Author: Richard Leadbetter

We’d been expecting a game to arrive that would practically demand that you upgrade your PC hardware, and it’s not entirely surprising that it would be Remedy’s Alan Wake 2. However, what we didn’t expect was it would be support for DX12 mesh shader hardware that would be the dividing line between a good experience…

[ad_1] The latest edition of DF Direct Weekly arrives today, discussing Red Dead Redemption’s 60fps upgrade for PlayStation 5 consoles, plus controversy surrounding Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport presentation – where debut media features ray tracing effects considerably more impressive than the shipping game’s. We also follow up on our recent coverage on AMD’s FSR 3 frame…

[ad_1] Last Friday, AMD finally released FSR 3 frame generation, its answer to Nvidia’s DLSS 3. Two titles had supported added: Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum. We’d already seen demos of both games under controlled conditions at Gamescom back in August, but this was our first chance to go hands-on and to truly put FSR…

[ad_1] The arrival of the $599/£589 GeForce RTX 4070 continues a trend of Nvidia’s RTX 40-series GPUs: performance remains strong, thanks to the efficient Ada Lovelace architecture at its heart, but in terms of ‘frames per currency unit’ this is more of a sideways step than the genuine generational leap that the 3070 and 3080…

[ad_1] This isn’t the first path-traced video game we’ve ever seen. Nvidia – and even modders – have revisited legacy PC titles from decades ago, revamping their lighting with full path tracing. Quake 2, Portal, Half-Life 2 and several others have received the upgrade – but Cyberpunk 2077’s RT Overdrive is something quite different. It’s…

[ad_1] DF Direct Weekly goes live a day early this week, not because of any particular urge to liven up your holiday weekend (assuming you have one) but rather to make way for a raft of embargoed content we’re expecting to deliver next week. In this week’s show, I’m joined by my #FriendAndColleagues John Linneman…

[ad_1] We’ve already shared our thoughts on The Last of Us Part 1’s PC port, but the frustration and disappointment crosses over into this week’s DF Direct Weekly, beginning with our thoughts on how we would actually cover a game that is clearly some way off completion? Digital Foundry has been trying to carve out…

[ad_1] The Last of Us Part 1 on PC puts us in a somewhat difficult situation at Digital Foundry. How can you produce a technical review for a game that is essentially unfinished and – at the time of writing – has already received two hotfixes? We’re told that a further patch is coming…