Download the UE5 Valley of the Ancient Demo (Patreon)

Hi everyone, Rich here. We've talked about the Valley of the Ancient Unreal Engine 5 demo a lot recently, and I found myself compiling it myself for the Razer laptop video I completed last week. I initially went online to find a compiled version and the only one available was a 'shipping' release rather than a 'development' release which meant that you were not able to change any of the .ini files. It would simply run at the native resolution of the screen you were using, which isn't great when you want to do some tweaking.

So I compiled the demo myself and you can find all 23GB of it (split into four RARs) here. Unpack this four-RAR download and double click on the Ancient.exe file to run. The demo should run at the resolution of your display, but feel free to search out the GameUserSettings.ini file in Valley of the Ancient\ValleyoftheAncient\Saved\Config\Windows to change the temporal upscaling factor. This is currently set to 50.000 for a prospective 4K output from a 1080p native rendering source - things get a lot more expensive when you go any higher. The settings that are the default are the ones used for the video above, running on an RTX 3090! 

I hope you have fun with it - and that your PC won't melt!

Download here: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/2021-09-06-valley-of-the-ancient-downloadable-demo