@wsjudd Still no mention of Advanced Shader Delivery for AMD cards on the PC Gamepass version of this game.
Removes all cases of ingame shader compilation stutter, if you have Gampass Ultimate on PC + AMD GPU (its included as a day one title)
Advanced Shader Delivery has the potential to be a game changer for Unreal Engine 5+ titles on PC once it extends to Steam (similar to how Steam behaves on Linux with shader caching) et al and the other GPU companies roll it out.
Edit: a tip, turn off Depth of Field for de-blurred screen output.
No shader compilation issues on the PC Gamepass version of this title, it has advanced shader delivery, for AMD cards! Since the developer patched in FSR 4 support, Optiscaler is no longer needed, I have been playing it @4k FSR4 Quality at max settings and getting high frame rates on 9070 XT.
Sorry I was just being facetious by referring to the original meaning.
Language is always evolving.
I would however still maintain that "half the frame rate" would be both more appropriate and accurate given the example used (30fps/60fps) even with the modern definition of 'decimated'
"to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely:" (Cambridge English Dictionary)
@Biedls @wsjudd re testing CP2077, on my steam box I switched it to desktop mode logged into gog account from within Lutris, downloaded and installed CP2077, on first launch, it went straight into the game, ran benchmark, exited and launched again, the red launcher showed up, so I added --launcher-skip to the game options in Lutris, verified that proton cachyos latest (can be used on steam machine) was selected, tested again, confirmed red launcher bypassed. Then in Lutris added a steam short cut, rebooted into steamos/gamescope mode (like with steam machine). Launched the game multiple times from within Steamos for testing, just need to transfer some save files over from Windows box(s), as I said above the reading the cachyos game guide has been invaluable as is protondb. I used lutris to install Ubisoft connect and AC:Blackflag Rsynced and create a steam short cut to add the game to steam, next is to setup EA games launcher and Epic launcher. I might experiment with Heroic for those two.
ProtonDB search for Cyberpunk would be the suggested place to look for tips and launch options like --launcher-skip and which proton version is recommended getting it to launch. Im just downloading CP2077 from gog via Lutris, to see if I can replicate the issues you describe. This is on my spare parts cachyos/Steam box. The cachyos gaming on linux guide has been invaluable, CachyOS and SteamOS are based on Arch linux, although I found steamos frustrating down to its atomic/immutable nature.
"In the meantime, you can use third-party GOG launchers like Lutris or Heroic Games Launcher, or use Valve's Proton compatibility later to install the Windows version inside of Steam, though both approaches leave a little to be desired."
Why do both approaches leave a little to be desired? Some explanation, having used both Lutris and Steam methods, they both work well enough. Of course a native version of Galaxy will be welcome if/when it arrives.
Optiscaler is great, been using to enable FSR 4.1.1 on my RDNA 2 6900xt/5800x knocked together from spares cachyos/steamos box (yes I have been using the watermark to check its working) it works remarkably well. Not as fast as my Windoze 9070xt/9800x3d Rig, BUT its pretty good for using on the TV and messing about learning how to use Linux, an OS I haven't used on the desktop since the mid 00s. Now lets see more Radeon feature in pc game reviews/optimisation guides.
I am pleased to see the poll on which gpus readers are using.
With 24% using Radeon and the recent reports of 19% using Radeon in the most recent steam survey, along with the release of FSR 4+ on RDNA 3 cards, coming next month, I am a tiny bit hopeful that DF will abandon its exclusive use of a single brand for its PC testing! Alienating between a 1/5 and 1/4 of your potential audience is irrational.
When the news Rockstar failed to get allegations of blacklisting excluded from the 'Union busting' case bought by the IWGB, it was clear they would soon announce pre orders for GTA 6 as a distraction. As for the game, might buy it on PC when its on deep discount in a sale sometime in the far future. GTA hasnt been as much fun after it went 3D.
Embedded video shows up as unavailable, so I went straight to YT and found it.
My word I stopped watching when the ad spot for the video sponsor, narrated by Richard. So we have a product review sponsored by a direct competitors product.
This is completely unprofessional and goes against the ethics of journalism. (You are journalists before anyone says you are not)
Regardless of what one thinks of the product under review (I agree about the pricing, but that applies to the entire product stack from both AMD and Nvidia, - oh for the days of £650 xx80 series cards) its become so blatant that maybe DF should just rename itself NVF. (Joke)
MSI doesnt even have RDNA 4 cards in its range, its last AMD line was RDNA 3.
Explains the willful refusal to test on different GPU brands.
Explains how DF did not anticipate backlash to its 'gushing' DLSS 5 'advertorial'
DF has turned into the Games journalism equivalent of the Daily Mail, proudly displaying its bias on its sleeve, and thats fine as long as it is made clear to the audience.
And before anyone jumps on my comment claiming I am a 'fanboi' for one or other Corporation, I have a draw full of GPUs from both GPU companies going all the way back to the HD4850, my first proper 'GPU' was a Geforce 2 GTS.
Lets hope it turns out better than the last unreal engine based driving game I played, EA Sport WRC (UE4) took an age for Codemasters (a traversty that this UK studio was devoured by the Charybdis EA) developer to fix its PC performance shader compilation stutter in a racing title is the last thing one wants to see.
Indeed the hot fix patch seems to have sortef the problems.
I still stand by my criticism of testing exclusively on NV. Especially given the price differential between for example the 9070xt (£599) and the 5070ti (£829), DLSS/FG etc is great (not so much FG imho), but its not worth the £200 premium over a card in the same peformance tier, especially in current market conditions for DRAM and Storage.
@Rich_Leadbetter and co, could always ask me to consider doing some testing on my 9800x3d/9070xt and/or my 5800x3d/4070ti Super systems if they really cannot aquire an AMD card and/or don't have the capacity to do the additional testing.
Can DF really afford to alienate potential paying subscribers?
So a third remaster/visual overhaul for a game released over a decade ago? RT etc was added what 4 years ago, and now next year another go with additional content. Talk about flogging a dead Roach!
The games industry is heading for a 1983 style crash at this rate (no bad thing necessarily)
Still testing exclusively on Nvidia cards? Come on DF! OH the developer has managed to mess up performance on AMD cards with what feels like shader compilation hitching and stutter (at least to me) OH and decided to restrict FG (yuck) to NV 40/50 series. You would pick up these anti consumer problems if you tested on a wider range of GPUs.
I understood DF has an ongoing back and forth with various developers.
Tbh, I lost all interest in James Bond related media once the 'franchise' was flogged to Amazon.
But,
Hopefully you will get a coherent answer about this decision to integrate FSR into the executable instead of following AMDs developers guidance for implementing FSR 3.1.5 + via DLL.
Be great if you could ask them if the future PT 'upgrade' will be vendor locked?
The suspicion over on the Guru3d forums is that this is a result of the sponsorship/marketing deal with NV
This is starting to become a pattern of vendor locks and missing features on recent major releases on PC. Which is not good for gamers.
Resident Evil Requiem: PT vendor locked / standard RT visuals downgraded missing shadows for example, + not implementing an agnostic denoiser for PT
Pragamata: PT vendor locked / standard RT visuals downgraded (missing shadows for example) + not implementing an agnostic denoiser for PT
FH6, FG exclusive to NV 40/50 series by developers not implementing either vendor agnostic FG tech.
(Its not as though NV do not have a long and documented history of specialising in anti- consumer practices going all the way back to its implemention of Physx by using x87 instructions for the CPU pathway to make their GPUs look more performant than if they had used SSE for the CPU path, and then implementing a driver level block on using a secondary NV card to accelerate Physx when the primary card was ATI/AMD)
DRAM and VRAM are not types of flash memory, granted SSDs (non volatile storage) use DRAM (either on-board dram or reserved from host system memory in 'Dramless' SSDs) Bit concerned that DF allowed such a basic error to get through the editing process.
9800x3d on X870E, 5800x3d on X570 (awaiting move to second system) 5800x on x470 in second system, 3700x on B450 in third system (will get 5800x, might rebuild server with this (server 1 using athlon x3)
If DF are updating the test/optimisation systems, please add an RX 9700xt.
Fsr 3, is this a typo? FSR 4 surely on a 9070xt? Why would the developers choose not to engage the driver side auto upgrade to FSR4 for Path Tracing on F1 2025?
Maybe I should have been clearer, the optimised settings are of 'no help' to me on my 9070xt system (not my 4070ti super system, (currently with 5800x/x470/16gb Ram, awaiting swap with 5800x3d/x570/32gb Ram) where the DF optimised settings are useful as they can help hit my target frame rates of 72 - 138 hz (4k 144hz VRR display))
On the same display with the same frame rate target, using the 9070xt which is on 9800x3d/X870E/32gb Ram (replaced aforementioned 5800x3d), using PS5 equivalent settings is just leaving potential quality (i.e. not having to use FG, or having higher graphics settings or running at 4k native or Quality FSR4.1 rather than (with or without using optiscaler) dlss performance at my target frame rate) and performance improvements on the table.
Sure some of that can be down to the uplift in cpu performance by moving from Am4 to Am5/Zen 3 to Zen5.
I mean if I was happy with PS5 level quality and performance, my Series X would not be gathering dust as a glorified but rarely used Blu ray player.
What I would like to see in the future, post LLM bubble, from DF or others are PC optimisation guides/reviews that included recommended highest quality settings for targeting a minimum of 60fps (120fps with FGx2) on all three GPU manufacturer's / Both CPU companies (possibly Arm as well, with the N1X et al) at 1080p/1440p/4k for PC rather than just catering to the lowest common denominator.
But as it stands for the 9070xt system, wacking every setting up to ultra or higher works with my frame rate target in 90% of the games I play.
So as I said the optimised settings serve well enough for the 4070ti super system, which I thank DF for.
"RTX 4070 Ti - our contributor Rayan tests graphics performance on this because it has the Nvidia feature set and the 16GB of RAM"
4070 Ti has 12GB Vram, are you sure you don't mean the 4070 Ti Super which does have 16GB Vram (which I own)? Or was the reference to 16 GB of Ram a reference to the system Ram?
With the spec difference between the 4070 Ti Super vs 4070 Ti non Super a clarification would be good.
Where are the Radeon cards such as the 9070xt (which I also own) in your PC performance/optimised settings articles?
Many times I have tried DFs optimised settings that are okay ish, on my 4070 Ti Super system, yet are no help for the more performant 9070xt system which can usually run games with much higher graphics settings and resolution than the former.
I have been gaming on the PC since the early 1990s (before that, home computers like Atari St, BBC B and Ti 99/4a) and I really had hoped that features locked to one vendor or another would have been consigned to history 30 years on and it would no longer be necessary to maintain two systems for gaming because of hardware companies and game developers anti consumer practices (which they are all guilty of at one time or another)
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Re: Beast of Reincarnation PC Suffers from Poor Performance Scaling, Though Optimised Settings Help
@wsjudd Still no mention of Advanced Shader Delivery for AMD cards on the PC Gamepass version of this game.
Removes all cases of ingame shader compilation stutter, if you have Gampass Ultimate on PC + AMD GPU (its included as a day one title)
Advanced Shader Delivery has the potential to be a game changer for Unreal Engine 5+ titles on PC once it extends to Steam (similar to how Steam behaves on Linux with shader caching) et al and the other GPU companies roll it out.
Edit: a tip, turn off Depth of Field for de-blurred screen output.
Re: Review: Beast of Reincarnation: Game Freak's Action RPG Is a Technical Disappointment on Console
No shader compilation issues on the PC Gamepass version of this title, it has advanced shader delivery, for AMD cards! Since the developer patched in FSR 4 support, Optiscaler is no longer needed, I have been playing it @4k FSR4 Quality at max settings and getting high frame rates on 9070 XT.
Re: Alan Wake 2 Adds FSR 4 Support for Radeon 7000 and 9000 Graphics Cards
About time, might buy it next time epic put it on sale, currently £39.99, Epic charging that for a 3 year old title is not on.
Re: Kingdom Come Salvation Targets 2028: The Engine Upgrades We Need to See
@wsjudd You could also use something like
"plant physics and animation, run/display at a fraction of the engine/game frame rate"
What do you think? It covers 60/30 (1/2 rate) and 60/15 (1/4 rate) and 120/15 (1/8 rate).
Re: Kingdom Come Salvation Targets 2028: The Engine Upgrades We Need to See
@RichardTucker In this context it does not make much sense to use 'decimated' (current or archaic definition)
Re: Kingdom Come Salvation Targets 2028: The Engine Upgrades We Need to See
@wsjudd Not really,
Sorry I was just being facetious by referring to the original meaning.
Language is always evolving.
I would however still maintain that "half the frame rate" would be both more appropriate and accurate given the example used (30fps/60fps) even with the modern definition of 'decimated'
"to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely:" (Cambridge English Dictionary)
Re: Kingdom Come Salvation Targets 2028: The Engine Upgrades We Need to See
"For example, plant physics and animations in Code run at a decimated frame-rate (eg 30fps when the rest of the world is at 60fps)"
Since when is 30fps 10% of 60fps?
"For example, plant physics and animations in KCD2 run at half frame-rate (eg 30fps when the rest of the world is at 60fps)"
Fixed it for you @wsjudd
Re: GTA 6: "An Extended Look" Preview to Debut on Netflix for Subscribers Only, Six Hours Ahead of YouTube
Thankfully, I cancelled Netflix due to is poor content. This shows I made the correct decision.
Re: GOG announces Galaxy app is coming to Linux after hiring a "specialist"
@Biedls @wsjudd re testing CP2077, on my steam box I switched it to desktop mode logged into gog account from within Lutris, downloaded and installed CP2077, on first launch, it went straight into the game, ran benchmark, exited and launched again, the red launcher showed up, so I added --launcher-skip to the game options in Lutris, verified that proton cachyos latest (can be used on steam machine) was selected, tested again, confirmed red launcher bypassed. Then in Lutris added a steam short cut, rebooted into steamos/gamescope mode (like with steam machine). Launched the game multiple times from within Steamos for testing, just need to transfer some save files over from Windows box(s), as I said above the reading the cachyos game guide has been invaluable as is protondb. I used lutris to install Ubisoft connect and AC:Blackflag Rsynced and create a steam short cut to add the game to steam, next is to setup EA games launcher and Epic launcher. I might experiment with Heroic for those two.
Re: GOG announces Galaxy app is coming to Linux after hiring a "specialist"
ProtonDB search for Cyberpunk would be the suggested place to look for tips and launch options like --launcher-skip and which proton version is recommended getting it to launch. Im just downloading CP2077 from gog via Lutris, to see if I can replicate the issues you describe. This is on my spare parts cachyos/Steam box. The cachyos gaming on linux guide has been invaluable, CachyOS and SteamOS are based on Arch linux, although I found steamos frustrating down to its atomic/immutable nature.
Re: GOG announces Galaxy app is coming to Linux after hiring a "specialist"
@Jimbojones Lutris et al having issues, is not quite the same as saying they "leave a little to be desired" as claimed ATL.
Re: GOG announces Galaxy app is coming to Linux after hiring a "specialist"
"In the meantime, you can use third-party GOG launchers like Lutris or Heroic Games Launcher, or use Valve's Proton compatibility later to install the Windows version inside of Steam, though both approaches leave a little to be desired."
Why do both approaches leave a little to be desired? Some explanation, having used both Lutris and Steam methods, they both work well enough. Of course a native version of Galaxy will be welcome if/when it arrives.
Re: FSR 4.1 on RDNA 3: Useful for Steam Machine, Transformative for More Powerful AMD GPUs
Optiscaler is great, been using to enable FSR 4.1.1 on my RDNA 2 6900xt/5800x knocked together from spares cachyos/steamos box (yes I have been using the watermark to check its working) it works remarkably well. Not as fast as my Windoze 9070xt/9800x3d Rig, BUT its pretty good for using on the TV and messing about learning how to use Linux, an OS I haven't used on the desktop since the mid 00s. Now lets see more Radeon feature in pc game reviews/optimisation guides.
Re: Early Steam Machine user mourns "red line of death" following GPU failure
Was this confirmed by a second source?
Re: GTA 6 UK Pre-Order Price Confirmed
Why no option in the poll for 'not ordering GTA6'?
Re: Review: 007 First Light: PC Review and Optimised Settings Guide
I am pleased to see the poll on which gpus readers are using.
With 24% using Radeon and the recent reports of 19% using Radeon in the most recent steam survey, along with the release of FSR 4+ on RDNA 3 cards, coming next month, I am a tiny bit hopeful that DF will abandon its exclusive use of a single brand for its PC testing! Alienating between a 1/5 and 1/4 of your potential audience is irrational.
Re: Grand Theft Auto 6 Pre-Orders Begin June 25th, Cover Art Revealed
When the news Rockstar failed to get allegations of blacklisting excluded from the 'Union busting' case bought by the IWGB, it was clear they would soon announce pre orders for GTA 6 as a distraction. As for the game, might buy it on PC when its on deep discount in a sale sometime in the far future. GTA hasnt been as much fun after it went 3D.
Re: Latest Steam Hardware Survey Shows AMD Radeon at New 19% High, 9060 XT and 9070 XT Chart for First Time
Maybe DF will start testing on Radeon?
Re: Review: AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE 12GB - An Excellent GPU At A Bizarrely Inappropriate Price Point
Embedded video shows up as unavailable, so I went straight to YT and found it.
My word I stopped watching when the ad spot for the video sponsor, narrated by Richard.
So we have a product review sponsored by a direct competitors product.
This is completely unprofessional and goes against the ethics of journalism. (You are journalists before anyone says you are not)
Regardless of what one thinks of the product under review (I agree about the pricing, but that applies to the entire product stack from both AMD and Nvidia, - oh for the days of £650 xx80 series cards) its become so blatant that maybe DF should just rename itself NVF. (Joke)
MSI doesnt even have RDNA 4 cards in its range, its last AMD line was RDNA 3.
Explains the willful refusal to test on different GPU brands.
Explains how DF did not anticipate backlash to its 'gushing' DLSS 5 'advertorial'
DF has turned into the Games journalism equivalent of the Daily Mail, proudly displaying its bias on its sleeve, and thats fine as long as it is made clear to the audience.
And before anyone jumps on my comment claiming I am a 'fanboi' for one or other Corporation, I have a draw full of GPUs from both GPU companies going all the way back to the HD4850, my first proper 'GPU' was a Geforce 2 GTS.
Re: Ex-Forza Devs Maverick Reveal Clutch, an Unreal Engine 5 Racing Game in the Mould of Need for Speed
Lets hope it turns out better than the last unreal engine based driving game I played, EA Sport WRC (UE4) took an age for Codemasters (a traversty that this UK studio was devoured by the Charybdis EA) developer to fix its PC performance shader compilation stutter in a racing title is the last thing one wants to see.
Re: Nvidia reveals RTX Spark N1/N1X "superchip" at Computex, with Gaming Performance Equivalent to RTX 5070 Laptop
"Apple, Intel, Qualcomm and AMD efforts"
If you are going to list things in alphabetical order, it does not scan and looks bizarre!
AMD, Apple, Intel and Qualcomm efforts - fixed it for you.
Re: Nixxes heroically adds long-awaited upscaling support to Helldivers 2, from PC to Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PS5 Pro
Latest version of FSR is 4.1, released in March 2026 with FSR SDK 2.2.
Re: Forza Horizon 6 PC: Our Optimised Settings for Mainstream, Mid-Range and High-End Systems
@Rich_Leadbetter
Tricky maybe but not insurmountable.
Re: Forza Horizon 6 PC: Our Optimised Settings for Mainstream, Mid-Range and High-End Systems
@Magnumstache
Indeed the hot fix patch seems to have sortef the problems.
I still stand by my criticism of testing exclusively on NV. Especially given the price differential between for example the 9070xt (£599) and the 5070ti (£829), DLSS/FG etc is great (not so much FG imho), but its not worth the £200 premium over a card in the same peformance tier, especially in current market conditions for DRAM and Storage.
@Rich_Leadbetter and co, could always ask me to consider doing some testing on my 9800x3d/9070xt and/or my 5800x3d/4070ti Super systems if they really cannot aquire an AMD card and/or don't have the capacity to do the additional testing.
Can DF really afford to alienate potential paying subscribers?
Re: New Witcher 3 Expansion Revealed: "Songs of the Past" Continues Geralt's Story More Than A Decade On
So a third remaster/visual overhaul for a game released over a decade ago? RT etc was added what 4 years ago, and now next year another go with additional content. Talk about flogging a dead Roach!
The games industry is heading for a 1983 style crash at this rate (no bad thing necessarily)
Maybe this will inspire me to finish the game?
Re: Forza Horizon 6 PC: Our Optimised Settings for Mainstream, Mid-Range and High-End Systems
Still testing exclusively on Nvidia cards? Come on DF! OH the developer has managed to mess up performance on AMD cards with what feels like shader compilation hitching and stutter (at least to me) OH and decided to restrict FG (yuck) to NV 40/50 series. You would pick up these anti consumer problems if you tested on a wider range of GPUs.
Re: 007 Tech Secrets From Our First Light Deep Dive: Why Series S Is 30fps, How It Hits 60fps Elsewhere and Much More
@Rich_Leadbetter
I understood DF has an ongoing back and forth with various developers.
Tbh, I lost all interest in James Bond related media once the 'franchise' was flogged to Amazon.
But,
Hopefully you will get a coherent answer about this decision to integrate FSR into the executable instead of following AMDs developers guidance for implementing FSR 3.1.5 + via DLL.
Be great if you could ask them if the future PT 'upgrade' will be vendor locked?
The suspicion over on the Guru3d forums is that this is a result of the sponsorship/marketing deal with NV
This is starting to become a pattern of vendor locks and missing features on recent major releases on PC. Which is not good for gamers.
Resident Evil Requiem: PT vendor locked / standard RT visuals downgraded missing shadows for example, + not implementing an agnostic denoiser for PT
Pragamata: PT vendor locked / standard RT visuals downgraded (missing shadows for example) + not implementing an agnostic denoiser for PT
FH6, FG exclusive to NV 40/50 series by developers not implementing either vendor agnostic FG tech.
(Its not as though NV do not have a long and documented history of specialising in anti- consumer practices going all the way back to its implemention of Physx by using x87 instructions for the CPU pathway to make their GPUs look more performant than if they had used SSE for the CPU path, and then implementing a driver level block on using a secondary NV card to accelerate Physx when the primary card was ATI/AMD)
Re: 007 Tech Secrets From Our First Light Deep Dive: Why Series S Is 30fps, How It Hits 60fps Elsewhere and Much More
Did you ask them why they baked FSR into the executable, breaking FSR 4 driver based upgrades on 9000 series?
Re: Should Sony Reconsider Killing Future Single-Player PlayStation Ports to PC?
DRAM and VRAM are not types of flash memory, granted SSDs (non volatile storage) use DRAM (either on-board dram or reserved from host system memory in 'Dramless' SSDs) Bit concerned that DF allowed such a basic error to get through the editing process.
Re: It's Time To Say Goodbye To The Ryzen 5 3600
9800x3d on X870E, 5800x3d on X570 (awaiting move to second system) 5800x on x470 in second system, 3700x on B450 in third system (will get 5800x, might rebuild server with this (server 1 using athlon x3)
If DF are updating the test/optimisation systems, please add an RX 9700xt.
Ta
Re: Path-Traced F1 25 on PS5 Pro: Codemasters Tech Demo Revealed
Fsr 3, is this a typo? FSR 4 surely on a 9070xt? Why would the developers choose not to engage the driver side auto upgrade to FSR4 for Path Tracing on F1 2025?
Re: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: A Top-To-Bottom Remake With Graphics and Gameplay Upgrades
Won't include the Freedom Cry DLC!
Re: Review: Death Stranding 2 PC: The Last Big Sony Single-Player PS5 Port?
@Rich_Leadbetter
Maybe I should have been clearer, the optimised settings are of 'no help' to me on my 9070xt system (not my 4070ti super system, (currently with 5800x/x470/16gb Ram, awaiting swap with 5800x3d/x570/32gb Ram) where the DF optimised settings are useful as they can help hit my target frame rates of 72 - 138 hz (4k 144hz VRR display))
On the same display with the same frame rate target, using the 9070xt which is on 9800x3d/X870E/32gb Ram (replaced aforementioned 5800x3d), using PS5 equivalent settings is just leaving potential quality (i.e. not having to use FG, or having higher graphics settings or running at 4k native or Quality FSR4.1 rather than (with or without using optiscaler) dlss performance at my target frame rate) and performance improvements on the table.
Sure some of that can be down to the uplift in cpu performance by moving from Am4 to Am5/Zen 3 to Zen5.
I mean if I was happy with PS5 level quality and performance, my Series X would not be gathering dust as a glorified but rarely used Blu ray player.
What I would like to see in the future, post LLM bubble, from DF or others are PC optimisation guides/reviews that included recommended highest quality settings for targeting a minimum of 60fps (120fps with FGx2) on all three GPU manufacturer's / Both CPU companies (possibly Arm as well, with the N1X et al) at 1080p/1440p/4k for PC rather than just catering to the lowest common denominator.
But as it stands for the 9070xt system, wacking every setting up to ultra or higher works with my frame rate target in 90% of the games I play.
So as I said the optimised settings serve well enough for the 4070ti super system, which I thank DF for.
Re: Review: Death Stranding 2 PC: The Last Big Sony Single-Player PS5 Port?
@Rich_Leadbetter
"RTX 4070 Ti - our contributor Rayan tests graphics performance on this because it has the Nvidia feature set and the 16GB of RAM"
4070 Ti has 12GB Vram, are you sure you don't mean the 4070 Ti Super which does have 16GB Vram (which I own)? Or was the reference to 16 GB of Ram a reference to the system Ram?
With the spec difference between the 4070 Ti Super vs 4070 Ti non Super a clarification would be good.
Where are the Radeon cards such as the 9070xt (which I also own) in your PC performance/optimised settings articles?
Many times I have tried DFs optimised settings that are okay ish, on my 4070 Ti Super system, yet are no help for the more performant 9070xt system which can usually run games with much higher graphics settings and resolution than the former.
I have been gaming on the PC since the early 1990s (before that, home computers like Atari St, BBC B and Ti 99/4a) and I really had hoped that features locked to one vendor or another would have been consigned to history 30 years on and it would no longer be necessary to maintain two systems for gaming because of hardware companies and game developers anti consumer practices (which they are all guilty of at one time or another)