Digital Foundry Direct Weekly

DF Direct Weekly #124: Red Dead Controversy, Mark Cerny on PS5 Atmos, New PS5 Leaks, RDNA4 Rumours

Aug 14, 2023

02:23:16

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Red Dead Redemption Remaster Is Coming

3min

Rock Star's Remastering of Tanglewood

4min

The Outcry Over GTA Modding

2min

The Disappointment of the PlayStation 4 Version of GTA 5

2min

Red Dead Redemption: Switch Version

4min

Halo Infinite: A Review

5min

Tempest 7.1.4: A Refresher Course in Audio Processing

5min

The Xbox One's Latency Test

4min

10.

How to Fix Delay in Video Playback

5min

11.

The New Split Design of the PlayStation 5

2min

12.

Sony's Detachable Blu-Ray Drive Concept

4min

13.

The Evo 2023 Dual Sensor Controller

2min

14.

Sony's PlayStation 5: A Detachable Blu-Ray Drive

3min

15.

AMD's RDNA GPU Architecture Is Unlikely

3min

16.

The NVIDIA-AMD Divide in Mindshare and Market Share

5min

17.

AMD's High-End GPUs of the Past

4min

18.

AMD's Failure to Recapture Positive Sentence From the Audience

4min

19.

AMD's Market Position Is Made Stronger by Their Negative Reflection of NVIDIA

2min

20.

AMD's RDNA 4 Roomers Demonstrate Problems for AMD GPUs Technological Growth

2min

21.

The Future of CPUs

3min

22.

PlayStation 5 Cloud Streaming: What It Means for Premium Members

4min

23.

Sony's Kudos Project: A New Network Storage Solution Based on PCI Express NTB

3min

24.

Sony's PlayStation 5 Custom Storage Solution

4min

25.

The New AI in Quake 2

3min

26.

The Quake 2 Machine Games Campaign Is Awesome

2min

27.

Quake 2 on N64

5min

28.

The Tink 4K VGA Capture Device

4min

29.

How to Use the Tink 4K to Capture Retro Content

3min

30.

The Tink 4K Is a High-End Product Design for Special Use Cases

4min

31.

The Studio Fight: A Review

5min

32.

Nvidia GPUs to Become Even Worse Value in Future

2min

33.

The Future of GPUs

5min

34.

The Importance of Frame Limiters in PC Games

5min

35.

Unreal Engine and VR Stuttering

2min

36.

The Problem With Half Rate Adaptive Sync on AMD Systems

4min

37.

How to Add Ray Tracing to Old Games

3min

38.

The Future of Skyrim

2min

39.

The Limit of Skyrim

2min

40.

DLSS3: A Game Changer for Low Power Target Devices

5min

41.

The Story of Panzogoon Saga

2min

42.

How I Made Crisis Two and Crisis Three Mastered

2min

43.

Random Gaming in HD

2min

In the latest DF Direct Weekly, John, Rich and Alex discuss the controversy surrounding the Red Dead Redemption conversions, Mark Cerny gets in touch to reveal more about PlayStation 5's Dolby Atmos support, a brace of leaks look set to confirm a new PlayStation 5 model with detachable optical drive - but it's not looking particularly slim. Meanwhile, RDNA4 rumours are discussed, while John shares impressions on the Quake 2 Remaster and new 4K retro scaler, RetroTink 4K.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:36 News 01: Red Dead Redemption ports announced

00:20:04 News 02: Mark Cerny on PS5 Dolby Atmos

00:34:00 News 03: Revised PS5 model appears in apparent leaks

00:48:53 News 04: RDNA 4 to skip high-end GPUs?

01:11:35 News 05: Sony starts testing PS5 cloud streaming

01:20:16 News 06: Quake 2 remaster released!

01:30:56 News 07: RetroTink 4K: John’s impressions

01:42:41 Supporter Q1: Has John recovered from Sonic 2006 yet?

01:47:27 Supporter Q2: With limited competition and a lucrative server market, will Nvidia GPUs become a worse gaming value in the future?

01:54:48 Supporter Q3: Why are PC game frame-rate limiters often so poor?

02:04:38 Supporter Q4: Could older 3D games prove unsuitable for ray tracing upgrades?

02:11:40 Supporter Q5: Given that DLSS 3 works best at high frame-rates, might it prove unsuitable for a hypothetical Switch 2?

02:15:47 Supporter Q6: Rich is in the credits for Panzer Dragoon Saga! Is anyone else at DF in a game’s credits?

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