The output of the frame rate detector for each clip on both platforms is available here. Go here for clips #1 to #6, and here for #7 to #13. However, 720p60 clips are available for download. 30FPS streaming video is useless for accurate measurement.
The vids embedded below are for commentary context only. The methodology was pretty straightforward - to capture mostly scripted scenes from the game generated by the engine (as close to like-for-like video as you’ll get in consoledom), and then use the Digital Foundry frame analyser to check them out, to see what causes each platform to trip up, and to compare performance. In more intense gameplay, with lots of left to right panning movement, the difference will be more noticeable, but it’ll take a really heavy scene to actually affect response from the controls. In the limited tests available on like-for-like video, PS3 game is more impacted in 12 out of 13 scenarios, but as the action is usually maintained at around 50fps, the human eye is usually fooled. We all know that the console versions of Call of Duty 4 aspire to 60FPS gameplay, but the question is, which version is more successful? Are the two games really as close in terms of refresh rate as commentators (including this fool) have said in the past? Perceptually, we’d say ‘yes’, just as we did almost a year ago to the day in that Eurogamer feature.īut technically, it’s a no, as the tests below demonstrate, and it’s also worth bearing in mind that there’s no hardcore combat in any of those tests where you would expect to see the gap widen. By matching scripted sequences from the game engine, we can compare the performance of Modern Warfare on both Xbox 360 and PlayStation3. The console games look like-for-like, but the eagle-eyed can see marginally better special effects in the PS3 code 360 for its part has occasionally better textures. As we're currently spending a good deal of time analysing the new Call of Duty and Quantum of Solace games for the regular Eurogamer face-offs, we thought we’d get to know the core technology better by unearthing our copies of the brilliant Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.īoth games run at a sub-720p resolution of 1024×600, blown up to 720p (or indeed 1080p) but the resolution loss is diminished thanks to the superb frame rate and the use of anti-aliasing to refine the edges - in short, it moves and scales smoothly.
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