Performance was really bad at first, but I'm thinking that was server trouble because I'm not really seeing it any more.
I posted a vid of the
swing stutter you can get that totally screws up your backswing - and it can be a lot worse than this. But since the servers have been good I'm just not seeing it.
In comparison to the first game it's a night and day difference. Even on PS4 Pro you still had ridiculous frame rate variation and omnipresent screen tearing on TGC 1. It was close to unplayable without the Pro, only bearable with it. Well, there's essentially no screen tearing in TGC2, and the worst of the framerate variance or serious frame skips is when the ball is in the air off a drive and the engine has to draw a lot of foliage off in the distance. Obviously that doesn't matter so much as you're not actually playing the game while the ball is in the air. 90% of the time it feels solid to me, though, and you could never say that about the first. I'll note that courses with tons of foliage (Tropic Falls) have way more inconsistent performance than those without (Yuma Desert).
I'm sure digital foundry or whoever wouldn't think it's exactly smooth, but I'm just saying that it is a huge improvement over the first one and unless you're a card carrying member of the framerate police you'll be fine here.
Something else I've noticed, though, is some strange input interference. Sometimes the connection to the controller just drops, and your swing continues even if you stop pressing the stick. Or if you're aiming right using the stick, that input will continue multiple seconds after you've stopped pressing it. Again, maybe related to server issues. Not a huge deal as it's rare and has never actually interrupted one of my shots.