Martin Fuller

Today on Digital Foundry, a deep dive interview hosted at CD Projekt RED earlier this week. Alex speaks with key CDPR and Epic staff about the stunning Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 tech demo - lots of new detail in this candid conversation: youtu.be/OplYN2MMI4Q

Livestream 2, Day 2 | Unreal Fest 2025 YouTube video by Unreal Engine

The Road to 60 fps in The Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo www.youtube.com/live/0X6amtH...

It’s Showcase week! 🔥

Join us this Sunday, June 8 at 10 am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm BST as we reveal upcoming games from our studios and partners around the world, and get a deep dive from the devs at Obsidian Entertainment during The Outer Worlds 2 Direct. Hope you can join us! 💚

Path of Exile 2. Elden Ring. Star Wars Outlaws.

I wouldn’t like to speculate

That doesn’t look like VRS exactly. VRS on console is 2x2 as the lowest rate. Those tiles are much larger than 2 pixels.

Machine Games did an outstanding job here with IDTech and got a huge lift from VRS on Xbox

YouTube video by MuricanEagle I RECREATED THE DOOM: THE DARK AGES TRAILER IN DOOM ETERNAL!

Great side by side edit of Doom Eternal and Dark Ages trailers, showing just how far ID have raised the bar youtu.be/qx8yZzsZ_4U?...

Very cool, that’s expected 😉 The power of occlusion culling 👍

Interesting to see a bit of details behind the amazing DLSS tech: research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/DL...

meshoptimizer 0.23 is out! Featuring vertex codec v1 (increased compression ratio, faster decompression + even faster on Apple Silicon), improvements to meshlet builder with fewer disconnected clusters and more options for clustered raytracing and hierarchical clusterization, new algorithms for ...

That is an impressive uplift from just frustum culling, large meshes I guess. We recommend EI over AS, but YMMV.

Thanks for sharing, very interesting. I’d be interested in your results on AMD HW

I’m actually surprised that someone paying to support DF would do this…. maybe I’m naive…..

Awesome! Great to work with you Nico. Keep it up :)

This is pretty amazing to see directly from Epic - a primer about the problem with stuttering in Unreal Engine: specifically about shaders compilation ctutters mainly. Really honest, and proactive, and even has a history lesson in there about the beginnings of DX12 and why DX11 was different. Cool!

YouTube video by Branch Education How do Graphics Cards Work? Exploring GPU Architecture

Nice video discussing, at a high level, how (NVidia) GPUs work with great visualisations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Z4...

Agree entirely, sometimes optimisation attempts can have unexpected consequences. GPU’s are complex machines

For (new) gaming friends here, here's the info you'll need to publish your game in the MS store:
developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/

Massaging the Shader Compiler to emit Optimum Instructions Modern GPU’s feature sophisticated instruction sets for executing shaders. However this blog details how unintiutive it can be to have the shader compiler leverage the optimum instruction. Co…

Another small gem for Graphics Engineers: martinfullerblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/m...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 374 - January 12th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Agree, the benefits are reduced memory and package size and/or more accurate capture of material data. However, the devil as always is in the detail. The proof of concepts are compelling, so the opportunity exists, but there's a lot of real world engineering to work through.

Dynamic Resolution Scaling (DRS) on PC DRS is one of those technique that is a lot easier to implement on console than PC, or perhaps more accurately, its easier to run closer to the wire, maximising GPU use without dropping frames. My …

By request, a small follow up to my previous blog on DRS, this time covering PC specific difficulities. Interestingly due to the platform rather than the hardware. martinfullerblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/d...