EA SPORTS PGA TOUR has deployed Title Update 4.5, which includes a highly requested feature by the community, “Performance Mode” or 60 FPS. PS5 and Xbox Series X players can now use the new “Visual Quality” setting to toggle between “Quality Mode” and “Performance Mode” in the in-game visual settings screen.
“Quality Mode” represents the game’s default and original setting, which provides the highest quality visuals at 30 frames per second (FPS).
“Performance Mode” is an all-new rendering mode, which provides smoother camera motion and animation at 60 FPS, at the expense of lower resolution and visual fidelity.
With the U.S. Women’s Open next week, updates have also been made under the hood to support a series of challenges which will be released during the tournament taking place at the iconic Pebble Beach Golf Links from July 6th through the 9th.
Additionally, the main menu of the game has been updated with capabilities for displaying dynamic messages, which the dev team plans to use to improve communication on important updates, including when new content or patches are released.
Update 4.5 also includes many quality of life updates, improvements, and stability fixes as outlined below this email.
The full list of patch notes can be found here and we also highlight some of the big ones below.
Patch 4.5 highlights:
- Gameplay:
- “Round Settings” have been added to the scorecard screen, so that settings such as wind speed and course conditions can be referenced while in gameplay.
- Courses:
- Global: Reduce popping of bushes and tall grass during hole flyovers on a number of courses.
- Banff Springs: Reduce shadow popping during hole flyovers.
- LACC: Add grandstand behind hole 2 green and remove grandstand behind hole 11 green.
- LACC: Fix for missing stairs on the greenside grandstand at hole 14.
- LACC: Removed green awnings from the clubhouse.
- LACC: Removed all visible mow lines.
- LACC: Fix LACC flag on the right side of hole 1 not reacting to wind.
- LACC: Fix tree branches clipping through the concrete pillar underneath the bridge at hole 9.
- LACC: Replace USGA tee markers with U.S. Open tee markers.
- Oak Hill: Fix for shadow popping in bunkers.
- Golfers:
- Update Jessika Korda’s round 2 and 3 outfits.
- Branding:
- Fix for the “Dominican Open” tournament in Career mode showing “The Players” branding.
- Update logo on U.S. Open ball marker to be more clearly visible.
- Update caddie bibs to use the latest U.S. Open logo.
- Update images in the store on some gear to use the latest U.S. Open logo.
- UI:
- Event Info Screen now displays Gameplay Style and Swing Mechanic for the upcoming round.
- Equipment: Backing out of the select loft screen will now display specs for the selected type of club instead of always displaying specs for fairway woods.
- Quests: Fix for “Quest Complete” popup showing unlocalized text for items.
- General Stability:
- Fix for a number of crashes and softlocks related to network disconnects in a variety of areas of the game.
- Improvements to crash reporting metrics.
- Additional crash and stability-related fixes.
- Misc:
- Visual improvements to some hairstyles, fixing instances where lighting was unintentionally reflecting off head texture which caused hair to look thinner than intended.
- Fix for rare occurrences where button spamming after restarting a match or requesting an unplayable lie would cause the golfer to move to an incorrect location on the course.
