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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s enhanced PS5/Xbox Series patch – all upgrades tested

It’s a credit to the talents and abilities of game developers that so many last-gen games still hold up today – so why not tap into the extra horsepower of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles to push visual quality and frame-rates to the next level? And it’s all the sweeter if the upgrade is free of course, as is the case with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. This one’s all the more fascinating as we’ve already had a ‘back compat plus’ patch – though it was not without its issues, so porting it across as a native app should allow the new consoles to unleash more of their potential. The promise? Higher resolution textures, improved loading times, smoother frame-rates and all round better image quality.

In reality, there is the sense that the improvements aren’t exactly game-changing though – but they’re certainly useful, especially on PlayStation 5, where the older patch lacked the ability to tap into a 30fps quality mode. Previously there was only a 60fps, 1200p performance mode on PS5. Meanwhile on the Xbox side the situation proved better. Even before this latest patch, Series X offered a performance mode toggle for 60fps gameplay at a dynamic range of 1080p to 1440p, alongside a 1512p-4K quality mode.

The two modes, and resolution boundaries for each, all stays essentially in place on Series X after the patch. In fact pixel counts of Series X today show each mode hitting the max DRS target a majority of the time; a native 1440p in performance mode, and a native 4K for the default at 30fps. So good news there. On the flipside, the Series S version notably only has a 60fps mode on the new update – so curiously, there’s no high-res 30fps option. Still, at 60fps Series S consistently holds at around 1080p in resolution. But it’s PS5 that benefits most – the dynamic 4K30 quality mode returns and the performance toggle is back, this time delivering a dynamic 1440p60 experience.

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