Still hoping for another good port like
Spider-Man Remastered was. Still just so dang happy to see this game coming to PC. It was one of the ones I was waiting for. I recall
@Denpepe not caring for it though.
Did Forspoken use DirectStorage 1.1? If I recall from DF's testing, the game did at least have faster loading than the 9th-gen consoles, but it still wasn't using the full-blown version of DirectStorage. I wonder how DirectStorage usage will turn out for this game. Well I can't fully make use of it anyways, cuz I don't use Win11 and I don't have any PCIe 4.0 drives. Some of these 9th-gen games have blistering load times on consoles, so it's nice to be able to get those games on PC and not have
worse loading.
I wasn't even aware Intel had their own AO.
Insomniac Games has released the PC specifications for Nixxes' port of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, revealing that players will need at least an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 470 to play the game, including 75 GB of HDD space, SSD recommended. Ultimate Ray Tracing, the 4K/60 FPS...
www.thefpsreview.com
Sounds like Nixxes continuing from where they left off with
Spider-Man Remastered. Being a console game it was light on RT stuff, I think just reflections and shadows. Looks like the PC version also adds RT AO. Whatever we can get that's better than on the console versions, I appreciate, no matter how small.
I had a 1080 Ti when I played
Spider-Man Remastered so I stuck with IGTI and it looked very good. With an RTX 3090 I didn't need the performance boost from DLSS at 1440p (also in that game I am
very CPU-limited). I doubt I will need it for
Rift Apart either. Still, I like to experiment with sh1t, so I will probably still try out DLSS2, FRS2 and XeSS just to see how they present the image. But in general I avoid upscaling techniques unless I
absolutely need the performance. I sure as f*ck needed the help of DLSS for
Portal RTX.
I don't have a DualSense so I didn't get to see what it was like for
Spider-Man Remastered on PC. I might borrow one when I play
Rift Apart on PC, just to see what it's like using the exclusive DualSense features. Insomniac has made decent use of even stupid sh1t like SIXAXIS motion in the past. I've messed around with a few PS5 games that use the adapter triggers, and it was kinda interesting. Insomniac usually puts more effort into using the features of Sony controllers, so might be interesting to check it out. Still, I mostly stick with Xbox-family controllers, I tend to prefer their layouts and ergonomics. I haven't spent much time with a DualSense controller, but I could NOT stand every single other generation of PlayStation controller. Everything before the DualShock 1, and the entire DualShock family. DualSense at least seems pretty decent compared to those.
Spider-Man Remastered played just fine with XBSX controller though. I ain't gonna go outta my way to check out a DualSense with
Rift Apart. In any case, it will be a long time before I get around to
Rift Apart, so what controller I'm gonna use for it is not even remotely a concern at this point. Still, very glad to see the game on PC, one less reason to get a PS5. Keep those exclusives coming to PC.
Spider-Man Remastered had nVidia Reflex. I went through the game on the 1080 Ti so I didn't have access to it then. When I got the 3090 I tried it. There was a slight improvement in input response, but it wasn't anything to write home about, and it's not like the game really needed it to begin with. Still, doesn't hurt to just leave it on. I'll f*ck around widdit for
Rift Apart too and see how it works out there. I'm guessing it's gonna be the same case as
Spider-Man Remastered.
At least on PC we get cloud saves for free, unlike on Sony systems. Of course I still make manual local backups.
I'm a big fan of tghe R&C series (
https://forums.thefpsreview.com/thr...game-for-pc-sometime-in-july.12727/post-71839), but I don't know much about Rift Apart, so I will probably check this out:
I assume DF will also be doing a video for the PC version.
