Wow!

Impressive indeed.

But that's not easy on the hardware side, 13990K + RTX4090, so it will take a while before we see something like this in a game.

I don't think the impressive part is the one that requires such hardware. It definitely looks impressive as well, but the part that really impresses me personally is the procedural generation. That could be absolutely huge, depending on its limitations.

Oh, you're absolutely correct about that, Developers may/will find it easier to create the environments and worlds of the games thanks to those techs.

But that level of detail (terrain, vegetation, light, particles like dirt, etc.) won't be used on in any mainstream games for a while.

As interesting and pretty as the UE5 presentation was, I'd be really impressed if they showed off shader compilation improvements

Source 2 is now 8 years old... Seeing the Counter Strike 2 reveal "showcasing" the engine was visually underwhelming in my opinion.

Valve needs to iterate it's engine technology far more rapidly and far more significantly, it's a generation behind Unreal.

A lot of the new Unreal footage sure looks great. Lords of the Fallen looks surprisingly pretty. I wonder how big an impact the Unreal Editor is going to have. Doesn't seem to have generated any buzz on this site but I think it has lots of potential if Epic doesn't get too carried away on speculative nonsense like Zuck did.

I think LTT got hacked like Corridor not too long ago. Had to unsub to keep my feed from filling up with crypto spam.

Thinking of getting an ITX case like the Silverstone SG13 and moving my current pc into that.

Been fiddling around with settings to create a low wattage gaming machine. Managed to drop my full system power draw from 180w to 120w in timespy for only a 10% drop in performance. CPU and GPU are both far more efficient at a lower wattage.

The Thursday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Steam's Top 10

Check the full list here.

Dwarf Fortress has now racked up 600,000 copies sold on Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/dwarf-fortress-has-now-racked-up-600000-copies-sold-on-steam/
Dwarf Fortress is a huge success story on Steam. It sold nearly 500,000 copies less than a month after it debuted on the storefront—which, for the record, happened more than 16 years after its initial standalone release—earning its two-man development team more than $7.2 million in revenue. And it's still shifting units: Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams told us during a GDC chat that the total figure has now climbed to roughly 630,000 copies sold on Steam.

The Epic Store gives away two titles:

• Chess Ultra: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/chess-ultra
• World of Warships — Starter Pack: Ishizuchi: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/world-of-warships--starter-pack-ishizuchi

Next week, they'll give away Tunche.

GOG has announced that there are now Square Enix and Larian Studios games in their Spring Sale. Here you'll find which games and their discount: https://www.gog.com/en/news/square_enix_games_and_divinity_series_titles_from_larian_studios_join_the_spring_sale.

Fanatical is back to its usual business:

• The new Star Deal is Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition, 73% off during 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/horizon-zero-dawn-complete-edition
• The former is part of a Playstation Sale, with up to 78% discounts during up to 7 days (some deals may finish earlier than that): https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/playstation-pc-llc
• And there's a new BYO Play On the Go Bundle, Spring Edition, with 21 titles to choose for your 3, 5 or 8 games bundle: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-play-on-the-go-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 23.3.2
https://videocardz.com/driver/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-23-3-2
Highlights<br/ > Support for:

• Resident Evil™ 4 Remake
• The Last of Us™ Part 1
• Additional Vulkan® extensions

Fixed Issues

• Application crash may be observed while playing UNCHARTED™: Legacy of Thieves Collection on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
• Application crash may be observed while playing Genshin Impact™ on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6750 XT.
• Corruption may be observed while playing It Takes Two™ on Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs.
• Connection failure or black screen may be observed using Parsec client with AMD decoder setting.
• The Performance Tuning Stress Test may intermittently lower GPU usage before test completion.
• The Performance Metrics Overlay may intermittently resize across the display on some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon™ RX 6600M.
• The Performance Metrics Overlay may have some missing units when enabled, or situationally become truncated after changing display scaling settings.

NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 531.41
https://videocardz.com/driver/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-531-41
Highlights
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best day-0 gaming experience for the latest new games including the open beta for Diablo IV featuring NVIDIA DLSS 2 technology. Further support for new titles leveraging DLSS 2 technology include The Last of Us Part I, Smalland: Survive the Wild, and Deceive Inc. Additionally, this Game Ready Driver supports Resident Evil 4 and the addition of DLSS 3 technology to Forza Horizon 5. Lastly, this Game Ready Driver offers full support for the technology preview of Cyberpunk 2077’s Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode.
GeForce Experience Profiles:

• Kerbal Space Program 2
• Last Epoch
• Like a Dragon: Ishin!
• Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

Fixed Issues

• Adobe application stability issues using 531.18 [4008751]
• Enscape crash at startup with 531.18 [4008190]
• Beamr – Issue with AV1 encoding in PTD=0 mode [3981172]
• Derivative TouchDesigner – NVAR: crash when using multi-person tracking [3808674]
• [Forza Horizon 5] Rainbow like artifacts in game after driver update [3839021]
• [Portal with RTX] “Background application max frame rate” setting is getting engaged while game is in focus [3897352]
• Disable Horizon Zero Dawn Resizable Bar profile on Intel platforms [3759681]

Unreal's new MetaHuman Animator can turn an iPhone video into a scarily accurate game animation in three minutes
https://www.pcgamer.com/unreals-new-metahuman-animator-can-turn-an-iphone-video-into-a-scarily-accurate-game-animation-in-three-minutes/
Yesterday's State of Unreal 2023 presentation was rather overshadowed by a certain surprise game announcement, but Epic showed off some genuinely amazing tech coming to Unreal Engine 5 in the near future. We got to see impressive new procedural environment tools, Lords of the Fallen showing off the engine's enhancements to character creation and realistic armour and clothing, and more. But what really blew my socks off was the MetaHuman Animator stage demo.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Grand Theft Auto 5 gets a Harry Potter/Hogwarts Legacy Mod
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/grand-theft-auto-5-gets-a-harry-potter-hogwarts-legacy-mod/
Talented modder ‘JulioNIB’ is currently working on an amazing Harry Potter/Hogwarts Legacy Mod for Grand Theft Auto 5. This mod will allow you to cast basic spells from the Harry Potter franchise, including Incendio, Lumos and Confringo.
Furthermore, the mod will introduce a flying broom that players can use to fly around. And yes, you’ll be able to cast spells while flying around.
Unfortunately, this first beta version is behind a Patreon wall. My guess is that JulioNIB will release a public version later in the future. However, there is currently no ETA on when this will happen.
>> There's an over 11 minutes video.

GAMING NEWS

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II gets a new in-engine trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/senuas-saga-hellblade-ii-gets-a-new-in-engine-trailer/
Ninja Theory has released a new in-engine trailer for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II that focuses on Senua’s 3D model. Senua looks better than ever in this new trailer, though I’m a bit disappointed by this trailer.

New The Lords of the Fallen gameplay trailer shows off Unreal Engine 5’s capabilities
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-the-lords-of-the-fallen-gameplay-trailer-shows-off-unreal-engine-5s-capabilities/
CI Games has shared a new gameplay trailer for The Lords of the Fallen at State of Unreal 2023. This trailer shows off some of the Unreal Engine 5 features that this upcoming game will be using.

Counter-Strike 2 has been officially announced and detailed, will release in Summer 2023
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/counter-strike-2-has-been-officially-announced-and-detailed-will-release-in-summer-2023/
And the moment has finally come. Valve has officially announced Counter-Strike 2, an upgraded version of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in the Source 2 Engine. Counter-Strike 2 will release this Summer, and below you can find its first details.

Cyberpunk 2077’s RTX Path Tracing Overdrive Mode will release on April 11th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/cyberpunk-2077s-rtx-path-tracing-overdrive-mode-will-release-on-april-11th/
At GDC 2023, CD Projekt RED announced that the highly anticipated RTX Path Tracing Overdrive Mode for Cyberpunk 2077 will release on April 11th.
Cyberpunk 2077 will also take advantage of Shader Execution Reordering. This feature is available for use on the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPUs, and optimizes GPU workloads. As a result, it can enable more efficient path-traced lighting.

Elden Ring Update 1.09 released, adds Ray Tracing on PC, full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/elden-ring-update-1-09-released-adds-ray-tracing-on-pc-full-patch-notes/
FromSoftware has just released Update 1.09 for Elden Ring, which adds Ray Tracing effects to the PC version. FromSoftware has used Ray Tracing in order to enhance the game’s ambient occlusion and shadows.

The Witcher 3 Next-Gen March 23rd Patch improves DLSS 3 stability on RTX 40 series GPUs
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/the-witcher-3-next-gen-march-23rd-patch-improves-dlss-3-stability-on-rtx-40-series-gpus/
CD Projekt RED has released a new hotfix patch for the PC version of The Witcher 3 Next-Gen. According to the team, the March 23rd Update improves DLSS 3 stability on the RTX 40 series GPUs.