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Hi everyone, it's that time of the week again. DF Direct Weekly returns for a triumphant 174th edition with a panel consisting of Rich (ie me), Oliver and Tom! Alex is away on vacation while John is hunkering down on his current project and needs some alone time to make progress.

Topics on the docket include the Star Wars Outlaws preview phase and its recommended PC specs, Tom's got some first thoughts on Nobody Wants to Die and the new RT features making their way into EA Sports titles. The ROG Ally X benchmarks we forgot to include last week should be in the show, assuming I don't forget again, and we're hoping to share some thoughts on AMD's revised AFMF 2 technical preview. Thoughts on the epic-looking Strix Halo leak? Yes, perhaps!

But this is the part of the post where we ask for your contributions - Supporter Q+A is a key part of the show and we always welcome your topic suggestions. Thanks in advance!

In the meantime, please rest assured that we're doing our best to sort the Patreon login outage on digitalfoundry.net and hope to have everything restored ASAP.

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DukeBlueBalls

Hi comrades. If the next Xbox consoles are capable of playing Steam and PC games, would it be possible for Sony to disable Playstation games from being played on the device? AFAIK they don't have the ability to prevent a game from launched on Steam based on the device, but perhaps they can patch their games to detect the hardware the game is running on and disable it that way. If the Xbox handheld SOC is also dual used in Surface and OEM gaming devices (for economies of scale reasons and broader adoption), then there will be a lot of collateral damage and I can see a class action lawsuit against Sony or action from Valve for preventing making owned games unplayable.

Octolimar

Given Microsofts autoSR relies on machine learning and proves somewhat viable, could we expect Nvidia to create some sort of DSR (Dumb Super Resolution) that mimics what they did in their Nvidia shield and with their Video Super Resolution? Furthermore, what does the future look like for a technology like this?