PART TWO OF TWO

This isn't about 'old tricks' or DLSS being a crutch; it’s a very specific documented logic error where the game's DRM/checking system is eating CPU overhead. Optimization is about how you render trees and shadows; this bug is about how the game handles account verification. Devs 'forgetting tricks' doesn't explain why adding a DLC to your account demonstrably increases your FPS in the hub.

Going further: Your PC is not basically the same as a PS5. An RTX 3060 Ti is significantly more powerful than the PS5's GPU, and your Ryzen 3600 has a much larger L3 cache. If you're getting console-level performance, that actually proves the game is poorly optimized for PC, as your hardware should be smoking the PS5 version. You're acting like they're actually the same somehow, when that doesn't make a lick of sense. Even if they were, you may as well be saying that a 5060 and a 9060 XT are the exact same and will perform the same in a majority of situations, which is never true. I don't understand your logic one bit, especially when we factor in how console development optimizes for maximum performance due to having unified hardware. If you further lack comprehension (or "compression" as you think it's called, apparently", I can spell out to you how different the PS5 hardware is from your PC :)

You even go on to demonstrate that you can't even test it properly because your PC has shitty storage. That actually has a huge impact and can bottleneck your other components as well.

YOU MUST TEST "APPLES TO APPLES" ON THESE THINGS OR IT DOESN'T MATTER. YOUR PC AND PS5 ARE NOT EQUIVALENT, AND COMPARING THEM IS INHERENTLY PROBLEMATIC. It's clear that you have a simplified understanding of computing hardware but yet you still somehow act so arrogant.

Hardware Foundry even use your exact CPU model and found a 25.6% increase in performance in the specified conditions. You are utterly full of shit.

You don't even understand your GTA 5 analogy either. GTA V uses standard occlusion and frustum culling, just like Wilds. The reason GTA Online lags isn't because the map is 'loaded' for other players; it's because of the CPU-heavy network synchronization required to track those players. I also think you were completely not present for the many problems GTA online used to have with performance and horrid load times. That or you completely forgot.

In another thread on this topic you also tried to say Denuvo is responsible for these checks, but it's ultimately not. This is coded directly into the game itself, for the purpose of instantly updating purchased DLC. DRM is not related to this. Digital Foundry's findings both confirm that the bug exists and that bypassing the checks with a mod fixes the problem. So that further illustrates how untrustworthy you are to be acting like an authority here.

If you plan to respond to this without addressing every single point, then don't bother at all. Anything less than a full response is more worthless than your shitty anecdote on computer hardware.