PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro have prevalent VRR stuttering problems

After months of reports of VRR issues on PlayStation consoles, Digital Foundry confirms that there is an issue impacting both PS5 and PS5 Pro.

[Babadook7]

Like… a dropped frame every 8 seconds? Hope it’s fixed - but it’s not a huge issue.

[Eidolon]

It is for me, it's more annoying than game breaking, and breaks immersion.

[lukasmain]

What TV you got? I have a Sony one and I've never noticed anything wrong with VRR. But maybe I don't know what to look for? But if that's the case, then the problem is not really a problem at all. I don't notice anything wrong when I play using VRR

[Eidolon]

@lukasmain
I guess I should have stated that I don't have a PS5 Pro so whether or not this problem exists or persists for everyone I can't say, but a stutter every 8 seconds would be a concern for me, depending how perceivable it is to me. In this case, after watching the video, it doesn't seem all that bad, but I'd still want it to be fixed. I have experienced stutter like that and worse on both PC and console games and it is annoying to the point that I will try to solve it before I continue to play(mainly PC, since you can't really do much about it on console, so I tend more to just living with it on console, even if it's an annoyance sometimes). I am super susceptible to this sort of thing, though, more than the average gamer.

If you're not noticing it, better of not go looking for it. It doesn't appear to be that bad in the games tested in the video, which is likely why you haven't noticed, or maybe it's not happening for you.

[Babadook7]

@lukasmain

It doesn’t affect every game.

[fsfsxii]

What a bunch if nonsense. DF scraping the bottom of the barrel to find anything to downplay the PS5 🤣🤣🤣

[Profchaos]

They've proved a problem exists and now Sony can take action and improve the system it's a good thing to call out issues with systems no matter how much you love them consoles are never perfect.

Imagine if we beeve got a system update to the ps5 mine used to crash quite a lot at launch when playing miles morales i wouldn't be happy if that system was final but now almost no crashing

And it was the same story on PS4 at launch playing battlefield 4 I saw that crash during the campaign consistently

[Abear21]

True, Sony obviously released the Pro early and PSSR is still in its infancy. They launched knowing better tools are coming, DF calling it out is ultimately good clearly they game and test Pro out a lot, as they should, it’s the best place to play.

[MastaMold]

Yup I also call BS. Now that DF are owned by IGN the new agenda is bash PlayStation cause thats all they got. So called Western journalism is the worst of worst. Making it seem like its a majority issue.

[Profchaos]

I can definitely tell there's been times where PlayStation wasn't treated equally to Xbox throughout the later half of the Xbox one especially after they were invited to tour Xbox in Redmond and reveal the series s first along with first tear down of the series X but I've come to realise that they simply hold PlayStation and their exclusive games to a higher standard.

Look at gears of war 5 vs god of war and how the videos call out problems.

However I feel like those were isolated incidents and don't reflect the teams view today they are more unbiased these days I feel at least

There's also been times where they called out Xbox and their new strategy as not making sense to

[jznrpg]

Looks like an Xbox advertisement.
I haven’t noticed it in real life so it probably is a you notice it when you are testing for it thing. I’ll do some testing of my own but like I said I don’t think it’s a human eye thing as I should have noticed it by now.

[TheKingKratos]

Strange
Never had any problems on VRR mode on PS5

[lukasmain]

Me niether. Although I do have a Sony tv, maybe there is a difference? It looks perfect always on my tv using VRR.

[TheKingKratos]

Not really as i have Samsung 55 inch 4K TV and never noticed it

[Abear21]

Samsung here with HDMI 2.1 and never noticed either, Spidey2 and GT7 with vrr run great right around 100fps for me.

DF out here acting like Series consoles and base PS5 aren’t struggling to run newer games. A stutter? Please, 60fps for the win.

[TheKingKratos]

To be fair they are saying the Pro is having the same problem too ... Since Balance mode and Quality mode both are pretty much the same graphics settings between the two ps5 consoles

[Profchaos]

I can't say I've noticed it and I've been using vrr since the update.

That's not at all to dismiss the problem it seems fixable given it's not prevalent in every game on the system.

[Deathdeliverer]

I play fighting games and every frame matters…. Never noticed this on my TV.

[dantesparda]

Sony please hurry and fix it already. and while you're at it please make it better, at least 40hz-120hz or lower, LFC, why not Freesync for all those people with Freesync monitors and HDMI 2.0?