It's basically instant. source is an era user in the performance thread.
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Video of the first Direct Storage compatible game Forspoken load times on PC
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It should be, right? Given a high end PCIe 4.0 drive is faster than either console.
Can you even run it without DirectStorage? It's baked into Win10 and Win11.
I upgraded from a regular SATA SSD and Windows 10 which I thought was already pretty fast to a 7GB/s NVMe drive and Windows 11 and the boot times are ridiculous. Happy to see the first DirectStorage game is no joke.
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Continuing a game on PS5 is .31s from the DF vid. Wonder if anyone can time how fast PC does it from this gif.
On PS5, if you select the Activity Card to Launch your game, it will Skip all the Splash Logos and boot you directly to the Main Menu or the gameplay (depending which Card you selected)
it even works on cpus i think (please lmk if this is wrong) but its just a bit slower.
I posted a feature request on Steam forum to have a "Continue from last save" button which would basically do this. I got cooked. What a terrible forum. š
Quick Resume + Direct storage rip any forced mini breaks between gameplay haha
Only for some games, I hate when games don't skip all splash logos when using Activity Cards. Like that's the entire point! Sony should require it.
Of course. The drive must support it. Old Windows 10 versions or NVMe drives with 3rd party drivers don't. I can easily disable DS on my 960Pro by installing Samsung NVMe driver for example.
Or you can just use SATA SSD for a test.
The point is that it's not clear that this is a result of the game using DS.
DS 1.0 is a purely CPU thing.
DS 1.1 can use GPU decompression but it should run on anything relevant really, like Maxwell+. RTX cards can get an optimized implementation from Nvidia but it's hard to tell if that would even be a win compared to API's fallback shader.
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Sometimes there are steam launch arguments to skip those. Would be nice to be able to jump in from launch in 3 seconds
You can skip the logo with right mouse button or I think B on the gamepad.
The source of this gif confirmed in the PC performance thread that it's loading off of a Gen3 3,400MB/s drive.
Sony introduced system software support for skipping boot flow screens after the first boot, so most games skip unnecessary splash screens on subsequent boots on Consoles but keep them on PC
That tends to happen everywhere tbh. Usually if you suggest a new useful feature to make life easier, someone will point out how you can do exactly that thing using some method nobody has ever heard of, in 10 "easy" steps, after downloading some nameless file from someone's Google Drive.
Here's a vid with skipped logos from a fresh boot:
Reads on my PCIe 4 NVMe peaked at around 3GB/s
Reads on my PCIe 4 NVMe peaked at around 3GB/s
You can skip the logos by the way
Edit: beat. Really impressive tho and works near instantaneously even on my 4 plus year old ssd
Edit: beat. Really impressive tho and works near instantaneously even on my 4 plus year old ssd
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It's pretty good, but also games on PC boot up pretty fast nowadays even without this, I just tested Spiderman from an NVMe and it took around 2-3 seconds after pressing continue:
Of course it's cool that this technology makes it instant.
Of course it's cool that this technology makes it instant.
Wow, nice. With gen 4/5 and directstorage we'll never have loading times again!
Funny enough games now have options if you want those loading menu tips or not. š¤£
I notice very few games do this. And it goes back to showing all the unstoppable logos whenever the OS or the game gets updated, which nowadays is all the time, so the feature is kind of moot, honestly.
Still very uncommon for this speed. Spiderman is known for its super fast load times.
When the PS5 first launched, I forget which game, but there would tips but you barely had time to read part of it. I'm guessing the devs back then just wanted to make sure they made launch and couldn't worry about that when they first noticed/realized it lol.
The dream is being realized. Even if there is a bit of loading to make room for tips it improves quick travel loading within open world games by a toooooon.
Has been nice to experience it on PS5 since day 1, can't wait for it to roll out to more PC games.
Only games I've seen this on are Sony's first party games like Miles Morales and I think FF VIIR?