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I disagree with the claims that DLSS 5 makes little difference in Hogwarts Legacy. It depends on the scenario. In some cases, it actually makes a massive positive difference in material response, shadows, and lighting. It brings out a lot more detail. youtube.com/watch?v=9L_LLROL…

This is a very welcome addition that I wasn't expecting. Excellent news.

It is definitely more subtle compared to the initial DLSS 5 reveal, but ultimately it's still up to the devs to implement it how they see fit. Performance hit should be smaller than it was when it first launched in NBA 2K27, and I'm sure it will continue to get even smaller.

I mostly use the 9070 XT just for benchmarking with uncapped frame rate, but Freesync + V-sync + RTSS FPS cap works pretty well from the few times I've tried it.

Here is what you can expect from DLSS 5 in Hogwarts Legacy when the update drops on November 5th. youtube.com/watch?v=GPCM-PHj…

A lot of games support DirectStorage now. Very few use GPU decompression/GDeflate, though. This likely due to the fact that NVIDIA GPUs prior to the 50-series struggle with it. Perhaps Zstd will become more widely used, given its incredible CPU decompression performance.

Compression ratio can be much better for all compression methods tested here depending on the files being compressed. In Microsoft's example, it's 0.40 to 0.43.

My results after testing DirectStorage 1.4 on 5090/9800X3D. Zstd has the best compression ratio. I assume that we still don't have optimized GPU Zstd decompression drivers, so GPU Zstd decompression bandwidth is still lower than CPU Zstd. CPU Zstd BW is very close to GPU GDeflate

Good to know. Hopefully they can get that worked out soon.

For anyone wondering about which games support Advanced Shader Delivery, there is a list with some of the titles in the article below. Although it's not up-to-date (Gears of War: E-Day and COD MW4 received support today, too.) news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/10/…

Excellent news. NVIDIA GPUs now support Advanced Shader Delivery with the latest driver. Even better news: ASD will work on any storefront (including Steam) as long as you've got the Xbox app installed on your PC.

Haven’t tried the Pro version. The Nautilus is better than the non-pro version of the Arctic Liquid Freezer iii 360, but the difference isn’t massive. I would just go with the cheaper one.

They make great coolers. I used the older non-pro version before getting the Corsair Nautilus 360 RS, and was very happy with it.

DLSS 5 on vs off comparisons in Where Winds Meet (update coming in late November.)

A couple of DLSS 5 comparisons in Hogwarts Legacy (update coming on Nov 5th.)

DLSS 5 continues to get faster.

It's just read activity though, so it won't hurt the SSD.

I disabled BypassIO, and I am actually seeing even higher SSD activity than you on my Gen5 SSD. This thing is thrashing the SSD lol. I am testing with HWInfo and a polling rate of 20ms, and I'm seeing an average of around 10x higher than yours. I might write an article on this.