.

1920x1080 interactive comparing

3840x2160 interactive comparison

High is also necessary for Ambient Occlusion and Depth of Field to piece of work, making its performance touch on considerable. If the two interlinked settings are disabled we observe performance reductions of only a few frames per 2d, on account of the depression-price post-process anti-aliasing technique being the only addition at this detail level.

Furthermore, in addition to enabling Depth of Field (if the dedicated Depth of Field setting is also enabled), Loftier and Actress High adjust the quality and precision of the mistiness, likewise.

Operation: Despite the supposed removal of Screen Space Reflections, and the relocation of Depth of Field to a separate option, the operation impact of the setting formerly known as "Screen Filtering" is drastically higher in The Phantom Pain. The probable crusade is a combination of the game's increased scale, larger focus on activity, and increased number of effects, which are enhanced past the Post Processing setting. This in detail comes heavily into play on Extra Loftier, where the improvements to Depth of Field and many other effects have a considerable touch on performance.

If yous're in search of extra performance, punch Mail Processing down to High, and decrease the quality of Ambient Occlusion and Effects to High, reducing the performance impact of the visual effects that are enhanced past Post Processing. Despite the high operation cost, you lot're unlikely to desire to go lower until y'all can override Anti-Aliasing and Ambience Apoplexy.

Shadows

On PC, Shadow Quality is significantly improved, with clear, well defined shadows visible on Actress High. Similarly, shadow filtering is bolstered, tackling the vast majority of shadow aliasing on max settings. Finally, the number of simultaneous shadows that can be rendered has been profoundly increased, creating richer scenes full of dynamic shadows cast past Lighting's extra deferred lights. For a wait at console shadowing, skip back to our before section.

With a switch to rural environments full of trees, bushes and grass for The Phantom Pain, Shadow Quality gains extra importance when in shut proximity to foliage, but across a wider view the simpler, more than organic game elements aren't as greatly affected by a reduction in shadow quality. And in the desolate deserts, shadows are few and far between.

To amend highlight the importance of college-resolution shadows, extra shadow filtering, and extra shadows, which are only nowadays in the PC release, please alibi us while we switch back to Ground Zeroes, where the busy, highly-developed, man-made Military camp Omega environment created more circuitous shadows than we've seen to date in The Phantom Pain.

Performance: A progressive increment in shadow quality is observed as the quality level is raised, and with each tick upward in that location's a minimal decrease of performance, on par with that seen in Ground Zeroes.

If you're searching for extra performance, drop Shadow Quality to Loftier if y'all really must, only we wouldn't recommend going whatever lower - on Medium there's an appreciable reduction in shadow quality in all scenes, and Low sees the complete loss of all shadow definition, harming image quality substantially.

Texture Filtering

The Anisotropic Filtering introduced past Texture Filtering sharpens The Phantom Pain'south textures ever so slightly in the majority of scenes, but occasionally clearly more than visible examples of its benefits can be establish, such as on muddy surfaces. The Ground Zeroes comparison beneath is representative of The Phantom Hurting's Anisotropic Filtering image quality on such surfaces, but offers a clearer look at the improvement thanks to the lighting atmospheric condition and terrain decoration.

By and large, however, The Phantom Pain's terrain is sandy or covered in grass and other objects and therefore doesn't visibly benefit to the same caste, as demonstrated below.

Performance: As in near games Texture Filtering has a minute toll and should be maxed out on all systems. Note, the addition of NVIDIA Control Console Anisotropic Filtering has no noticeable impact on image quality, unlike in many other games.

Textures

The Phantom Hurting PC uses the same textures as The Phantom Pain PS4, though with the add-on of improved Texture Filtering, higher display resolutions, improved Depth of Field, improved Post-Procedure Anti-Aliasing, and various other tweaks, they announced sharper and clearer on PC.

As in Ground Zeroes, the Fox Engine prefers to reduce the quality of distant textures before decreasing the quality of those most visible, and never decreases the quality of Snake's texturing. With terrain ornament, visual effects, and maxed out Texture Filtering, the differences betwixt Extra High and Loftier are well-nigh on ephemeral, and on Medium but select surfaces in specific lighting conditions are noticeably affected. On Low, nearby textures and objects do endure as you would expect, only non to the extent seen in other titles.

Performance: The Phantom Pain's cross-platform textures aren't the sharpest or most detailed you'll come across, though they are perfectly acceptable. Helping matters, the many post-procedure effects in play obscure the occasional low-res object or surface, and with your eyes firmly locked on guard movements and enemy sight lines texture quality typically isn't an consequence, specially if you're doing it right by sneaking at dark. And, as expected, Texture Quality has a negligible impact on functioning, meaning in that location'southward no reason to use annihilation other than Extra High, bold you take the necessary VRAM.

In our Basis Zeroes Graphics & Functioning Guide we concluded that a 2GB GPU was sufficient for the highest-quality textures in the enclosed Camp Omega, and pondered whether 2GB would likewise be sufficient in the broad-open Phantom Pain. Following a several hr, non-stop session on a 2GB GPU, and several benchmarks, the answer would appear to be, "Yep, 2GB is AOK". No adverse effects were observed, and no stutters recorded. For 4K, meanwhile, 4GB is all you appear to need.

Volumetric Clouds

In Basis Zeroes, yous could on occasion detect dynamic cloud shadows on the terrain during daytime Side Ops. Now, you can select whether to enable or disable the clouds that cast those always-so-subtle shadows, courtesy of The Phantom Pain's new Volumetric Clouds choice.

Performance: Some actress item in the sky adds to paradigm quality when yous look upward, and on the ground fidelity is increased ever so slightly given the right lighting conditions. All the same, at a cost of eight frames per second Volumetric Clouds may be a tad too expensive for some.

NVIDIA Dynamic Super Resolution

Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain do good greatly from higher rendering resolutions, more then than any other games in recent retentivity, as the rendering of many game elements is directly tied to the number of sample points: if an element isn't within a sufficient number of sample points it simply isn't displayed. By raising the resolution the number of sample points is increased, additional game elements are rendered, and overall fidelity profoundly improved.

If this is the first you're hearing of sample points imagine your screen with a grid overlaid: each pixel of a game element, be that a blade of grass, a character, an object, or a building will fall inside one or more of the filigree's squares, and if one-half or more of a pixel is inside a square it is correctly rendered. In most instances fine particular is only affected to any swell extent past this, with several pixels falling outside of squares, preventing them from being rendered. This leads to grass with visible gaps along the blades, and leaves with missing branches, to proper name merely two examples. To rectify the problem the screen resolution tin be increased, calculation more squares to the grid, each smaller in size, giving fine detail a greater chance to fall sufficiently within a square and exist rendered.

In the case of the latest Metallic Gear games we see the expected increase in detail as the resolution increases, but as it does we besides come across entirely new items rendered, virtually typically in the background where fifty-fifty guard towers and trees are comparatively minor. The cause: these game elements are required to be included in a specific number of sample points before beingness displayed. This makes sense at sub-Hard disk drive resolutions as sub-HD players a) wouldn't be able to see the item, and b) would accept their operation improved by the removal of the extra polygons. However, fifty-fifty at 1920x1080 when running max settings at a locked 60 frames per second we still aren't seeing everything Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Hurting have to offer, with new item being introduced even at 3840x2160.

Ground Zeroes' densely packed locale benefits significantly more than The Phantom Pain's sparser locations, therefore remaining the better game to highlight the improvements that are possible with an increase of resolution.

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In comparison, one of the more detailed locations nosotros've found to appointment in The Phantom Pain changes fiddling across resolutions every bit most detail exists as larger objects, or big pieces of geometry. A closer wait reveals the loss of some grass and small-scale objects, and a decrease in geometric detail of cliffs in the groundwork, but for the about part the detail level remains unchanged.

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Despite the lack of significant detail-related improvements in the scene, image quality does increase considerably, with much-improved anti-aliasing, higher-quality effects, clearer texturing, and much, much more.

Thankfully, yous no longer have to buy a 4K monitor, or dabble in the blackness art of Custom Resolutions to go a 4K-quality picture. Instead, merely activate NVIDIA Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR). How it works is simple: uniform games, such equally Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, are rendered at a higher, more detailed resolution, and the image intelligently shrunk back downward to the resolution of your monitor using a custom-made filter, giving you up to 4K-quality graphics on your screen. The video explains more, and the images below bear witness how to activate the setting in the NVIDIA Control Panel. In-game, just select one of the new resolutions to enable DSR.

With DSR enabled, Metal Gear textures are sharper and clearer, aliasing is reduced, objects have amend definition, vegetation is more detailed and gratis of artifacts, and afar game detail is improved by the same increment in sample points. Below, additional interactive comparisons exemplify the massive increase in quality obtained from enabling 4K DSR in The Phantom Pain.

I of the Trick Engine's weaknesses is that information technology suffers greatly from sub-pixel artifacts, which tin can occasionally exist seen even at shut range at 1920x1080. By switching to a higher resolution artifacts are removed, or eliminately entirely, and item is increased considerably.

At 1920x1080, the number of sample points is too low to render the fine detail in concatenation link fences and similarly detailed surfaces, resulting in a patchy, transparent apperance at medium range. At 4K, the increase in resolution benefits them massively, and as the detail is rendered information technology tin also be lit during night missions, farther improving epitome quality.

Fifty-fifty at medium view distances objects appear from the ether when the resolution is increased. Hither, building lights and a wooden pallet are just rendered at 2560x1440, and higher resolutions.

Larger scene elements tin can vanish, too. In this case, we discover a cliff line failing to return considering of insufficient sample points.

And finally, texture clarity receives a visible boost at college rendering resolutions.

The best style to examine these improvements, gratis from Photoshop scaling, is to download the source images below, open each in Windows Photo Viewer or a similar application, zoom in on specific portions, and compare side by side using Windows' half-and-half display mode.

Don't worry if you can't run at 4K, whatever resolution increase brings increased particular screen-broad and makes your experience that bit better. For the best DSR results download the GeForce Game Ready Metallic Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Hurting 355.82 Drivers, and if you lot dislike configuring settings manually let GeForce Experience auto-configure Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Hurting and DSR on your behalf.

Performance: At reference speeds, our reference GeForce GTX 980 Ti ran at a locked sixty frames per second until 2560x1440 in our demanding benchmark, which used a spoilerific, fairly repeatable segment of gameplay to exam every bit many effects and features as possible.

For greatly improved performance, a few settings can be dialed down a notch, but for lx FPS at 3840x2160 you lot'll definitely require a high-performance SLI system or Battlebox given the increased demands of The Phantom Hurting'due south Extra High settings and broad-open zones.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain 4K Screenshot Gallery

You've seen the upwardly-close benefits of Dynamic Super Resolution and 4K in our interactive comparisons to a higher place. Now, come across the wider bear on of higher rendering resolutions in our 4K screenshot gallery.

G-SYNC: Eliminating Stutters & Tearing For The Ultimate Experience

NVIDIA revolutionized estimator displays in 2013 with the introduction of variable refresh rates, enabling gamers to bask highly responsive, tear-free, stutter-free experiences on G-SYNC monitors. Reviews are phenomenal, and gamers everywhere agree that it'due south painful to play on anything other than a G-SYNC display once you're used to the flawless experience it provides.

With The Phantom Pain's more than demanding visual effects, frame drops, stuttering, and screen tearing are frequently observed on a broad diverseness of systems, and even on loftier-end GPUs when the resolution is cranked upwardly. To avoid feeling the effects of a frame drop, and to eliminate stuttering and screen tearing, upgrade your experience with a G-SYNC monitor.

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GeForce Feel: Optimal Playable Settings With A Single Click

The best way to automatically configure and utilise Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Hurting'southward game settings for your specific arrangement configuration is through GeForce Experience, an invaluable tool for all GeForce GTX users. In improver to optimizing over 300 games, the free GeForce Experience application can automatically update drivers and profiles, record and stream gameplay with ShadowPlay, and can wirelessly stream PC games, including Metallic Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, to NVIDIA SHIELD devices.

Taking into account your GPU and CPU, as well equally many additional factors, GeForce Feel's game recommendations can be applied with a single click, and are updated over fourth dimension should developer patches and NVIDIA drivers meliorate operation further still. This one-click solution is perfect for gamers who wish to play instead of footling, and for those with petty feel in configuring settings for an optimal experience.

This month, we'll launch an early access beta for "Share", our new feature that enables you lot to apace capture and share gameplay, and to paw the controls of your game to a friend in another location, on another computer. Alternatively, play adjacent with them in co-op games and local multiplayer games. Called GameStream Co-Op, the mode's garnering a great deal of interest, and volition be particularly helpful if you hit a brick wall during a catchy Phantom Hurting stealth section. Learn more here.

NVIDIA Control Panel HBAO+ Ambient Occlusion

Many gamers are familiar with our NVIDIA Control Console Anisotropic Filtering overrides that increase the clarity and sharpness of textures in many titles, but did you lot know that the Command Console can likewise heighten Anti-Aliasing (AA) and Ambient Apoplexy (AO) given the right circumstances and a peculiarly-developed driver profile?

In the case of The Phantom Pain, its features and applied science gave us the opportunity to create an Ambience Occlusion contour that greatly improves upon the quality of AO shadowing offered in-game by eliminating unrealistic AO halos, and by increasing the accuracy and allegiance of AO shadows game-wide.

Please excuse the less-than-perfect example; configuring Control Panel HBAO+ requires a game restart, but The Phantom Pain only supports checkpoint saves, limiting the selection of areas that enable the states to capture i:ane comparisons.

To enable NVIDIA Control Panel Ambient Occlusion, switch off Ambient Occlusion in-game, quit to desktop, upgrade to the new Game Set up Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain commuter, open the NVIDIA Control Console, and apply the setting shown below.

September seventh Update: Having conducted extensive performance testing on the NVIDIA Control Panel HBAO+ Ambience Occlusion enhancement, we can now report that its performance price is beneath that of in-game Ambient Occlusion in many locations, but on occasion costs more. If you're playing at 1920x1080 with a locked 60 frames per second, it's likely HBAO+ will accept no visible touch on on your performance equally you'll have enough of functioning to spare; at 3840x2160 and other similarly high resolutions, the impact is more likely to be felt.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Hurting NVIDIA GeForce GTX Packet

If you lot've looked at our benchmarks and decided that an upgrade is in order to experience Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain at its best, with DSR and every other bell and whistle enabled, you may wish to consider the Metal Gear Solid Five: The Phantom Pain GeForce GTX Bundle.

When purchased from a participating store you'll get a free copy of The Phantom Pain along with the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, 980, 970 or 960 graphics card or system you selected. Alternatively, if yous're an on-the-go gal or guy, you lot can get a gratis copy of The Phantom Pain with select GeForce GTX 980M and 970M notebooks.

Acquire more on the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain GeForce GTX Bundle folio.

The Definitive Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Experience

Pre-release reviews from the PlayStation iv edition of Metallic Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain are overwhelmingly positive, praising the story, gameplay, and graphics. But equally demonstrated a few m words agone, epitome quality is decreased on consoles to maintain performance. On PC, where performance isn't a limiting gene, you'll see The Phantom Hurting as designed past Kojima and Kojima Productions, giving you the definitive experience.

Each scene, from the outset to the terminal, features further detail, higher-quality effects that are more widely used, better and more detailed lighting, richer shadowing with longer view distances and added shadow casters, expanded draw distances, and improved cinematic furnishings that expose a new layer of cinematic style that Kojima and Kojima Productions are famed for. With humongous broad-open locations, action-packed set pieces, and hours of masterful in-game movies, the PC'southward capabilities enable Kojima and Kojima Productions' magnum opus to exist seen without compromise.

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