Digital Dreams has shared a number of videos last week, showcasing Zelda Breath of the Wild, Kingdom Come Deliverance Beta and Watch Dogs in 8K with Reshade Ray Tracing.
In order to capture these gameplay footages, Digital Dreams used an NVIDIA GeForce RTX3090. The YouTuber also used an AMD Ryzen 9 3900x 4.5Ghz with 32GB of RAM.
Zelda Breath of the Wild was running on CEMU and looks better than ever. This emulated version looks miles better than the original WiiU version.
On the other hand, the Beta version of Kingdom Come Deliverance looks, by default, better than its retail version. This is mainly due to a more advanced lighting system that the beta uses. And, thanks to Reshade Ray Tracing, Kingdom Come Deliverance pushes amazing graphics.
As for Watch Dogs, Ubisoft’s open-world title can still look great in 8K with Reshade Ray Tracing. Furthermore, Digital Dreams used the Natural & Realistic Lighting Mod.
Lastly, and speaking of 8K videos, here are Just Cause 3, GTA 5 and Crysis 3 running in 8K. You can also find Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Assassin’s Creed Origins and Skyrim in 8K. Oh, and we have also shared 8K videos for Red Dead Redemption 2, Batman Arkham Knight, Battlefield 1 & Metal Gear Solid 5, as well as Diablo 3, Battlefield Bad Company 2, COD: Modern Warfare, RIDE 4, Halo Remaster, Forza Horizon 5, The Witcher 3, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Monster Hunter Rise and Horizon Zero Dawn.
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/giNlbJv4Bjk
https://youtu.be/pZZkKR6GfEk
https://youtu.be/iZCvZIOYLB8
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My Ryzen 5800x struggles very bad trying to play these 8k60 videos …. the video lags and freezes every second …. it’s a shame that I can get a better 8k experience by running these games in real time with my hardware (GPU is RTX 3070Ti), rather than watching them on Youtube!
It’s probably your internet, it’s only using 2% of my 5900x via Chrome to play them in 8k from youtube.
impossible…..99.9% of other people have the same problem as me …. I ask other people to confirm it please, THANK YOU!
No man..if that was the problem I would have understood it!
My CPU goes to 100% usage …. in Firefox, Chrome or Edge … no matter which browser I use … same result!
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5900x – hardware acceleration off https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d053743647bd80891b69a3d7bc22baf9bd08bc1832923e9e9aff7a6830c2efc3.jpg
I see the issue, the browser is supposed to be using your GPU for the videos, not your CPU. Did you turn off hardware acceleration? Something on your system isn’t configured correctly and your CPU is being used instead of your GPU.
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hardware acceleration is activated…it’s in italian but it says “use hardware acceleration when available”
You might be missing a codec, try installing K-Lite.
K-Lite MEGA It’s installed … btw I have two operating systems (Win 10) installed on two different SSDs.
Basically on one the hardware acceleration works and I can easily watch videos in 8k60 … while on the other it causes me the problem I described.
Obviously there is some setting in the OS that conflicts with hardware acceleration, although in the options I have everything activated correctly!
I would like to solve, because I mainly use the OS that gives me problems and I want to avoid formatting!
BTW thanks a lot man!
Here are things you can try that might resolve the issue.
1. Make sure you’re using the latest version of chrome, today it’s Version 98.0.4758.102 (Official Build) (64-bit) & windows is fully updated.
2. Reinstall the Nvidia drivers but while running the install select custom instead of express, it’ll give you the option to do a clean install, go ahead and do this.
3. You can try this install, I’ve seen another user report this helped them https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/av1-video-extension/9mvzqvxjbq9v?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
4. If those don’t work try installing this video codec pack (K-Lite), I would select the mega version, just click next through everything. This will also give you access to media player classic which will allow you to also play your 8k videos local smoothly. https://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
5. If all else fails, do a clean install of windows + updates with just the Nvidia drivers and chrome, this should resolve the issue.
Taco I am a PC technician, my job is to repair PCs!
So everything you kindly recommended to me I have already done …. I have the K-Lite MEGA codecs installed, I have the most up-to-date versions of the drivers and of the various browsers I use (Firefox, Chrome, Edhe etc.) .. ..but as I wrote to you in another comment, in the secondary OS that I have in the PC the hardware acceleration works … while in the main OS that I use 99% of the time, I have these problems!
Anyway you are great, thank you very much for your help and your patience!
The only other thing I can think of is doing a “reset this pc” by selecting the option to keep everything, this will remove just window’s related apps and should keep all of your files and programs. In theory it’s the closest thing to reformatting without actually reformatting and it might resolve your issue.
Also before doing this you could also try creating another user just to see if it’s an issue only effecting your account/profile for some strange reason.
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The fact is that in 4k videos I have no problem and the hardware acceleration is activated correctly, as you can see in the task manager … while for 8k videos the load is all on the CPU and the GPU remains in Idle. ..is very strange!
This is during 4K video:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0a681d8c21d31800f46c4c1c431ac265fea0c2a0ec5a278a01a642bce3db9566.jpg
And this during 8k video:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/37efd672f805a7cb9a294bcf1d26d4cd58f089cfb9289031020878b7e7d086f2.jpg
5900x – hardware acceleration on
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5900x – hardware acceleration off https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e6249a7ec55e1b7af498c6dc8fcdba47a91938e605ad95c8e42e1fd1b109f9c9.jpg
As Taco said, something is not configured correctly. Turn on hardware acceleration
its a shame that ray tracing removes all sense of style from the game and just makes everything a dark, dull mess.
Kingdom Come Deliverance looks great, but it always did. Anyone else notice the audio turns with the player?