Black Myth Wukong: A New UE5 Showcase

[UltraMega]

Anyone here playing this game? What is your experience so far?

 

This game uses:

Software Lumen

Hardware lumen - up to path tracing

Nanite

 

It does not use:

Nanite for vegetation

Virtual Shadow Maps

 

Note: virtual shadow maps are unnecessary when using Path Tracing. 

 

 

As an interesting note of comparison, HellBlade 2, the only other serious UE5 title to date, does use nanite vegetation and virtual shadow maps, but only software Lumen. The HellBlade team was actually only able to implement these features late into their dev cycle, nanite vegetation almost didn't make the cut. This is because those features were added late in development of UE5 itself, and likely why Black Myth doesn't use them. 

 

 

At the end of the day, this is the first open world game to make heavy usage of the bigger tech promised from UE5. Performance is definitely reflected, as a 4090 with DLSS cannot maintain 60 FPS without frame gen at max settings. 

 

AMD really suffering here. IDK if it's unoptimized drivers or what. AMD is behind in RT, but for medium settings one would assume this is software lumen, which AMD should be able to manage with decent performance. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Black Myth: Wukong is a new action RPG that's gained attention for its stunning visuals and intense combat. Today, we'll focus on GPU benchmarking to compare performance...

 

Note: this games release is impacted by a press release controversy that reflects the censorship views of a foreign nation. 

Spoiler

Black Myth: Wukong Marketing Team Offers Content Creators a Steam Key — but Bans ‘Feminist Propaganda’ and All Talk of Covid - IGN

 

 

I have not played this myself, but I assume someone here has, or will. What are your thoughts? 

Edited August 21 by UltraMega

[Slaughtahouse]

The game doesn’t speak to me because of the visuals. It looks great but what has me intrigued is the gameplay. It does sound fun and a good spin on the souls formula. Linear and lots of boss fights for shorter bursts of gameplay.

 

I’ve only used the benchmark tool but can attest to Hardware Unboxed performance with a 7900 XTX (~14 fps avg 4K max, RT). All I can say is that RT doesn’t appear to add a whole lot, at least in the bench. It’s not as impactful when compared to games like Control, Alan Wake, CP2077, or Metro Exodus from a quick 3mn preview.

 

RT disabled, frame rates dramatically improve. I didn’t watch the optimized settings video but I suspect Hardware Unboxed will recommend disabling RT and include mix of High / Cinematic settings to squeeze out as much quality, whilst prioritizing performance as much as possible.

 

I don’t recall my results without RT but I believe I averaged 119 FPS (?) at 1440p / Cinematic, but the bench defaults to 75% scaling and frame gen so I can’t concretely say what rendering resolution I was using. Not at least without attempting math and it’s too late in the evening for that XD

 

I’ve shared in my other thread that this game already hit peak ~2.2m concurrent players, so it’s likely going to stand as one of the best selling PC games of the year. And if my non RT results line up on lower end hardware, I suspect most people will be able to leverage UE5 features at good performance. Whether AMD or Nvidia.

 

If I didn’t have a big backlog and had more time, Id consider jumping in sooner. Maybe in a couple years I’ll jump in TBH.

 

I will check out the Digital Foundry deep dive and recommend others to do the same if they’re considering picking it up. 

Edited August 22 by Slaughtahouse

[GanjaSMK]

I got this game, because I needed something else besides repetitive Starfield SP runs; but also because of the visuals and I did have fun with Darksiders, to which it kind of reminded me.  I've never played DS and only basically understand the 'Souls' style genre.  

 

My feedback is: 

 

A) Gameplay is fun as hell. But I suck at this genre. I need to learn better combos because I cannot seem to get past Chapter 1. LMAO. 

 

B) 10900K @ 5Ghz w/ decent clocked RAM + 4080 Super and the game plays pretty well at up to 75 DLSS for me. 

 

C) I don't know if it's the drivers or conflict with HWiNFO64 - but using the NV overlay for a quick eyeball on frames/times I can't seem to trust because the wattage/temps and other things do not line up with HWiNFO - no idea why and not concerned enough to figure out. 

 

Anyways, fun game. I suck at it though. The cinematics and storyline are also top notch.