Square Enix and Luminous Productions have announced that Forspoken has been pushed back to a later date. The publishers have shifted the release date of Forspoken by 4 months – January 24, 2023. At the same time, it is said that all game elements are completed, and the developers are now honing the game. The decision to postpone the release date was made after discussions with key partners.
Forspoken is the first PC game to showcase the use of Microsoft’s DirectStorage technology. It uses the compression of game resources by the GPU, which reduces the number of I / O operations and the load on the CPU. According to Microsoft, DirectStorage technology can reduce CPU consumption by 20-40% in Windows 11. It can also increase throughput for modern NVMe drives and reduce boot times by up to 10 times for the fastest SSDs.
The Luminous Engine also supports other latest technologies such as Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO), Screen Space Reflections (SSR) and Ray Traced Shadows (RTS). It was also one of the first confirmed games to support AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0.
DirectStorage technology has been available to game developers since March of this year. Since Forspoken is being delayed, it’s unclear if we’ll see the technology in action anytime soon. So far, no other PC game supports it.
Source: videocardz
