Sony Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (PC port from Nixxes) - Digital Foundry technical analysis posted

[SaysWho?]

 

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart on Steam

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Blast your way through an interdimensional adventure with Ratchet and Clank – now on PC!

 

• Blast your way through an interdimensional adventure as Ratchet and Clank make their way to PC for the very first time!
• Wrap your eyes around delightful, diverse dimensions, with ultra-wide support for 21:9, 32:9, and 48:9 (triple monitor support) resolutions!*
• See the omniverse brought to life with the option of unlocked frame rates! You can also enjoy ray-traced reflections, as well as newly added, ray-traced shadows for exteriors.
• Witness the very latest, performance-enhancing upscaling technologies for yourself, including NVIDIA DLSS 3, AMD FSR 2, Intel XeSS and Insomniac Games' Temporal Injection. NVIDIA Reflex and image quality-enhancing NVIDIA DLAA are also supported.
• Play with the DualSense™ controller to experience haptic feedback and dynamic trigger effects. Or choose mouse and keyboard – with a wide range of control customization options.
• Includes support for achievements and cloud saves on PC game launchers.

 

 

 

[Spork3245]

5 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

Witness the very latest, performance-enhancing upscaling technologies for yourself, including NVIDIA DLSS 3

 

@stepeeis pre-ordering now

[Spork3245]

I actually wonder what the min specs will be considering this was touted as a game that could "only be done with an m.2 SSD!"

[stepee]

35 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

 

@stepeeis pre-ordering now

 

Day1 and also doing a full replay 

[best3444]

I wonder just how much better this can look and run? 

[Spork3245]

3 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

Day1 and also doing a full replay 

 

I never finished it on my PS5... now I fee like I should chuck that copy in the trash

[Spork3245]

Just now, best3444 said:

I wonder just how much better this can look and run? 

 

Quality mode but at 60-120fps

[best3444]

1 minute ago, Spork3245 said:

 

Quality mode but at 60-120fps

 

I think I was doing quality mode at 40fps on PS5. 

[Spork3245]

1 minute ago, best3444 said:

 

I think I was doing quality mode at 40fps on PS5. 

 

3x that now

[stepee]

3 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

 

Quality mode but at 60-120fps

 

If it’s like Spiderman the reflection resolution is going UP 

[Keyser_Soze]

Imagine how shiny the robots gonna be!

[Spork3245]

1 minute ago, stepee said:

 

If it’s like Spiderman the reflection resolution is going UP 

 

I was blown away when I realized that reflections on the eyes of the SM suit are ray traced on PC

[best3444]

1 minute ago, Spork3245 said:

 

3x that now

 

[Spork3245]

6 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

 

I never finished it on my PS5... now I fee like I should chuck that copy in the trash

 

I wish Sony would set something up to allow game save transfer between PC and PS4/PS5 games like MS has

If I get this on PC maybe I'll give away my physical PS5 copy

[stepee]

2 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

 

I wish Sony would set something up to allow game save transfer between PC and PS4/PS5 games like MS has

If I get this on PC maybe I'll give away my physical PS5 copy

 

 Id love this so much especially if I could rebuy the game in two years with post game dlc but resume off my ps5 save. I’ll buy the game twice but it would be cool to at least get that

[crispy4000]

1 hour ago, Spork3245 said:

I actually wonder what the min specs will be considering this was touted as a game that could "only be done with an m.2 SSD!"

 

First thing I looked for, it should be fun to see those specs. 

[Mr.Vic20]

Oh yes, in!

[best3444]

I STILL haven't finished this game. I gave it so many chances but it just never grabs me or I get distracted by an other game. 

 

On PC this will absolutely look and play like a Pixar movie. 

[stepee]

2 minutes ago, best3444 said:

I STILL haven't finished this game. I gave it so many chances but it just never grabs me or I get distracted by an other game. 

 

On PC this will absolutely look and play like a Pixar movie. 

 

TRY AGAIN ITS SO FUN

[best3444]

5 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

TRY AGAIN ITS SO FUN

 

I will have to be in a serious draught to attempt it again. 

[Biggie]

12 minutes ago, best3444 said:

I STILL haven't finished this game. I gave it so many chances but it just never grabs me or I get distracted by an other game. 

 

On PC this will absolutely look and play like a Pixar movie. 

Same. I never bought it. Watched a few hours of a stream and never thought to myself dang that looks really fun. Not once. It’s not for me. 

[AbsolutSurgen]

I wonder whether this can run on a PCIe3.0 drive.

[AshsToAshs]

VERYYYYY curious how they are going to handle loading transitions on PC.

The ability to instantly load a whole new level is an essential gameplay mechanic to this game, and something that seemed only possible on the PCIe-Gen4 SSD that the PS5 has.

 

Maybe this will be the first PC game to actually require DirectStorage?

[Spork3245]

The difference between gen 3 and gen 4 real world performance with DS is surprisingly low fwiw. It's about 30-35% iirc, or a 3 second full-level load vs a 2 second full-level load. Gen 3 should be fine for R&C use case, SATA would potentially be an issue, though.

[AbsolutSurgen]

There may be an opportunity to cache some of it in RAM as well.  Wasn't this a really small install?

[Spork3245]

1 minute ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

There may be an opportunity to cache some of it in RAM as well.  Wasn't this a really small install?

 

About 42gb on PS5.

[AbsolutSurgen]

2 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

 

About 42gb on PS5.

So, why not just load the entire game into RAM?  No fast m.2 needed.

[Spork3245]

4 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

So, why not just load the entire game into RAM?  No fast m.2 needed.

Most people have potatoes

[stepee]

23 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

So, why not just load the entire game into RAM?  No fast m.2 needed.

 

I always wonder this, like all they have to do is start doing it and we will upgrade to 64gb of ram as long as there is a reason to do so. Does this just not help like we’d think?

[Spork3245]

1 minute ago, stepee said:

 

I always wonder this, like all they have to do is start doing it and we will upgrade to 64gb of ram as long as there is a reason to do so. Does this just not help like we’d think?

 

It would be the way to mitigate for people on SATA for sure, but there'd need to be a note of "64gb system memory required for non-M.2 SSD installation" and the loading time would be excruciating. 

[stepee]

1 minute ago, Spork3245 said:

 

It would be the way to mitigate for people on SATA for sure, but there'd need to be a note of "64gb system memory required for non-M.2 SSD installation" and the loading time would be excruciating. 

 

I feel like there is a way to market it idk it would be cool

[Spork3245]

Just now, stepee said:

 

I feel like there is a way to market it idk it would be cool

 

I'd like to get to the point where there's basically an extra/special ram-like dimm just for gaming and the whole game just loads onto it. Like a single 64-128gb stick or whatever

[AbsolutSurgen]

9 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

 

It would be the way to mitigate for people on SATA for sure, but there'd need to be a note of "64gb system memory required for non-M.2 SSD installation" and the loading time would be excruciating. 

[Brian]

This is why it’s bad to let the 1% be in charge. 

[Xbob42]

6 hours ago, AshsToAshs said:

VERYYYYY curious how they are going to handle loading transitions on PC.

The ability to instantly load a whole new level is an essential gameplay mechanic to this game, and something that seemed only possible on the PCIe-Gen4 SSD that the PS5 has.

 

Maybe this will be the first PC game to actually require DirectStorage?

Psychonauts 2 did the same thing but way cooler and way more often. And was on PS4/XB1. And was a way fucking better game.