Dirt 5 technical director apologizes to Xbox fans and promises a patch with improvements and fixes

Dirt 5 is one of the games Microsoft is using as a showcase for the Xbox Series X; the game was chosen to show the console’s ability to run games at 120 fps, and it also offers other modes for those who prefer graphical fidelity over a higher frame rate.

Digital Foundry recently analyzed the game and found “inexplicable” technical problems (as the image below shows) in the Xbox Series X version, and it is worth noting that these problems do not occur on the PS5, which runs the game better than the Xbox Series X despite having inferior technical specs.

If you see this floating around, he got this wrong. He's in the wrong mode. He's not using the 120hz mode which was specified in the video. Nothing has been patched yet.

I just filmed this showing how it works. You must be in prioritize frame-rate modehttps://t.co/h9ZiQiWRvA https://t.co/PlsvoHLU1N
— John Linneman (@dark1x) November 22, 2020

Given this, after Digital Foundry’s analysis, Codemasters technical director David Springate promised an update with fixes for the Xbox Series X version… he did not say exactly when this patch would be released, so all we can do is wait.