Forspoken PC - DF Tech Review - DirectStorage Tested, RT Upgrades and More
TLDR: It's shit and anyone with less than 10GB of vram won't load the textures properly as par for the course of AMD sponsored games. In his testing, Forspoken maxed out vs Cyberpunk with Ray Tracing set to Ultra performs similarly. But there is an interesting test to be found and that is with Direct Storage. Keep in mind its using CPU based decompression so it's already outdated in that sense but still:
12900k with Gen 3 SSD faster than PS5s SSD in this game:
Direct storage is about 1.27 seconds faster than with Direct Storage off in this game:
However there is a big difference when it comes to GPU limited vs CPU limited. When the game is GPU limited and DS is off, there is no difference but when it's CPU limited, direct storage being on and off makes a big difference. However he does mention to take this result with a grain of salt.
CPU performance matters a lot in loading speed:
Windows 10 vs 11 does make a difference in Direct Storage Performance:
Highest he has seen so far is around 300 MB/s SSD usage when streaming but he may found a glitch that after loading a save, it's goes up to 533 MB/s which transferred 90GBs of data in 3 minutes.
He compared a screenshot of Cyberpunk with Ray Tracing set to Ultra + DLSS vs Forspoken set to Max with DLSS and... They performed similarly.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
