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: 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)