PS5 Game Presets and Getting 120 FPS

New PS5 feature Game Presets offers the best way to ensure 120Hz in titles like COD Black Ops Cold War. Take a look at this unique approach to console settings 

Unlike its peer the Xbox Series X, Sony’s PlayStation 5 doesn’t offer users the opportunity to set target frame rates via the operating system. As of this writing, you can only designate target resolutions, not frame rates. Xbox Series X allows for both.

So how do you “nudge” the PS5 towards giving you 120Hz in titles like Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War? Sony changed things up considerably with the PS5 UI compared to its PS4 predecessor. In what we think was an attempt at improving accessibility, Sony engineers created what they call Game Presets. These are somewhat hidden, and are not in the display section of the settings tab. Instead, you’ll find them at “Save Data and Game/App Settings”. 

Our hardworking product managers tested PS5 Game Presets with the MOBIUZ EX2710 144Hz gaming monitor, trying to achieve the elusive 120Hz refresh rate. The table below summarizes their findings: 

With regards to 120Hz, we discovered that even if the PS5 is set to 2160p or 4K in the performance setting, it will deliver a 120Hz frame rate at an actual resolution of 1080p within Black Ops Cold War. Since this game does have an internal 60Hz/120Hz toggle in its own settings menu, it appears that the Game Presets function works well here, though at the cost of resolution. Whether that’s a trade off you want to make is entirely up to you, and we are aware that 4K 120Hz was a much advertised and anticipated aspect of the new generation. But for now and until developers learn to make better use of the newer hardware, this is not a bad workaround for PS5 users. It does offer silky-smooth 120fps gameplay, and 1080p still looks just fine.

We’ll keep looking for new updates to the PS5 and evaluate them as we move forward. 

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