The game does have a story for its protagonist Frey Holland though, which was revealed in more detail this week ahead of its upcoming launch on PC and PS5 this May. 'If you imagine Spider-Man slinging a variety of deadly magic. This potentially allows for near-instantaneous loading of a game, something which has become a hallmark for the current generation of console gaming with titles such as Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Doom Eternal showcasing blistering speeds on the respective SSDs of the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles.įorspoken is shaping up to be a good-looking showcase of new technologies, as it also incorporates AMD's new FidelityFX Super Resolution tech into its design. Forspoken releases on PS5 and PC on January 24, 2023, and takes place in a fantasy land that you can navigate with magical parkour. Microsoft is working on fine-tuning the technology and refining it in the future.Īs for how it works, DirectStorage allows the GPU to communicate directly with an SSD so that games and textures can be loaded without needing to check in first with the CPU and main memory.

Developer Luminous Productions had to optimize it for Forspoken, and the studio did note that improvements could be made to prevent data bottlenecks with graphics decompression. There is a caveat to this though, as the technology isn't exactly plug-and-play software.

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