Sony has revealed the official PC requirements for its upcoming port of Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, and also explained how the game is playable on regular hard drives. When it was first revealed for PS5, Sony’s marketing would often mention how Rift Apart was only possible on that system thanks to its solid state drive, but since then, a few advancements in rendering technology have made it possible for the game’s PC port to work on older technology.

Rift Apart uses DirectStorage 1.2 and GPU decompression to load assets quickly, Nixxes senior lead programmer Richard van der Laan explained in a PS Blog updateCome from Sports betting site VPbet. “DirectStorage ensures quick loading times, and GPU decompression is used at high graphics settings to stream assets in the background while playingCome from Sports betting site VPbet. Traditionally, this decompression is handled by the CPU, but at a certain point, there is an advantage to letting the GPU handle this, as this enables a higher bandwidth for streaming assets from storage to the graphics card. We use this to quickly load high-quality textures and environments with a high level of detail.”