Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Developers
	Insomniac Games
Windows	Nixxes Software
Publishers
	PlayStation PC
Engines
	Insomniac Engine
Release dates
Windows	July 26, 2023
Reception
OpenCritic	89
IGDB	93
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Platform, Shooter
Art styles	Cartoon
Themes	Sci-fi, Space

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is a singleplayer third-person platform game developed by Insomniac Games, ported by Nixxes Software and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment via its PlayStation PC brand. The game is a port of the PlayStation 5 game of the same name and is the ninth main installment and the overall sixteenth entry in the Ratchet & Clank series, chronologically takes place after the event of Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus.

The game was released on July 26, 2023 on Steam and the Epic Games Store, over two years after it was originally released for the PlayStation 5 on June 11, 2021.

The port included a variety of PC specific features, including uncapped frame rates, support for all vendor upscaling technologies and DLSS Frame Generation, improved ray tracing fidelity, including the introduction of ray traced ambient occlusion, and ultrawide screen and multi-monitor support. It is also the first game to feature support for DirectStorage GPU decompression, to allow for faster loading from solid-state drives.

At launch, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was well received for the quality of the game's features and performance, although some issues were noted to be present, including AMD graphics cards being unable to use ray tracing, visual regressions from the original PlayStation 5 version and random crashes. Hotfixes were released in the days following release to address a number of these issues, most notably being issues with texture streaming and visual bugs on AMD Vega graphics cards.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		DRM-free when a shortcut is made directly to the executable, with the -EpicPortal command appended to the Target URL.
GamersGate
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

A PlayStation Network account can be optionally linked within the game.

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	None

Essential improvements

Skip launcher

Use the -nolauncher command line argument to skip the launcher.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Ratchet & Clank - Rift Apart\<user-id>\-userprefs.save HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Insomniac Games\Ratchet & Clank - Rift Apart
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1895880/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Ratchet & Clank - Rift Apart\<user-id>\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1895880/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Display settings (in-game)

Graphics settings (in-game)

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Hor+ scaling with support for 21:9, 32:9 and 48:9 aspect ratios. Heads-up display can be fixed to 16:9, 21:9 and 32:9 ratios or set to maximise coverage. Map and inventory menus are pillarboxed to 16:9. Manually setting the aspect ratio in the display settings fixes the display output to cinematic standard aspect ratios that may introduce pillarboxing.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Slider present that ranges from 25° below or above the default value.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Labelled as Fullscreen.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		TAA, SMAA and DLAA
High-fidelity upscaling		FSR 2.2, DLSS 3.1, XeSS 1.2 Also supports IGTI (Insomniac Games' Temporal Injection) and DLSS Frame Generation.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		Requires HDR to be enabled in Windows.
Ray tracing (RT)		Ray traced shadows, reflections and ambient occlusion.
Color blind mode		Some user interface element colors can be individually set, and color shaders can be applied to objects within the game to improve visibility.

• 

  Display settings (launcher)

• 

  Graphics settings (launcher)

• 

  Heads-up display settings

• 

  Visual & contrast accessibility settings

• 

  Default FOV at 16:9 aspect ratio

• 

  Default FOV at 21:9 aspect ratio

Input

Keyboard and mouse settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Separate options for camera, aim and flight sensitivity, with each option having X-axis and Y-axis individually set.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Separate options for camera, aim and flight inversion, with each option also having an X-axis invert option.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Uses Steam Input to remap controls if enabled, otherwise uses built-in remapping menu.
Controller sensitivity		Options for camera and aim sensitivity.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Options for camera, aim and flight inversion, with each option also having an X-axis invert option.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		DualShock 4, DualSense, DualSense Edge Also support the built-in speaker on the controllers in wired connection.
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support		Works over wireless connectivity with native support. The Steam version also have adaptive trigger support with the use of Steam Input.
DualSense haptic feedback support		Only works over wired connectivity with Steam Input disabled. Will fall back to regular rumble if either connected via Bluetooth or enable Steam Input.
Connection modes	Wired, Wireless (Bluetooth)

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported		Available as an option in the controller settings menu.
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Multiple simultaneous inputs will prioritize controller input.

Steam Input
Steam Input API support		Used if enabled on the Steam version of the game.
Official controller preset(s)		Preset configs for Xbox One Controller, DualSense, Switch Pro Controller and Steam Controller can be found in the game's installation folder.
Steam Controller button prompts

• 

  Keyboard and mouse remapping

• 

  Controller settings

• 

  Controller remapping using a DualSense controller

• 

  Game settings

• 

  Accessibility settings

Audio

Audio settings

Subtitle settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sliders present for Master Volume, Music, Speech, Sound Effects, UI and Hit Confirm.
Surround sound		Offers up to 7.1 surround sound output.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Swedish
Turkish

Issues unresolved

Game randomly crashes to desktop

The game sometimes crashes to desktop at seemingly random instances, independent of any similarities or differences between systems.

Misplaced or missing visual effects

The game, even when running at the highest settings, experiences some visual errors, such as visual effects that are either misplaced or missing, that make it look worse than the original PlayStation 5 version.

Low quality ray traced reflections when using DLSS

Disable upscaling or change to a different upscaling method

Issues fixed

Performance issues with GeForce GPUs

Caused by a DirectStorage bug on Nvidia GeForce GPUs. It was later mitigated with a 537.09 hotfix driver.

AMD GPUs and Intel Arc GPUs weren't affected.

Delete dstorage.dll and dstoragecore.dll
Note: Only delete those files if the PC has more capable CPU.

Game crashes with "Not enough video memory" error

Change Windows page file settings

Search for, and open, View advanced system settings in the Windows Start menu. Click the Settings button under the Performance heading. Change to the Advanced tab Click the Change... button under the Virtual Memory heading. Tick the checkbox Automatically manage paging file size for all drives, or manually increase the paging file size for the drive the game is installed to. Click OK and close the windows.

Crashing with "DXGI error device hung" & clipping through ground during first area

Directstorage can cause frecuent crashes when booting, as well as rendering problems with the starting area of the game in some systems.

Delete dstorage.dll and dstoragecore.dll located in the game's root/installation folder

Unable to launch the game while Special K is running on Windows

In some instances, when running the game on Windows, using Special K may cause the game to crash at launch.

Replace the Nvidia Streamline library file
Download the latest version of the modified sl.interposer.dll from the Special K wiki. Go to <path-to-game> and replace the file that already exists. Changing to the modified library will make DLSS Frame Generation unable to be used on supported GPUs.

Gibberish text when changing the text language to Asian languages in-game

The game doesn't change the font currently in-use when switching the text language to any of the Asian languages (Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean) via in-game's Setting Menu.

Restart the game immediately after changing the text language in-game
In the game, switching the Text Language to any of the Asian languages. Restart the game. This will force the game to use the alternative font for rendering Asian text.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	12

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Audio	Wwise
Interface	Coherent UI
Cutscenes	Bink Video, Annosoft Speech Engine	Bink v2.7p, Annosoft Speech Engine v4.0.25.0 (used for automated lipsync)

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10 (1909)
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-8100 AMD Ryzen 3 3100	Intel Core i5-8400 AMD Ryzen 5 3600
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	75 GB (HDD)	75 GB (SSD)
Video card (GPU)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon RX 470 DirectX 12 compatible	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 AMD Radeon RX 5700

A 64-bit operating system is required.

The minimum requirements are for 720p 30 FPS at Very Low settings, while the recommended requirements are for 1080p 60 FPS with the Medium preset. Additional requirements for higher presets, 4K, ray tracing, and more are listed here.

Because of the use of DirectStorage 1.2 API, a M.2 NVMe SSD is recommended over a SATA SSD.