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DF Direct Weekly #247 Is Now Available (Patreon)

Published:
2026-01-17 17:45:59
Edited:
2026-01-19 10:55:34
Imported:
2026-01

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Another week, another controversy surrounding Monster Hunter Wilds PC performance - but perhaps this time we're looking at more of a silly bug than a game-breaking issue. John clues us in on a remarkable port of Super Mario 64 for the Sega Dreamcast (!), offers up opinions on Code Vein 2 on PS5 and shares his excitement for the latest Resident Evil Requiem disclosures. There's comment on the RTX 5070 Ti discontinuation reports and general bafflement on what's going on with 007 First Light's PC specs.

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DF Direct Weekly #247: Monster Hunter PC Perf Drama, Mario 64 Dreamcast Port, RE Requiem Looks Hot!

Digital Foundry is now fully independent! Join the DF Supporter Program and support the team: https://bit.ly/3jEGjvx Another week, another controversy surrounding Monster Hunter Wilds PC performance - but perhaps this time we're looking at more of a silly bug than a game-breaking issue. John clues us in on a remarkable port of Super Mario 64 for the Sega Dreamcast (!), offers up opinions on Code Vein 2 on PS5 and shares his excitement for the latest Resident Evil Requiem disclosures. There's comment on the RTX 5070 Ti discontinuation reports and general bafflement on what's going on with 007 First Light's PC specs. Go here to check out DF merch! https://store.digitalfoundry.net Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: http://bit.ly/DFSubscribe 0:00:00 Introduction 0:01:00 News 1: Monster Hunter DLC checks drag PC performance 0:19:37 News 2: RE Requiem trailer showcases dual protagonist gameplay 0:27:34 News 3: RTX 5070 Ti “discontinuation” fracas 0:44:27 News 4: Super Mario 64 ported to Dreamcast 0:56:27 News 5: 007 First Light gets updated PC requirements 1:05:10 News 6: John previews Code Vein 2! 1:09:37 Supporter Q1: How should we pick between DLSS 4.0 and 4.5? 1:19:27 Supporter Q2: What’s a tech that you championed early - for better or for worse? 1:32:57 Supporter Q3: Why do Unreal Engine games on consoles have no shader gathering issues? 1:35:52 Supporter Q4: After the Switch 2 rumour cycle, have you changed your approach to evaluating unverified info? 1:42:55 Supporter Q5: Did Alex ‘raw dog’ his trip to CES?

Comments

Aaron

Thanks for answering my question! For clarification, re: the Switch Pro/2 SOC, I was referring your discussion in DF Directs #4 and #51 when T239 technologies and core counts began to leak (with no details yet about die size). Again, I think any skepticism expressed in these conversations was well-founded in 2021 and 2022, and many of your predictions about the tradeoffs (e.g., lower clocks) turned out to be right on the money.

Eric Hulen

Ah man! They didn’t end up taking about that PSSR update rumor. Maybe next week.

Ferdinand

The ads in Resi are awful. Any Kind of Product placement pulls me out of the experience. And GeForce Now gets too much credit for pretty much being an attempt at removal of ownership of compute.

BespokeEP

The Xbox ROOOOOG DOGGING Ally 😎

BespokeEP

Nothing really to discuss. Mark Cerny confirmed everything from that rumour last year. And saying it will release between January and March is about as helpful as your plumber saying they will be there to fix the leak between 9am and 5pm lol especially when Mark confirmed it would launch within the first half of 2026. And they likely want it out before the first big game of 2026 releases, my guess is the week before RE9. It's sort of like leaking that the 2030 Game Awards will happen in December.

Erik Kelly

I would love a look at decompilation including the current state of the decompilation of GoldenEye 007, which at this point feels like the holy grail of N64 decomps that haven't yet been delivered.

Digital Foundry

Yeah, there wasn't much meat to it and some of the content looked a bit off - for example, games are capped at 70 to 80fps, FSR 4 would not help that and the stuff about prior gen PlayStation games getting upscaled wouldn't be an FSR 4 thing.