• circuitfarmer
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    6224 hours ago

    Vote with your wallets. DLSS and Ray Tracing aren’t worth it to support this garbage.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 hours ago

      Just don’t buy a new card unless you really need to.

      I bought a 3080 because that gen seemed like a pretty solid bump in performance for the price. The new Nvidia gen is underwhelming so just wait.

      Or if you really need one now buy a 30 or 40 series card.

      • 🦄🦄🦄
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        12 minutes ago

        This is the way. Have a 3090, 980ti before that. Really no need to get anything new yet.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 hours ago

        I waited like 6 months to get a 5080.

        Im glad I waited, now I can get a 4080 for a good price.

      • JackbyDev
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        25 hours ago

        I got a 3070ti but my old one was something like a 780? I don’t remember exactly. Before that I had a Radeon 5970. That’s an upgrade roughly every 7 years I guess.

      • circuitfarmer
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        615 hours ago

        That’s fair. I’m on an all AMD system with no need to change, tbh. 7800XT.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Wish more gamers would but that ship has long sailed unfortunately. I mean look at what the majority of gamers tolerate now.

      • circuitfarmer
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        523 hours ago

        Yeah, unfortunately you’re probably right. Brand image is also still good, somehow

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      Dlss and RT are great… But this Gen definitely sucks. Just get a 4080 (if they’re cheaper)

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          Lol wut? No it’s not. That’s a ridiculous thing to say. Properly implemented RT is gorgeous and worlds ahead of rasterized lighting. Sure, some games have shit RT, but RT in general is not a money grab. That’s a dumb thing to say

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            413 hours ago

            While RT made my 2070s cry in cyberpunk, the difference was way less noticeable than the difference in FPS. I dunno, IMO when you watch some slowed down video or take your time inspecting things, you can tell a bit. But when you’re driving a car and shooting foes you can’t even tell. IMO, not worth $2,000 to improve my ray tracing to not even 144 FPS.

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              Cyberpunk is night and day with and without ray tracing. And in motion is the best way to see a lot of the affects. I’m not sure what to say. The difference is so obvious to me, especially after the path tracing updates.

              • yeehaw
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                411 hours ago

                Well 24fps sure as shit didn’t help me.

          • Nik282000
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            1422 hours ago

            Game engines don’t have to simulate sound pressure bouncing off surfaces to get good audio. They don’t have to simulate all the atoms in objects to get good physics. There’s no reason to have to simulate photons to get good lighting. This is a way to lower engine dev costs and push that cost onto the consumer.

            • JackbyDev
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              15 hours ago

              I can see your point to an extent. Good style is more important than hyper realism. But that doesn’t mean hyper realistic with good style can’t be good.

            • @[email protected]
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              819 hours ago

              Game engines don’t have to simulate sound pressure bouncing off surfaces to get good audio.

              Sure, but imitating good audio takes a lot of work. Just look at Escape From Tarkov that has replaced its audio component twice? in 5 years and the output is only getting worse. I imagine if they could have an audio component that simulates audio in a more realistic way with miminal performance hit compared to the current solutions I think they’d absolutely use it instead of having to go over thousands of occlusion zones just to get a “good enough”.

              They don’t have to simulate all the atoms in objects to get good physics.

              If it meant it solves all physics interactions I imagine developers would love it. During Totk development Nintendo spent over a year only on physics. Imagine if all their could be solved simply by putting in some physics rules. It would be a huge save on development time.

              There’s no reason to have to simulate photons to get good lighting.

              I might be misremembering but I’m pretty sure raytracing can’t reenact the double slit experiment because it’s not actually simulating photons. It is simulating light in a more realistic way and it’s going to make lighting the scenes much easier.

              This is a way to lower engine dev costs and push that cost onto the consumer.

              The only downside of raytracing is the performance cost. But that argument we could’ve used in the early 90s against 3d engines as well. Eventually the tech will mature and raytracing will become the norm. If you argued they Raytracing is a money grab at this very moment I’d agree. The tech isn’t quite there yet, but I imagine within the next decade it will be. However you’re presenting raytracing as something useless and that’s just disingenuous.

              • Nik282000
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                518 hours ago

                Ray tracing is a conceptually lazy and computationally expensive. Fire off as many rays as you can in every direction from every light source, when the ray hits something it gets lit up and fires off more rays of lower intensity and maybe a different colour.

                Sure you can optimize things by having a maximum number of bounces or a maximum distance each ray can travel but all that does is decrease the quality of your lighting. An abstracted model can be optimized like crazy BUT it take a lot of man power (paid hours) and doesn’t directly translate to revenue for the publisher.

                The only downside of raytracing is the performance cost.

                The downside is the wallet cost. Spreading the development cost of making a better conventional lighting system over thousands of copies of a game is negligible, requiring ray tracing hardware is an extra 500-1000 bucks that could otherwise be spent on games.

                • @[email protected]
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                  159 minutes ago

                  You can get a ray tracing capable card for $150. Modern iGPUs also support ray tracing. And while hardware rt is not always better than software rt, I would like to see you try to find a non-rt ighting system that can represent small scale global illumination in a large open world with sharp off screen reflections.

                • @[email protected]
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                  28 hours ago

                  The downside is the wallet cost.

                  The wallet cost is tied to the performance cost. Once the tech matures companies will start competing over pricing and “the wallet cost” comes down. The rest of what you’re saying is just you repeating yourself. And now I also have to repeat myself.

                  If you argued they Raytracing is a money grab at this very moment I’d agree. The tech isn’t quite there yet, but I imagine within the next decade it will be. However you’re presenting raytracing as something useless and that’s just disingenuous.

                  There’s no reason to argue over the now, I agree that right now raytracing really isn’t worth it. But if you’re going to continue arguing that raytracing will never be worth it you better come up with better arguments.

            • @[email protected]
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              1321 hours ago

              You’re either not arguing in good faith or grossly misunderstanding why RT results in more realistic lighting. I suggest you read up on RT, how it works, and what it is supposed to be simulating.

            • @[email protected]
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              420 hours ago

              You’re forgetting about the #1 reason why Ray Tracing is so good: it saves hard drive space because you don’t need to pre-bake lighting, when it’s rendered in realtime. You should be a fan for that reason alone. Games have gotten too large.

            • @[email protected]
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              221 hours ago

              I looks pretty when enabled, can you get Cyberpunks level of ray tracing visuals without it? Honest question, I thought that’s what made the game gorgeous, but if it’s possible without it why don’t know why some teams haven’t shown those results without it? And again I may have missed some games that do near equivalent without that feature.

              • @[email protected]
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                151 minutes ago

                With some games, pre baking lighting just isn’t possible, or will clearly show when some large objects start moving.

                Ray tracing opens up whole new options for visual style that wouldn’t really be possible (aka would probably look like those low effort unity games you see) without it. So far this hasn’t really been taken advantage of since level designers are used to being limited by the problems that come with rasterization, and we’re just starting to see games come out that only support rt (and therefore don’t need to worry about looking good without it)

                See the tiny glade graphics talk as an example, it shows both what can be done with rt and the advantages/disadvantages of taking a hardware vs software rt approach.

              • circuitfarmer
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                619 hours ago

                Cyberpunk with RT off still looks damn good.

                Personally, if it’s between RT off and giving my money to a company normalizing lying to me, I’ll stick with RT off.