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Video of the first Direct Storage compatible game Forspoken load times on PC
- Thread starter nsilvias
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Well, that depends. Quick Resume puts you back into your game pretty much instantly.
If it is it's of the slightest margins. PS5 has the I/O bandwidth to push around 17GB/s
Demo loading is LONG on my Sata 870 EVO. Normally fine and it was fine for the most part but it was definately long compared to other recent games.
Gfycat lets you advance slowly and see the time. First black frame is at 20.14, first gameplay frame is at 20.34, so 0.2s.
I replicated that same loading in the same area on PS5. First black frame is at 23.59, first gameplay frame is at 23:75, so 0.16s, so ever so slightly faster but basically even.
Sheeeeeesh and future games will probably get even faster on consoles and PC. So good
Not sure if i'm thinking of this correctly. Don't the files have to be formatted for Direct Storage use? How is Forspoken/Steam handling this?
I feel like these things get less impressive as the console generation progresses (or even starting on the PS4 with Ghost of Tsushima!).
It's basically on par with the PS5 version without Direct Storage so I'mwondering how much of it can be attributed to the tech. It's pretty clear the game itself has impressive loading times on both platforms.
Don't get me wrong. Not trying to shit on it. I just feel like with NVMEs these days we're already ruined in this regard. At some point this stuff can't get any noticeably quicker and with sub 0.2s loading times we might already be there.
It's basically on par with the PS5 version without Direct Storage so I'mwondering how much of it can be attributed to the tech. It's pretty clear the game itself has impressive loading times on both platforms.
Don't get me wrong. Not trying to shit on it. I just feel like with NVMEs these days we're already ruined in this regard. At some point this stuff can't get any noticeably quicker and with sub 0.2s loading times we might already be there.
Such a shame that Microsoft took so long to push out DirectStorage. Would have been nice to see more games take advantage of this by now.
Tried it myself. It's impressive. I have to say the first loading times for a new game are a bit longer, about 3-5s. But once you have a saved game is instant. In this I'm pressing fast to skip the logos:
Since the game world is already loaded once in the main menu, is it possible to skip all intro videos or they are there to "hide" the initial loading?
edit: nevermind, just saw the latest posts :'D
edit: nevermind, just saw the latest posts :'D
Ghost and a game like DriveClub (2014 release date), have incredibly quick loading times... but I think that has more to do with the development choices and resources (1st Party money). Those are not the norm right?
It's PCIE gen 3 drive from the thread. At any rate, this seems highly impressive. DirectStorage gonna be a game changer for pc long term.
Not the norm back then, but with the twch in current gen consoles it has become far easier and cheaper to achieve similar results.
Yeah tested this out on my Win 11 / Gen 4 drive and it was basically instant. Glad to see it live up to the promise.
Works with PCI-E 3 great as well. I just tried it on my 970 Evo Plus and it was quick as fuck on that.
Instant load times in Forspoken (demo) on my Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB NVMe as well (Windows 10 22H2 / RTX 3070 Ti / Ryzen 9 5900X). Pretty awesome.
Woah, you're saying if I play Spider-Man or Ragnarok and then fully close the app, it will skip those screens next time I play that game?
That is fast! But it's similarly instantaneous on PS5 as well.
It works on third party games as well. I used the activity card in every session of Jedi Fallen Order.
What's nice is that was a gen 3 drive so a good indicator of how good loading would be on Xbox if it was on Xbox
I honestly am disappointed this isn't the standard already 2 years into the generation.
That is functionality that can be used by games on PS5 yes, but I don't know if those 2 titles specifically make use of it.
Think of the PS5 Activity Cards feature where some can take you directly into a specific aspect of the game (Mode or Location). When doing so presumably the intent is that it won't spend another 10sec showing you Splash Screens for the Boot Sequence all over again but instead bring you (mostly) straight in-game.
Yeah another user had mentioned activity cards too, which I always forget exist. Sounds like you're talking even outside of activity cards, which is really cool. I'd never noticed, but I also usually just play one single player game at a time so it's usually suspended the whole time. Cool though.
Ha, true, guess that's what happens when cross gen is still a main thing until a year or 2 later.
If this comes to a game I care about I might actually upgrade to Windows 11.
Cool I'll check it out.
*50GB Demo* Jesus, okay, I'll check it out in 30 mins I guess.
Well right click does indeed work. Odd to now allow keyboard though.
Comes to about 10s to get in game. Pretty good.
Shame game is kinda average.
How you can tell if your system will use direct storage, and which versions it currently supports? For example: wrong driver = none, right driver but old gpu = ds1.0, right driver and new gpu = ds1.1.
And other times, you can replace those with a dummy video file and itll go straight to the title screen.
That drive is rated at 560 MB/s, and I think DirectStorage was optimized for NVMe drives so I don't know if it'll have much of an effect on SATA drives. I used a Gen 3 NVMe drive that's rated at around 3,500 MB/s and the load times were instant. Crazy times.
Nice I have a gen 4 that's 7200mb, excited to see how fast it is
And to think I probably won't get a Gen 4 Nvme until 2024...
Unless I go towards the 2nd half of 2023.
sounds neat, can't wait for more games to take advantage of this. Love game startup and load times on my PS5, haven't really played a "huge" game on my PC (with gen4 nvme) really but older games still feel a little slow when loading.
Hope DF or someone does an analysis and comparison on Direct Storage vs not, gen 3 vs gen 4 vs gen 5 drives, drive speeds, etc so we can see numbers.
Hope DF or someone does an analysis and comparison on Direct Storage vs not, gen 3 vs gen 4 vs gen 5 drives, drive speeds, etc so we can see numbers.
Good to see more instant games this gen, I remember booting up RE8 and it fading to black instead of a loading screen like other platforms and it clocked in at like 0.9s lmao, Tsushima is also obviously almost instant, but my biggest surprise this gen was Sonic Frontiers, it's so fast the first time I did it I had to turn the camera around because I thought the game had not recognized the input.
I'm curious to see how this technology evolves on PC as games get more intensive, I expect incredible stuff for sure.
I'm curious to see how this technology evolves on PC as games get more intensive, I expect incredible stuff for sure.