With Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, a PS5-exclusive game is now available on Steam for PC players. However, some players are experiencing issues with the title, which can be easily bypassed.
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart has long been considered one of the flagship exclusive titles for the PS5, and Sony explained why such games are only suitable for the PS5. However, a few days ago, the title officially launched on Steam for PC players.
Colleagues from PCGamer now report that Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart currently has some performance issues with AMD graphics cards. This is mainly due to RayTracing. However, some owners of Nvidia graphics cards are also reporting crashes.
Most issues, however, can be solved more or less easily by skipping a few features.
Owners of AMD graphics cards should disable ray tracing
What is the problem? If you are currently playing Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, you may experience a crash of the application or a timeout of the driver. However, this only happens if you have RayTracing or FSR enabled. With FSR, you automatically scale your resolution and thus save performance. Rift Apart supports NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR 2.1, and Intel XeSS.
In the current patch notes from AMD under “known issues”:
While playing Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, there may be a crash of the application or a timeout of the driver with ray tracing and dynamic resolution scaling enabled on some AMD graphics products, such as the Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX.
Other graphics cards are not mentioned, but it is quite likely that you will also experience problems with other GPUs.
AMD has already stated that they want to “fix some stability issues with ray tracing enabled.” If you are playing with an AMD graphics card, be sure to keep your graphics card software in check for a new update. Until then, just leave RayTracing disabled. The developers state, that ray tracing should still be disabled at release:
Ray tracing on AMD GPUs is disabled at launch. We are working closely with AMD to enable support as soon as possible.
Nvidia graphics cards also have problems
Crashes are not only affecting AMD’s graphics cards. On reddit and also on Steam, some complain about annoying crashes. Mentioned are primarily the RTX 2080 Super/Ti and a few models from the 3000 series (3070 Ti, 3060).
However, there is a trick to bypass the issues here as well. One user explains that you should disable Nvidia Reflex. After he disabled the mode, the game ran for hours without problems.
So far, however, the vast majority of players are satisfied. Currently (as of July 28, 2023), the game has around 1,000 reviews at 84% (very positive) and the majority can play the game without major issues. Other major titles have had different results:
