Digital Foundry || Far Cry 6 - The Digital Foundry Tech Review - PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Ray Tracing - The Lot!

[ILikeFeet]

Join Alex Battaglia for the Far Cry 6 tech review! We take a look at the latest iteration of the Dunia Engine with its various strengths and weaknesses, compare PS5, Series X and Series S versions of the game then dive deeply into PC. You'll get optimised settings, quality comparisons with consoles, performance analysis plus everything you need to know about the ray tracing implementation.

• skies have volumetric clouds and atmospheric scattering
• though the clouds are low res volumes
• new water waves and deformation physics
• fire propagation is back
• RT on PC only, shadows and reflections
• RT shadows are just sun shadows
• veggie and alpha masks are shadow maps with screen space shadows
• RT shadows are quarter res, so there's a lot of aliasing
• no temporal filtering for rt shadows
• RT AO would have been better usage
• RT reflections on artificial materials and puddles
• particles are reflected
• large water are screen space
• transparent objects have no reflections
• lower resolution of RT reflections, no higher resolution available
• particle effects, lens flares, motion blur, screen space shadows are quarter res on all systems
• consoles are 4K/60 with dynamic res
• seeming no reconstruction
• PS5 is 1728p - 1872p
• XSX is 1872p - 2160p
• XSS is 1080p - 1224p
• console setting!
  • high volume fog
  • high shadows, misalligned because of such
  • high or medium water quality
  • high texture filtering
  • between medium and high for geo and veggies
  • veggies is higher on PS5 at distance
• PC performance settings
  • high environmental detail
  • high shadows
  • high AF
  • high volume fog
  • high water
  • high terrain
  • high geo and veggies
  • DSR 60
  • no road quality settings anymore
  • DRS does not work right on certain cards
  • 2060S can have 17% higher performance
• fast loading everywhere
• consoles have camera stuttering (like deathloop did)
• not on PC
• all systems hit 60fps quite well
• traveling by car can cause stuttering and tearing
• this was a thing with Far Cry 5, might be worse in Far Cry 6
• one thread does a lot of work here on PC
• RT hit
  • +3.4ms on 60800Xt at 4K
  • +2.5ms on 3080 at 4k
  • 9.5% better on 3080, near 60fps
• the "11GB of VRAM need for high res textures" doesn't cause a problem
• textures just don't load in, might be an issue with vram allocation
• lower your output res for high res textures
• some cutscenes are 30fps and others are 60fps, causes animation errors

 

[9-Volt]

Dang, thread got me excited for a second, thought Far Cry 6 is coming to Switch natively.

I wonder if we'll see more Ubisoft support on Switch other than Mario or Just Dance. They seem to be done bringing more M rated stuff to the system.

 

[EDGalTBR]

That's looks very nice on Xbox Series S.