Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PC Specs Are Out – First DirectStorage 1.2 Game with GPU Decompression, No SSD Req
Today, Nixxes and Insomniac have announced the official PC specifications of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. In a post that has now been taken down, they also confirmed that this will be the first DirectStorage 1.2 game with support for GPU decompression.
Senior Lead Programmer Richard van der Laan said:
DirectStorage ensures quick loading times and GPU decompression is used at high graphics settings to stream assets in the background while playing. Traditionally, this decompression is handled by the CPU, but at a certain point there is an advantage to letting the GPU handle this, as this enables a higher bandwidth for streaming assets from storage to the graphics card. We use this to quickly load high-quality textures and environments with a high level of detail.
Principal Programmer Alex Bartholomeus added:
For Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart on PC, we added adaptive streaming based on live measurement of the available hardware bandwidth. This allows us to tailor the texture streaming strategy for the best possible texture streaming on any configuration.
Other than that, the biggest surprise from the specs is that the game doesn't actually require an SSD, despite Sony and the developers making a big noise about its key importance with the PlayStation 5 version of the game.
On June 20th, 2020, Creative Director Marcus Smith explained in an interview:
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is a game that utilizes dimensions and dimensional rifts. That would not have been possible without the solid-state drive of the PlayStation 5. The SSD is screamingly fast. It allows us to build worlds and project players from one place to another in near instantaneous speeds. It is an unbelievable game-changer in terms of we can now do gameplay where
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