Video of the first Direct Storage compatible game Forspoken load times on PC
Here's a vid with skipped logos from a fresh boot: https://gfycat.com/deafeningflakygemsbok Reads on my PCIe 4 NVMe peaked at around 3GB/s
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Impressive loading skipping the logo on a PCIE 4 NVME SSD. Loading time are part of the past.
EDIT: It is loading in 0.2 s
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I thought I detected quite a bit of shader stutter when it first started but it seemed to clear up reasonably quickly. Likely because the environment is very samey across the demo area.
I think if you limit performance sensibly it can be a pretty smooth experience once the shader stutter has been resolved which seemed to be within a couple of minutes of starting for me, save the very occasional stutter further in.
The games seems to be quite CPU limited at max settings (including RT) on my 3700x. Using RTSS I can get a flat line save some very minor fluctuations in the most intense moments at a locked 40fps. That's at a resolution of 3840x1600 with DLSSQ engaged. I can see the GPU is quite comfortable at those settings, rarely going into the 80% range, but the CPU is regularly straying into the mid 80's or possibly above on some cores. At native res the bottleneck shifts heavily back on the GPU though on a 4070Ti. I haven't checked specifically but that might be a VRAM limitation as it seems to be using around 9.7GB with DLSSQ.
Note all of this is without yet installing the game ready drivers so I may give that a try tomorrow and also to re-validate my understanding around shader stutter now that I have identified settings that provide otherwise smooth gameplay.
Video of the first Direct Storage compatible game Forspoken load times on PC
Here's a vid with skipped logos from a fresh boot: https://gfycat.com/deafeningflakygemsbok Reads on my PCIe 4 NVMe peaked at around 3GB/s
Impressive loading skipping the logo on a PCIE 4 NVME SSD. Loading time are part of the past.
EDIT: It is loading in 0.2 s
Yes even with my "paltry" 16GB RAM I'm getting ~1s load times or less from the main menu on a 3.5GB/s NVMe. DirectStorage FTW!
DavidGraham
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Has there been any confirmation of that? It loads crazy fast but I don't think that necessarily means it's using HW decompression.
I've actually found the demo to be pretty enjoyable. The graphics are somewhat hit and miss but on average I think it looks pretty nice. Certainly not a "next gen showcase" or really worthy of what's on display, but decent enough. And the particle effect certainly stand out.
DavidGraham
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The-Nastiest
Newcomer
I wonder is this game just pre-fetches [read: pre-loads] data at the menu screen. I noticed that clicking "continue" is essentially instant (as its the most likely place you are going to go) while manually loading a save or even the first load takes a bit longer.
Anyways, Directstorage is still impressive. I truly hope it is implemented in Starfield later this year.
Frenetic Pony
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No idea why the consoles use RT shadows instead of AO.
Of course it seems like the game could run well enough to do both, but that's yet a different problem.
Of course it seems like the game could run well enough to do both, but that's yet a different problem.
Inuhanyou
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It feels like this game just slapped on a lot of effects and said it's next gen. The and suite in particular was just thrown on there without much consideration I think especially on console
Anyone got missing dualsense feature, disable steam input
btw it runs at 60fps ++ here
RTX 3070 8GB
DDR4 8GB
5600X
4K, default setting except for DLSS at balanced, RTAO enabled, vsync off.
although im not sure whetehr RTAO is really active or not. as everything still looks flat
RTX 3070 8GB
DDR4 8GB
5600X
4K, default setting except for DLSS at balanced, RTAO enabled, vsync off.
although im not sure whetehr RTAO is really active or not. as everything still looks flat
You can have 80 frames looking in one dirrection then go to 55 just by turning the opposite dirrection where it's the same enviroment
Inuhanyou
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You hit the nail on the head. It's Gotham knights all over again. I like the SSD focus but that's not enough of a draw. And hopefully many games on PC will make that feature pedestrian
