DF Direct Weekly

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Rich is still trapped in a white room with two plants, but the Direct discussions continue regardless. Oliver's been checking out Rise of the Ronin on PlayStation 5, Alex has much to say about Nvidia's DLSS-based GDC reveals, while Rich is intrigued by Intel's latest PresentMon 2.0 features. Meanwhile, the surprise release - and withdrawal - of the PS5 Stellar Blade demo raises more questions about our digital library future.
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0:00:00 Introduction and DF merchandise
0:02:26 News 01: Rise of the Ronin preview
0:11:40 News 02: Nvidia announces upcoming game enhancements
0:35:55 News 03: Intel unveils PresentMon 2.0
0:51:08 News 04: Stellar Blade demo released, quickly pulled
0:56:48 News 05: Peter Moore questions the future of consoles
1:12:11 Supporter Q1: Should console platforms let you impose frame-rate caps yourself?
1:19:39 Supporter Q2: What rendering tech will we see pushed after path tracing?
1:27:22 Supporter Q3: Should more developers expose debug menus in their games?
1:31:43 Supporter Q4: What storage tech do you work off of?
1:39:38 Supporter Q5: What would Digital Foundry have looked like in the 1990s?

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@stuartcollins7616 3 ай бұрын

I still can't believe that this is, and continues to be, a weekly discussion show discussing the latest gaming and technology news!

@soulreaperx7x 3 ай бұрын

And they have their own bespoke solution no less.

@Str0b0 3 ай бұрын

@mjc0961 3 ай бұрын

Exclamation point!

@Str0b0 3 ай бұрын

Farewell und auf Wiedersehen!

@ghost085 3 ай бұрын

indeed

@lancealex382 3 ай бұрын

I líke that Ollie is a modern gamer and very reasonable in his overview of the industry, good balance for the team. Much as I love John his tastes are often heavily retro based and Alex is pretty much obsessed with the art and technology over the gaming experience. Richard is the consummate classical gamer, nice balance of opinions and perspectives

@SaigonBrit 3 ай бұрын

What the Dickens happened to Tom? He was awesome!!!

@alexandercheskis 3 ай бұрын

Ollie is a great addition. I mostly align with John's taste and Ollie kinda pulls it all back into a more modern contenxt, which helps me.

@mattmaas5790 3 ай бұрын

Alex isn't not interesting in the overall gaming experience, I don't know where you're coming from with that criticism.

@ThrashingHorror 3 ай бұрын

@@SaigonBritTom is the looks. Need something for the chicks

@AnimeUniverseDE 3 ай бұрын

@@SaigonBritwhat are his "woke" politics that he pushes?

@MarioTainaka 3 ай бұрын

Glad to see Richard is still in the Unreal Engine grey box with plants. Hopefully powered by Lumen.

@tyo101 3 ай бұрын

Nanite optional!

@ghost085 3 ай бұрын

Kinda looks like he is reporting from the toilet lol

@mooferoo 3 ай бұрын

Are you sure it's not a bespoke engine?

@tyo101 3 ай бұрын

@@mooferoo The textures on the plants in the background are so lifelike!

@Str0b0 3 ай бұрын

The plant that is growing from Rich's head seems to be path traced

@chrisbullock6477 3 ай бұрын

I wished there was a RTX Remix update for Batman Arkham Kinght and a AA fix

@THU31 3 ай бұрын

I don't think you can Remix DX10+ games? I think it's only DX8 and DX9 (fixed function, so not unified shaders).

@chrisbullock6477 3 ай бұрын

@@THU31Come to think of it, you're probably right. I think RockSteady used a Modified version of UE3 with some tools of early UE4. But still DX10. Thanks for the info, would of been a great title to see RTX Remix used.

@mattmaas5790 3 ай бұрын

Why not arkham city

@chrisbullock6477 3 ай бұрын

@@mattmaas5790 why not every game?

@dapope3673 3 ай бұрын

Hi gents. The audio podcast is cut off at the beginning this week

@BurritoKingdom 3 ай бұрын

Makes sense why Matthew Perry is one of the bosses. He forced Japan to open up by firing cannons off the coast. Led to the fall of the samurai and the rise of ronins.

@peckc16 3 ай бұрын

I teach US history and his name is the only thing to do with Japan in our state standards aside from WWII.

@TylerHNothing 3 ай бұрын

Should be Matthew *Parry

@alyxoj1361 3 ай бұрын

He must have lost a lot of friends.

@Wolverine3196 3 ай бұрын

"open the country. stop... having it be closed"

@mi2-c035 3 ай бұрын

Boss or friend late in the game? Previews don't talk about it due to embargo but in the website it does list the westerners as basically one of the factions you can side with.

@MP-dz7vy 3 ай бұрын

Oh, so the PS5 Pro leaked specs will be talked about until next week. Shame, was looking forward to listening to that conversation this week. Maybe a DF Direct Special is on the table?

@PDXpunk 3 ай бұрын

On Patreon they have said they are gonna try and do a Direct Special on the PS5 Pro this week if they have time. They have a pretty busy schedule this week.

@realmatic10 3 ай бұрын

I’m looking forward to their coverage as well…but ‘Moore’s law is dead’ has a decent video breaking down what the specs indicate, if you haven’t seen it already.

@user-rc1ok6cn2b 3 ай бұрын

They are not confirmed. It looks like the CPU is the same, so it won't be that big of a jump. I will definitely wait for PS6 with the exception of GTA 6 going at 60fps and with a great graphics mode.

@tomohawkcloud 3 ай бұрын

@@user-rc1ok6cn2bthey haven’t changed the cpu. It will run the same as base ps5

@yonkocommander5531 3 ай бұрын

@@user-rc1ok6cn2ba lot of different outlets are echoing the leaks, at this point it’s pretty much confirmed

@HuggieWuggies 3 ай бұрын

the worst part of Stellar Blade is the fact that there is no PC version (for now)

@joeydirt420 3 ай бұрын

How typical.

@silvershroud6263 3 ай бұрын

Originally game was called Project Eve and it was announced for Xbox and PC as well. Sony noney hatted it and made it exclusive 😅

@pvim 3 ай бұрын

it should eventually come to pc, considering the game is made by a korean dev and korea has a very large pc user base, i think releasing it on pc after some time would be the optimal decision

@acesaunar 3 ай бұрын

good thing we are getting The Descendants, but it is a looter shooter though

@Shantara11 3 ай бұрын

No redundancy for DF media archive?! Seems crazy that you’re willing to risk losing tons of unique footage in case of a single drive failure. Please invest in a NAS with multiple disks in a RAID array.

@TylerHNothing 3 ай бұрын

53:34 what’s weird is that it was speculated on Reddit the day before the demo went live and was pulled, that the demo would release the next day. So how did news of a “release” “leak” if it wasn’t supposed to be released?

@TylerHNothing 3 ай бұрын

I think the demo WAS supposed to be released but was pulled for some reason

@TonkarzOfSolSystem 3 ай бұрын

You're assuming that the post and the demo leak are related.

@TylerHNothing 3 ай бұрын

@@TonkarzOfSolSystem right. It’s a weird coincidence

@tomsimmons7673 3 ай бұрын

@@TylerHNothingit was datamined on the store back end.

@SplitScreamOFFICIAL 3 ай бұрын

1:45:00 Analog Foundry sounds like a great April Fools vid

@Apoplectic_Spock 3 ай бұрын

Passive Menis wins the "Name of the Week" award!

@Dick_Valparaiso 3 ай бұрын

I wonder if he's been around or has had any effect on our dear friend Agonizing Rectal Pain?

@ketchupcatsup753 3 ай бұрын

U guys ARE the coolest

@rfdebeaumont 3 ай бұрын

Closely followed by "Buge Honer" ;-)

@prick_slickfield 3 ай бұрын

Doesn't hold a candle to Dr. I. Krappenshitz from a few weeks ago.

@MarcoPaints 3 ай бұрын

Huge missed opportunity to deliver "we have much to discuss" like Worf!

@diegopinon5275 3 ай бұрын

Digital foundry in the 90s could have been a show on some kind of science channel, since tv was way more relevant at the time

@34sld 3 ай бұрын

Really? Go play PS3 then comeback

@diegopinon5275 3 ай бұрын

@@34sld did you reply to the right person I was addressing the 90s digital foundry questiom

@OtakuBenny2210 3 ай бұрын

Well Richard used to write for computer and video games magazine in the 90s.

@jwhi419 3 ай бұрын

@@34sldi do every day.

@epiccontrolzx2291 3 ай бұрын

54:45-55:15 I'm sorry to say, this is no longer true. Steam demos, especially those from the "Next Fest" events will fail to launch and give you a "no licences" error after a predetermined amount of time. I still had the Lies of P demo installed and I tried booting up and found out this was a thing. Same thing for the Dread Dawn demo. Needless to say, definitely NOT happy to discover Valve and/or developers have the ability to brick games you already have downloaded on your system. It's one thing to delist games but to disable games you already have downloaded is disgusting.

@mechanicalmonk2020 3 ай бұрын

It's a demo ...

@epiccontrolzx2291 3 ай бұрын

@@mechanicalmonk2020 it's already on my pc...? Not to mention, Alex specifically brought up demos. If you're OK with corporations being able to retroactively brick games you installed on your pc, that's fine I guess. But, I'd rather draw the line here. When I first saw the horse armor dlc in Oblivion, I didn't think it was a big deal, never expected the industry to be where it's at now

@ThatVSMBro 3 ай бұрын

@@epiccontrolzx2291you keep saying games but it’s a demo

@Feanaro5503 3 ай бұрын

When Peter Moore said the execs at Xbox were having discussions in 2007 about whether that was the last console generation, what they really meant was it was the last console generation they would be competitive.

@phrozac 3 ай бұрын

Post path tracing tech frontiers to be pushed I hope is a return to physically based particle simulation e.g. smoke, fluids, fire, destructible materials...leave the billboard sprite based particle systems behind and pick up where Nvidia PhysX left off. I think this could enhance visuals to a huge degree. Imagine the atmosphere in a game like Bloodborne 2 if it were using path tracing AND super realistic mist/fire/smoke. Also cloth simulation such as for non flowy bits like sleeves and pants where cloth deforms accurately according to the mesh it drapes over. Artists already use that with Marvelous Designer to create realistically draped clothing. We just need that to be able to run in real-time for games.

@_jn0298 3 ай бұрын

Rich looking angry on the Thumbnail hehehe

@madjoe8622 3 ай бұрын

Stellar Blade

@ShayONFury 3 ай бұрын

You know Persian New Year and as tradition you give thanks for your blessings and one of the few i have is DF Direct! It feels like just bunch of friends talking about nerdy stuff you can't talk with others and you're a part of it. Cheers!

@EnimVinco 3 ай бұрын

Yes pack in Digital Foundry magazine discs LETS FUCKING GO

@tomsimmons7673 3 ай бұрын

We have a local Beer named Commadore Perry after him, from Great Lakes Brewery.

@ZenOne7 3 ай бұрын

The Finals destruction appears to be heavily physics based? Regardless it is incredibly satisfying to play because of it.

@KBroly 3 ай бұрын

"Licensed online machine." I imagine any online storefront can do the same, console or pc.

@kingbuusaki7130 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for giving us early frame test on Ronin. Much appreciated

@charoleawood 3 ай бұрын

7:36 Sad that we've come to the point of saying "Overall, the graphics look 'fine for a Team Ninja game'" --- Team Ninja used to set graphical standards on console!

@anngo4140 3 ай бұрын

I remember playing Ninja Gaiden 2 on the 360 and I thought it looked meh in 2008

@charoleawood 3 ай бұрын

@@anngo4140 I think that Ninja Gaiden 2 looks excellent on 360 but remember that other games were targeting 30fps and not hitting it --- NG2 was targeting 60 (and hitting it most of the time).

@GameOverMan76 3 ай бұрын

Not for nioh 1 or 2. Graphics have have never been their strong suit

@charoleawood 3 ай бұрын

@@GameOverMan76 Never? Go look at Dead or Alive 3 --- that's an og Xbox launch game but you could fool someone into believing it's a 360 title, it's that good looking.

@oninomiru 3 ай бұрын

Wo Long also had pretty heavy performance issues till about 6-8 months into game's life cycle too.

@jacktyler1082 3 ай бұрын

@Digital Foundry Stellar Blade demo wasn't deleted on ps5s, people who downloaded it just couldn't start it anymore if they stayed online because they had no license for this demo.

@neonswift 3 ай бұрын

As someone with diabetes that tracks my sugar levels on my phone, the very idea of any device manufacturer managing the content on my device is unnerving. It shouldn't be allowed legally, regardless of the software. Games are just one of the early examples of this being a problem.

@TRADESMAN-xt4ce 3 ай бұрын

I think rockstar is going to do some crazy physics in gta 6

@ascendantMethEnjoyer 3 ай бұрын

Oliver's understanding of the industry is quite sophisticated. He has to suppress his power level because the show would expand beyond its acceptable parameters, becoming something much more profound, perhaps something new and without definition as we currently understand modern commentary and media recording.

@matthewsalmon8194 3 ай бұрын

are you being sarcastic?

@TylerHNothing 3 ай бұрын

They’re tech nerds, not your average consumer or business specialists

@ascendantMethEnjoyer 3 ай бұрын

@@matthewsalmon8194 such a sophomoric question to ask

@ascendantMethEnjoyer 3 ай бұрын

@@TylerHNothing Oliver is treading a measure with the gods

@windmacher 3 ай бұрын

maud dib of df

@djtomoy 3 ай бұрын

You can tell not much is happening the week as they start talking about ray tracing pretty quickly

@franzusgutlus54 3 ай бұрын

Remember those impressive physics demos when UE5 launched? What happened to that? Why arent devs using that?

@user-lb9nz1ld7f 3 ай бұрын

So this is the stellar blade meme guy.

@magnomliman8114 3 ай бұрын

yup lmao.

@drewl8119 3 ай бұрын

Last topic made me go and flick through my Edge editions Zero and One. What an era.

@garethsmith6611 3 ай бұрын

I would love to see some digital foundry merch such as keyrings , etc.

@victory7763 3 ай бұрын

That last question had a fascinating response

@walterwhite2148 3 ай бұрын

Some gigaton news over the weekend though, look forward to your thoughts on the PS5 Pro confirmed specs

@joshyoerger5271 3 ай бұрын

30:49 A strongly worded email, eh? I thought the lore was that Alex has a personal line to Jensen’s office. 🙃

@cheese_crab 3 ай бұрын

At 2:15 I'm imagining the scene from Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse in UHF where the prize is to drink from the firehose but with a t-shirt cannon 😄

@FhargaZ 3 ай бұрын

Steam is doing real family sharing now as a beta, the same thing that you guys pointed out some time ago 👍

@xaaeon 3 ай бұрын

I'm almost certain I've had demos from NEXT Fest installed on Steam and when I went to play it later on the option was gone, but I suppose I never tried just running the exe from the install directory.

@steel5897 3 ай бұрын

I want more stuff like RTX Remix from Nvidia, enhancing older games. I want a universal machine learning solution for AA for these older games, whenever I go back to them the outdated spatial AA solutions are never good enough, it's impossible to avoid shimmering and alpha artifacts. Yes DSR exists, but if you're on mid-range hardware like I am, that's only viable for very old games, but there's this midspot in mid 2010s games where they're new enough to still be demanding at higher resolutions/FPS, but old enough that they don't have good temporal AA solutions, a game like Batman Arkham Knight comes to mind here, it can still be very demanding if you supersample it. And hell there are some NEW games that run on older engines and their image quality is abysmal, like Helldivers 2. I'd love to apply a driver-level AI AA method to games like that.

@AltCutTV 3 ай бұрын

VHS to supplement the paper of course. :)

@fullauto86 3 ай бұрын

Ah god finally, I wait all week for these.

@-PVL93- 3 ай бұрын

Warms my heart to hear Alex watches LGR content, there's so much neat stuff especially if you're a PC hardware geek and have a nostalgia for the old times

@pikkadorfkapiko1911 3 ай бұрын

Is there any chance, John could do a "pillars of a great modern pixel art game" - video, like he kind of did with what makes a good platformer game? Not genre-specific, but looking at aesthetics, consistency regarding to the chosen pixel style, which options and accessibility should be kept in mind, etc. I would love to see something like that!

@DieselJT 3 ай бұрын

Stellar Blade looks soooooo good! Really excited for this release! The character designs are top notch! Hopefully we will be seeing more characters like this in other upcoming games.

@Cblan1224 3 ай бұрын

Agree. Western devs suck for catering to the .00001%. It's ridiculous

@Ian-Omega 3 ай бұрын

Alex got roasted for his take on it. He said he felt “uncomfortable” and that the character design is from a “bygone era”.

@Cblan1224 3 ай бұрын

@@Ian-Omega I love and appreciate Alex. I'm not sure if he was trying to make a joke or if he is on some woke nonsense, but he deserved to get roasted on that one. We need to empower devs that still express creative freedom

@DieselJT 3 ай бұрын

@@Cblan1224 agree 100 percent!

@rewpertcone8243 3 ай бұрын

@@Cblan1224 didn't know straight white males only made up 0.000001% of gamers

@Gillhawk 3 ай бұрын

Love seeing Oliver on DF direct! Keep up the good work everyone!

@jonathanisom 3 ай бұрын

Olie being optimistic of being able to use a 56k modem in the 90s. I remember using a 2400bps and after that 33k modem back then.

@lennymarinez 3 ай бұрын

your boi roshi is the youtuber who made the video. great video btw in case anyone wants to watch it. very funny too. you'll see why

@splashmaker2 3 ай бұрын

Finally, time to replay Portal!

@lagrangemechanics 3 ай бұрын

Regarding the "animation stutter" when you guys were talking about the updated PresentMon, wasn't there also a similar issue with Deathloop with mouse inputs on PC on release (I think it was subsequnetly patched out?)?

@I_Am_Gassy 3 ай бұрын

52:00 Spider-Man 2's update IS forced if you have a digital copy of the game, they just can't (or aren't willing) to do this with physical copies of the game

@Rolodzeo 3 ай бұрын

DF Retro x LGR A match made in heaven!

@Neonmirrorblack 3 ай бұрын

Wanted to play Rise of the Ronin, but was debating holding off on getting it for the PS5 since the initial footage looked so rough, and this cinches the deal. Waiting for the obvious PC release. Also, the way DF would be in the '90s was described by Oliver, it would basically be Diehard Gamefan.

@CompleteAnimation 3 ай бұрын

1:49:25 If you are interested in working on role-playing 90s video game content, look up Tyler McVicker. He had a project a while back where he would "stream" with period appropriate hardware.

@Kiyuja 3 ай бұрын

I 100% agree with Alex here. The lack of DLAA in DLSS games is infuriating, especially when other AA methods aren't stellar. If I have enough horsepower then let me get rid of all potential artefacts that could arise while also taking advantage of the nice AA effect that DLAA would bring. I dont get it honestly...

@itsalwaysdarkestbeforethes1198 3 ай бұрын

Internet: “RotR graphics are TRASH” DF: “It’s a noticeable upgrade and we’re totally fine with the visuals given the performance lol”

@randydonovan7844 3 ай бұрын

People always complain about something it’s ridiculous

@NotCharAznable 3 ай бұрын

People don’t know anything about tech. They just boot the game up and turn their brain off. It’s the same brainlets who participate in console wars, preorder, etc.

@ransom7813 3 ай бұрын

I could be wrong, but I think most people are referring to the uninspiring artistic/visual design of the game when they say the “graphics are bad”. I wish more people tried harder with their word choice.

@chacharealsmooth941 3 ай бұрын

The game looks dated. Even if it's an upgrade over previous work. Thank fuck performance seems appropriate with that in mind.

@progenlock7785 3 ай бұрын

⁠@@ransom7813If only. Many people don’t even recognize what art style is and how it is different from fidelity/resolution. People complain about it looking like a PS3 game as if the textures are all blurry and bad… when it undoubtedly looks significantly better than any ps3 game. I think pop in is the big issue really with the game visually

@TheNerd 3 ай бұрын

"Full-Raytracing" to me is what Blender, Maya etc. are doing, which would equate to about 1 Frame every 10 minutes -to 24 hours (with the 3D Software using the tensor cores). So there is still a LOOOOOOONG way to go.

@antivanti 3 ай бұрын

90s Digital Foundry would be fun. But you'd also have to produce the entire video using a Video Toaster!

@islaymmm 3 ай бұрын

Fyi Perry is one of the most famous/popular historical figures in Japan. Everybody knows who he is, and if there's only one historical figure you take away from your history class he's definitely up there. There were also some flash memes when that was a thing.

@wltdo6930 3 ай бұрын

I personally don’t think there will be such a long cross-gen period next time. There (hopefully) won’t be a pandemic causing such supply shortages, plus with resolutions staying at max 4K (due to 8K tvs not taking off) there will be a bigger leap in visuals because all of the extra horsepower will be going towards better visuals rather than some of it going towards a render resolution increase

@steveco1800 3 ай бұрын

I think cross gen is because development costs are so high they can’t release on a smaller install base, so need to be cross gen until there’s enough next gen consoles out there.

@wltdo6930 3 ай бұрын

@@steveco1800 fair point

@Oldskoola 3 ай бұрын

Also there will still be the potential for 60fps on next gen and 30fps on current gen besides higher internal resolution.

@wltdo6930 3 ай бұрын

@@Oldskoola I would say this is less likely because new consoles are normally roughly 10x as powerful as previous gen, so a 2x in frame rate means games would be highly restricted by old gen

@joxer 3 ай бұрын

DF in the 90s? I think around 94 (in Canada) we were amazed that you could get 500MB drives for "just" $500. Not a typo, that's megabytes not gigabytes. My computer was a Pentium 90, later modded to 180 MMX and a 3dfx pass thru graphics card which handled games only. My first computer was a Commodore 64 in 1982, 64k of memory, 8 bit processor, but some built in stuff for sound and sprites including sprite collision detection etc. The external floppy drive cost as much as the C64 itself.

@DarqStalker 3 ай бұрын

John Ledderman would be perfect for the 1990s DF style review.

@mr.b1613 3 ай бұрын

Helldivers 2 has good physics

@mikeylcr7531 3 ай бұрын

The hair rendering in the Gamers Nexus clip is next level

@moker1215 3 ай бұрын

Protect Oliver.

@millrrs 3 ай бұрын

Will this week have a DF Weekly extra? About what was leaked?

@tooocoldd 3 ай бұрын

Every time I watch this pod I’m like gahh damn this is nerdy but I love it

@theoathman8188 3 ай бұрын

Alex at 1:23:32 forgot Control. The physics in that game was very good.

@GamerInVoid 3 ай бұрын

Did you just say the RT mode hits 60 ? In my testing with the early build, the RT mode seemed like even less than 30 FPS at points.

@McNaireXstream 3 ай бұрын

Washing my car and waiting on this drop. YT kept sending me the previous video just because I didn't finish the last few minutes 😅

@kirion111 3 ай бұрын

never play a TeamNinja game on launch day always wait 1 month

@slashdot431 3 ай бұрын

A bit surprised that DF uses a bunch of drives to store content, given their scale. While convenient, it makes backup managing a nightmare. Usually this means untested backups made at random intervals, if at all. This works until you get a drive failure and realize your backup is old and/or corrupted. A centralized storage server with automatic backups is much cheaper than it seems (r/datahoarder is your friend), and avoids a lot of future headache =)

@aldoelektrika 3 ай бұрын

That cloud pop-in at 9:51 is a lot

@caio5987 3 ай бұрын

It looks awful

@zezizezseze7544 3 ай бұрын

"for Team Ninja the graphics look fine"😮..They used to be amazing regard graphics quality.Still remember how Dead or alive 2 and specialy DOA 3 were top notch quality.

@gaddeath 3 ай бұрын

That was Team Ninja over 20 years ago and not using more open environments like their current games.

@cosmosofinfinity 3 ай бұрын

I think Team Ninja might be in a Bethesda Creation Engine situation where they are still used to designing their games in an old way with old technologies, but it might be a big risk/burden to get them off of it and learn the new ways at this point

@leruty 3 ай бұрын

Sounds like that they could release "Rise of the Ronin" on PS4 with just 30 fps of course

@vitaobatera 3 ай бұрын

21:10 - Nvidia said during the 20 series launch, that Path tracing is EVERY ray tracing that we see, even a single ray is Path traced, instead of Ray traced... And this means that only the rays that "hit the camera" (after a predefined amount of bounces) are calculated, not ALL rays emited by the light source (that would be mental). So everything we will ever see is path traced... otherwise it would be way too costly. So yeah...

@chrono_s9699 3 ай бұрын

Can't wait for discussion on PS5 Pro specs

@Saturn2888 3 ай бұрын

My dad took a bunch of videos and video tapes and used a Capture Card and Adobe Premiere to make a video it send to his family in another country. He only used it that one time, but he spent every night doing it for months.

@Bill-lt5qf 3 ай бұрын

I would like to see what presentmon 2.0 thinks of Sekiro. It's capped as far as i remember, but had horrible consistent stutter even with no obvious bottlenecks.

@FreeAssange556 3 ай бұрын

1:39:07 So how many Mammoth are we talking here?

@hododod246 3 ай бұрын

Glad that you handled the preview section like champions. I saw lots of people from media complaining with visuals and showing the hypocrisy of gaming community. For months it is discussed about how AAA gaming is sustainable, how bad is the lay off. But lots of people were like "this look like sh*t. This looks like PS4 game"

@gavinderulo12 3 ай бұрын

The RT shadows through RTXDI in star wars outlaws is actually great news. The shadow maps are my biggest issue with frontiers of pandora. I've gotten so used to the pixel perfect shadows in cyberpunk PT and Alan wake 2 that they really stick out in avatar. This would fix that.

@JiajuChen 3 ай бұрын

Heck, I wonder if all big game studios even have that kind of powerful tool at their office. It might not only be beneficial for the reviewers and review watchers, it might even be very, very helpful to game devs. Ultimately, this is definitely a great move from intel and will befit the entire industry in the long run.

@thekingchem8800 3 ай бұрын

LGR shoutout! Awesome channel

@domi_dreams 3 ай бұрын

Hey Digital Foundry!!! 😉 The community DEMANDS 90s-style of Direct Weekly on the 1st of April as the April Fool's joke-type video ❤❤❤ Please, make it happen guys 👍

@AntonyHollingworth 3 ай бұрын

Matthew Perry is a Modern Era Great Admiral in Civilization VI. He was added in the Babylon Pack. Movement to Modern and Atomic era naval units within 2 tiles. Matthew Perry can be retired to grant enough Envoys to become Suzerain at a city-state, then removes all other players' Envoys. He was an American naval officer who stopped Japan's isolationist policy by saying "Open the country... Stop having it be closed." - Bill Wurtz

@Synkhan 3 ай бұрын

In the Rise of Ronin footage you just showed, I think I just saw cloud pop in?? 9:52 What is that? A skybox state change maybe?

@dan_dai 3 ай бұрын

Can't wait for Stellar Blade! pre-ordered and excited to play that game :D

@Coldmud 3 ай бұрын

The esteemed bois are back!

@ivandimitrov7994 3 ай бұрын

On the question of ai used for physics, ue5 already has cloth deformation baked with ai.

@CurtMudgeon 3 ай бұрын

I wanna try that bespoke mineral water solution Alex is flaunting around so carelessly. Can I get it in Ameriland? Forget German beer, I want the water!

@Thomashand1209 3 ай бұрын

I'd love to know what Sony or PlayStation did to Alex 😅😂

@EarthLettuce 3 ай бұрын

I can vouch for the theory on uncapped frame rate. When I upgraded from a 6800xt to a 4090, Baldur’s gate 3 began stuttering when the frame rate was uncapped.

@band0lero 3 ай бұрын

Wouldn't that be related to a CPU bottleneck? Baldur's Gate 3 is very CPU intensive. Usually if you're GPU bound there's a bit of benefit when you cap your framerates but it's more related to lower input latency, akin to what reflex does.

@faultier1158 3 ай бұрын

@@band0lero Well, frame rate caps would allow you to stay below your CPU limit most of the time.

@CassidyListon 3 ай бұрын

The podcast feed is messed up. Starts abruptly in mid discussion.

@FrancisBurns 3 ай бұрын

PresentMon 2.0 sounds great! Hopefully we'll be able to figure out what the hell happened with Startfield. A 4090 should be getting above 120fps in 4K.

@mikeadams1371 3 ай бұрын

Did atomic heart ever get the ray tracing patch for PC?

@Coldmud 3 ай бұрын

nope

@theunbearablejuan 3 ай бұрын

@@Coldmud They are still promising that it will arrive at some point.

@Coldmud 3 ай бұрын

@@theunbearablejuan I think this game was the 2nd time I ever saw raytracing in action in 2018. The demo is still available to this day, mindblowing it still hasn't been implemented.

@malamri424 3 ай бұрын

I'm down for a PS5 Pro. Most AAA games run low resolutions in performance mode on the PS5. More resolution is always welcomed.

@FigmentHF 3 ай бұрын

I have assume that frame pacing, motion blur shutter speed, camera panning speed etc, are all considered very low priority for devs because most audiences aren’t going register these issues? I get a sense that Japanese console gaming has a tradition of assuming that consumers don’t really care about niche technicalities, however it also feels like it’s shifting now.