I was so excited when I finally had a machine that could run Crysis at full graphics settings.

It is…if you render the lighting at like 64x64 pixels and then “deep learning super scale” it to 4k and then AI generate 3 fakesuper-sampled frames for every real frame.

It’s more about companies getting people killed, less about companies doing a bad job at making video games.

It's very milquetoast critique in a safe corporate sort of way. Ironic.

It's a dumbed-down critic of corporatism. «Creative freedom» of Microsoft-owned developers is a joke.

It's quite crazy how much performance you gain from using pre-calculated lighting instead of raytracing. I know it looks worse, but there's gotta be a way to find a happy middle ground, maybe a "raytracing lite" lol.

Does raytracing even make the game look noticeably cooler, anyway?

I have a 3080, too, and I have a feeling it's going to be a perfectly good card for a long, long time.

I've been playing on an RX 6600 @ 1440p with zero problems. I didn't even bother turning it on, so terrible RT performance is news to me.

Or dare I say make a good game instead of just a shiny one

im trying to get smoother clip art looking anime cock textures into rimworld

I don't need it, but not being able to do what it says with very recent hardware and shit resolutions is very telling of other major issues in the game.

Imagine if modern games were designed with gaming in mind.

I got these confused for the longest time and finally played Outer Wilds earlier this year. It's a masterpiece

It's great but I threw in the towel after a few hours if play. I've never played a game that so readily gave me car sickness.

Because I don't like that game.

I kept dying from the same mistakes over and over and couldn't figure out what the hell I'm supposed to do or where to go. Supposely the ship log will update when you've made progress, but mine never did.

Got bored of playing what is basically a Game Over simulator after a day of frustration and never touched it again. I guess I'm just too stupid/ADHD for a game like this.

Many of us here aren't buying them. A core audience of people who don't know anything about hardware capabilities and aren't a part of niche gaming communities will keep buying them because they don't know better. Most people look at a game and say, "that looks fun" and they buy it without another thought. Your advice will never reach those people.

90% of players don't even know which graphic option does what. source: pulled it out of my ass

It's amazingly beautiful when done right. (See cyberpunk 2077, portal rtx, half-life 2 rtx, alan wake 2, control, metro exodus, SEUS PTGI, etc.)

I mean, it's not necessary, but neither are HD resolutions or high framerates.

It has seemed every beautiful in some things.

It's not necessary, but like, lots of things aren't. The tech in itself isn't horrible, it's just horrible usecases which make it bad. Even if most usecases are horrible. Some aren't.

Edit for instance we have much the same power computers with my brother, aside from me having an outdated GPU. Last year when we played HP Legacy for a bit, I would say that his was far prettier when utilising Ray tracing, and the whole game is a sort of feast of aesthetics, so. Although his rig wasn't potent enough to have great framerates, so playing was still better for him as well without Ray tracing. But the scenery without much action still had good framerares so we saw rhe difference. Idk perhaps it will never be good but

Yea, didn't care about ray tracing until I played Control, and that game is gorgeous with it, made me appreciate it when it's well Implemented into a game

I do but I'm also painfully aware that most implementations of it don't really add anything. Though my interest in it is more from a rendering perspective.

I love it, but it's getting treated as a shortcut to lighting when performance would be saved for most by a conventional lighting system. Ue5 is lousy with games that have half their frame rates taken up by a suboptimal implementation.

Honestly it feels like a technology that was designed with a future rig in mind, similar to how it was in the 2000s, but rendering technology doesn't move that fast nowadays. I much prefer a strategy like NVIDIA did with physx back in the day, where it's entirely possible to run with existing technology. Feels safer, more achievable.

The title specifies "with raytracing" so even if it only performs this badly with ray tracing enabled, then its technically correct.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle requires a card with ray-tracing capability. No option to turn it off.