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Recently, Sony began rolling out the beta for the PS4 4.50 software update, and with it comes a bevy of useful user-facing changes. External hard drive support and custom wallpapers are getting a lot of public attention from the PlayStation team, but they didn’t say much about the biggest feature — a new “Boost mode” for the PS4 Pro.
Based on some leaked videos and screenshots from users running the latest beta, the PS4 Pro will enhance the performance of some older releases without the need for an official patch from the developers. Simply toggle on the boost mode, and the games will be able to take advantage of at lease some of the additional horsepower in the Pro.

As is, the PS4 Pro runs non-optimized PS4 titles almost exactly like they would run on a base PS4. The CPU is clocked down, and roughly half of the GPU goes unused. This theoretically means that all PS4 titles should operate without any additional quirks. So logically, allowing these non-optimized games to run without those protections in place in boost mode could potentially lead to some unexpected behavior.

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