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It's missing from RACES but is present if you are just driving around the world. there a whole host of "quality" graphics settings from the One X version that have been turned off in the S/X version... its not just dynamic headlights.

Playground did a really, really good job with the FH3 enhanced patch. There was a lighting bug in interior view, but it was promptly fixed. The game still looks gorgeous.

With FH4 they droppd the ball in a way I simply can't understand. It begins with outsourcing the patch, while sibling studios like Coalition didn't do that with their games. Then the patch is somehow graphically worse.

Either the monster Xbox Series X isn't so much a monster as we thought, or the team that did the optimization foolishly picked native 4K over dynamic res + better effects.

I have ZERO doubt the Series X can handle every graphical bell and whistle the One X did at 4k/30 at 4k/60.

Doesn't the cpu have a bigger effect on frame rate?

In terms of how the memory is allocated, games get a total of 13.5GB in total, which encompasses all 10GB of GPU optimal memory and 3.5GB of standard memory. This leaves 2.5GB of GDDR6 memory from the slower pool for the operating system and the front-end shell. From Microsoft's perspective, it is still a unified memory system, even if performance can vary. "In conversations with developers, it's typically easy for games to more than fill up their standard memory quota with CPU, audio data, stack data, and executable data, script data, and developers like such a trade-off when it gives them more potential bandwidth," says Goossen.

It sounds like a somewhat complex situation, especially when Microsoft itself has already delivered a more traditional, wider memory interface in Xbox One X - but the notion of working with much faster GDDR6 memory presented some challenges. "When we talked to the system team there were a lot of issues around the complexity of signal integrity and what-not," explains Goossen. "As you know, with the Xbox One X, we went with the 384[-bit interface] but at these incredible speeds - 14gbps with the GDDR6 - we've pushed as hard as we could and we felt that 320 was a good compromise in terms of achieving as high performance as we could while at the same time building the system that would actually work and we could actually ship."

There is talk that the game stutters more than the Xbox One X version did, even though it is using lower settings.

Perhaps this article from earlier in the year sheds some light - it could be that the Series X's complicated architecture was a corner-cutting measure too far by Microsoft.


https://www.eurogamer.ne...xbox-series-x-full-specs

You can skip the splash screens, just press a button.

Very very disappointing outsourced rush of a job this XSX patch is. No headlight shadows, no SSAO, driver model animates at 30FPS (lol), etc. I don't even think some of these omissions were intentional, it could be that outsourcing company employees simply lack attention to detail. They botched Playground's masterpiece. They don't understand that all these little tiny details MATTER. That's why Playground painstakingly puts them into their games.

Let's take Gear 5 for example. XSX patch improved on everything, even better graphical features than PC version (which will be patched into PC as well). Improved lighting, improved polycount, improved textures, etc. etc. When you compare what sort of effort into Gears 5 as opposed to FH4, you quickly realize FH4 was just a rush job for the outsourcing company. They put no soul into the game, they probably don't even understand what makes FH4 great.