ps3 only supports 720

From the manual: 1080p / 1080i / 720p / 480p

I thought Codex dropped it down to 720 for some reason but I'm not sure it was available at a higher resolution before. Is there a way to check? I'm not at my system right now.

My TV runs at 1080p for the XMB, and while I can't say in certainty, the game definitely seems to be running at a resolution other than the TV's native resolution (1080p).

And who knows, the game may never run at 1080p. It's not uncommon with more CPU/GPU intensive console games as a larger resolution can potentially drop frame rate. It's not as if we can all go out and upgrade our PS3s into something faster, ya know?

ps3 only supports 720

SSD Join the club yo.

My TV runs at 1080p for the XMB, and while I can't say in certainty, the game definitely seems to be running at a resolution other than the TV's native resolution (1080p).

And who knows, the game may never run at 1080p. It's not uncommon with more CPU/GPU intensive console games as a larger resolution can potentially drop frame rate. It's not as if we can all go out and upgrade our PS3s into something faster, ya know?

Same here. The game plays at 720p on mine.

The game wont be released with 1080p display you can pretty much guarantee it, and that's my point. But it should, ps3 is a powerful system.

ps3 only supports 720

Lot of nonsense here, I'll try and clear up any confusion with a bit of layman technical stuff.

First, the display your TV says it is using is not necessarily related to what the game engine is rendering at. Take your's TV display info as a maximum, and be aware that many games render at a resolution quite a bit below that and then stretch that to fill the screen. To make it more complicated, a lot of big budget games render two dimensional HUD elements like radars and text at full 720p but do the actual 3D game engine at a resolution below that. Very, very few PS3 games render at 1080p. The ones that do are either two-dimensional games with low system requirements, or use some serious engine trickery (like Wipeout HD) to achieve that size. Dust absolutely is not 1080p, regardless of what your TV is telling you.

That said, prior to this patch, Dust's image quality was quite poor and looked like the whole thing was rendering quite a bit below 720p, similar to the Modern Warfare games. It shows up as a kind of general fuzz on everything that is more noticeable the better your display is. This build has a sharpness and clarity that implies it has jumped from that sub-720p size to proper 720p without any scaling. It could also just be a trick of the lighting or texture improvements.

For a bit of perspective, here is a list of resolutions for PS3 games: http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=46241

You'll notice a lot of games don't even hit 720p (1280x720), but your TV will display 720p for all of them because they're stretched out to that before they hit your display. Obviously the smaller the original size, the blurrier and less detailed it will look after being stretched.

If you really want to get 'into it', you'll be wanting to visit here: http://www.eurogamer.net/?topic=digital_foundry but we warned, it's one of those once you see it you can't unsee it things. And for complicated hardware reasons (and developer laziness), the PS3 often compares unfavourably to the other consoles.

Lot of nonsense here, I'll try and clear up any confusion with a bit of layman technical stuff.

First, the display your TV says it is using is not necessarily related to what the game engine is rendering at. Take your's TV display info as a maximum, and be aware that many games render at a resolution quite a bit below that and then stretch that to fill the screen. To make it more complicated, a lot of big budget games render two dimensional HUD elements like radars and text at full 720p but do the actual 3D game engine at a resolution below that. Very, very few PS3 games render at 1080p. The ones that do are either two-dimensional games with low system requirements, or use some serious engine trickery (like Wipeout HD) to achieve that size. Dust absolutely is not 1080p, regardless of what your TV is telling you.

That said, prior to this patch, Dust's image quality was quite poor and looked like the whole thing was rendering quite a bit below 720p, similar to the Modern Warfare games. It shows up as a kind of general fuzz on everything that is more noticeable the better your display is. This build has a sharpness and clarity that implies it has jumped from that sub-720p size to proper 720p without any scaling. It could also just be a trick of the lighting or texture improvements.

For a bit of perspective, here is a list of resolutions for PS3 games: http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=46241

You'll notice a lot of games don't even hit 720p (1280x720), but your TV will display 720p for all of them because they're stretched out to that before they hit your display. Obviously the smaller the original size, the blurrier and less detailed it will look after being stretched.

If you really want to get 'into it', you'll be wanting to visit here: http://www.eurogamer.net/?topic=digital_foundry but we warned, it's one of those once you see it you can't unsee it things. And for complicated hardware reasons (and developer laziness), the PS3 often compares unfavourably to the other consoles.

SSD Join the club yo.

Did you actually do that?? i read a thread about upgrading PS3s with SSD's but i heard there could be problems with burn outs and other things, so was it worth the extra 50-100$ you spent? how hard was it to install?

DUST is running in 720p, so anything that supports that resolution works.

DUST is running in 720p, so anything that supports that resolution works.

Well, worth is relative. It's a huge price to pay compared to the actual benefits, as the ancient PS3 architecture can't take full advantage of modern SSDs, but for anything constrained by HDD seek times (like Dust's texture loading, and other things that rely on streaming a lot of content like Playstation Home) it can make a big difference. For many other games it makes no difference at all.

My point was that all ps3 games should run in 1080p. It would be nice :).

Not true.

Most games only support 720, because the system struggles without extreme optimisation measures, but it CAN support 1080, and it consistently support upscaling to 1080.

PS3 can do 1080, but as a general rule, it doesn't

Did you actually do that?? i read a thread about upgrading PS3s with SSD's but i heard there could be problems with burn outs and other things, so was it worth the extra 50-100$ you spent? how hard was it to install?

Did you actually do that?? i read a thread about upgrading PS3s with SSD's but i heard there could be problems with burn outs and other things, so was it worth the extra 50-100$ you spent? how hard was it to install?

Not sure, my system will automatically play at 1080p if possible so at this moment it only plays at 720p. Hopefully they patch it for 1080p. I'm sick of games being underdeveloped for ps3.

Did you actually do that?? i read a thread about upgrading PS3s with SSD's but i heard there could be problems with burn outs and other things, so was it worth the extra 50-100$ you spent? how hard was it to install?

It supports 1080p I know this because I have a TV that is 1080p and one that is 720p only. Tried BF3 on both and I can def. say the 1080p one looks WAY better than the 720p TV. Plus its in the display settings Xp.

yes, i think the majority of us Imperfects now have SSD or Hybrid's :)
i spend $55 and the install is easy.. like its so easy they put it in the manual of your PS3!

Did you actually do that?? i read a thread about upgrading PS3s with SSD's but i heard there could be problems with burn outs and other things, so was it worth the extra 50-100$ you spent? how hard was it to install?

Wtf lol BF3 only runs 720p. It show what a game runs on back of the game case. I was hoping dust would be 1080p but its not. Games like cod and NFL madden are.

what's the difference? textures load up quicker? - or is there a material change to the gaming experience.