The PlayStation 5 Pro’s biggest selling point was its ability to produce unparalleled visuals on a games console, but after almost two weeks of complaints about graphical issues in games like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and the Silent Hill 2 remake, developers are finally starting to respond.
“We are aware of issues with Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on PlayStation 5 Pro and are actively researching it,” the official EA Star Wars account on shared on November 18vaguely referring to a strange flickering observed by players since the game received its PS5 Pro patch. Digital Foundry, as is often customary, has captured compelling images of this outage for review.
The Bloober team acknowledged similar issues with his Silent Hill 2 remake, promising via X on November 18 that the studio is working on a solution. In the video below, it’s clear that something goes wrong with the lighting when the game is running in Performance mode, but the Reddit user who shared the footage says that the sparkle persists even if you switch to Quality mode.
Although these are the two largest examples, Alan Wake2 players have also reported problems on Redditparticularly flickering sideburns on series writer Sam Lake’s character Alex Casey. I have yet to find convincing images of this sparkling facial hair, but other graphical issues are briefly addressed another Digital Foundry video.
Digital Foundry’s reporting shows that the culprit is the PS5 Pro’s PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (or PSSR) technology, which uses AI to upscale lower-resolution images and increase frame rates. You’d expect a bit of a learning curve as developers work with the new hardware, but if the problems persist or – god forbid – multiply, Sony may need to step in and lend a hand to bring games back to at least a basic level of non-glitchy performance.