DF Direct Weekly

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The news of a PC port from Nixxes for Rachet and Clank raises the question: can PC handle the extreme storage demands of the Insomniac PS5 showcase? Alex weighs in with his thoughts on how the port will work. Meanwhile, Nvidia demos AI-driven conversations with NPCs, Redfall's development woes make the news again, while John's concerned about Nintendo's views towards emulation.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:08 News 01: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart coming to PC!
00:19:38 News 02: Nvidia demos AI-generated NPC conversations
00:37:54 News 03: Dolphin emulator blocked from Steam release
00:44:41 News 04: Redfall’s development issues detailed
00:54:56 News 05: HDMI 2.1 capture cards announced - but there’s a catch!
01:02:27 Supporter Q1: What are your predictions for next week’s Xbox showcase?
01:07:52 Supporter Q2: Does XMP make a big difference on DDR5 RAM?
01:10:36 Supporter Q3: Are plasma TVs viable for high-quality retro gaming?
01:14:54 Supporter Q4: Why doesn’t the Switch support HDR? Could it be included in a “Switch 2”?
01:16:32 Supporter Q5: Are we in a downwards spiral of declining developer output and GPU stagnation?
01:22:34 Supporter Q6: If a game runs at a locked 30fps or 60fps, is there any benefit to setting your console to 120Hz output?
01:25:55 Supporter Q7: Has Jensen’s prophecy been fulfilled already? Is Gran Turismo 7 ever going to hit PCs?

Пікірлер: 845

@marklarz4399 Жыл бұрын

Digital Foundry soon: "How well does Ratchet & Clank run from an USB drive?"

@Labib-dw1lk Жыл бұрын

😂

@callumdointhings5 Жыл бұрын

Steam Deck SD card let's gooooo

@HansWurst-ht3jh Жыл бұрын

How well does Ratchet And Clank run from an old vinyl disc?

@Labib-dw1lk Жыл бұрын

@@HansWurst-ht3jh how optimized is it for pregnancy tests?

@duEprocEss_ Жыл бұрын

a* USB drive

@MrBandaforce Жыл бұрын

52:14 Richard's reaction to John's statement was hilarious.

@florianwalch5639 Жыл бұрын

Love seeing Dark Alex enter his gritty revenge arc against the stutter struggle

@deepblue8143 Жыл бұрын

Lol

@BaronVonHaggis Жыл бұрын

A well crafted comment, some might call it bespoke.

@megaseppohovi789 Жыл бұрын

Stutter is taking its toll.

@walter_the_wobot2349 Жыл бұрын

He’s definitely on a journey

@shaecouture7480 Жыл бұрын

Punished Alex

@F1MOSES Жыл бұрын

I would love to see what happens if you try to play ratchet and clank on a hdd

@deftestaphid2026 Жыл бұрын

Well you'll probably have alot of texture streaming issues like how control has massive texture pop in problems on Hdd.

@sirbirbton Жыл бұрын

@@deftestaphid2026 Control has texture streaming issues on every type of storage to be fair

@IgorBozoki1989 Жыл бұрын

I will inform you. All my games are on hdd

@bearpuns5910 Жыл бұрын

In Cyberpunk textures load in much slower and you can fall through the world. I wonder if the same stuff would happen in R&C

@DavidAlfredoGuisado Жыл бұрын

Now Loading

@balaam_7087 Жыл бұрын

I love KZfaq’s closed captions, especially whenever Richard talks about ray tracing. For whatever reason youtube cannot parse what he’s saying-I’ve seen the caption read as “raid facing”, “right facing” and @15:40 in today’s video we got a new one: “weight facing”. Praise be to your epic British accent, Richard.

@onepunchdave3216 Жыл бұрын

funny how it cant understand an English man talking English

@orijimi Жыл бұрын

Auto captioning can't handle non-rhotic speakers.

@rawsnake Жыл бұрын

Haha youre right, its the new thing "weight-facing" 🤣 Edit: Or even better "weight-racing"

@thegoopagoop Жыл бұрын

i think ur seeing the cultural biases of algorithms written by people from all over the world with different, often very general and transatlantic that are often ignorant of specific accents/modes of speech, like Richard's specific soft Rs and regional English accent

@victorn1291 Жыл бұрын

@@thegoopagoop KZfaq uses AI algorithms to generate the captions, which themselves can be biased yes based on the datasets the devs use to train it, but are not human in the first place. Or... DF generated the captions themselves and are just trolling us lol. From google support: KZfaq can use speech recognition technology to automatically create captions for your videos. Note: These automatic captions are generated by machine learning algorithms, so the quality of the captions may vary. We encourage creators to add professional captions first.

@merk2364 Жыл бұрын

I'm concerned that there is no putting arkane austin back "on the right track" if 70 percent of the staff did actually leave. Not that they couldn't potentially still make a good imsim, but if that figure is true it really isn't the same team anymore.

@calumbeattie5337 Жыл бұрын

Agreed. At this point Arkane Austin are close to being the Game Developer of Theseus.

@omarsabeur9039 Жыл бұрын

Redfall 2 gonna be 🔥

@terrythegnome2408 Жыл бұрын

yeah this game killed that studio. That is the way these things work. Great studios are being destroyed by bad management.

@omarsabeur9039 Жыл бұрын

@@terrythegnome2408 you misspelled Microsoft

@Doge10YT Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Bioware

@trevrice436 Жыл бұрын

I only bought Prey because I played the demo! I never buy games day one but pre ordered Prey straight after playing the demo on Xbox. It's such a underated game it's so good!

@melxb Жыл бұрын

more like overrated

@carn9507 Жыл бұрын

@@melxb more like overpreyted.... i dunno what i'm doing.

@FranzKafkaRockOpera Жыл бұрын

@@melxb It's bizarre to see people now calling Prey "overrated" because a cult formed around it and praise for it started seeping through to the mainstream several years after it came out (to lukewarm reviews and limited commercial success). It definitely is niche, though.

@melxb Жыл бұрын

@@FranzKafkaRockOpera idk i always seen praise for it, same for dishonored, but couldn't really get into either or understand what the fuss was about, but to each their own

@michaelsteffensen6844 Жыл бұрын

Well it's one of the few examples of a modern immersive sim that actually lives up to the name. What I enjoy about this style of game is that it not only encourages you to think creatively about how to solve a problem, but also rewards you for doing so, instead of punishing you and trying to keep you on a predefined path, which is how most games are designed. People who enjoyed Prey 2017 really need to check out Ctrl Alt Ego. It's a awesome immersive sim that released last year and completely flew under my radar until a few months back.

@TippyToes476 Жыл бұрын

You can see that current PC optimization is taking a toll on Alex 🤣

@kombinatsiya6000 Жыл бұрын

you can see him age video by video 😂

@a_smile55 Жыл бұрын

@Ching Vang wot

@Lilbee730 Жыл бұрын

Great episode as always guys! Worth noting to whoever is editing these (presumably Audi?) that rich's audio has a resonant ringing this week. Worth keeping an eye on in future. One way to fix this is to notch out the ringing frequency band, but a better fix is Rich moving his mic in a bit closer. He sounds roomier than usual, which means his untreated room is reverberating and he isn't making enough use of the proximity effect to overwhelm how much reverberation is perceived by the listener. :) Found it a bit distracting. But aside from that, great episode! Always a pleasure hearing you guys chat

@thanosthemadtitan5518 Жыл бұрын

Damn this guy knows his stuff

@SilverSai Жыл бұрын

This looks like something my dad would write.

@StatusQuo209 Жыл бұрын

Or just run the audio through Nvidia denoising

@julianorozaa Жыл бұрын

It'd be interesting to test Ratchet & Clank with a PS4-like PC, using the default HDD, a 750ti and a 8 core / 8 threads chip.

@loicbaumann8985 Жыл бұрын

Concerning Redfall, you guys didnt mention that the founder of Arkane Studio, Raphael Colantonio also left the company shortly after Prey, this guy was at the center of many good things that happened at Arkane...I'm sure the studio wasn't the same anymore after his leaving.

@thanksbetotap Жыл бұрын

That may be both important and true, but one should generally be cautious about hero worship.

@birms3287 Жыл бұрын

Harvey Smith, co-creative director at Arkane who is more than capable of carrying on without Colantonio, is still at the studio.

@TruckermanJS Жыл бұрын

It sounds like management was an issue, and his missing direction is still worth noting. That being said I hesitate to put the problem on one man, especially when he was known for a different style of game. 70% turnover sounds like a much bigger issue.

@Wobbothe3rd Жыл бұрын

@@thanksbetotap 70% of the staff left between the start of Redfall and by the time the game came out, but pointing out the importance of leadership isn't "hero worship." Individuals matter.

@loicbaumann8985 Жыл бұрын

@@birms3287 But in the French one... the two studio operate almost independently of each others

@McScrubington Жыл бұрын

always love to start my week with the Digital Foundry boys

@deepblue8143 Жыл бұрын

Same, I always look forward to Mondays now thanks to this show. It feels like hanging out with friends.

@Lishtenbird Жыл бұрын

@@deepblue8143 That's called a parasocial relationship.

@guitarsimon1 Жыл бұрын

GT7 on PC would be great for the sim racing crowd, given that's where most of them are.

@jjforcebreaker Жыл бұрын

Arkane is such a sad story. I was hoping for another single player epic. Well, (fairly) recent PREY with DLC is a very hight note to end on.

@Door_Into_Summer Жыл бұрын

At least it's not the main studio. The Dishonored studio still has something big in the oven! Hopefully Zenimax's obsession with live services has ended after Youngbloods, Fallout 76, and Elder scrolls online!

@zaneplatt3533 Жыл бұрын

The reality is that their games have largely underperformed financially. They needed to move away from what they were doing to some extent. The issue is that they should have been given an I.P. ( like Spider-Man with Insomniac) rather than a multiplayer title to do. Blaming marketing for Prey's meh sales is odd because none of their games have been massive successes as they are inherently not that appealing to the average gamer, unfortunately. They make mostly great experiences gameplay wise, but their storytelling is just ok (world building is great, though). BioShock had the benefit of top-tier storytelling as well as good gameplay (the locations were also more eye-catching than Arkanes games).

@thelittledetailscr7231 Жыл бұрын

LOVED Prey

@kennymccormick8295 Жыл бұрын

Prey was boring.

@wile123456 Жыл бұрын

@@Door_Into_Summergod young blood was so awful. Loved wolfenstein as a franchise and a coop shooter could be cool, but forcing it to be a live service looter shooter doesn't fucking work. It should just be wolfenstein 3 but coop and maybe more open levels. I wonder what machine games are working on now because they got a well deserved slap after that last failure

@5persondude Жыл бұрын

I’m interested to see how Ratchet and Clank on Steam Deck. I have to travel for business the week it releases, and it’s much more practical to bring my Deck than lug around a big desktop

@Solegor Жыл бұрын

With SSD it wouldn't be an issue but i expect CPU will just get HAMMERED on there. Maybe if there is aforementioned toggle for GPU decompression - then maybe it could work

@danielcasey6803 Жыл бұрын

Excited for 117 hope it included the ce port!

@jakedill1304 Жыл бұрын

I wish when you're talking about old display technology, you would go into the pitfalls of it's quality degradation over time, and what you should be looking for and what you should be avoiding. Especially with CRTs, especially with computer CRTs, given that some parts on it are irreplaceable, and have a limited lifespan. I remember having difficulty finding a quality refurbished CRT in 2009, I can only imagine how difficult that could be in 2023 where supplies for the components that die with regular use can only be that much more finite... if my understanding is correct plasma displays have all sorts of issues that can crop up as well, and I can only imagine how difficult it could be to suss that out unless you're buying locally and can test it.

@spht9ng Жыл бұрын

CRTs are so heavy and bulky. I would only ever buy them locally. Shipping is insane for those things especially for larger displays.

@hughJ Жыл бұрын

Yep. I have plenty of desk room so space wasn't what got me to finally give up my CRT (I ran a 19" trinitron + 24" LCD on my PC until 2010), but rather it was the degradation of the picture. I would totally have bought a FW900 at that point, but buying a 10 year old used monitor like that is like buying a used BMW -- it's not something you want to buy sight-unseen no matter how cheap it is. Fast forward to today and you're pretty much shopping for a unicorn, and flat panel displays aren't stuck at 60hz 15+ms response like they were 15 years ago.

@modermonkula Жыл бұрын

Loved my Pioneer 1080p plasma, had it for 9 years before it died. Also doubled as a room heater, r.i.p

@alandiegovillalobos Жыл бұрын

Love Mondays thanks to you.

@belzebub16 Жыл бұрын

1:15:52 I have a Yoga 7 with an OLED that supports HDR and I have it turned on all the time with only very little hit on battery life. Because as you say, only when the pixels are lit very brightly they consume more power, which is only seldom the case on most videos as they are not HDR and therefor tone-mapped. Also when gaming it of course looks spectacular with very little battery hit, as you don't have bright elements all the time, but it just looks much better.

@jakedill1304 Жыл бұрын

My biggest issue with OLED HDR is the maximum brightness in a full window always seems to be set significantly lower than maximum brightness in SDR.. which leads to automatic dimming not controlled by the picture or the content, rather the display itself.. In SDR, my C1, if configured correctly has a very acceptable maximum brightness in a full window that I can just set it to... Thus, I don't have to deal with large bright images causing the screen to dim and then brighten again to a much higher level when less of the screen is taken up. For some reason, and I really can't figure out why.. the HDR mode is somewhere between 100 to 50 nits dimmer in its maximum full screen.. and unfortunately it's a difference that is not acceptable, and somewhat difficult to set to... I wish I could just have the HDR mode full screen out to what the SDR mode does, because as it stands it makes it kind of unusable and I just I don't quite understand why.. like if there's a maximum brightness that you're allowing full screen to be in one mode.. why would you make it lower in another mode?

@Oryon7 Жыл бұрын

I don't know if we'll EVER see the full capabilities of the PS5's I/O system. Definitely not in terms of constantly streaming in/populating entirely new worlds, to be specific. It's not that the PS5 isn't up to the task, but we are STILL limited by our current storage devices - their paltry space isn't nearly enough for that specific design case. That's how you can tell that R&C:RA does NOT dump and refill the ENTIRE RAM with unique data(let's assume 10-12 GB or so) each time those rifts occurs. Even with compression, the game would blow that disc space budget REALLY quickly! The PS5's I/O(or even Xbx's) is up to par, but it's overkill for our current storage limits. At 5 GB/s, you can, in theory, blow through 500 GB worth of (uncompressed) data in little over 1.5 minutes! That hypothetical* situation is already 5-10 times larger than some of today's biggest games, data-wise. We lose our sh*t at anything above 50 GB, so just imagine. Obviously, devs would use compression, but the point is that PS5's I/O under the most EXTREME use case scenario, is SEVERELY held back by how large our games files are realistically allowed to be. Download speeds are still lagging in many regions, current storage densities are dated, and solid-state storage is expensive. All these are hurdles the gaming industry will HAVE to cross before we can ever truly see the FULL effect super-fast I/O system can have on our games. That's NOT to say they won't have a significant impact on how games are made, and what they'll allow devs to do, but the industry has much work ahead in some other weaker areas.

@nasser_almashjary Жыл бұрын

OMG LOL you got me with the Pam Pam Puram. I forgot all about it till now 😂

@tdome3000 Жыл бұрын

4:46 link to the video with the taped out SSD pins, plz?

@joesterling4299 Жыл бұрын

The DMCA forbids using anything to circumvent encryption protections. (A specific list of exceptions keeps growing in amendments to the act.) While a Nintendo cryptographic key may not in and of itself be copyrightable, its unauthorized use to decrypt game ISOs I believe would run afoul of this draconian law.

@Vincornelis Жыл бұрын

The fact that 70% of the staff at Arkane left is actually the most hopeful news for the future of gaming. It shows that developers are creative people who won't be forced into making things they don't want to. They'll either leave the industry or regroup in a new studio where they can make games they actually want to make.

@panic_diver Жыл бұрын

If 70% percent of Arkane's developers left, then its not Arkane anymore. Name of a studio doesn't make a game, its the creative and talented people who make up that studio that do. Just like all the Bioware veterans who made DA Origins and ME trilogy left then it was not bioware anymore and ME Andromeda was made by a different team even if they still branded the name of Bioware. People get attached to a company's name but its the PEOPLE who make the game, never forget that. Always look for who is the project lead, game director, creative director, level designer, writer, quest designer because some of the lower level artists who make assets and code are fairly replaceable because the guys who are leading the project have certain expectations which everyone working under them will be expected to meet. But if most of them are no longer there then they might as well change the name of the company. And the fact that 70% people turned over is frankly appauling.

@TheOldest Жыл бұрын

I never lost faith in what developers could produce, the consist hurdle for many questionable decisions. Indie and AA games have been carrying the torch showing what can work when devs can be creative and not driven to chase trends and poorly optimize their work.

@cosmosofinfinity Жыл бұрын

True, at least they were empowered enough to leave a shitty job they didn't want to do, instead of stay on it out of desperation

@Daniel189HLL Жыл бұрын

Obviously didn't want to work for MS

@jorismak Жыл бұрын

57:30 basically every video format after Mpeg2 is variable refresh rate in nature. Every frame has a time code. That doesn't needs to be a specific interval. It can be perfectly captured no problem, by writing the timecode for every frame. Yes, playing that back (specially on NONE vrr hardware ) is a problem. But getting a plot of when new frames are actually written or not is possible FOR YEARS now . This was even a thing when recording dvb-t or dvb-c streams , because when the signal dropped you had to account for stuff.

@voxk790 Жыл бұрын

you guys have made youtube more exciting

@thomaskelly2108 Жыл бұрын

22:00 BGS has that "radiant story" malarky, would work very well in tandom with this new AI.

@JerryFlowersIII Жыл бұрын

They've explained a few times but I still don't get how doubled frames have extra blur.

@Secret_Takodachi Жыл бұрын

The redfall news that cause 70% of the Arkane Austin staff to leave actually makes me hopeful that those people will go on to work with other newer studios that can actually generate the focus and vision necessary to create the next big i-sim. I'm not expecting that kind of game from whoever is left at Arkane because Arkane's problems are bigger than dev level issues.

@cezarstefanseghjucan Жыл бұрын

They left with Raphaël Colantonio to form WolfEye Studios that released Weird West.

@Dale-jr7oj Жыл бұрын

They left after prey lol

@126sebi Жыл бұрын

That Pam Pam param hit me hard lol

@JustCallMePCra Жыл бұрын

4:48 what video is this where they tested the drive any one know???

@willianjohnam Жыл бұрын

It's about time people understand that what makes a studio amazing are the people within it. Arkane died when most og devs left. They've built a new studio which developed a game called Weird West. That game is a really good immersive sim.

@AJ-xv7oh Жыл бұрын

It's not really good. It's widely regarding as an average game at best and can hardly be classed as an immersive sim.

@G360LIVE Жыл бұрын

@@AJ-xv7oh Yeah, I agree. What I've noticed is that when the creative people leave a studio and go their separate ways and work on their own, they tend to produce games that aren't as good. That tells me that it was specifically those people, together, who made a great game. It wasn't one person in the lead position or two people in high positions; it was the entire group. So, unless they can get the band back together, they won't get the same results.

@GodisFrisky Жыл бұрын

Favorite time of the week. Keep up the great reporting, DF Team.

@Mene0 Жыл бұрын

Been using Dolphin for years, but it's hard to imagine why they thought Valve would ever accept them lol

@crestofhonor2349 Жыл бұрын

It's not on Valve though. They have keys in dolphin that shouldn't be there. It's why Retroarch is on Steam and not Dolphin

@ParadoxalDream Жыл бұрын

57:29 mpv is the only video player on PC I managed to get smooth playback with.

@sheppo Жыл бұрын

Supporter question 2. Yes. I have a similar spec PC to you, and I saw a considerable uptick in frame rate on the odd game that still wasn’t hitting my monitors native refresh rate / VRR bracket..After I considered my motherboard to use the correct memory speed.

@discodan2265 Жыл бұрын

Geez I remember only a week ago we had the pleasure of viewing ep 113 ❤

@conmanjones Жыл бұрын

I forgot all about Milo. Solid blast from the past, John

@AAULTEN Жыл бұрын

Starship Titanic tried to take the parser/speech inputs to the ultimate extreme.... and it was still lackluster with Douglas Adams hand writing some 1000s of responses..

@May1stBurst Жыл бұрын

I will be interested to see the section in rift apart where you hit the crystals to switch dimensions. In an interview the devs said they are not keeping both dimensions in memory, they are loading the new one during the flash to white. I expect this game to use all the memory your pc has. I will say if anyone can pull it off it would be nixxes.

@frederikgoogel5611 Жыл бұрын

Didnt they test that game on slower drives? I think spider man for example didnt load more than a sata ssd in any instance. I think normal 3.5gig is just fine for ratched.

@May1stBurst Жыл бұрын

@@frederikgoogel5611 yeah I think most SSDs will be just fine. Mechanical drives? That's a tall order

@12coco100 Жыл бұрын

@@May1stBurst The speed of the PS5 ssd is not the only reason that world loads in and out quickly. The IO does a ton of work. This IO does not exist on PC so they're probably doing it differently on PC so it can scale across all platforms and with alot of ram.

@Dale-jr7oj Жыл бұрын

@@12coco100 lol the speed of the ssd in a ps5 isn’t special Jesus Christ Jimmy Ryan has fooled you

@12coco100 Жыл бұрын

@@Dale-jr7oj I literally said the opposite

@cloudGGs Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@bravebiird Жыл бұрын

ai COULD be nice for like, the absolute most bare minimum of npcs, like the nobodies walking on a street but i'm not about to do quests/content in a game directed by AI. if i'm playing a game, i want it to be made by someone and designed to be fulfilling in some way; i don't want to waste my time on machine-generated content, just the most base form of content for profit

@thorstel531 Жыл бұрын

XMP is just one part of it. With Windows 22H2 now having stuff like Core Isolation and other security features enabled by default, some not toggleable, you are losing 10-15% CPU performance vs 21H2 with Core Isolation disabled right off the bat. Then XMP is 10-15%, overclocking the CPU, ring and memory with subtiming tuning is another 15-25% depending on the game, and like Alex showed in Redfall for example, there are games that have pretty significant performance penalties from having too many threads, typically also double-digit percentage loss once it happens. Typically the increase in CPU gaming performance from normal PC with XMP enabled on mid-range memory kit to fully tuned and overclocked PC is around 20% on average, assuming the same CPU and same OS, and it is a lot of work on tuning, expensive cooling and so on, so it is within some reasonable margin, but if someone doesn't even enable XMP and also unknowingly takes the penalties from all the security nonsense that Windows now shoves by default, this margin can easily reach 40-50%.

@mbsfaridi Жыл бұрын

29:13 Great discussion about Nvidias ultra low motion blur.

@JagsP95 Жыл бұрын

its so good on the pg27aqn im surprised this much value came out of a firmware update lmao

@AceParty Жыл бұрын

I just finished last week episode and DF is LIKE: "HERE ANOTHER ONE BUDDY" haha. I don't mind as I love your episodes, never missed one ❤

@AG-ld6rv Жыл бұрын

I think a living game as a service is a lot harder to code than just a regular game. I'd predict some left due to interests and others left due to the work becoming too difficult and stressful.

@tulkaskiki25 Жыл бұрын

Coldnt you use several cards capturing different parts of the screen and then stitch it back together? 0 tech knoledge here but trying to think outside the cardboard container

@godzillagorilla986 Жыл бұрын

@1:12:00 I cannot emphasize how gorgeous my Dreamcast looks via VGA on my Panasonic Vera plasma. The wide screen mode is unbelievable.

@chaserobison6166 Жыл бұрын

aren't the ratings for ram mega transfers? Which are essentially 2x the rated mhz for the ram? hence the double data rate?

@KrytopsyX Жыл бұрын

14:52 : Well said Richard ! 👍

@ladycuckiri4388 Жыл бұрын

Touching on the Plasma question, I have a Samsung plasma from around 2010 and it has a pretty reliable game mode. I don't have an exact figure, but it feels on par with my TCL QLED from 2020.

@hiyasuamv9776 Жыл бұрын

regarding the video playback stuff, potplayer + madashi video renderer is as smooth as they come

@CptPakundo Жыл бұрын

All this talk about how passthrough isn't useful, and I'm just left to wonder: Why not? Do we not have any means to record the screen using any arbitrary resolution and framerate? The recording itself HAS to be on the capture card itself? Whatever happened to using software like OBS for screen/window recording?

@MisterK-YT Жыл бұрын

Excited to see their thoughts on Apple’s new AR headset and their new Game Porting Toolkit next week

@hansolo6831 Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah thatll be lit

@AndyGilleand Жыл бұрын

I think AI NPCs could be useful, but not for the reason they're discussing here. While AI generated quests may be something to think about for the future, I think right now it would be possible to simply make game dialogue more interesting. How many times are you playing a game, only to hear characters repeating the same lines over and over again? They could record the base set of dialogue with the voice actors, and then use AI to expand on that, generating lines that serve a similar purpose, but feel more unique to that exact moment, and are actually think you haven't heard them say before. The first lines you'd hear in the game would always be the written lines performed by the actual actors, and the AI lines would only be used if you end up going through all the actual recorded lines. That being said, being able to train an AI to do that so well that it doesn't generate things you don't want those characters to say is INCREDIBLY difficult.

@stephensanders2104 Жыл бұрын

THE 7TH GUEST IS GETTING A REMAKE WOW

@NintendoGamer2011 Жыл бұрын

Regarding Arkane, any chance that the two studios (Austin and Lyon) would both move to the Void engine and share tech with each other, a la Turn 10 and Playground? Would love to hear DF’s thoughts, but I suspect I won’t get an answer here…

@DavesChaoticBrain Жыл бұрын

Prices for GPUs NEED to get to sub $500 prices...Too many people just simply cannot afford $1700 for a GPU.

@Ijsje1979 Жыл бұрын

Great show as always guys, All that talk about video capture and video playback...would you guys consider doing a more in depth look at mediaplayers i.e. a deep dive in the use of Kodi , Plex ,VLC, KMplayer , ..... Maybe even a look at HTPC/mediacenter setup possibilities/advice ? I know you guys are probably busy as is ,and it is a bit off-topic from the typical channel content but ; maybe this would be a fun project for the future when/if you have some spare time on your hands ? John must have more things to say on these topics, looking at the setup in the background and considering the things he has been mentioning repeatedly when it comes to tv's and monitors😉 Anyways,.... keep up the great work , Greetings from Belgium.

@FreakEkyth Жыл бұрын

Tune in to your weekly show where -John preaches CRT and low persistance image with no blur -Alex begins to wonder if it is not the games that stutters, but instead his own vision, or even life itself -Richard is there as always as moral support for his 2 sons

@hbala24 Жыл бұрын

DF Sitcom

@itsd0nk Жыл бұрын

Yeah why the hell is it so impossible for properly smooth video playback to happen on PC? Even on Mac OS, this is still an issue in almost all cases. It’s baffling to me that this hasn’t been achieved by some dev team dedicated to this goal.

@goloth Жыл бұрын

Rift Apart could've been on a PS4. It'll have no problem on PC. Other games like Dishonored 2 and Titanfall 2 have done the same instant world switching thing on previous gens. They'd only have to cut out RT.

@machinefannatic99 Жыл бұрын

i dont think the hdd is big problem for ratchet on pc the engine will simply use alot of ram on that game

@BlindBison Жыл бұрын

Why is in-game Motion Blur good but monitor persistence blur bad? I’m confused about that - it seems DF like MB in some games quite a bit but then also prefer low persistence blur monitors? If someone could explain this that’d be great. Thanks

@CasepbX Жыл бұрын

11:05 Titanfall 2 campaign has a time traveling mechanic similar to what Rift Apart does. I wonder if it's handled at all in the same way?

@PositronCannon Жыл бұрын

Titanfall 2 just keeps both instances of the level in memory at all times, which reduces the potential complexity/quality of each instance. Rift Apart can use much more of the available RAM for each individual instance since it can swap data in and out much faster.

@blakegriplingph Жыл бұрын

I think the issue with Nintendo going after the common keys are they _may_ be indefensible in court as such trade secrets have been spread far and wide enough, at least according to ReactOS devs when asked about leaked Windows source code. Another thing to consider is the Texas Instruments signing key controversy where they tried to DMCA various people and websites for disclosing the factored keys used to sign custom OS images into TI calculators. The EFF came to the hackers' aid and stood up for them pro bono. TI saved face and apparently did not pursue further action.

@garethsmith6611 Жыл бұрын

DF, nor anyone ive seen yet has actually realised how big of a deal ratchet and clank on pc is. It's the first ever time a ratcht and clank game will be on a pc platform.

@Kougeru Жыл бұрын

57:40 I've had no issues with potplayer for years

@layton101101 Жыл бұрын

Man I love you guys man. Love this show, keep up the excellent content boys

@PetrisonRocha Жыл бұрын

NVCP doesn't have refresh rate per game control, it only lets you toggle between "maximum" and "application controlled". There is a framerate cap per game, but it's not the same thing.

@paul1979uk2000 Жыл бұрын

There are many ways that Ratchet & Clank can scale on the PC, texture quality is one area, resolution of the textures is another, dumping more of the game into memory is another option, especially as 32GB of system memory is dirt cheap nowadays. The real interesting thing is what they do on the SSD front, and clearly PC's can perform much faster than a PS5 with the PCI Express 4.0 drive, but for me, I'll be interested in seeing if they use Direct Storage, I'll be surprised if they don't, but only 1 games uses it yet and even then, it doesn't use hardware decompression, so it will be interesting to see if it supports Direct Storage and will it use gpu decompression. Another thing of interest will be the minimum specs, I'm sure I've heard that they said this game will run on the Steam Deck, if so, I'm assuming it will be the Steam Decks with a SSD in them, so not the lower end model. Also, assuming the game is a good port, which isn't a given just yet, it will be interesting to see what DF can do with scaling the game down to weaker hardware, whiles not reducing the quality, so basically seeing what performance is needed on the SSD, or if it does use more ram, how much more.

@KNINESVIDS Жыл бұрын

Alex with 5o'clock shadow... Damnnnnn!

@DonovanMcNabb5 Жыл бұрын

Its a relief to hear thar Ratchet Rift Apart might be actually be another great pc port

@shreder75 Жыл бұрын

Ales is a prog rocker?? Who knew?

@hansolo6831 Жыл бұрын

Everyone?

@shreder75 Жыл бұрын

@@hansolo6831 clearly not

@stephensanders2104 Жыл бұрын

I HOPE WE GET The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery A REMAKE :)

@dannystaten5701 Жыл бұрын

Redfall was a reall no-win situation for Microsoft. Bummer situation for gamers.

@austin_shock Жыл бұрын

Growing up, our family room was huge, 45ft x 125ft with a 15ft long fireplace. We weren't wealthy, just that room happened to be too big for one room lol. Anyways, the only tvs big enough were rear protection tvs, and they were great, except for the bulbs burning out. But playing games on them while sitting on the floor close up as a kid was just the best! It was like having a personal IMAX screen lol

@retrosean199 Жыл бұрын

Mass Effect series had the hilarious/bad-on-purpose "VI" terminals complete with pre-baked dialogue of Shepard giving it a hard time. Now imagine that but for real run by a chat bot. Could be good, could be terrible.

@Unexpectedstuff Жыл бұрын

29:06 probably missed a timestamp

@revolutionrespawned Жыл бұрын

encryption keys are not protected by copyright as far as im aware, mostly dmca though is about circumvention which is still an annoyance

@AosZ Жыл бұрын

It was mentioned that it might be good in the future for the CPU to do the decompression. That sounds like a lot of latency and unnecessary bus saturation. Drive -> small data footprint -> PCIE bus -> CPU/RAM -> large data footprint -> PCIE bus-> GPU/VRAM

@Snoop05B Жыл бұрын

On topic of HDMI 2.1 capture cards - what about YUAN SC750N1 ?

@billschannel1116 Жыл бұрын

It's US Robotics 56K but it's with MNP!

@TheAciditty Жыл бұрын

Having Direct Storage in a game that I actually want to play would be nice.

@mjc0961 Жыл бұрын

I tried black frame insertion once. I could immediately see the black frames/flickering, it instantly gave me a headache, I had to turn it right back off. It's never been back on since. If there's some other way to improve motion clarity, I'm all for it, because BFI ain't it for me.

@mjc0961 Жыл бұрын

35:26 - yeah, a lot like what gets described here. It was very nasty. I was on a C2, not a CX, but I wonder if it was possibly the same bug. 🤔 Maybe I will risk turning it on one more time...

@halxen Жыл бұрын

26:16 Alex is on the right thread here. Star Citizen is a good example of where this tech could be well utilized. Both on the dialog side as in the demo, as well as on the "quest giver" side of things given the intention of how that should work in Star Citizen. What they are attempting with their Quantum simulation, and leveraging that to generate probability volumes for the types of encounters or missions you see would be ripe for feeding those details into a generative AI with core pieces of the encounter / mission fed into the AI with weights based on the probability volume in order to have the "flavor dialog" about the mission be more unique and from that AI's (the NPC character not the generative model) perspective of the world based on the information that AI NPC has available to them. The end goal/result is a game world that has a substantially higher level of dynamicism which makes it feel "real" or "alive".

@tburn8888 Жыл бұрын

Is direct storage increase VRAM usage ?, since data are loaded directly to vram without using RAM as a buffer ?

@strangestecho5088 Жыл бұрын

In theory it should reduce VRAM usage, because the data on the drive will be easier to access on demand and less data needs to be preemptively cached in the VRAM. With the quality of PC ports lately however, who knows.

@discodan2265 Жыл бұрын

I'm optimistic we will soon have optimisations on the optimised optimisation.

@Lotus_on_YT Жыл бұрын

42:37 slack jump scare :(

@JayJayYUP Жыл бұрын

John, If you need a proper video playback, try MPC-HC (the open source continuation of a once great video player in it's time). Lots of options, and if that doesn't work, then I'm lost as to what could possibly suffice.

@JohnStrauss Жыл бұрын

Mpc hc with madvr gives me amazing results! I must recommend anyone trying it for proper video playback on pc

@JayJayYUP Жыл бұрын

@@JohnStrauss I reached one John :-]

@JohnStrauss Жыл бұрын

@@JayJayYUP Yup!

@MatthewNichols0 Жыл бұрын

John, curious if you can provide more details on your issues playing video on PC? I've been playing videos with MPC-HC + madVR for years and it's perfectly smooth. Even has a nice status display (Ctrl-J) showing actual refresh rate vs framerate.

@Bazsy92 Жыл бұрын

1:22:48 Many LCD screens have faster pixel response times at higher refresh rates. So even if there is no benefit from a rendering standpoint the display might show a clearer picture even with frame doubling.

@dante19890 Жыл бұрын

The pixel response time doest change u mean the input lag

@Schadows77 Жыл бұрын

AI generated dialogues in game are really promising. I've seen a demo from Straight4 (the new indie studio from the devs of Project CARS after Slightly Mad Studio was acquired by Codemaster) where you can talk quite freely to your engineer through the radio while driving to get relevant data. It was impressive, despite being limited to a very specific subject.

@wile123456 Жыл бұрын

For that stuff it makes sense. But as soon as its used to fire voice actors and writers and save money for the main story and cutsscenes and side quests, that's when it becomes trash and loses all emotion and character so important in delivering a good narrative. For emmergant system driven gameplay it makes sense, but for the traditional stuff it will always be worse

@jfolz Жыл бұрын

Weird to hear this much negativity about the concept. I can absolutely envision character designers essentially writing a small bio for characters (or getting an LLM to do it for them) and simply defining the gist of what they want to achieve in a conversation. Whether that be giving a quest, befriending the player, starting a fight, etc. That would speed up development immensely. What's important in this context is that even big studios like CDPR reportedly are hitting a wall in terms of size and complexity of the game world. This could be a way to push past that wall and create bigger, more immersive experiences. Combined with voice synthesis you would never hear the same line repeated by the same voice actor over and over while you play.

@Chasm9 Жыл бұрын

Of course it's the future. Some people just have a hard time embracing change and innovation for some reason. It was the same story when first automobiles came out, or first airplanes. "Experts" at that time were writing books on "how man can't fly", you can look it up. Even Thomas Edison said that movie camera is a "passing fad". He was wrong. Don't look for answers from experts, they work with limited frame of reference, which is often times too conservative to even conceive of radical shift of a given paradigm.

@awsomeboy360 Жыл бұрын

@@Chasm9 When it start to replace people's job, it becomes a problem. Simple as that. It won't be use JUST as a tool for additional stuff.

@Julian_14 Жыл бұрын

@@Chasm9 yeah people losing their jobs is a good thing. Imagine being this stupid thinking companies will use this to be creative 😂 they’ll abuse it and make shortcuts to making games

@Secret_Takodachi Жыл бұрын

I will never to stop picturing Nintendo's legal department as existing without a giant Klaxon that blares every time they see anything tied to Nintendo on the internet. That would explain why they're so quick to DMCA their own approved footage on approved videos lol

@SomeRandomGuy369 Жыл бұрын

Those gsync monitors are sick.

@Akkbar21 Жыл бұрын

58:00 media player classic plays video perfectly on PC with no issues or dropped frames. What are you talking about? What weird software are they using? I’m confused.

@Judie-Nator Жыл бұрын

One interesting use case could be a mix of prerecorded voice lines and AI generated voices for these NPCs. Like main quest lines are given immediately, but you can ask questions afterwards and it'll give you real time responses

@rouhollahseyfi Жыл бұрын

I don’t understand what John says about double image effect. Can somebody point to an article or explain what he means? When a game is locked and vsynced, the pixels shouldn’t change color until the next frame is ready, wether there is 2 or 4 duplicate frames. How does it have an increased blur?