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.
