New PS5 user with some questions! Please help.

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Originally Posted by kashif

Hello everyone. Got my PS5 yesterday. I was waiting for price drop but seemed like it isn't gonna happen anytime soon so I thought to eventually get one. I have yet to open it. I have some questions please:

1) It has two modes. Performance and Resolution. Performance focusing on framerate while Resolution focus on graphics. But what about the Fidelity mode some people mention in youtube comparison video? What's the purpose of it?

2) I have a sony X900h that supports hdmi 2.1 VRR @120htz but if the PS5 is VRR supported yet? Also if enabling that mode will have graphics compromised? I am not a hardcore gamer so for me visuals are more preferred than fps so please let me know what settings shall I choose?

3) About my existing PS4 games (Physical and digital) will they play better on PS5 or will look the same? Is there any mode to enable to play PS4 games on PS5?

4) Does PS5 supports both Dolby Atmos and DTSX for 4k Blu Ray movies?

5) Also since I have no idea about the system so anything you want me to tell as a beginner I would highly appreciate that like tweaks or things I need to do to get maximum good experience from my PS5.

These are my initial questions. I may need to ask more questions so I ll update this thread from time to time.

Thank you.

Congratulations on your new PS5. Hopefully you got lucky and got the retail price.

I'm no expert, but:

1. You don't have to set a mode if you don't want to. I don't. I just enter the game, and pick from there. I like to have direct control and not just let the console decide for me. I want more freedom so I don't set any modes in the PS5 console itself. If you set a mode, then the PS5 will go in and select that mode for each game unless you change it.

Performance: Some games offer performance for 60 fps, sometimes 4K or less more often.

Quality/Fidelity Mode: Basically the same thing, where it focuses more on graphics, reflections and resolution and less on frame rate. Some games will offer 3 modes, Performance, Fidelity, Quality. Fidelity sometimes being a mix inbetween the extremes.

2. I just use a standard HDMI cable to a basic 4K 60 hz TV and it works fine in any mode. 120 fps is extremely rare in games on PS5 and maybe for online shooters per game basis. There's no 120 fps mode in settings on PS5 as far as I saw.

3. No mode to make PS4 games look better. By default, the PS4 Pro or PS5 will allow for the highest frame rate allowed by the game, so 60 fps. Other games, absolutely require an update to take advantage of the PS4 Pro or PS5 consoles, and allow 4K and/or 60 fps. If I just put the disc in for Ghosts of Tsushima, it's a standard PS4 game. After updating, it became 60 fps 4K.

4. I don't know if supports those sound systems. But it played 2 UHD discs I have without issues.

5. Any advice? I'm a "just jump in and start playing" gamer, so all of this I would normally discover along the way. I don't read instructions anymore.

Good luck and enjoy the pS5. There will be more actual PS5 focused games finally arriving in 2022, as 2021 was one of the worst droughts of console specific games. Most games were cross-generation understandably since most people still only have PS4s, due to resellers buying and hoarding most PS5s.

One last thing. I attach a 4 TB external hard drive 3.1 USB to the back of my PS5 and can store PS5 games on there, and also PS4 games. The PS4 games are fully playable from the external drive, but PS5 games have to be moved back to the internal PS5 SSD to play again.