Last week, Epic Games, in partnership with Nvidia, launched Unreal Engine 5 for early access, along with an example project for developers to explore, known as Valley of the Ancients. Nanite, an attempt to provide similar detail to infinity, and Lumen, a state-of-the-art global lighting system, are essential to UE5. According to the project’s creators, the highest “epic” graphics settings aim at 1080p at 30 frames per second on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. A completely new technique known as Temporal Super Resolution (TSR) offers a 4K display without clever upscaling. While we’ve just used UE5 on PC now, we have some early thoughts and preliminary performance metrics.
The critical thing to know here is that the first early access version of UE5 has absolutely nothing to impede anybody from downloading …