Forespoken: The 1st game claiming to require a 4080 is here

[HiFlyer 9,359]

You can play it with "weaker hardware" but its claimed you will have to turn a lot of settings off.

FORSPOKEN SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

It also is apparently the first PC game to use Direct-Storage.....?

PC Demo is now available: https://www.pcgamer.com/forspoken-demo-is-now-on-pc/

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Edited January 24, 2023 by HiFlyer

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Yup, Directstorage for PC has arrived. My question is, what if anything, can this tech do for sim load times.....?

 

 

Edited January 25, 2023 by HiFlyer

[Mgard78 141]

Clickbait title (in the article and in this post...)

 

The game does not "require a 4080". The requirements are pretty clear.  Needing it for Ultra settings is a different thing, and sure, why not when it is so poorly optimized? It is not really a claim that should be made with pride but with shame. 

[Christopher Low 5,353]

Nice graphics, but will the gameplay be the same 1990s style stuff that we see time and again in games like this?

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1 hour ago, Christopher Low said:

Nice graphics, but will the gameplay be the same 1990s style stuff that we see time and again in games like this?

Well, its nice that they made a demo, so that individuals can give it a try and come to their own conclusions.

Meanwhile, for me, its almost as much a technology/engine presentation as it is anything else, which ups my personal curiosity, especially as I have a brand new 2TB Nvme and am very interested in finally seeing DirectStorage in action.

As far as optimization, having actually tried the demo before coming to conclusions, I found the developers have given users almost an overabundance of options, graphical and otherwise, of which DLSS was especially useful in taming potential framerate issues, and gave me a pretty solid 60 FPS on ultra, which was also something I was curious about, being a bit taken aback that my new 3080 RTX might already be heading for the dustbin of obsolescence.