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@RedGamingTech RT barely makes a difference visually, don’t use it. Unlike others dev these guys actually did the work.

Death Stranding 2 PC performance tested with an RTX 5090 and a Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Ray Tracing looks great, but very heavy, halving FPS in some areas. No shader compilation on launch, I've experienced no stutter. Great options menu too! youtu.be/DC6gXgb5hrE

@BMKing23 It’s not that the game wasn’t design with RT in mind, it’s that it was optimization and actually did the work. Thus the difference between RT and non RT is tiny for a big hit.

Ray Tracing in #DeathStranding2PC is quite limited, which is expected since the game wasn’t originally built with RT in mind and this is the first implementation on the Decima Engine. RT reflections only apply to some opaque surfaces, bodies of water and tar, and they still lean on standard SSR underneath. The High RT setting uses High SSR as a base, which lets it slightly outperform the heavier Very High SSR in many scenes, but it also shows more noise, especially with upscaling. RTAO, as usual is very subtle visually and doesn’t seem to impact performance at least in the scenes I tested. It mainly just bumps up VRAM usage.

@BlooHook So 48 FPS,

You know what's better than being first? Being best 😎 Death Stranding 2: Native 4K DLAA - Maxed out w/ RT on - DLSS 3x Frame gen getting me a locked 144 FPS Instant load times too The Definitive Edition has arrived #DeathStranding2 #RTXOn #RTX5090

@PeterP_1985 @NixxesSoftware @KojiPro2015_EN @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN Engine has RT now, which means the next batch of games made with this engine will end up with dev magically forgetting how to do non RT lighting forcing everyone to use Shit RT

If this is indeed the last Playstation published single player game on PC, then it's potentially @NixxesSoftware swan song if initial impressions are anything to go by (with input from Kojima I'm sure) Stunning to look at, smooth and perfectly optimised, ray tracing features (first time for Decima), full duelsense support, great settings menu, new upscaler (pico), trophy support. Its got it all, a perfect example of a console first game, ported to PC. #DeathStranding2PC #DeathStranding2

@fandompulse Majority of social media interactions comes from Bots,

After a week, 1348 Ex Voto never got over 500 concurrent players. In its past 24 hours it only hit a peak of 64. The company claimed it had over 250,000 wishlists. What happened?

@Darkwraith37243 @AnisDrawn 🤣

@AnisDrawn idk i can understand all criticism of ac valhalla on gameplay and story perspectives but this game depicted probably one of the most realistic depiction of the anglo saxon age in England, its cultures and locations while crimson desert is a hollow husk with no purpose at all.

Time is a flat circle

@PeterP_1985 It is when the same people that gives this a low score said dragon age was game of the generation.

Is a 77 score really "loathing"....

@Rurikhan Love the game but needs content/major performance fix. Crimson desert looks to fix those 2 issues for me

And btw, while we're on the topic since a lot of people are bringing it up. I love Dragon's Dogma 2. - Yes it had performance issues. - Yes the 'after game' could have been better But it was one hell of a ride and I loved it.

@PaulTassi There was no lead character, The main story did its job to frame the world. That is all that is needed but it wasn’t some great writing.

am I gonna get murdered if I say that the lead character and story of Skyrim were also not its greatest strengths

@oliver_drk Crimson been cracked already too… Doesn’t actually affect sales numbers

Death Stranding 2 cracked before release. One of the reasons why Sony is scaling back from singleplayer games on PC, and why Crimson Desert implemented Denuvo DRM.

@hardwarecanucks You can just hop to their channel and look at their video. DF themselves marks them as sponsor on the video themselves.

@hardwarecanucks normally when someone get any backlash this is the first card they normally pul. DF get sponsor by nvidia on a monthly time scale. so of course richer would be super positive on every nvidia. dude gets paid by them. that is all and dont let anyone attempt to steer the topic

The absolute state of online discourse in 2026. Disgusting.

DLSS5,

@dark1x @PaulsGamingLive @var3a @GameSack its not about looking better at this point, its the fact if the 5090 needs to be using upscale what does that say for everything else? well it says ps5 720p unstable 60 due to poor optimization. it says terrible image due to upscaling 360p to 1080p on low end hardware.

@PaulsGamingLive @var3a @GameSack It also, honestly, looks better. DLSS, as we have it today, produces better results than native rendering in nearly all games. Period.

I think this video does a good job explaining the viewpoints of the team but I wanted to make sure it was clear that I wasn't feeling up to participate yet thus not in the video. I will share my own thoughts soon but my opinions largely mirror what Alex says in this video!

@PaulsGamingLive @var3a @dark1x @GameSack No it does not, because games aren’t design with native output first. The fact a 5090 needs to use upscaling and frame gen tells you this is not true. In theory if the game were optimized without upscaling it would but games are now targeting 720p on ps5 because upscale

@var3a @dark1x @GameSack Na upscaling now is amazing and again lets you extend the life of your GPU when Native is just not possible anymore

wow look at that, first video glazing nvidia, then tries to walk it back in the DF direct, and then double the fuck down right after lmao. that monthly sponsorship from nvidia money is just too good.

@digitalfoundry wow look at that, first video glazing nvidia, then tries to walk it back in the DF direct, and then double the fuck down right after lmao. that monthly sponsorship from nvidia money is just too good.

DLSS 5 represents the first big, literally game-changing example of neural rendering in gaming, posing an array of questions the games industry will need to find answers for: digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/03/d…

@TheIshikawaRin why do you trust someone that gets sponsor by nvidia on a monthly bases? maybe you should watch gamer nexus video and compare their clues to DF youtu.be/AiekGcwaIho?si…

I'm still really hesitant to trust Digital Foundry going forward because of their initial coverage of DLSS 5, the blind praise was just really bad in my eyes. An apology is one thing but I can't help but feel like my view of Digital Foundry has been tainted long term.

@TheIshikawaRin why do you trust someone that gets sponsor by nvidia on a monthly bases? maybe you should watch gamer nexus video and compare their clues to DF youtu.be/AiekGcwaIho?si…

@digitalfoundry DF is sponsored by Nvidia on a monthly basis. You are in fact paid on a factual level. Not only that they even review GPUs with Frame gen on which Gamer nexus expose as this is one of the things Nvidia forces media to do. DF are basically a marketing PR for Nvidia at this point.

The big DLSS 5 machine learning debate and why we should have waited before posting our first round of coverage - today's video: youtu.be/5dTTfjBAFzc