It’s no secret that when it comes to current-gen console development, Xbox Series S tends to take a bit more optimisation, due to the more limited hardware packed into Microsoft’s tiny console. We’ve heard it from lots of devs, and this week, Battlefield Studios has commented on the console – talking about how it’s helped them optimise Battlefield 6 across all platforms.
Speaking with Kotaku, Christian Buhl — technical director on Battlefield 6 — talked about running into crashing issues on Xbox Series S, and how it took “a month or two” to resolve those issues. The team took lots of data from testing and used it to optimise the Series S experience, in turn making the “whole game better and more stable” on other systems.
“Xbox Series S does have less memory than even our mid-spec PC. And so there was a point…Oh, I want to say, like, 6 to 12 months ago where we kind of realized that a lot of our levels were crashing on Xbox Series S.
We were doing so much testing…we were collecting all this data […] Once we kind of started running all our levels through it, and were able to see where the problems were, after a month or two, we had kind of resolved all of our memory issues on Series S.”
In the end, it’s looking and sounding like all of that optimisation has paid off. The team has confirmed that the game runs at a solid 1080p / 60FPS on Xbox Series S, and while the other consoles have a few performance modes to pick from rather than just the one, those targets are pretty impressive given everything that can go off in the middle of a Battlefield 6 match.
From our own experience playing the beta on Xbox Series X, BF6 is indeed very well optimised, which hasn’t always been the case for a Battlefield game at launch. It ran perfectly smoothly in both 60 and 120Hz modes for us, and we can’t wait to sample the full experience next month – on both Xbox Series X and S!
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[source kotaku.com]
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