sc94597 said:
curl-6 said:
How might Doom The Dark Ages fare? Doom 2016 and Eternal were iconic Switch 1 ports, it'd be interesting to see the sequel hit Switch 2. Seems to hit 60fps most of the time on Series S, so with a cut to 30 it should be doable. |
I did a sort of "simulation" a while back using an underclocked A1000 (Ampere professional low-profile card.) 30fps with DLSS Performance to Quality mode @1080p was achievable with the launch build. sc94597 said:
Been experimenting with Doom Dark Ages on an old Dell Workstation I have with an i7 4770 (1226 single, 3918 multi in GB6) and an RTX A1000 50W (SFF). The A1000 on paper is 2.2 times a Switch 2 docked and ~4 times a Switch 2 in handheld. I underclocked it to about 65% of its peak performance, making it about +35% Switch 2 docked and 2.5 times Switch 2 handheld. VRAM usage is at about 5.5 GB with everything set to low, system ram usage about 3 GB, resolution is DLSS Performance @1080p. My i7 4770 seems to be bottlenecking it though, so utilization is more like 40% of peak performance rather than 65%. Basically getting a constant 35 FPS with these settings. Game looks very blurry though with nasty artifacts. Quality mode eliminates many of these artifacts but drops the framerate to a variable 27-33 fps. Anyway, I think the game is do-able on Switch 2 given this, but it will likely be a port that requires some very tailored optimizations. I am guessing if they do achieve it, it will be a sub-540p/540p -> 1080p 30fps experience docked, and 320p -> 720p 30fps handheld. Initially was going to try an A400 since it is closer to Switch 2 Docked (~ 87% of Switch 2 docked performance, was going to overclock to make up the gap, then underclock to near handheld performance) but the VRAM bottleneck made it impossible. I wasn't expecting Doom Dark Ages to be this demanding given how well Doom Eternal runs on even weak PC's. 
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Yeah if they do port it, it'll get specific optimizations that can't really be simulated on a PC build; I remember back in 2017 Digital Foundry tried to "test" Doom 2016 on Switch 1 using a low powered PC build, and the results ran way worse than the final game, same when they did it again for Witcher 3 in 2019.
Kinda like how on paper, Star Wars Outlaws shouldn't hold up as well as it does given how it performs on Series S and handheld PCs; hardware-specific tailoring goes a long way.
