This experience is great as the last thing you want in a high-speed racing game is a terrible framerate and/or slowdown which can affect your reactions.īut, I didn’t buy the PlayStation 5 to play games in BC mode, not if they have a native PS5 edition which takes advantage of the new hardware and features.

I’ve not played the game on the PS4 Pro for a few weeks now as I grabbed the final trophy (driving 1,000 miles) on my PS5 via Backwards Compatibility, meaning I had a rock-solid 60fps in the performance mode with no screen tearing. However, the fix was to simply enable V-Sync which then created more issues in the guise of frame drops and slow down when the screen was busy. Since launch, Codemasters has released a few patches which thankfully resolved the biggest issue I had, career data vanishing upon installing version 1.03, and they also fixed the constant screen-tearing within the 60fps framerate mode.

I was initially impressed with Dirt 5 on the PS4 Pro, presenting it with a well-deserved 8/10 in my original review, but I did have a few performance issues which affected my overall enjoyment. If you want to know the ins and outs of the game, the features available within the various modes, and our impressions of the game as a whole, check out our original review HERE – this is more like an additional update to the original review where I’ll be talking about what the next-gen edition brings to the table and what I think about the revolutionary experience (thanks to the DualSense controller).

Since then I’ve had the chance to experience the game on the PlayStation 5 and see how the game performs on one of the most powerful consoles in the world. As we were kindly provided with the game pre-launch, our initial review ( HERE) was based upon the PS4 Pro version of the game on update 1.02. Dirt 5 launched on ‘last-gen’ consoles on the 6th November, followed swiftly by an updated version on both the Xbox Series S|X and PS5 at the launch of the new generation.

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