PC users have been looking for a way to experience The Matrix Awakens UE5 demo for a long time. If you’ve had a chance to play around with the Unreal Engine 5 demo on the PlayStation 5, you’ve seen that the results are already impressive.
The first games with Unreal Engine 5 (except Fortnite) should arrive in the second part of this year. So it’s likely that the demo you’re going to find here for PC, is just a sample project for the Unreal Engine 5 developers to peruse rather than a proper, standalone tech demo of The Matrix Awakens like on the PS5. . We can therefore consider that many optimizations are still to come.
Matrix Awakens: the UE5 demo not yet optimized for PC…
The City Sample is a free downloadable sample project that reveals how the city scene from The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience was built. It consists of a city, with buildings, vehicles, and mobs of MetaHuman characters. The project shows how we used new and improved systems in Unreal Engine 5, including World Partition, Nanite, Lumen, Chaos, Rule Processor, Mass AI, Niagara, MetaHumans, MetaSounds, and Temporal Super Resolution, to create the experience.
Designers and developers can use this playground to learn how to use Unreal Engine 5 to create expansive and engaging environments.
…But still impressive
Downloading this project is still possible but will require a lot of work if you really want to run the demo outside of the editor. The developer Victor Careil from plugin maker Unreal Engine VoxelPlugin compiled it to make access less complicated. However, you will need to download a 17 GB file to get an idea. We already have feedback since a Youtuber was able to install it and use it on his PC equipped with a 12900K and an RTX 3090. And the least we can say is that the animal is sweating …The Matrix Awakens demo hovers between 30 and 50 FPS. The resolution cannot be changed and caps at 1440P.
However, it was clearly noticed that the optimizations are lacking with in particular a very low CPU load. This obviously remains very promising for the future of video games.
