I should note that the missing transparency effect at 3:30 actually is in the scene on the pc version- but it has inexplicably been moved down to the base of the platform, orbiting the blue ring with other particles now. Maybe this was a bug in the original, since it still fits when moved like this.

that loading speed test with changing ram speeds, core speed, nvme speed, all of that is what makes me love Alex's review videos! Keep up the good work guys

I hope many of the issues get fixed in time for PC, they don't break the game but it truly deserves to be a classic release given the tech behind.

Alex's content is beyond anything else in the KZfaq PC gaming space. I just love every detail in each video. Excellent work again!

I truly appreciate all the amazing work DF does. There simply is no other KZfaq channel or publication that is as in depth as DF when it comes to visuals/performance analysis

Great video Alex! Very good to show the impact of background programs. Would have never thougth they would impact GPU performance.

Great to see a developer offering their own form of upscaling technology

I love your testing so much! The amount of testing and research that went into it is insane. The fact that you give tips on what settings are increasing performance with minimal graphical fidelity is a godsent! Thank you so much.

From their track record, I'm confident that Nixxes will quickly patch the game up.

Man the difference the amount of background apps makes is really significant especially for gpu ram.. I guess most applications do use a significant slice of gpu (as well as the windows dwm)

YESSS!! I've been eagerly waiting for this episode! Thanks for putting this up.

Finally, the deep dive is here

Loved the HDD/SSD/NVME comparison!

Released 28/07 - Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart PC Patch/Hotfix 1.727.0.0 Release Notes Resolved visual issues with characters occurring on certain GPUs, including AMD Vega based models. Improved the visual quality of vegetation in ray-traced shadows and ray-traced reflections. Implemented a fix to make the Texture Filtering option work as intended.

Great analysis - loved that you paused in the 4-way comparisons between different quality settings. Was very useful!

fantastic work Alex and the digital foundry team.

What a huge amount of work is done. Thanks!

Great video as always! I gotta say the HDD/SSD comparison was really fantastic. As someone who played this game through first time on PS5 I don't think it really sunk in at the time just how impressive the portal and loading sequences are.

There we go, I was waiting for this!

So my boy Cerny wasn't lying about PS5's SSD at all. So people can finally shut their front doors about those claims ! And wow PS5 is obliterating 2070super according to both this video and NxGamers inspections. Tried with 3080 12gb, without any reconstruction at native 1440p ultra settings, 60 fps locked is impossible. Gamernexus was comparing Ps5 gpu to gtx1060, 2 years ago :D :D.

It's good to see it's not a broken mess. But sad it was semi-rushed to avoid August. Guess it will be a buy later next month after the next patch. Thanks for these great PC port reviews as always Alex

Nice work Alex. Thanks for the effort you put into these videos. Fellow tech nerds like me appreciate it.

That stutter ABSOLUTELY crushes that moment... holy poop. 19:02

I love these P.C. settings breakdowns. Thank you!

Even in its lowest settings, it looks decent. I'd say good job to Insomniac and especially Nixxes for a good PC port. This year has been rough for PC ports

I believe the difference in speed between PC and PS5 might largely be due to different memory models: PS5 probably uses unified memory (like Apple M1/M2), whereas PCs have separated "system memory" & "GPU memory". With DirectStorage, on PC data still needs to move from NVMe --> System RAM --> GPU Memory, while on PS5, it's just NVMe --> (Unified) memory. This "one extra hop" on PCs system has to be eliminated to remove data shuttling overhead.

A stunning piece of work Alex. Waiting another month for release would have been preferable for a better day one experience, if not for a stacked August/Sept release schedule.

thanks for this video alex, really appreciate the effort and time this must have taken; even mentioning todays update aswell. keep up your good work and auf wiedersehen :D

You guys are doing great work. I am also loving my new way of being a 'patient gamer'... The difference in experience is worth it for me and you get these game for peanuts a lot of the time.

Fantastic Optimisation and comparison Vid 😊💪 Thx👍 For Remnant 2 this would be also great when it goes out of Beta 😁

Incredibly thorough review, great work!

Great detail review Alex, thank you.

Glad Alex is mentioning the flashing making it harde to spot differences when changing options. It's the same with those comparison shots slowing fading over from left to right. Our brains aren't build to handle that well.

Alex goes balls deep in the pc gaming space guys. Bravo mate.

Great job man, very thorough.

Very comprehensive work with the strage stuff 👍

It's an amazing feat just how well this game looks and runs on a PS5. Getting it to run well on PC's with multiple configurations is outstanding.

The HDD bugs is very similar to that of CP2077. You can play CP on a high-end system but if it is installed on an HDD that is nearly full it feels if the bugs increase exponentially.

Amazing work as always from Digital Foundry

I got excited as I saw the notification, really enjoying this wonderful game and I can finally optimize the settings better. Thank you Digital Foundry for your work, excellent and well explained as always.

Watching these PS5/PC comparisons really brings to light, just how optimization Sony devs put into the console. It's always mind blowing what the wizards at Sony can accomplish with less specs. Seeing how heavy it is on PC proves, the differences aren't as stark as you'd imagine either... 😮

Shame to see it lacking in some areas, seems a great port in general but could still be better. Hoping when I finally get round to buying this in sale it's fixed.

Incredible as always!... Thanks Alex.

Great video Alex. Lived up to expectations.

Just got the game today. I have a system with 5800X3D, with an RX 5700XT, I was playing on high settings @1440p still on first level was consistently getting 65+ FPS. Then made some settings based on Alex's optimisation guide, only thing I don't have is dynamic resolution, I have it off. Still in the early levels, getting 70-95 fps in most areas with some going to 65, nothing lower than 60, so pretty good experince and no crashing. I have Radeon image sharpening set in my amd control panel and have the texture filter set to perfromance. I also have the game installed on an NVME Gen 4 ssd.

I would really like to see how the loading times scale with pcie gen versions. Gotta test that gpu decompression!

Amazing work Alex 🤘

great video alex ! i really wish we could see a more in deth comparison betwen nvidia, amd and intel gpus and upscalling technichs in the future. Thansk for all your work !

Stunning game. Still looks better than games being released this year!

Weird thing is I had the issue with HDD with my SSD ....though after a reboot it was fine so i suspected it was because i was running programs using up memory as some of the programs i was using had memory leak issues

Great video and analysis 🙂

13:11 This C&C Tiberian Sun music (the track is called "Valves" by the way) brough back memories

I wonder if the PS5's ability to share CPU and GPU RAM together gives it an advantage for loading lots of data - a PC has to pipe the data across the PCI slot to the GPU. Maybe not, since a second run on the PC was near flawless, with data already loaded into system RAM, which still needed to be piped to the GPU. All this said, this was the first game I played on the PS5 - and it was like playing a Pixar movie. The graphics were so beautiful everywhere, I couldn't tell what to shoot at sometimes.

Was chomping at the bit for this analysis to be released!

Niceeee i've been wainting for this vid

Thank you for the video, Alex! Superb work as always! One thing I noticed was that the Nvidia Reflex and Frame Generation having some sort of an FPS drop bug as well. With those two on, the frame-times are all over the place. I think the port needed a solid 1-2 months more in the oven, but then again, it is already good enough to be played if you have a 4090 and a beefy gpu and an nvme drive. I've got 5800X3D, 4090, 32GB 3600mhz ram, and Nvme Gen 3. I have not encountered any bugs except for the strange FPS drops with Reflex and FG, and textures not loading in (even after the hotfix), and getting stuck when jumping in certain spots. The latter two of these were somewhat addressed with the hotfix patch, but not fully. Turning off FG and Reflex and utilizing the Dynamic Resolution with DLSS fixed FPS drops and it is now a solid 120fps at 4K DLSS (it looks exactly the same as DLSS Quality, and slightly better than with the FG on). The rest of the issues I have are so minor that they don't affect the overall experience. There's a superb port underneath here, but it just needed 1-2 months in the oven. I do slightly regret jumping in early, but at the same time I got the game at 17% discount from already a lowered Steam price vs PS5 version launch price, and I'm having a few days off work so now is the time to game. For sure, I'll be playing this game twice as well.

I've seen the falling in place bug a few times on the PS5 version, but that was over a year ago. They may have patched it.

Pretty crazy how damn fast that PS5 machine is. Great Job Sony with that SSD and Kraken

Max spec PC portal sequences still slower than the PS5 is interesting

Excellent deep dive, as always.

For the raster only crowd, this game runs and looks amazing without RT. As many have said it looks like a Pixar movie at times. Running the game at 4K, very high, HBOA+, FSR 2, I have had zero stutters or crashes so far with a 6800XT, 5800X3D, GEN 4 SSD and 32GB RAM. Great video and analysis.

I got a ratchet t pose during the DirectStorage scene you’re using in your intro. Looked funny while riding that dinosaur thing. Otherwise no issues. Maybe I just didn’t notice texture issues, so I can’t say. Runs like butter at everything maxed on 12700k, 3080 12gb, gen3 nvme ssd @ 1440p with DLSS quality (had all RT settings maxed, so I used DLSS to ensure high frames).

The problem I’ve had with this game was when Clank's rescue sequence over that speedle snails, from the last quarter of the chase to the end, everybody but Rivet was in slo-mo cam

Been waiting a while for this

Couldn't it just be a gdeflate vs oodle decompression situation as well as different sequences sizes in mipmapping (because the ps5 just need to store one particular precompiled workflow)?

So the PS5 SSD is no joke 🤔

Always great break downs

Great video, will definitely wait a bit. Sadly my waiting for Returnal to be fixed will not yield anything, the last patch they released was in April. I doubt they have been working on fixing the game for 2 months and they rather abandoned it :(

The lack of AMD RT at launch is nonsensical, especially since the hardware in the PS5 is AMD and it's supported there...

Alex makes the best videos on DF

I found in my testing. My RTX 3090 was hampered by the processing power of my Ryzen 9 3900x. It seems with fewer faster cores is still better than more cores. I found the beginning area with the crowd was especially hard on my computer slowing to a awful 15-20 fps when looking a certain direction and the same was said with Savali.

Even though I have a pretty high end PC, I'm more interested in how this will run on my Steam Deck tbh.

The title is wrong. This game fully supports Polish you can switch to it through the game's properties on steam

something i noticed at 3:31 that isnt a transparency issue the shader with the effect on it has been moved down you can see on the platform that it does have it which begs to question if the other effects have the same issue and they still exist but not in the proper position

Nice video, as always. I would've like to see also settings for the PS5 Quality mode

In real time no one can spot the differences. You've gotta pause the game to notice the difference of a $400 console and a $2000 PC. We have definitely hit the point of diminishing returns.

These Games from Sony on PC just make PS5 more appealing...

1:50 A simple alt-tab out and back into the game fixes this. Also any setting that changes display solves this. 2:54 It was fixed, but for it to work you have to disable DLSAA/DLAA for it to take effect. After that you can enable again.

I commented on the last video that the PS5 Kraken decompression chip is probably why warping is faster on PS5 since it is solely dedicated to the task, and, as usual, excellent video!

You should try the time trail, on my 4090/13900KS even with a 7.1GB/s NVME the portal transitions there are so bad. Where as the other usual portal transitions are fine. I think it's because it changes so quickly in time trial, and loading multiple at once.

I've had mixed results when it comes to performance with this PC port. Looking forward to the game a lot since I've been playing all the predecessors in my youth on playstation. Before booting it up for the first time I of course checked my trusty DF review to see what settings to go for. Couldn't spot any major issues here like many other ports these days have which was kind of a relief (sad to have to say that nowadays about PC games). Playing it for myself it looks a bit different than in this review here. For the most part, let's say 85%, it runs really good. But there are still a lot of weird stutters every now and then which drastically reduce the fun of a fast paced game like that. I can't really pinpoint where these stutters come from, they sometimes feel like shader compilation stutters but then they also sometimes don't. Hard to put my finger on it. I have a pretty decent machine running a 3080 suprimX, a threadripper 2950X, 32gigs of 3200 CL14 Ram and installed it on a 970 Evo NVME. At first I accidentally installed the game on my SATA SSD and figured I should probably move to something faster. Doing that maybe made things a little better, but not how I would like the game to run. Other than that I also stumbled upon videos which would show a weird performance bug the game has and the solution seems to be to switch between different display resolutions in game until suddenly the performance locks in and gains between 20 and 40fps. I will try that for myself today but I think I might just wait a little longer until some patches make this the experience it deserves to be. Thank you for the awesome video, Alex. Vielen Dank und Gruesse aus Deutschland!

The low resolution texture streaming issue has now been fixed as well. Just looking for them to fix the RTAO implementation a little bit and the LOD of distant objects (which could be affected by the texture streaming fix. I haven’t tested yet).

RTAO + RTR causes some horrible issues with water reflection, surprised this wasn't mentioned.

Very good video, given your RAM testing results, my guess is that the differential is that the PC is still doing some stuff in RAM affecting it, the PS5 only has VRAM, so it has much more bandwidth available. So the solution would probably be moving mroe stuff to GPU but in turn that increases VRAM requirement and I expect the porting team have had to make compromises as not everyone has high VRAM GPUs.

Alex is a true blessing for PC gamers. Keep up the great work

on my rx6900xt with a nice measure of UNDERCLOCK (-500mhz core plus undervolt), the best settings i found was : *high settings preset* *4k w/ dynamic res ON, no upscaling, TAA* *90 fps target* *VRR, VSYNC OFF* I didn't mess with graphical settings themselves, but i'm fairly happy with the results. it sticks close enough to 4k that it looks better than an upscaled image (no artifacts and no loss of performance from the upscaler, so the base resolution is higher than it would otherwise be), and it stays around 94 to 98 fps, which is plenty fluid for me. all while using only between 145 and 160w of gpu power, which is lower than an rx6700xt. i think it's around what a 6600xt uses, actually. the underclock is there because my gpu has insane coil whine at stock settings. doing this makes it completely go away for very little performance loss (~10%) and absolutely huge power savings.

Command and Conquer Tiberium Sun music! Very nice 👍🏾

If they iron out some of the kinks, this game can truly be an amazing showcase of scalability on PC

Good thing I was planning to play in English, not Polish

That RLM Mummy reference was impeccable

THIS THE VIDEO I WAS LOOKING FOR. Already over halfway done with the game on my 4090 but if I see optimized settings imma try it.

I have had a lot of problems with DLSS and Frame generation causing weird ghosting, is there any way to fix this?

People hyped this game to death but only 7000 players peak players on Steam even at launch speaks all about it.

I hope DF can do another analysis compared Windows PC versus Linux and Steam Deck to PS5 loading times. Linux is day one compatible with Proton API when it comes to Ratchet and Clank and I've heard good things as well with Proton-GE further fixing things which are problems in the Windows counterpart.

Thank you DF!

Thanks for giving RTAO some more deserved attention. Along with RT shadows those should be actually given priority in games to fight light leaking / bleeding. But sadly in 2023 this is still an issue, that game devs do overlook. Awesome initial job by nixxes

Transparencies are the main thing that a well tuned and hybrid rendering structure can work with. FFXVI seemingly extensively uses a combination of RT and Raster shadows. A lot of the Raster Shadows being for transparencies like foliage.

Awesome video 👏 👏 👏 👏

Surprised they didn't make a bespoke loading animation of Ratchet flying through the portals to be honest.

How can you miss the Ambient Occlusion glitch ???? Water bodies flicker when anything different than SSAO is selected.