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TheRedRiders
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Apollo Helios
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lol ofc no
Imtjnotu
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This is exactly what Cerny spoke of in the road to PS5. Essentially doing what horizon zero dawn did in its engine just on a faster more detailed level.
Lysandros
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The onboard DRAM is next to the flash controller, the I/O complex within the APU has SRAM in it.
kyliethicc
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Horizon ZD and tons of other old games use view frustum culling for rendering what's in view, etc. But its all still in RAM on PS4.
On PS5 tho, they can move that data not being rendered out of RAM, as Cerny was saying. And then load it back into RAM as the player turns the camera. Its a fucking massive difference. The PS5 I/O is like a multiplier on RAM capacity, in a way.
azertydu91
Hard to Kill
I have no idea, sorry.
TheRedRiders
Member
Horizon was using a technique called "frustum culling", this culls geometry and textures outside of the players view frustum, here's a illustration to show you what's going on.
This method saved performance and memory a lot on PS4 however these kind of techniques we're extremely held back, mainly by two things, the first being the slow HDD's which meant that geometry and textures would take too long to stream in and out of the view frustum which lead to a lot of work by developers to ensure it functioned properly. The second thing holding it back was the extreme lack of programatic control over triangles and polygons on previous gen hardware, this lead to triangles being culled late in the pipeline and there was no fine grain level of control which cost a lot of performance. Apparently, this was one of the reasons why God of War (2018) ran so hot on the PS4 Pro.
Now thanks to features like PS5's Geometry Engine, Primitive and Mesh Shaders, developers can now have full control over which triangles/polygons are being rendered or culled, this means that the GPU won't be stressed with unnecessary workloads such as processing vertices for culled triangles. The fast SSD also ensures that data like geometry and textures will arrive on time as the players frustum moves and turns which can allow for significant increases in performance, fidelity and effecieny.
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Apollo Helios
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Why I get the impression almost no one here had played hands-on Housemarque's Returnal... The teleportation stuff through gates and portals, and loading in just a second when dying with skipping cutscenes immediately... These are all live proofs that are in the hands of gamers.... Then we have DirectX diary videos with some demo screenshots of some alphabet word mash stuff like Velocity SFS UltraDeluxe Smart Plus XXX Intelligent Max etc. show the games pal, as some very hated suit once said, "let the games do the talking"
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
The interesting thing about Remedy's statements are they said it should get a lot better once we are past cross-gen.
I think it's down to what fast i/o enables.. you aren't going to build a cross-gen game based on a better data streaming approach, you are going to build it based on 5400RPM drives. You also can't really utilize the CPU... or potentially the wider GPU.
FatKingBallman
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There are devs which said that XSS didn't hold them..... but they did mentioned YET. Like Metro devs
ethomaz
Banned
Another FUDeer lol
TheThreadsThatBindUs
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Eh? J. Stevenson is the community manager who works at Insomniac.
Are you confusing him with J.Schrier?
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ethomaz
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SlimySnake
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Yep. There is a lot of data just sitting there in VRAM taking up space because it simply needs to be available in case the player decides to go in a different direction. not a problem in linear games, but in something like Spiderman, they need to load far more than whats in front of the player. That comes out to be the next 30 seconds of gameplay the player may or may not traverse through.
On PS5, its down to the next 1 second. It's a paradigm shift. I dont think even devs have begun to realize what this really means for video games. Loading, level switching and fancier graphics are just the immediate benefits.
Zadom
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I actually like that SenjutsuSage posts because I enjoy and learn from the responses like yours. So even if he doesn’t read them I do.
But I hope SenjutsuSage can realize that both systems have their advantages, one is not the best at everything, otherwise he’s being close minded. Saying that, I know I can be irrational at times on certain subjects as well.
Sinthor
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Yeah. If I wasn't clear enough as well, I DO think it's a cool feature. Just not something I personally feel is a necessity, since these systems load games so quickly anyway. Still very cool though!
ethomaz
Banned
Same washed out gamma found in PC.
Seems like a RT implementation issue.
Maybe they will fix it.
Just give me MotorStorm I'll die happy, can't believe I waited the whole last generation in vain for it! would be great to see WipeOut and DriveClub make a return too
I mentioned this about Returnal, lol.
Returnal, Astro's Playroom, Demon's Souls are games right now that shows what the PS5 SSD, I/O can do....and its early gen.
Viking Warrior
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The PS5 culls triangles before they reach the geometry pipeline.Horizon was using a technique called "frustum culling", this culls geometry and textures outside of the players view frustum, here's a illustration to show you what's going on.
This method saved performance and memory a lot on PS4 however these kind of techniques we're extremely held back, mainly by two things, the first being the slow HDD's which meant that geometry and textures would take too long to stream in and out of the view frustum which lead to a lot of work by developers to ensure it functioned properly. The second thing holding it back was the extreme lack of programatic control over triangles and polygons on previous gen hardware, this lead to triangles being culled late in the pipeline and there was no fine grain level of control which cost a lot of performance. Apparently, this was one of the reasons why God of War (2018) ran so hot on the PS4 Pro.
Now thanks to features like PS5's Geometry Engine, Primitive and Mesh Shaders, developers can now have full control over which triangles/polygons are being rendered or culled, this means that the GPU won't be stressed with unnecessary workloads such as processing vertices for culled triangles. The fast SSD also ensures that data like geometry and textures will arrive on time as the players frustum moves and turns which can allow for significant increases in performance, fidelity and effecieny.
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FrankWza
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The point is that it gets called out at all. That shit doesn’t happen, especially with a new console. For limitations to be pointed out from release speaks volumes
First high profile one - also I guess just calling it PRT example is underselling what it was doing a bit They had entire world as a virtual-texture and implemented a completely new content-pipeline for it, including custom compression scheme (arguably superior to what SX/PS5 have in hw in terms of compression-ratios) and PRT scheme on GPUs that had limited hw-support for it.
You can see it in the video that occasionally textures load in with slight delay when camera turns. It's really easy to demonstrate in the initial area since it's flipping between vista/near-field detail. The engine was intelligently caching data to HDD as well, so Optical drive wouldn't be trashed by repeat access, but that's a method many streaming engines of the era utilized already.
What I meant is RAM didn't really drive the fidelity decisions here - Rage was ultimately limited by available storage size, I/O bandwidth, and GPU throughput.
Tripolygon
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Seriously that’s why I hate “discussing” these things now. I’d rather just simply agree to disagree and move on. Before the consoles launched, we had all these debates but now these consoles have launched and it’s time to show not talk. PS5 exclusives have made a case for how fast the PS5 SSD and IO are. These games launch very fast, loading in 1.5 seconds. 3rd party games have shown PS5 to be every bit as capable as Series X. Others are busy arguing about acronyms.
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That's because it has a direct sister console that is the more powerful / on par with the competition in terms of capability. No other console launch has had two tiers.
Garani
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When Math is not your forte. If you need 4Gb, you load 4Gb. It won't "feel" like 12 by any mean. It's math.
No, it does not. It's a powerful feature and has it's own merit. But it is NOT the same as the PS5 I/O solution.
Please, just drop it. XSX/S are NOT the same as the PS5: Microsoft's architecture has its own merit.
ethomaz
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He just can spread the PR without thinking about it.
He just said that the scene will require 12 gb by loading the whole texture package without any savings from sfs
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onesvenus
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That's an easy one Bo: Having them on RAM? What do you think games do when load a level? Fetch the data it needs to render to RAM and then render from there.
Notice that you are talking about rendering 20M polygons not 20M unique polygons per frame. That means that the you could render a 1M statue 20 times with only fetching the data once. That's why I'm saying that the I/O speed does not necessarily affect the polygon budget you are able to render and that's why I say your assumption regarding Xbox is completely wrong.
It might only be able to load to RAM 4/5M polygons per frame but that doesn't mean it's limited to render 4/5M polygons because once the meshes are in memory you can render them as many times as the GPU is able to.
Another thing to note is that you are talking about 4/5M polygons as if you knew how much data a polygon needs. Spoiler: it depends entirely on the game.
Plz go tell XSX technical engineer of how things are in reality. He might learn a lesson from you
IntentionalPun
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Thanks for the other info but I do find this a rather odd statement... either way I think you got my point. The level of detail possible is certainly limited by RAM, considering on the PS5 they are likely using 20 times the amount of RAM in the PS3 just to render what is on screen lol
Bo_Hazem
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See, again you have no clue what's happening in that demo. Maybe watch it again and listen carefully? Sticking to antique ideas in gaming tech doesn't help, don't be a boomer in tech. Data is moving constantly in/out of RAM/GPU caches that PS5 had to spare a 0.7GB in the RAM even with its lightning speed, and RAM is nearly always at full 16GB.
You just don't read anything posted and go ahead and resume what YOU wanna say and believe. I'm done with you Byzantine debate and next time be mindful to what's written.
Also your funny "proof" of Ratchet only makes the case stronger as it's using traditional LOD's. R&C is just the tip of the iceberg of what's coming next on PS5.
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Garani
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In this case, yes he would. He wrote something non exact. Loading 4GB will NOT feel like loading 12GB. But he is right on the advantage of loading just that little piece of data that is needed, instead of the whole humongous file.
Cerny said a similar thing: with the SSD you don't duplicate data, there is no seek time. You just load what you need. Microsoft is probably embedding this "feature" within the OS. You map the big file and ask the OS to load up just a piece of the big file. The feature is good, but it will not "feel like loading 12GB", you are just not wasting resources to load 12GB and then discard 8GB just because you needed 4.
Once again: the feature is good, the statement is wrong.
MasterCornholio
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FrankWza
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And? They weren’t making excuses for it. They straight up called it out as an issue that would hold back the entire gen. They didn’t have to say anything…but they did.
MasterCornholio
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Rivets ass?
What you said certainly seems really familiar to me. Don't remember who got owned though.
ethomaz
Banned
Ok let's clear something here.
Almost all games today uses PRT to just load the part of the texture it needs.
Plus it uses minimaps based in the distance view you are from the texture.
You won't load 12GB of textures for a scene.
PRT was used before via software only but fast all GPU hardware added hardware support to it (I mean we will nedd to back to 2012 to see GPUs that doesn't hardware support to it).
So why SFS or PRT+ was created by nVidia?
Because the PRT present in most if not all GPU hardware estimated the parts of the texture it needed to load.... that estimate have a high probability of failures.... so you could load a part of texture you don't need and had artifacts or discard it and load again.
nVidia created the PRT+ that added the feature to read the info of which part of the texture needs to be applied to the pixel
So it basically fix the main failure of PRT that resulted in artifacts and/or waste of memory.
So what the difference between the MS SFS and nVidia PRT+ implementation?
Very few to be fair... they are not different in use or result itself but MS added caches destined to the sampling process, in their words , to better storage and fast load (How much better and fast? There is no evidence).
If I have to say in terms of capabilities there is no difference... but the MS implementation seems to be a bit more precise and faster.
Outside that there is filters used for the sampling... well in GPU you have a series of filters that can be used but neither has a hardwae unit optimized for that... while on Series X MS added units to that work with specialized filters (so they are faster than the common filters used in PC GPUs).
The gain are nowhere near the amount of data that twitter try to say.
In fact the gain between PRT and SFS is virtually none... it is just that SFS and PRT+ is more accurate and have way less failures (artifacts) compared with PRT.
Most if not all games today uses PRT.
No. 4GB texture loading won't feel like 12GB texture loading even with SFS.
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Well he was trying to explain something in a way so more people will understand of how it works, poor choice of words maybe.
Undoubtedly Sony has something similar as well, unreal engine 5 does what SFS is advertised to do with texture mips (loading mips on the fly according to the camera distance), and the use of the geometry engine for polygons.
MS just out it on their Api so more devs would use it if they want to and not rely on a specific engine (like unreal engine 5)
IntentionalPun
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Sure. Getting caught up in a rather pointless detail though.
You still seem super unaware of how Nanite works based on your latest posts to Bo. "That's an easy one Bo: Having them on RAM? What do you think games do when load a level? Fetch the data it needs to render to RAM and then render from there." That's not how engines build around streaming data work.. and absolutely not what the UE5 demo was doing.
It was using only a small portion of the RAM for a cache; there is no "entire level" loaded into memory. There is what is on screen + some cache.
The small cache is possible due to fast I/O. With slower I/O, you'd need a bigger cache.. thus have less memory available for what is on screen.
x = on screen data
o = cache
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System with slower I/O has less x's, more o's, to compensate for it.
Here's Epic slide on how little memory is actually used for caching data:
Thanks for your explanation.
Actually prt has a hard time to predict (if at all) what texture to load next as the player can be quite unpredictable (like not having a fixed camera).
SF was created to counter that by sampling and guessing the next mip to load.
SFS or PRT+ do both of the above, while having a specialized filter to temporarily replace mips that have yet to load with lower quality ones. (At least on Xbox)
ethomaz
Banned
It is hard to say the differences because the functions and results should be the same.
It just the internal implementation is different from each vendor.
It is the same case for VRS... you can do it own implementation via software... then nVidia added it to hardwarae with it own implementation in API Extensions... then MS added to DirectX with it own implementation using nVidia/AMD hardware, etc.
How these different implementations affects the performance and overall result? Well... it is hard to predict or even test because I believe each implementation works better for determined code path... so an Engine can have better results with MS's implementation while other Engine will be better with nVidia's implementation.
SFS and PRT+ are the same.
Plus the MS hardware features like additional caches and fixed texture filter units found on Series won't be present on PC GPUs.
So on PC SFS will probably be very very similar to PRT+... at least more similar than what you have on Series where you have add hardware to speed up things.
But the point I was trying to explain is that the save from a traditional load the full texture won't exists because PRT is already a thing in most if not all games, APIs, Engines, etc developed.... SFS will be more reliable (less artifacts and waste of memory) and faster (due the specific hardware features on Series).
PS. PRT is a feature already in the API of PS4... I'm sure something similar PRT+ was added for PS5's API.
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Now we know where that 12GB/s number was coming from....
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IntentionalPun
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They don't actually.
That's what people are missing; it's right in MS's presentation actually. Their version of PRT (tiled resources) was not heavily used on Xbox One. That's why they aren't comparing against PRT.
I don't think they are BS'ing either.. ID was one of the big users of it and they had major pop-in problems and abandoned the technique later in the generation.
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assurdum
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The same engineers who said to their fans series X was a next generation machine 4k native 60 FPS capable as series S for 1440p?
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The thing is that most engines were designed for HDD in mind as well so while having prt for years no one was using it effectively.
Prt might have the same memory savings as sfs but the latency of the old game engines and the storage options available were so big that it barely made the cut.
So having prt for years now didn't do it justice
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ethomaz
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Maybe in Xbox One?
But it was in PC and PS4... most open world games use it (Watch Dogs come to mind).
It is one of the new features added in PS4 over the PS3.
Slide 25.
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Nice moves! I can do the same with the 8k logo on the front box of PS5. Not a really good argument by your side
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assurdum
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Support 8k screen on the box it's like say in a presentation to have an hardware next generation capable of 4k native at 60 FPS? For real? How dense it can be to say such idiocy?
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IntentionalPun
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Xbox One had the feature too. .. I don't know why it would be underutilized but not on PS4.
Maybe they are wrong; but PRT being a feature doesn't mean it was useful due to I/O constraints.
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