hogwarts legacy is a ps4 game at its core
While I agree that Nixxes' ports havent been running all that well on equivalent AMD hardware, i think 2025 is too late. Nixxes is VERY productive. They managed to get Spiderman ported in 7 months. Miles in 3 months. Ratchet in 7 months, and are likely heads down porting Spiderman 2 as we speak. I think it will be 6 months max now that they pretty much know the engine and have the baseline engine ported to PC. With the spiderman ports, it was RT. With Ratchet, its the ssd streaming. Spiderman isnt doing anything truly new or innovative like ratchet so it should be a quick and dirty port. Sony had no problems porting TLOU to PC just six months after launch. They will do the same with spiderman 2 and get it ready before the fiscal year ends in march.
Pretty sure the comparison was Psycho GI to Raster and not path tracing going by the comment accompanying it.
you can select path tracing from the drop down.
it is not about time limitations though
Yeah, I disagreed with arkhamguy on that point. Blaming PC ports is easy and convenient. I think the bigger problem is lack of talent, lack of ambition and a focus on 60 fps at higher resolutions. We just saw both Avatar and Alan Wake 2, two next gen darlings in this thread, get 60 fps modes on consoles. Cyberpunk might be last gen but its still a stunning looking game on consoles at times, and it also has a 60 fps mode at 1080p. I think that resolution is fine for 60 fps. Its when we see 1440p 60 fps or in insomniac's case 1800p 60 fps in non RT modes where im like what are we doing wasting 75-100% of the GPU rendering 60 fps at higher resolutions.
Most PS users don't know or care if any of the games come to PC or not, it's only on enthusiast forums like these that people do
I've got no idea how much money it makes them but I think some part of this is them trying to build an audience on the pc for when they start dropping gaas stuff day and date on both platforms so people will have played sony published pc games already and don't avoid the gaas releases in a screw you sony i'm not playing your gaas shit if you wont give us the good stuff aswell type mentality.
This Hardware unboxed comparison is excellent, one of the best path tracing comparison ive seen, and still made me laugh at the same time. It actually shows how little of a difference Psycho RT made 3 years ago for 50% less performance. Standard rasterization looks better here while Path Tracing obviously looks the best.
Still you gotta wonder why their GI system is illuminating the ceiling. What light source is even psycho RT is using to bounce off of the ceiling?? It seems to me that their lighting system is borked and they are using path tracing to render what shouldve been rendered correctly in the first place.
I went back and pulled some pics of other games and they dont have the same issue with improper GI illuminating the ceiling and other objects that should remain in shadows.
I started the video from scratch and either way it looks about 1000x better than FM7. So happy Forza Motorsport has finally left most of the "gamey" feel behind. It's looks so much more grounded and contemporary, even on the XSX.
Then, that should be even less taxing on the hardware, YET we still don't even have that in 2023
Yeah, this was leaked before. Definitely a good idea. Dunia is now extremely dated. I was shocked by how poor FC6 looked.
Depends on the scene ofc. It's up to the developer how to best use the available resources. Just wanted to point out that there are several ways to go about this.
Yes, but do you really want that? It's make-believe fireworks with no true interactivity.
even GTX 780ti worse than on PS4
Stahp! I was so disappointed when I learned that they had pulled the demo from the PS Store. I was so eager to try it out and see what the hullabaloo was all about.
we did enjoy it back in the day and I even got a kick just watching that video of it that I posted earlier
you sound like you haven't played the game
PRAISE THE LORD
God yes,
Honestly, those screenshots are quite incredible.
MJ looks great. Those other screenshots look last gen as fuck. How can you be ok with that kind of cutout 2d cardboard quality buildings??Hmmm I wonder how the comparison's would look like if you didn't cherry pick the worst frames from the SM2 gameplay previews? Let's see:
Honestly, those screenshots are quite incredible.
But just to put it in perspective, here are some spiderman 2 comparisons.
Insomniac needs to throw this engine in the trash. And then set that trash on fire. And finally scatter the ashes in the Mississippi river. Then nuke Mississippi just to be sure.
If sony doesnt want to pay Epic the insane 12% cut they are asking for then go and make Decima the goto engine for ALL Sony studios. Do what EA did with Frostbite, but instead make it an engine that EVERYONE at sony can modify and improve. I loved what KojiPro did with the Decima engine. They were doing their own commits instead of simply borrowing the engine. they helped develop it. And looking at how beautiful the cimematics looked in HFW, it's obvious that GG benefitted from KojiPro's changes. I want ND, SSM, Insomniac, Sucker Punch and Bluepoint ALL working together to make Decima as good if not better than UE5. I want ND's motion matching, Insomniac's Ray traced reflections, GG's character models, Sucker Punch's foliage all in SSM's next game.
Use the PS5 geometry engine, primitive shaders, and all that IO to maximize its potential. Get something like Nanite in there. It is obvious that after three years, Sucker Punch and ND are not even close to showing their next game because of all the backend work needed to get each engine these so-called next gen features. No, have ONE engine so that when one team implements ray traced reflection or realtime GI or physics, everyone gets it automatically.
CD project has realized that despite having a great engine, the time needed to get these features in is time that couldve been spent on making the actual game. lets hope sony devs realize this.
i think mid gen refresh is playing the PC version in path tracing.
Then it's extremely silly to compare it to Spiderman on PS5.
why? its a last gen game with path tracing being compared to a next gen only game.
eh. I thought we were just talking about how their path tracing is basically extra shadows that their base engine couldnt do at all times. I have posted countless comparisons of how little difference path tracing and ray tracing makes in this game. Even in non-RT modes, Cyberpunk looked better than miles in 2020 because of its fantastic city buildings and lighting that was way ahead of spiderman. Now 3 years later, on a next gen only game, insomniac has no excuse.
