-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
Death Stranding PC Tech Review: The Upgrade We've Been Waiting For
- Thread starter Stacey
- Start date
DLSS 2.0 is so crazy. Better image quality than 4k with a lot better frames..
This just makes Nvidia even more prominent in the PC space so I fear how much their 3000 series cards will cost...
That's a damn shame.
This just makes Nvidia even more prominent in the PC space so I fear how much their 3000 series cards will cost...
That's a damn shame.
Can I enable DLSS with 21:9 resolutions or is it locked like FFXV?
It works at any aspect ratio - that was a limitation of the original DLSS, not 2.0.
That is absolutely crazy. DLSS should be in every game moving forward, no reason for it not to be there.
2.0 exists in:
Control
Wolf youngbloods
Deliver Us the moon
Death Stranding
Mechwarrior 5
there may be more but these are the ones off the top of my head I have played with 2.0
If the DLSS 3.0 talk is true, then enabling TAA in any/most games will provide DLSS. AMD otherwise is going to hope most titles don't support it.
Holy shit playing it right now with DLSS Quality and it looks just as good as 4K. Every major game should offer this feature.
Yeah I was reading some comments on some articles, apparently that's the next step. Would be insane if true.
I'm glad I just played it on PS4 Pro rather than waiting. I would have been annoyed if this did not support my oddball super ultrawide 5120x1440 resolution for some reason. Seriously, when will devs learn to enumerate resolutions on PC correctly? The engine seems perfectly capable of any resolution so I can't understand why it does not do this correctly. Not supporting custom resolutions really sucks too.
Otherwise I was hoping the PC version would be more of a graphical upgrade. Better ambient occlusion and global illumination would have been welcome but I am glad they included support for DLSS 2.0, seems like the best way to run this. Yet at the same time I feel like they might have just done the bare minimum to port this as a lot of these things like ultrawide and high refresh rate support should be standard features on an engine as capable as this.
While this is undoubtedly the best version of the game, worth waiting for 6 months or something like that vs playing on console did not seem like a good tradeoff with all the spoilers flying around.
Otherwise I was hoping the PC version would be more of a graphical upgrade. Better ambient occlusion and global illumination would have been welcome but I am glad they included support for DLSS 2.0, seems like the best way to run this. Yet at the same time I feel like they might have just done the bare minimum to port this as a lot of these things like ultrawide and high refresh rate support should be standard features on an engine as capable as this.
While this is undoubtedly the best version of the game, worth waiting for 6 months or something like that vs playing on console did not seem like a good tradeoff with all the spoilers flying around.
So on my RTX 2080, I'm probably able to hit 100+ FPS at 1440p with DLSS 2.0 enabled, right? That is going to look downright insane on my 144hz 1440p display.
I'd download it now but I'm just too busy with Halo 3 at the moment. Plus, still not entirely sure if I want to commit to a full replay right now since I went through the game at launch on my Pro.
I'd download it now but I'm just too busy with Halo 3 at the moment. Plus, still not entirely sure if I want to commit to a full replay right now since I went through the game at launch on my Pro.
Speaking of cool upgrades:
- Full Steam Input support = allows for you to use a wide array of controllers and customise them full to their ability
- Motion Control = you can sort this via Steam Input, and the game does have a setting for enabling the original BB soothing motion controls
- Full Steam Input support = allows for you to use a wide array of controllers and customise them full to their ability
- Motion Control = you can sort this via Steam Input, and the game does have a setting for enabling the original BB soothing motion controls
Playing on a 2080ti and using DLSS quality at 4k60 it's literally barely using my GPU, it's running clocks at about half speed of the max (1200mhz, my gpu is watercooled and when maxed out runs at a locked 2100mhz) and only using 60-70% gpu usage at those clocks. DLSS looks better than the native due to the blurring of the TAA. So awesome. Game looks phenomenal.
I wouldn't be even surprised if you are able to come close to your refresh rate cap.
Slightly off topic, slightly on
For a game with ray tracing, would the headroom released by using DLSS 2.0 be able to be utilised for ray tracing? So playing at 1440/60 with high settings and ray tracing?
Or could you use it for a higher frame rate eg 120?
Or is resolution the only trade off
For a game with ray tracing, would the headroom released by using DLSS 2.0 be able to be utilised for ray tracing? So playing at 1440/60 with high settings and ray tracing?
Or could you use it for a higher frame rate eg 120?
Or is resolution the only trade off
Yes. That part of why Nvidia wanted to bundle Ray Tracing and DLSS together on the same cards.
The cost of Ray Tracing scales (roughly linearly) with resolution. If you double resolution, you roughly double the cost of Ray Tracing.If you halve the resolution, then you roughly halve the cost of Ray Tracing.
So I assume my 1060 6gb/Ryzen 5 2600 will run the game at 1080p as well as the 1060/i5 8400 combination in the video?
Ouch, the RX 580 and 1060 get left in the dust here, sans 1080p. The CPU scaling being great on the low end but wasted on the high end is not entirely unexpected. Maybe some of the setting restrictions and framerate idiosyncrasies will get patched over the summer/fall, hopefully.
Really thorough video, thanks Dictator! Waiting for the checkerboard vs DLSS video.
Really thorough video, thanks Dictator! Waiting for the checkerboard vs DLSS video.
This port has excellent performance but it's visually underwhelming. I played some of the game on PS4 Pro, so it isn't my first impression of it. I'm running a 9900k and 2080 Ti.
Ultrawide is technically supported but it doesn't fill the entire screen horizontally. For example, the maximum resolution I can select is 3360x1440, when my monitor is 3440x1440 which is a standard 21:9 resolution. There are already fixes for this but I'm going to play the game as it was released for now.
TAA is not good. There's still aliasing as well as blurring. While DLSS is impressive, it doesn't seem better. The visual fidelity still isn't great. You're left with having to decide what kind of visual anomalies bother you less. I am consdiering forcing a different AA method or supersampling since the game runs so well. That would probably clean things up.
Cutscenes are pixelated, though not terribly. Still wish we had the option to download higher quality cutscenes.
I double dipped and left a ~20 hour save behind for a better experience, and I'm not sure it was worth it. I may boot up the PS4 version again just to see how it feels. The massive FPS increase is definitely a plus and leaves room for improvement, be it via patches or forced settings, which is something I was hoping to not have to do for a game of this caliber.
Ultrawide is technically supported but it doesn't fill the entire screen horizontally. For example, the maximum resolution I can select is 3360x1440, when my monitor is 3440x1440 which is a standard 21:9 resolution. There are already fixes for this but I'm going to play the game as it was released for now.
TAA is not good. There's still aliasing as well as blurring. While DLSS is impressive, it doesn't seem better. The visual fidelity still isn't great. You're left with having to decide what kind of visual anomalies bother you less. I am consdiering forcing a different AA method or supersampling since the game runs so well. That would probably clean things up.
Cutscenes are pixelated, though not terribly. Still wish we had the option to download higher quality cutscenes.
I double dipped and left a ~20 hour save behind for a better experience, and I'm not sure it was worth it. I may boot up the PS4 version again just to see how it feels. The massive FPS increase is definitely a plus and leaves room for improvement, be it via patches or forced settings, which is something I was hoping to not have to do for a game of this caliber.
Some really cool PC features not mentioned in discussion:
- Full Steam Input support for all manner of Steam Compatible controllers and customisation
- Motion Controls from the original game work on gyro enabled controllers like Steam Controller, DS4 and Switch Pro
- The game lets you output audio from the baby, not only via DS4, but via any audio device. I tried it through my audio interface to guitar amps, which was hilarious!
- You can customise whether control prompts switch automatically between input types or are locked to Controller or M&KB, even when you switch between them (great for Steam Controller users doing Mouse+gamepad)
- You can choose the specific style of gamepad prompts - PS, XB, Steam, Nintendo!
- Full Steam Input support for all manner of Steam Compatible controllers and customisation
- Motion Controls from the original game work on gyro enabled controllers like Steam Controller, DS4 and Switch Pro
- The game lets you output audio from the baby, not only via DS4, but via any audio device. I tried it through my audio interface to guitar amps, which was hilarious!
- You can customise whether control prompts switch automatically between input types or are locked to Controller or M&KB, even when you switch between them (great for Steam Controller users doing Mouse+gamepad)
- You can choose the specific style of gamepad prompts - PS, XB, Steam, Nintendo!
Almost assuredly not true. That rumour stank to high heaven.
Is anyone else having an issue with the game being capped at 40fps? I saw a reddit post about it but no solutions, seems like an issue a few other people are having but not exactly sure why.
Visually underwhelming in the sense that it doesn't add additional features relative to console? I can understand that. Although the game already looked excellent on pro and they have prioritised performance with the port, which is no bad thing. Would be nice with more options though. Probably didn't want to put in the effort though. I do think it holds up to other PC games though. For instance, can't think of a third person action game on PC with as good terrain geometry rendering. Certainly not say RDR2.
I already love the game. It's crazy how good is it for the moment ( i played 2 hours). The only bad things...there are too much aliasing and the game is too blury in the same time haha.
I should check if i can put reshade on hdr, or playing the game without hdr and only reshade to force some AA
I should check if i can put reshade on hdr, or playing the game without hdr and only reshade to force some AA
Just started. Aside from a few hitches during cutscenes, game seems to run pretty good at max settings, 3360x1440 with a 1080 Ti (70 - 90 fps). I must say, this feels so much better to play than on the PS4 Pro
This game looks incredible in 21:9 and DLSS is so good in this. Too bad I sunk 95 hours on the PS4!