Forspoken PC tested: a confusing, deeply disappointing port - Eurogamer.net
Forspoken’s launch on PlayStation 5 was rocky from a technical perspective, with uneven visuals and inconsistent performance, so I wondered whether the PC version could be the panacea to all of the woes John touched on in his DF tech review.
There is a comprehensive settings menu with options for selecting image reconstruction techniques, dynamic resolution, ray-traced ambient occlusion (RTAO) and even an in-game benchmark.Dynamic resolution scaling (DRS) is another rare inclusion for a PC port, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work correctly in either the launch or patched versions of the game.A patch released today fixes this issue, providing the ability to use image reconstruction techniques such as DLSS with a dynamic resolution, but enabling this seems to have a deleterious effect on frame-times for reasons I don't quite understand.Enabling RT shadows drops performance by around 20 percent on RTX 4090, and for mid-range or lower GPUs the cost of the BVH structure in video memory is enough to make it extremely hard to recommend.So despite Forspoken’s comprehensive PC settings menu offering a good first impression, this is a deeply disappointing port with nearly useless RT and a severe texture quality penalty for those on graphics cards with 8GB or less of VRAM.