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[Msamy]

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Full presentation with better quality

4k 60fps small length version

 

[Crispy Gamer]

Running on a PS5 that's impressive

 

[Senua]

Even as a terribly compressed 1080p upload, it looks incredible

 

[Bitstream]

I skimmed through, looks like a pretty huge upgrade. And wow, running on PS5??? The sooner all devs decide to go all in on Unreal the better. Special thank you to Unity for shitting on all of their customers and helping to pave the future for us.

 

[squidilix]

Running on a PS5 that's impressive

Wich PS5?

 

[Crispy Gamer]

Wich PS5?

He just said running on a PS5 I'm guessing base

 

[Comandr]

Super impressive stuff.

 

[Mr Moose]

Macroblocking: The Movie.

 

[Portugeezer]

Lords of the Fallen 2 is gonna look great.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Running on a PS5 that's impressive

What’s the frame rate and resolution?

 

[Senua]

What’s the frame rate and resolution?

 

[winjer]

That looks really good, for a tech that can run on a base PS5.

 

[Shin-Ra]

When will third party UE4 and 5 games not have nasty asset pops during camera cuts?

Jusant, an otherwise smooth performing (with VRR at least) 60fps game that’s light on textures still has big visible pops after camera cuts in cutscenes.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Look, I don't know if they compare on technical level but the first impression I have is this

Good for gaming's future either way that we move away from baked lights.

 

[Fafalada]

This is the dumbest marketing name ever. I read the title as 5.5 Megalights.
Imagine my disappointment when the demo showed no signs or mention of 5.5 Million light sources.

 

[Jigsaah]

Lemme know when it's in an actual game that has a soul. It feels like most of the games using UE5 either perform poorly on modern hardware or seems so cookie cutter and "samey".

 

[Crispy Gamer]

What’s the frame rate and resolution?

Not sure but prior to showing this mega light demo they talked about UE 5.5 being better optimized for 60 fps.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

I don't think people realise how amazing the textured area lights are, that's just incredible.
Alan Wake 2 has something similar, but it wasn't nearly as accurate and "real" as this solution.
In short it's how moving light sources (like a TV/monitor) in the real world would project and bounce of surfaces.
Honestly the most impressive part of the whole presentation for me, funny that they only spent like 2 seconds on it.

 

[Lumpyoatmeal]

Lol Megalights? If you ever needed an Epic Games seal of approval.

The lighting density is amazing, reminded me of their early games done on Unreal Engine 3 that used to equally have that quantity of lights but it’s much more accurately rendered in this demo.

 

[Elios83]

Looks fantastic, but developers are taking too long to keep advantage of these features.
Is there a 4K source?

 

[Audiophile]

Needs moar JPEG VP9..!

When you compress something so much it becomes art.

Jokes aside this looks really good. Hopefully they can cough up a high quality encode.

 

[Robb]

Looks nice. Maybe we’ll see it utilized on Ps7.

 

[SlimySnake]

The fact that this is running on a PS5 is truly astounding. I was just bitching about how some devs have not matched the OG PS5 UE5 demo let alone the Matrix Awakens demo, and now they drop this.

I was laughed at for saying this a couple of years ago, but i think its time we all realize that everyone should adopt UE5 going forward.

 

[geary]

This is the dumbest marketing name ever. I read the title as 5.5 Megalights.
Imagine my disappointment when the demo showed no signs or mention of 5;5 Million light sources.

I read it as 5.5 Megabytes, but each to their own

 

[DeepEnigma]

What’s the frame rate and resolution?

30, maybe 40, or even 60, the resolution is somewhere between PSSR and DLSS.

 

[Lumpyoatmeal]

I skimmed through, looks like a pretty huge upgrade. And wow, running on PS5??? The sooner all devs decide to go all in on Unreal the better. Special thank you to Unity for shitting on all of their customers and helping to pave the future for us.

I wouldn’t put too much stock in to it. That quality of level work in the demo is done by guys who have a lot of experience with PC development, the old school id software, the old school Valve Software, that skill isn’t taught anymore for level artists.

 

[Flabagast]

Surely there must exist a better quality video no ?

 

[Shin-Ra]

The fact that this is running on a PS5 is truly astounding. I was just bitching about how some devs have not matched the OG PS5 UE5 demo let alone the Matrix Awakens demo, and now they drop this.

I was laughed at for saying this a couple of years ago, but i think its time we all realize that everyone should adopt UE5 going forward.

UE still has an obvious flaw dating back to the start of UE3 and Gears of War despite huge increases in memory and SSD streaming.

The Matrix playable demo ran at a horrible smeary low framerate and resolution despite being a tech demo with limited content and interactivity.

Everyone using the same tools and renderer means all games have the same issues and Epic has the same power and leverage over competing developers they hate Apple/Google having over them.

 

[kevboard]

What’s the frame rate and resolution?

Probably 720p 30fps, TSR to reconstuct to 1440p

 

[Sony]

Running on PS5 sure gets everyone hyped up again. Remember the OG Nanite/Lumen demo? How many games did we get of that scale and fidelity? Don't be fooled again. You'll get more remasters and you'll love it.

 

[Flabagast]

Running on PS5 sure gets everyone hyped up again. Remember the OG Nanite/Lumen demo? How many games did we get of that scale and fidelity? Don't be fooled again. You'll get more remasters and you'll love it.

Wukong fully lives up to the original UE5 demo. It's more to do with the devs than the engine imho

 

[RodriGames40]

Running on PS5 sure gets everyone hyped up again. Remember the OG Nanite/Lumen demo? How many games did we get of that scale and fidelity? Don't be fooled again. You'll get more remasters and you'll love it.

Bro hasn't seen Wukong I get.

 

[SolidQ]

You'll get more remasters and you'll love it.

I'm personally not againts Remasters like from 90 to 2010(because need proper work on modern systems), but like Horizon/last of us etc, it's joke remasters

How many games did we get of that scale and fidelity?

I think devs need times for learning how optimize, their projects

 

[SlimySnake]

UE still has an obvious flaw dating back to the start of UE3 and Gears of War despite huge increases in memory and SSD streaming.

The Matrix playable demo ran at a horrible smeary low framerate and resolution despite being a tech demo with limited content and interactivity.

Everyone using the same tools and renderer means all games have the same issues and Epic has the same power and leverage over competing developers they hate Apple/Google having over them.

Nah it mostly ran at 1440p reconstructed to 4k using TSR and looked fine on consoles.

The framerate issues were only during driving and were related to CPU bottlenecks that were fixed in UE5.4. Alex saw gains of 50-80% while traversing. people forget that the engine was still in beta when the matrix awakens demo was released.



if other devs dont want Epic to have a monopoly, they can make their own engines. We have seen studios attempt at leveraging the mesh shaders and RT capabilities of these consoles and fail miserably in comparison. Git Gud. Nice try but time to give Epic some cash. They have earned it.

 

[mckmas8808]

The fact that this is running on a PS5 is truly astounding. I was just bitching about how some devs have not matched the OG PS5 UE5 demo let alone the Matrix Awakens demo, and now they drop this.

I was laughed at for saying this a couple of years ago, but i think its time we all realize that everyone should adopt UE5 going forward.

I think most companies should. And even then, they can't focus enough to make games to look this good.

 

[Shin-Ra]

Wukong fully lives up to the original UE5 demo. It's more to do with the devs than the engine imho

Even if you capped Wukong to 30fps, texture quality isn’t great, even maxed out on PC from what I’ve seen.

 

[mckmas8808]

Wukong fully lives up to the original UE5 demo. It's more to do with the devs than the engine imho

Exactly!

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Thinking what a big budget Blade Runner third person game would be like with this

 

[HogIsland]

It looks great, and makes me want a new Uncharted

Weird choice to show emissive light casting off what are essentially TV screens in desert cave environment. I thought it was crazy bad pop-in at first.

 

[SlimySnake]

Probably 720p 30fps, TSR to reconstuct to 1440p

Nope. most UE5 games run at 1440p 30 fps using TSR to construct at 4k. Just like the original PS5 UE5 did. Some drop to 1296p during load but mostly average out at 1440p internal resolution in the 30 fps modes.

the drops to 720p are exclusive to 60 fps modes.

Black Myth

The quality mode is perhaps the most straightforward, with roughly 1440p internal resolutions (we measured 1224p to 1584p) upscaled to 4K with FSR 3.

Remnant 2

. Based on a limited range of samples though, quality mode on PS5 and Series X is ~1296p,

Robocop

I did notice that the quality mode runs at a 1440p internal resolution on PS5 though

Tekken 8 - 60 fps mode

. In reality, they often hang closer to 1440p or slightly above.

 

[Xtib81]

Wukong fully lives up to the original UE5 demo. It's more to do with the devs than the engine imho

Not on consoles.

 

[Vick]

Looks good, very promising.
To be honest wasn't really impressed initially, until those shadows, realizing nothing's baked.

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

I was laughed at for saying this a couple of years ago, but i think its time we all realize that everyone should adopt UE5 going forward.

I expect that to happen soon, at least with 90%+ of the industry.

However, I really wish Epic focused on optimizing the engine as opposed to just adding new features. As it stands, the issue is that UE5 is too heavy. At this current rate, I expect it to really come into its own and garner mass adoption next-gen, not even this gen.

 

[Guardian Monkey]

Not on consoles.

I wonder whyyy it was not it was not a demo on PC?

 

[Xtib81]

I wonder whyyy it was not it was not a demo on PC?

It seems to me the UE5 reveal demo was running on a ps5.

 

[cyberheater]

Very impressive. At some point it's going to be real time everything.

 

[amigastar]

Pretty bad compression but technology looks nice.

 

[Vick]

I don't think people realise how amazing the textured area lights are, that's just incredible.
Alan Wake 2 has something similar, but it wasn't nearly as accurate and "real" as this solution.
In short it's how moving light sources (like a TV/monitor) in the real world would project and bounce of surfaces.
Honestly the most impressive part of the whole presentation for me, funny that they only spent like 2 seconds on it.

Why is it that impressive, taking into account this was done almost ten years ago on 2013 hardware, and at 1080p native resolution and stable 30fps?

I am certainly glad this sort of stuff can now be easily implemented by everyone, but I found the engine being able to handle all those real-time lights with shadows on top considerably more impressive.

 

[ReBurn]

Just wait till Hellblade 3 gets in on this.

 

[sncvsrtoip]

Terrible quality, hard to see anything