Hardware Unboxed

@NikTek If you enable Ray Reconstruction or Ray Regeneration you can expect to get about 1/3rd the FPS vs the feature disabled with the Cinematic preset

Here's the performance tank again when enabling Ray Regeneration in Crimson Desert after updating AMD drivers to the latest Adrenalin 26.3.1 Safe to say that I won't be turning this on for the rest of my gameplay. If you have an AMD GPU how is your performance with Ray Regeneration turned on?

@jack439xfoc Because you have Ray Regeneration enabled which is extremely taxing

@HardwareUnboxed For some reason I'm getting 40-50fps on your optimized preset settings running on 3440x1440, fsr perf + RR on - 7800x3d + 9070 xt everything stock. Not sure why.

We've tested the game with AMD's 26.3.1 driver (and the day one patch) and found no performance difference compared to the results in this video

In this video we talk about how using upscaling (especially at lower modes) makes the game blurrier with lower texture detail This is NOT fixed in the launch patch released today

Crimson Desert is set to launch on PC shortly so now's a great time to brush up on our PC optimization guide youtube.com/watch?v=9ig5PT…

@raywccf Yes. It's so taxing the 9070 XT struggles with it at 4K even using FSR Performance. But the level of taxing is similar to Ray Reconstruction

@HardwareUnboxed Thanks for the reply. I assume it's the same for Ray Regeneration?

One thing that didn't make it into any of our Crimson Desert content is that the game has excellent HDR on PC. You'll get proper blacks, deep shadows and high peak brightness. Looks really good on proper HDR monitors

@raywccf Off, Ray Reconstruction in this game is extremely taxing on most GPU hardware as it changes other visual settings

@HardwareUnboxed Quick question, did you test with Ray Reconstruction on or off?

@PotatoePet You can expect a massive performance impact vs the cinematic preset

@HardwareUnboxed Thanks for the information! I saw some other benchmarks seeing a FPS drop for ray reconstruction from ~100FPS in 4K for the RTX 4090 down to 65. Is this realistic?

We tested 40 GeForce and Radeon GPUs in Crimson Desert. youtube.com/watch?v=sVEdBA…

@PotatoePet RT is enabled for all presets except low and minimum. Ray Reconstruction is a separate setting you can choose to enable, which also sets other settings to the maximum.

@HardwareUnboxed Any information about the presets? Did they use RT? If yes, did they use Ray Reconstruction? Or did I miss this in the video?

It's a high contrast game on purpose though, dark areas at night are supposed to be dark, the game (by default) doesn't boost shadows for you to make it easier to play But there's also a lantern to illuminate things

@torokszabolcs12 This was an error in one of the six graphs and we pinned a comment with the correction.

@HardwareUnboxed How come is the 4080 better than not only 5070 ti but also 5080?

@LimmyLammyLlama @HardwareUnboxed @Sweetwaterjj the first versions of dlss was absolute shit. it took a lot of time until it become its current amazing form. if they fix "dlss 5" in the future, yes people will like it but that doesn't invalidate peoples opinions today.

@GainigGamer @IanCutress When did we say DLSS is better than native? We might have shown some select examples where certain aspects were better, but when did we push the narrative that DLSS upscaling is better than native. Can you link me to that content please?

@HardwareUnboxed @IanCutress You, mlid and digital foundry pushed "better than native" so hard Jensen actually believed it and released an instagram filter in dlss5

You came to the show and saw the demo in person, right?

@IanCutress @krazy_olie @PauzaDeJoaca It is insane that you think this is correct :S

@krazy_olie @HardwareUnboxed @PauzaDeJoaca ding ding ding we have a winner

@GainigGamer @IanCutress Not sure what you are talking about there.

@HardwareUnboxed @IanCutress At least you guys are waking up after "better than native" narrative backfired. This is exactly what Threat interactive was talking about.

@PauzaDeJoaca @nothere_now @IanCutress Which was GN's point... the claim was we're seeing a breakthrough in graphic thanks to DLSS 5 rather than more powerful hardware. But it needs extremely powerful hardware to work, and we're yet to see any evidence that suggests otherwise.

@nothere_now @HardwareUnboxed @IanCutress Seems to be a high end feature. We will see

One what? One 5090? If it requires two 5090s to demo what is almost certainly a best case scenario at this point in time, what makes you think it will work on say a 5060 Ti? GN's sticking to the facts as we have them, if you want to guarantee it will work on a specific hardware configuration be my guest.

@HardwareUnboxed @IanCutress Is not really relevant if the end product will run on one.