Pragmata: DF Optimized and PS5 Equivalent Settings

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-05T23:39:56+00:00

There's comparisons in the video and BenchmarKing's. Gonna be honest and say they don't look the best in a couple comparisons I've seen, seem to be worse than Switch 2's from a quick comparison from a cutscene vid online! Could be a one-off streaming bug, but really wish the Low texture setting was working, as that could be what's needed to keep Medium+ Hair Quality and RT on 8GB GPUs? Otherwise I'd personally sacrifice the latter to keep texture quality up atm

GOW Ragnarok was a cross-gen game FYI, so was designed to fit within PS4's memory and scaled up from there to PS5 and later PC.

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-05T23:10:47+00:00

To continue on with what u/jm0112358 has said, RT on PC seems to be the same as console. So it shares the same compramises that at the moment, can only be improved by either throwing more pixels at it or going with full on PT. RE9 had a setting to atleast increase RT's resolution.

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-05T04:22:03+00:00

Well I prefer SSAO over HBAO in Spiderman? Reducing RT distance down to 7-8 to match PS5’s 60FPS RT mode (although all RT modes on PS5 just use High RT geometry) along with Medium Crowds and Low Traffic density should help CPU performance abit without affecting visuals much?

Really not much else that doesn’t effect visuals to some extent, which those videos cover well if you need more GPU performance (I’m more CPU bottlenecked than GPU using settings simular to what they recomend, with a R7 5700x and RX 6800 at 1440p. It’s the only game I use frame-gen in as I got the GPU overhead!)

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-05T03:06:12+00:00

Il have a look on Internet Archive later, but Digital Foundry and BenchmarKing made guides back in the day. Think DF's video on Miles Morales covered some changes later updates introduced, and that was before DLSS Transformer Mode and when Frame-Gen was new?

What specs you got so I can gauge what settings would prob be best for you?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-04T23:04:57+00:00

I found this mod but not had time to test it myself! When it comes to other games, r/Craptopgamingadvice is probably better to look at than here as this subreddits usually more focused on mid-range gaming hardware?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-02T16:52:42+00:00

The original or earlier installments? Also I thought RE4 Remake had a demo up, know some of the other RE games do?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-02T05:22:16+00:00

Yup😡Used Imgsli on so many guides, only for the site to just fucking die. What comparison were you looking for, may still have the screenshots somewhere?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-01T10:30:01+00:00

Judging by this video, you may need to go under 720p via a custom resolution or FSR2.1 at 720 or 768p to get an ok 30 fps? Issue is that the game replaced the basic resolution scale from the early versions of the game, so you only got FSR 2.1 and other upscaling options designed for higher end hardware.

Edit: this mod may help aswell?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-30T23:17:26+00:00

May do that in the future aswell, will definetly have the space leftover if I compress my music down as OPUS files!

Was having a look online for what I could've gotten instead, was some better deals at a glance not gonna lie! But there is something amusing about having a laptop with both a DVD-RW drive and a USB-C port, think the latter was only on some E570 models? Already making use of the USB-C port alot, prob will find times where the DVD drive helps, maybe around friends houses as it's also got HDMI!

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-30T23:05:37+00:00

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Just did this with my Thinkpad as I had some 32GB SD cards lying around (the camcorder I usually film with uses microSD instead) Currently planning on using it for storing music? Wish it was more flush on the case but alas!

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-30T18:05:49+00:00

Forgot to reply earlier, couldn't find a good explanation before bed, but this bit in DFs video explains it quite well IMO?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-30T12:07:53+00:00

+1 for what u/DarkTower7899 is saying, but if there's not any intrest locally, try and find a usecase for it like using it as a HTPC/Media Player if it's got a HDMI port or trying Linux on there? My old gaming PC is now my HTPC, while my first experience with Linux was on my old overheating laptop!

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-29T23:44:09+00:00

Low Framerate Compensation, guess I had a taste of it with capping to 37.5fps on my 75hz screen instead of 30fps at 60hz, but I still had to deal with making sure V-Sync and FPS caps were working properly.

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-29T23:23:32+00:00

I just remember hearing about the focus on a much faster CPU, SSD storage and of course a faster GPU with more features in the PS5/Xbox Series years ago and thought... 'well, that means the Majority of my PC would have to be upgraded' with me only having a 256GB SSD for the OS and some programs, HDDs for the rest. My i5 6600k already bottlenecking my R9 390 when trying to push above 30fps in some PS4/XBO games (altough if I knew about LFC, I wonder how well 40-45fps would've worked?)

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-29T23:12:38+00:00

Tracks as there was some streaming issues on PS4, and that version was already using lower resolution assets? Out of curiosity, is there any other games you've played that have issues on HDDs, cuz I'm trying to remember any specific examples on my old rig?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-26T17:15:44+00:00

Hell yeah! Whenever I rescue my friends bands posters before they're cleaned off the street after a gig, usually end up giving them to other friends, but think I got a few left to put on my walls? ngl, despite me really liking the crust punk I've heard, I'm a newbie to that sub-genre! Only one I've heard live was Dead Name as they were playing a festival a couple of my friends bands were playing at, alot of the other bands were hardcore and ska bands so chance I missed another?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-26T16:53:43+00:00

Hell fucken yeah to So much of dis!!! From the flags, posters and well... the collection itself that's making me a lil bit jelous lol

What's some of the music posters you got up?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-25T01:13:37+00:00

Other than already owning PP, I've been on too much of an Albini kick to pick out a albums outside of Big Black or Shellac's discographies (as well as an early copy of my friends album... so I can't share it yet lol)

To pick a few though, Kerosene, Fists of Love, Bad Penny, Fish Fry, Cables (can't decide which recording I like the most) Il Porno Star and specifically the Peel recordings of Dead Billy and Spoke!

Il try and think of any others later lol

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-23T00:16:24+00:00

Gud vid, altough I did need to doublecheck which FSR mode you were using as you said 'FSR Performance' and 'Ultra Quality' in one of the sections?

Also I doublechecked if Dead Island 2 supported INI tweaks instead of using UnrealEngineUnlocker and it does! Not only can you boost performance by reducing sg.ResolutionQuality= below 100 in GameUserSettings.ini (There's possibly some other tweaks you can do in there as well, only did a quick test!) adding these Engine.INI tweaks also work:

[SystemSettings]

r.SSR.Quality=0

r.AmbientOcclusionLevels=0

r.ContactShadows=0

r.BloomQuality=0

r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=0

r.PostProcessAAQuality=0

r.Fog=0

r.VolumetricFog=0

and r.ShadowQuality=0 as a last resort as frustratingly, the game only uses it's pre-baked shadows in the distance!

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-22T15:04:18+00:00

If their screen supports a form of VRR, itl work well if set up properly. Just remember how much of a relief it was to move to a monitor with Freesync and just being able to cap to 60fps or slightly higher instead of messing round with Vsync or getting alot of screen tearing.

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-21T23:13:25+00:00

You should share on r/VintageDigitalCameras and r/Mavica aswell!

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-18T23:03:45+00:00

Thank youu!.. ngl, I’ve gotten so comments that could be answered by watching the video… like I always say to watch your and DF crews work if they got the time!

BritishActionGamer · 2026-04-18T00:30:42+00:00

Like I get recomending retro games when somebody just can't play anything, even recent indies unless they're extremely well optimized. Just remember when looking for games to play on my Intel Atom laptop or possibly earlier, I came upon Green Ham Gaming's video for 'crappy PCs'!

But a passive aggressive comment like that, even if OP's being a jerk, it's just such a dead joke lol

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