Ratchet and Clank: PC developers of Rift Apart, studios Insomniac and Nixxes, announced that the project can run on a regular hard drive without requiring an SSD. It has been reported Border.
The message appeared on the blog on the Steam service, but was deleted a few hours later. According to the published system requirements, the game will run at 720p resolution from the hard disk, at 30 frames per second.
This statement contradicts Sony’s previous claims that the game cannot be played on PlayStation 5 without using an SSD. According to the developers, this was made possible thanks to DirectStorage 1.2 technology.
With his help, the authors of the port from Nixxes were able to buffer data from hard drives before transferring them to the GPU. This made it possible to ensure smooth texture transfer even when using a conventional HDD, the developers said.
In June 2020, Insomniac creative director Markus Smith stated that Rift Apart “would be impossible to run on PlayStation 5 without an SSD.” Now in the post, he explained that using DirectStorage on a PC allows for a similar gaming experience on a legacy drive.
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