DF Direct Weekly #91: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Dated, Death Stranding Movie, RDNA 3 Aftermath

[@Brunn0121]

I love to listen to these directs while doing my house cleaning duties. I always save them for such _bespoke_ occasions.

[@Phelaidar]

I listen when I'm taking my dog for a walk.

[@Alexthelion93]

I listen to them at work. Quite awesome and makes everything better.

[@romanbellic810]

I listen to them while watching the video.

[@JaiArah]

@@Alexthelion93 Same. Doing that exact thing now

[@thepadster123]

I listen while I'm waiting for the bodies to disintegrate in my acid barrel. Hell of a lot better than Exorcist 3.

[@MrSTVR]

I don't think EVERY building should be explorable, but I really want more interiors in my open world games.

[@p5rsona]

yes and I want them to be as unique and interactive as real life, even with the people inside.

[@richardhunter9779]

In a Yakuza game, I believe it was Kiwami 2, you can get into a couple of buildings and explore them thoroughly at the beginning of the game. It was pretty cool, but not necessary in any way.

[@George-um2vc]

Yeah, just a few hand crafted interiors with things to interact with and NPCs who have have something interesting to say, but I can see how small touches like that can be a last priority for massive open world games.

[@imadubsfan1]

Same. That's why i'm hoping GTA 6 goes somewhat the sim route where you can go into a fully realized mall to shop, have a dealership to buy cars, be able to purchase homes again or even rent apartments, use toll booths like in 4, go into burger shop, cluckin bell again, and enter more stores for the sake of diversity. If the rumors are true that vice city is going to be smaller, but more dense, this could totally be possible.

[@fr78672]

I think AC Unity had the perfect ratio with a third of the buildings in Paris having explorable interiors

[@ItsAkile]

Insomniac’s output is the result of great management, they set a attainable target and keep two projects going which is pretty cool. I guess I’d like to see them go bigger but I think they found the sweet spot

[@artvandalleigh7894]

I think there might be more to it than that. I did some digging and checked out the resumes of their game directors and, unless I'm mistaken or misinformed, it looks like creative directors serve as consultants or some type of senior assistant for other games before they spin up and lead another project as a director. If this is the case and they do so with multiple senior personnel, I can see how it would foster cohesion, effective comms, and keep a number of important team members on the same page regarding new ideas and lessons learned. Don't get me wrong, I think you're completely right about Insomniac having strong project management as well as both setting and sticking to reasonable goals. I think allows for them to do the personnel & project rotations I described above and results in exceptional workflow. Edit: they also probably have some of the best tooling engineers in the business, I'd imagine. In every interview with an Insomniac dev I've ever seen it always sounds like their engine, proprietary tech, and in house tools are very user friendly while not suffering any shortcomings for long.

[@ItsAkile]

@@artvandalleigh7894 Yep, that last part too strongly. Their engineers are second to none and everyone seem happy with the workflows

[@ItsAkile]

Its been a year or two since I read documentation and or watched a video on this so I really can't remember to link it

[@artvandalleigh7894]

@@ItsAkile same, but considering they turn out new performance modes as fast as they turn out new games I am MORE than comfortable giving their tooling engineers the benefit of the doubt and assuming they're awesome

[@gavingavingavin]

@@artvandalleigh7894 @ItsAkile totally agree with both of you guys. I feel like in the future we will be totally thankful for the talent at Insomniac given the A+ games they make, and they have a sustainable system for retaining/creating the PM/dev/test/tooling talent at their org.

[@TheProphegy]

If these guys were Mario characters, John would be Donkey Kong, Alex is Toad, and Rich is Koopa. 😂

[@hassaniqbal4681]

Tom would be Luigi

[@DGFTardin]

John is the best one then. I belive Rich would be better as Kamek.

[@RiasatSalminSami]

Lmao

[@alexsilva28]

Wtf

[@soulshot96]

You guys have completely lost the plot on the Witcher 3 Next Gen update 'expectations'. I EXPECT my 3090 and 13900k to be utilized, yet in Witcher 3's next gen update, with or WITHOUT RT, the GPU is being under utilized, by a large amount, due to this game being so unoptimized that it is somehow incurring a CPU bottleneck on the best CPU available. Blaming consumers for this under the guise of expectations is pathetic. It's like you didn't even look at GPU utilization and play with the graphics settings to see how poorly the DX12 version of this patch scales. This has been a trend with you guys as of the last year though, either purposely ignoring issues like this, or going out of your way to make excuses and shift the blame for poorly optimized titles. I've been subbed for years, but I've had enough and can no longer support this kinda thing. You guys are in a position to call devs out for a release's technical issues, shine a light on them, and push them to fix them...but half the time you do the opposite now. So I'm gone. I cannot support those that do not support the consumers that get constantly screwed by this industry.

[@taransingh9548]

Witcher 3 next gen comparison. When is it coming?

[@МухаммедАли-б7д]

Next year 🤣🤣

[@johnboylan3832]

When they fix the damn thing.

[@thanksbetotap]

They’ve already said that Tom has been working on it.

[@dzenacs2011]

Nobody cares about

[@MassiveHappyClapper]

I wish all at the DF team and the community a Merry Christmas and if it isn't your thing or you don't celebrate Christmas for cultural reasons. I hope you have a great time whatever you do. Wishing all better health and happiness for 2023. Thanks DF for the entertainment throughout the year.

[@RandomGamingMoments925]

Username checks out

[@spht9ng]

based

[@quickdrawmcgraw3567]

I think "Happy Holidays" is a pretty consise way to say all of that without speaking a paragraph

[@PantsaBear]

​@@quickdrawmcgraw3567 Paragraph more sincere tho

[@maikromm]

@@quickdrawmcgraw3567 yeah wtf

[@JFLTX]

High on life looks good but the colors would pop even more with HDR, no HDR in 2022 is disappointing.

[@jonRock]

This would be a perfect art style for amazing HDR. I just got an LG C2, and it's really hard to go back to non-hdr gaming.

[@MonkDave666]

With so much awful stuff going on in the world at the moment, DF Direct Weekly is like a big comfortable jumper that just makes you feel snug and warm every week.

[@BlammoGer]

Let’s all brace for no new episode next week 😢

[@tememotti]

Where is witcher 3 next-gen pc update breakdown? Man there is lot to go through, are you planning to make a piece from it?

[@monochrony]

38:26 - Again with the middling hardware and "ultra" settings. Guys, come on, like many of us told you on Twitter: The Witcher 3 Next-Gen Update runs bad regardless of settings with any RT setting on. The game runs bad with 4K Ultra Performance DLSS, which is essentially 720p, in the LOW Preset just with RT GI on a 10900k paried with an RTX 3080. This is NOT about "ultra" settings or unjustified user expectations.

[@vgnvideogameninja2930]

Where's that Witcher 3 next gen video at???

[@carlosnascimento9269]

Happy holidays to all the DF crew! Looking forward to your coverage of all the amazing games coming in 2023.

[@tardivedyskenizia4803]

Where's witcher 3 current gen FULL review digital foundry!?

[@bradleydias425]

No coverage of the Witcher 3 issues on PC? Would really like some insights into optimization on mid range hardware.

[@steel5897]

Midrange hardware optimization is simple with TW3. Turn off RT, stay away from Ultra+ settings. That's all you can do for now. And if you want to use RT then cap the framerate somewhere in the 30-50 range (VRR monitor) and prioritize GI and AO over reflections and shadows, RT currently is EXTREMELY expensive on the CPU (yes you read that right, CPU, not just GPU) so capping the framerate lower gives room for DLSS to actually do something.

[@TerraWare]

@@steel5897 It looks so good with everything on though...

[@bradleydias425]

@@steel5897 considering I could get locked 60 on ultra settings before, I don't see how setting it lower helps. I tried the game on low settings and was still getting dips to 45 fps. Reverted back to 1.32 version. Not really worth the upgrade

[@Andarus]

Ignoring the Witcher 3 Update I see.

[@McHox]

completely missing the point with the witcher reactions yet again.. would be a different story if gpus actually got fully utilized but as of now they don't, even a 13900k can't bruteforce its way past the lack of optimization

[@Demmortal]

dont get the arguments about witcher the settings that plummets fps is RT and it's not scalable, people are rightfully mad about it performance

[@czbrat]

Linus going with Radeon is mostly driven by him getting tired of Nvidia prices and trying to bring back competition rather than moving towards full on monopoly. He tried to push Arc as well.

[@VideoWatcher8888]

Did they say anything about covering the new Witcher 3 new gen update?

[@IGotDuhPancakeMix]

Very much appreciate John's point on different outlets having different priorities in terms of gaming performance

[@RiasatSalminSami]

45:41 this is exactly what it is Alex. You are 100% on point here.

[@moonknightish]

Witcher 3 PC analysis when?

[@steel5897]

It runs really well on DX11 but sadly no DLSS there. I'm playing it on RT DX12 capped at 40 FPS and having a great time, the RTGI is gorgeous and a game changer. It seems I can't really get 60 FPS on DX12 even if I set DLSS to Ultra Performance, it feels CPU limited. But at lower framerates it performs smoothly and allows the GPU to flex a bit.

[@celeroon89]

@@names-are-for-friends Yeah it's REALLY wierd that they have'nt mentioned anything about it at all... Feels very suspicious

[@bitbat9]

@@celeroon89 they literally talk about it in this video

[@R17759]

@@celeroon89 Yeah. Must be a conspiracy afoot. That is the only logical explanation.

[@hellwashere3821]

@@celeroon89 they did, he said the port is borked, they proly waiting on a patch

[@FifthOfNovember_Original]

Yes! Thank you John for rooting for UNREAL REMIX! We need to make it happen. If we are never going to get a proper Unreal 3 (or Unreal remaster), then at least somebody make a Remix version happen! That would be so epic. Imagine if we could get a reworked score as well. That would be friggin amazing!

[@MichaelCordeiro]

A smaller world with fully explorable interiors would be a dream scenario for an immersive sim like a Deus Ex game, where looking for your own ways to infiltrate matter a lot. Great episode as always!

[@elektromagnetik2786]

It would be a chore to have to swipe hundreds or thousands of filler interiors hastily made by a dev or AI generated to finish a level. Immersive Sims shines on how carefully crafted their level design are. i think a game like Deus Ex or thief would benefit more by have a single extremely detailed and carefully crafted building by level, than dozens or hundreds of similar looking buildings.

[@charlesshamseldin9555]

Good example. I adored the last Deus Ex warts and all, and can only imagine an even more fleshed out world albeit slightly bigger and with more fidelity.

[@ivan4087]

@@charlesshamseldin9555 youy guys like Bill Gates in 1995 -" no one need more than 4 mb hard disk"

[@speedracer2please]

I bet the Yakuza games would do that, if anyone! They've been iterating on the same small, dense world for almost a dozen games now.

[@charlesshamseldin9555]

@@ivan4087 you're speaking english but I have no idea what you're saying

[@BENergizer1]

John's small existential moment at 1:04:43 about liking High on Life and Callisto Protocol when they're so divisive among audiences and critics brings up an interesting point in general. A lot of critics are hired to reflect the "mainstream" opinion as much as possible, because the outlet hiring them wants to appeal to as broad an audience as possible with their review output. But critics are reviewing things like games often well before those games have come out, so there is no "mainstream" opinion. So you wind up in a feedback loop where a critic says something because that's what they think the mainstream opinion will be, but people reading or watching the review don't have an opinion on it until they hear what the critic says and think "oh the reviews are saying this, so it must be what everyone thinks". For John, I'd say he's wrong for saying that he likes "bad games", he just has different tastes to what a lot of critics do. John's tastes aren't always mainstream, and he's not afraid to say that he likes something or dislikes something based on his own preferences, and that's great! Having a diversity of tastes and opinions about what games people enjoy is really important for an outlet like Digital Foundry with the wide scope of the games and topics they cover.

[@samgoff5289]

There is always a fan base for even the worst games...the game is still bad

[@raresmacovei8382]

I like 7/10 games also, so I'll also probably be happy with both of them.

[@BlackTone91]

John likes every game so he's not a good indicator

[@chilldude30]

True. And I appreciate John's particular taste. He likes a lot of games I can tell I probably wouldn't. Callisto Protocol is a good example. He often like those kind of very 'consoley' games, which I don't really. But I still like to hear his opinions

[@chilldude30]

John likes a lot of games that a lot of the enthusiast gamers consider to be too 'casual'. But his taste isn't actually that strange compared to the population as a whole.

[@sw1zzy940]

witcher 3 next gen coverage when

[@arijitganguly9980]

When are you guys going to make the Witcher 3 next gen update video?

[@ErenTheWarcriminal]

I love John's idea about Death Stranding movie from Del Toro

[@eugkra33]

If Jensen was being honest about the price of silicon being responsible for increased RTX 4080 prices, than that would apply to the 4090 as well. The 4080 is making them more money per mm2 die area than the 4090 right now. It needs to be like $950 to be the same $ per mm2.

[@nisem0no]

After the Witcher 3 next gen update I have no sound at all in-game (only the intro cinematic, after that it's dead quiet), and the game keeps crashing. DX 11 crashes on boot and DX 12 crashes if I alt tab and sometimes on load. Even after the hotfix released today. Really poorly QA'ed patch. Not surprising from CDPR.

[@ronburgundy3172]

not sure how people are still trusting them after the botched CP2077 launch

[@P_OmSa]

29:46 Alex saying "please, be a little bit more reasonable" while wearing a Santa hat is meme-worthy.

[@sermerlin1]

Witcher 3 video... When? What's taking so long....

[@sevach]

38:50 a big part of the problem here is with Nvidia's pricing and the fact that stores are still stacked with 3000 series cards, while it's true that the 3080 is a 2 year old product being replaced, it's still being sold right now to costumers at it's launch MSRP. And it's "replacement" costs twice as much, not really an option, the market is in an awkward place thanks to Nvidia's insane prices. I do see John's point that today a "Crysis" wouldn't be appreciated, it would be derided for running like crap.

[@Doggo-frencton]

Lol stacked with cards maybe where you live but they’re sold out everywhere. Only 3060ti available online

[@emlyndewar]

The "how dare my card not run this at ultra, this game is crap" mentality is worse now, because some people have pissed away so much money on these cards. Expectations are higher than they ever have been, and you can understand it.

[@soulshot96]

Putting this next gen witcher update in the same sentence as Crysis is laughable though, since it doesn't actually stress the hardware super hard...it just doesn't use it. I am almost constantly under 100% GPU utilization with this update, especially without RT. Performance is worse across the board too, even on basic ultra settings without RT. They took a game that ran fantastically, scaled very well with high end hardware and high framerates, and made good use of multithreading, especially for the time, and turned it into a veritable sh*tshow. Even a 13900K and 6400Mhz C32 DDR5 cannot keep a 3090 fed in this mess.

[@Aki_Lesbrinco]

The Aston Martin was a Toyota iq. The car did exactly what Aston Martin needed it to. It was something about complying with gas mileage requirements in some parts of Europe or something like that. Also, I believe Linus's reason for going 7900xtx VS 4090 was because of size and power usage. I think he will use it to replace his current card in a small itx case or in his server room, which he also has limited space for a gpu

[@chengcao418]

7900xtx is less power efficient than a 4080 or 4090. Probably it's just about the size, at least for his VR rig, and no VR game does raytracing

[@zues287]

@@chengcao418 Wrench has ray-tracing in VR. Quite a few games have DLSS added in VR, and a few more games are getting ray-tracing soon.

[@xBINARYGODx]

of course, who cares what Linus does here - when it comes to this sort of stuff, him doing that is not actually noteworthy beyond his fame - but its like hearing your favorite celebrity likes pepsi over coke

[@H3LLGHA5T]

No word on The Witcher 3 Next Gen on PC and it's major performance problems?

[@geralt6530]

they talked a little bit about that

[@deadlyydude5522]

Witcher 3 breakdown on the way? I feel like the launch of the next gen version has been pretty iffy and I’d love to see your analysis of it

[@manudosde]

They seem to blame it partly on user expectations, which considering the state of the patch seems baffling to me.

[@johnboylan3832]

@@manudosde Yeah, it is my fault that I expected to be able to turn on ray-tracing and use frame generation with this update. I wonder who gave me that idea...

[@msansjr]

Death stranding movie doesn't need to include the main cast of the game, it could be, say, about the beginning of the phenomenon. It could be awesome.

[@jonRock]

I agree, and that is probably the route that they will take. Would be sweet to get a Norman Reedus cameo in it.

[@JKHYT]

I think the compromise of getting more raster for your money applies much more at the mid and low range. People spending $1k+ on a GPU want to be able to play the latest games with all the features enabled. That's the whole point of buying high end GPUs.

[@emlyndewar]

High resolutions with high framerates. Also another reason.

[@BoknoyBuhisan]

this episode made me feel more broke than i already are.

[@funtourhawk]

I gotta buy a $1600 GPU every year to run max settings? fuck me

[@ronburgundy3172]

@@funtourhawk only the top 1% can affor such luxuries games are becoming more demanding and pc ports are not being well optimized. So darn it. It's either a 500 console or spending 1600 GPu every one or two years.

[@BoknoyBuhisan]

@@ronburgundy3172 not even 1%.

[@Glotttis]

Problem with Witcher 3's RT implementation is that everything is locked behind the super demanding RT GI option. So there is no way to use just RT Reflections or shadows or AO. And also like mentioned in the video there is no way at all to tweak RT quality, but I think most importantly first they need to decouple RT GI from the rest of RT settings. For example I can live without super demanding RT GI, but I would like to use just the RT reflections, which are far less demanding.

[@Jonatan606]

The real problem is that AMD scale RT performance purely on raw compute whereas Nvidia cards feature decided cuda cores

[@Loundsify]

I think they need to also make it so you can tweak the settings for RT even more like Spiderman.

[@CalebJenei]

I would love to hear thoughts from the DF team about Avatar 2 jumping between 24 and 48 fps. I found it a bit jarring and wished they picked one or the other

[@peterjackson998]

I would love to see an RTX version of the original MDK.

[@anthonymoloney3671]

Seriously was just thinking this 😀. Would also like to see Messiah.

[@BrotherKnowledge.]

I really hate the compmaint about the location of Spider-Man (and Batman) games. Spider-Man (and Batman) are *local superheroes.* They aren't national or international heroes. *The greater majority of their adventures* take place in the city they reside in. *It's been that way for decades.* The complaint is not logical and really unreasonable if the writers are being true to the character. Travel to other locations are rarely done outside of a collaboration or team-up with another hero of some sort. Complaining about a staple of the character is a bit ridiculous in my opinion.

[@TheBean87]

Bang on, but I will add that dlc should be added where something different happens. Smaller scale but different from the main game.

[@BrotherKnowledge.]

@@TheBean87 I'm completely on board with that. A need part of the city, underground - something!

[@TheBean87]

@@BrotherKnowledge. exactly! Or meet up with a different hero somewhere else, just for some variety.

[@pillington1338]

I'd love to see Steam Deck 2 include an OLED screen with smaller bezels, and a next-gen AMD APU at 3nm or 4nm. This would reduce power consumption at the existing settings we have for games, which is great, but it would also likely give increased performance for people that want that and don't care much about more battery life.

[@emlyndewar]

If they throw on a better screen, then they’ll need a bit more power to run the resolution. I’m assuming they wouldn’t put another 720p/800p device out.

[@AndyDo]

Tituss Burgess had better damned well be in Too Many Spider Men.

[@thanksbetotap]

lol perfect title, bravo.

[@weaverquest]

Mark Cerny did mention how the fast SSD and the optimized storage architecture compensated for the relatively low increase of RAM on the PS5 (compared to going from PS3 to PS4) by moving data to the RAM only when immediately needed. If the Returnal PC port doesn't rely on that maybe it just needs more RAM instead? On a related note has the Direct Storage arrived yet on Windows?

[@prismatic9001]

API's are available for direct storage but there's no game support for it yet to the best of my knowledge. Forspoken will have it.

[@artvandalleigh7894]

You're right. Cerny essentially described the ssd and i/o throughput of the PS5 as an equally effective and more financially responsible means of design for the PS5 than increasing the amount of ram several times over. This assumes I accurately remember and correctly grasp that conference though, so take my word for it at your own risk.

[@weaverquest]

@@prismatic9001 Well that's good news then. If Returnal gets Direct Storage support as well perhaps it won't need 32 GB. Unless Direct Storage was more about communicating with the VRAM so I am not sure.

[@weaverquest]

@@artvandalleigh7894 Yup I just checked the video and there is a chapter named RAM utilisation where Cerny explains how with an HDD the RAM needs to store data required for the next 30 seconds while with the PS5 storage solution it only needs data required for the next 1 second since the game can access any data from the SSD very quickly anyway. So the RAM increase between PS4 (8 GB) to PS5 (16 GB) is effectively much larger than 2x.

[@3dgelord187]

Also, all the bottlenecks were removed for free form communications between all the components on PS5. The custom memory subsystems architecture in the console is really a work of technological art.

[@Bill-lt5qf]

new witcher 3 hotfix patch. looks like it's lackluster.

[@DavidFregoli]

Linus doesn't actually play games

[@lovelybitofsquirrel8272]

are you guys making a witcher 3 next gen PC performance video? would love your input on this one!

[@WickedRibbon]

Merry Christmas DF! Thanks for all the brilliant content over 2022 🎄🙏

[@LuigisHandsomeBrother]

I had a bizarre situation with high on life on PC where the Buck Thunder II opening was an absolute powerpoint (3070ti + Ryzen 7) until I turned the graphic preset to low, then the second the actual game started put it back up to very high and it was absolutely solid. So strange for the 2D doom homage not performing but the main game being fine...

[@andypanz]

it's maybe had been shader precompilation

[@LuigisHandsomeBrother]

@@andypanz nah totally disappeared when i set it to low just for the intro, and we aren't talking stutters we're talking 5-10fps full second of input lag etc, then just totally fine after that intro. bizarre.

[@TerraWare]

@@LuigisHandsomeBrother I had a few stutters the very first time I played the game right after you select your character and the aliens land on earth and after that it was really smooth. I actually uploaded the first mission footage with frametime graph and was playing that mission for the first time.

[@EllipseGamer]

Would love to see RTX remix versions of the other Valve classics, especially the Half Life games and Left 4 Dead titles

[@balaam_7087]

Please enable captions for your hearing impaired viewers. It’s particularly necessary when someone is talking off camera and lip reading becomes impossible:/

[@lasarousi]

Auto captions work fine for these guys who don't have thick accents.

[@Joespart9010]

@@lasarousi facts, I turned them on and they’re were pretty accurate

[@mbsfaridi]

They work on. It probably took youtube time produce them.

[@shanilsam]

Great episode as always. Hope all of you get a good break! As a 3080 + 3070 (laptop) owner myself , I'd wager that it's not a case of people with last gen cards expecting RT ultra settings. The issue with a lot of ray tracing implementations is that there isn't a lot of granularity in the settings. It's an all or nothing toggle more often than not. I'm not sure if this is due to the nature of ray tracing , though my lay understanding is that resolution can be lowered for each type of RT. It would be nice if RT settings were more scalable on PC and thus yield more potential for optimised settings.

[@Bunta1987qwerty]

Annoyingly, you’re right. Ray tracing has bounces, resolution, intensity, noise reduction, and other parameters. These can all be tuned in engines like ue5, and I’m sure others as well. Why not have these things in a menu? It’s almost 2023 ffs.

[@discodan2265]

Mewwy Twistmas DF crew. Thanks for making my year enjoyable with all you amazing content, perspectives and banter. 😊 Wishing you warm wishes for the New Year.

[@P_Yeve]

In regards to supporter question 3: I actually think it would be benefical if DF maybe taught an online course (even if it's a prerecorded one) on how to accurately use analysis tools and accurately interpret performance data.

[@Meowinater3000]

You guys should help develop games, Companies should hire you guys out before releasing games

[@jonRock]

They would be an A-tier technology consultant company.

[@craig71686]

The 1650 is definitely still a viable card at 1080p gaming today. My old desktop running an AMD FX 8320e overclocked to 4.2GHz, 16GB DDR3, and an ASUS TUF 1650 OC GDDR6 runs most modern games on medium to high settings without any issues. FSR just makes things even better in the games that have it.

[@Joespart9010]

No

[@speedracer2please]

I had a very similar build until about a year or two ago, but with a 1650 Super and an FX 8150, and yeah it was plenty for everything I wanted to play at 1080p! That gpu strangely had a ton of overclocking headroom, too. I could imagine it would be capable of higher resolutions now with FSR 2.x

[@craig71686]

@@speedracer2please yeah I have some gameplay videos on here of me playing some modern games on it. Definitely runs games better than expected.

[@SoulHackerOfficial]

You just know the Death Stranding movie is going to be 5 hours long at least

[@00Clive00]

Yep😄, I expect every 30 minutes I'll have to collect popcorn from the foyer and deliver it to every single person. And somehow they'll make me enjoy it!

[@Varmint260]

I want to see the PC ports of N64 and PS1-era games given the RTX Remix treatment. The Turok and Star Wars games of that era, Driver, the early 3D Final Fantasy games, etc.

[@J_Rustle98]

1:04:42 1:04:52 This is also me. I haven’t played High on Life, but I’ve really enjoyed The Callisto Protocol. It’s pretty mind blowing that critics seem to despise it. Sure the dodge mechanic is weird and the game is pretty much Dead Space with Josh Duhamel but I really like it

[@NeroVingian40]

True, those two are the biggest flaws of the Steam Deck, the battery life and the screen. Most people can live with the screen, but it’s the opposite with the battery life. All that power, means nothing when games only run 1-1.5 hours on it.

[@FR4M3Sharma]

Alex likes Death Stranding 2, He's a time traveller confirmed.

[@spoonherr]

The biggest problem with High on Life on PC is there is no FOV slider. It is set to default 70, absolutely unplayable

[@lancealex382]

I hope Spiderman 2 looks meaningfully better, or at least has more dynamic, frenetic camera and animations!

[@Charles-hy6gp]

Diminishing returns of graphics, that why graphics hardly evolves over time these days. While the PS4 and PS5 are 7 years apart, the only big difference between both is the resolution and frame rates

[@lancealex382]

@@Charles-hy6gp no it's potential! The ps5 has far more potential that the PS4. Just imagine what naughy dog for example, if their target platform was based on a i9 and rtx4090. It would be immense! But the market of owners with that spec isnt anywhere near enough.

[@azarules69]

My guess for Returnal is that it leaned on the SSD to preload assets, and now part of that workload is being pushed to RAM in lieu of a standardized storage format. Edit: lol they just mentioned it

[@AlistairNY]

Seems like it should be a DirectStorage shoo-in.

[@vstormvbringer76]

Happy holidays guys! Everyone! I'm working! XD

[@mikem2253]

I literally just received my 7900xt a couple hours ago. I know its not the best value but its a big leap compared to my 6700xt for my LG C1 OLED. Factoring in dollar exchanges and taxes, I saved well over the 10% that the US market sees. I guess I am saying that other markets have different price pressures which could lead to more sales of a 7900xt outside of the US market.

[@rare6499]

I just bought an XT as well. I think it should have been £100 less but honestly I think the card is pretty good. At 1080/1440p the XT is exceptionally fast, as fast or faster than the 4080. At 4k it eases off because of its reliance on infinity cache, but it’s still a good card. It offers 3090Ti levels of RT performance which was a 1500-2000 card not that long ago.

[@mikem2253]

@@rare6499 a 3090ti in Canada retails for far over the 7900xt. No brainer purchase for me.

[@rare6499]

@@mikem2253 oh 100%, way less power draw as well. The 3090Ti was always a silly card.

[@codezombiegames]

DF's perspective is only on the reference cards. Some of the aftermarket cards have coolers on a 7900 xt that were meant for the xtx and have OCs that make them a good value.

[@NothingHereForYou]

The push away from “bespoke” handheld experiences designed around the hardware on small portable units to huge handhelds trying to run AAA which will run at low settings and low fps not designed for it isn’t a great move. It’s neat to try these games but I miss older handhelds like DS and psp.

[@thanksbetotap]

Made no sense for DF not to mention anything about DLSS 3 frame generation in their AMD performance comparisons. That one feature makes an incredible difference!

[@johnboylan3832]

I've yet to actually use it. The lag in A Plague Tale is awful, it breaks the framerate in cutscenes in the Witcher, and it isn't needed on either Spider-man games as the 4080 and 4090 run it easily with DLSS Quality.

[@seigfriedmk]

Kojima is a huge film head. Even if he's not directing and just producing a DS film could be huge.

[@GameslordXY]

There is a quite a bit of difference between 2070 Super and 6700XT. 5700XT is 2070 Super level card,while 6700XT is 2080Ti level if not a bit stronger. Well except in Raytracing. In RT Nvidia rules.

[@markhor367]

About the Death Stranding movie, it would be really cool to see other stories in that universe, not necessarily a 1:1 recreation of the game.

[@jordanrich5839]

Thank you, Rich, for acknowledging inflation. As someone who built my first pc 3 years ago, right before C-19, I appreciate Alex's take on future proofing your system. I decided to buy a 2080S and looking back, I'm very grateful I went with Nvidia. I'm able to turn down settings on MW 2/ WZ 2 and utilize my 1440p's monitor full 165 hz refresh rate, while also being able to turn on RTX and DlSS, in a game like CP 2077 or Spiderman. If I went with AMD, purely to get some extra frames in MW 2019, I would be regretting my decision right now. I would be wishing I was more forward thinking and not able to turn on any RTX features in games that released years later. Yes, I know 6000 series AMD can run RT, but the performance difference is massive. DLSS 3/ frame gen, along with high fps RTX performance is why I'll eventually move to a 40 series card. I know AMD's FSR 3 will be good, but I can't even imagine what tech Nvidia will have at that point. The fact that AMD is barely catching up now to DLSS 2, while Nvidia is pushing double the fps of DLSS 2, says everything I need to know. The competition is key, though, so I'm really happy AMD continues to stay close behind. I even hope they close the gap completely, at which point I'll go with who gives the better price-performance, both now and moving forward.

[@Loundsify]

You say the performance difference is massive but the 6800 (none XT) matches the 3060ti in RT so beats your 2080S.

[@jordanrich5839]

@@Loundsify That card released a year later than mine. It wasn't even an option when building my rig. I was just pointing out that AMD did have RT cards released during the last 3 years. (pre 7000) You're kind of making my point by comparing 2 generations ago (RTX 2000 series) to AMD's 6000 series, which released a month after the 3000 series. Pre C-19 is referencing before the initial spread in China. Yes, if AMD had released 6000 series cards a year earlier, maybe I would've bought one, like I said.

[@QellOmnyhydrax]

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays DF! Thank you for everything you do 🙏🙏🙏

[@cromefire_]

I think why Linus is going AMD is just because he has been on NVIDIA for like, ever and so the idea is to just go AMD once to just experience if it's good or not, if driver concerns are just a thing of the past now or if it's still real. He's talking about it in his videos, without ever having given AMD a shot even, so the idea is to just being able to properly assess AMD, personally.

[@Your_Paramour]

Wasn't it spawned from their "challenge" ideas they have on the WAN show? They've done one for linux and are currently doing one for intel arc.

[@sokarash]

Lets see if its permanent. He also switched to Linux for a month and just recently to Intel Arc, but more as an experiment if its actually viable, but with no intention to switch permanently. He is pretty mad with Nvidia, so it would be possible, but if AMD disappoints him, he will just put his old GPU (3090 I think?) back in until the next generation. He has access to all this hardware, but is smart enough to not just get the best thing just for the sake of it.

[@soulshot96]

He's also pandering for views, similar to how HWUB often does with AMD. When you put out so much incorrect/lazy benchmark content, and people stop trusting you for factual reviews, you have to come up with a new gimmick I guess.

[@cromefire_]

@@sokarash not permanently, he just said he'll skip Nvidia 4000, so longer than a month (it's not a Radeon "Challenge"), but we'll see what happens with 5000/8000, probably simply depends who's on top. And I don't think he'll go back to the 3090(ti), the XTX is just simply better in every way than that card, especially because he's only gaming on his system and not doing anything else.

[@cromefire_]

@@chett_manly5386 Nah, he has publicly stated that he will skip 4000, when he says something like that he rarely flips. For the games he is playing (and probably most of us) the XTX will be good enough that he'll probably not even notice.

[@abass1770]

You’re not alone John, I’m very much enjoying High on Life and based on user score / usage data - lots of others are too……I can see the humour being hugely hit or miss though.

[@TerraWare]

It's a great game.

[@jjlw2378]

It's fun and performs well. I'm really happy to see so many good games on GamePass recently. Both Plague Tale games, Warhammer 40K, High on Life, and Atomic Heart are worth a year of GamePass alone.

[@MediaBrad]

I just finished the campaign on gamepass on my series X. Some bugs and the hub world has atrocious framerate but it was an enjoyable experience. Not a game I would have bought for full price so it's nice to be able to play it on day 1 thru the pass.

[@jinpachinko6106]

@@jjlw2378 Sounds more like a "wait until the last month of the year and play the handful of good games for 10 bucks" than "worth a year of" to me.

[@simons5484]

High on life actually received an update to fix the shader compilation problem on PC. That's why people are saying they don't have this problem.

[@i3l4ckskillzz79]

Where's the Witcher 3 review for pc?

[@parker1631]

I'm thinking the Death Stranding movie could be done well if it was a supplemental story to the original instead of trying to adapt the story of the game. DS has an atmosphere and world that could be very cinematic, but the story of the original game was too closely tied to gameplay.

[@StephenTheZ]

John bringing up RLM, the crossover I did not expect to hear today.

[@BoredErica]

Leaks: x2, even x3 perf for RDNA3 AMD: Up to 70% faster Reality: 40% People forgot to take rumors with a grain of salt.

[@dumahim]

Glad these are back on Monday. Helps me get though a dreary day at work.

[@BatTech]

Perhaps in a future DF Direct could speak a bit about decision to destroy Gamestream and how bad it is.

[@nukmuk]

yess pls sunshine is so much worse too

[@xBINARYGODx]

"My name is Alex, I am the sort of asshole who blames the rats but not the pied piper... because I am an asshole - also a proven liar, of course"

43:11 From what I remember, part of the reason Linus said that he was changing to AMD is that his PC is a server and those new Nvidia cards cannot even fit in it. There were other reasons, but I don't remember them.

[@JeremyHansenblue2kid3]

100% agree as an og pc player, games should scale to the future with console settings at higher framerate today.

[@coliander4180]

Funny watching the team desperately trying to avoid calling Linus clickbait.

[@coliander4180]

p.s. Linus is clickbait.

[@Notsram77]

Wow, the hottest take of this year is DF questioning Linus' responsible spending habits XD Did you see how long he drove the 'lambo'?

[@terribletimes902]

The 6800u goes up to 28W, with rapid diminishing returns past 18W. It is weaker than the Steam Deck from 5W-12W, and rapidly overtakes it after that. Valve wants their handheld to continue to excel at those lower wattages, which is a good priority.

[@PeasMedia]

As for the Linus thing I think AMD does have gains in power/performance and definitely the size of the unit would be better for a smoller formfacta

[@Canadian_Gamer]

Let's see Doom3 get the RTX treatment.

[@postjm9]

The answer to Q3 is basically, "There's a reason we do this for a living. It's difficult, and requires specific skills."

[@Kotka1986]

Oh man, that " Which old game would you like to see get the RTX treatment " question really made me pine for a functional Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines RTX version. Dreams are cheap, so I'll add to the list - OG Unreal, UT 99, Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.2 ,Deus Ex , Aliens Vs Predator 2 , N.O.L.F , Kingpin, Soldier of Fortune , Red Faction, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Jedi Outcast, Medal of Honor : AA , Clive Barker's Undying , The Thing. You know what - hell, I'd play RTX Daikatana too. Anyway, thanks DF for the awesome content & professionalism and have a happy holidays everyone :)

[@alexsilva28]

Yo RTX Daikatana needs to happen lol

[@ItsAkile]

I think part of the pain and anger behind not being able to Max your PC settings having a 3090 is also on the massively inflated prices. Besides RT, people need to realize the Target platforms are 2X more powerful raster, magnitudes more CPU and SSDs with direct storage. it’s expected games will be heavier overall.

[@RiasatSalminSami]

What steam deck needs is variable refresh rate screen. Then we can have stutterless uncapped framerate instead of just locking to 30 or 40 [and still dropping below that sometimes and get stutters anyway].

[@doniscoming]

28:40 thank You Alex I love that You pointed that out :😀

[@apalanke123]

Haréis video de las versiones next gen de the Witcher próximamente?? Lo espero bastante graciasss

[@Greenytica]

I think the reason Linus is going team red is a symbolic move in regards to Nvidia taking the piss on pricing. Not that AMD isn't as well, but what else can you do in protest? Not like Arc is much of an alternate.

[@superboss7403]

Don't believe Linus at all he can easily buy any Nvidia GPU .

[@Deliveredmean42]

@@superboss7403 He could, but he want to prove a point. Just because you have the money for a bigger, power hungry gpu doesn't mean you can't try the other options. Buying AMD is still a good choice depending on the product you research for. Which is a concience thing you'll do for anything you do before you buy. Seems these guys are thinking too much on the high end reasoning tho.

[@Wobbothe3rd]

He's pandering to his audience, period. The Arc 770 is a great GPU, btw. Intel already has HALF of AMDs market share on their first try!

[@steel5897]

@@Deliveredmean42 The 7900 XTX is way more power hungry than the 4080 lol

[@steel5897]

@@Wobbothe3rd Then his audience must be redditors. Never seen a more deluded crowd in my life. AMD good please upvote.