This becomes the first DirectStorage 1.2 game with GPU decompression support.
In a recently taken down blog post on Steam (via WCCFtech), Nixxes, the developer behind the PC port of Rachet and Clank: Rift Apart, wrote that because of the recent DirectStorage update, you can play the former PS5 exclusive on a hard drive, albeit at its minimum settings.
When Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart was initially announced, Insomniac’s creative director, Marcus Smith, said that the game’s dimensional rift gameplay « would not have been possible without the solid-state drive of the PlayStation 5. »
However, it turns out that it is indeed possible.
The blog post also confirmed that this would be the first game to utilize DirectStorage with GPU compression.
