Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart - PC Max vs PS5 vs PC Very Low - First Look

[DonFerrari]

SvennoJ said:

160rmf said:

But people told me it's was impossible to have this game on lower specs than the mighty PS5... WTF

Isn't the minimum comparable to a PS4? What a turn around...

DF tried to run the game with a PS4 specced HDD, it stuttered and eventually crashed.
The minimum still requires better storage speeds than what comes in the ps4.

All of which leads us onto one of the more inane discussion points we've seen: the fact that the game runs on slower machines with no SSD when Insomniac claimed that the SSD was essential for the game they'd created. First of all, the difference between the console experience and the 'very low' setting is frankly immense in terms of data transfer. Secondly, the comment was likely made in relation to the other development platform available to them, the PlayStation 4. In the video you'll witness the carnage of what happens when you try to run Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart on a launch PS4 512GB HDD - even the very low setting doesn't work and the game eventually crashes.

And even their try on the PS4 specced HDD isn't on a HW that is equivalent to PS4 nor is it done without direct storage and other techniques not available on PS4, both the extra spec of the HW (except HDD) plus these techniques allow the game to run although poorly which doesn't contradict Insomniac original claim as said by DF.

gtotheunit91 said:

Got to play for a few hours yesterday and thankfully with my 5+ year old SSD, I didn't have any hiccups. If there were times of loading taking a little longer than usual during the opening section of jumping between portals, it was marginal and unnoticeable.

There were a few bugs I came across but just things that will for sure be fixed with patches down the road.

Whoever is playing this game on an HDD is just doing it for trolling and for the lawlz