Current Events > Do you gaf about ray tracing?

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Do you?

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It's a costly gimmick that doesn't even look that great
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No

Now, DLSS, that one I do care about
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No, accidentally clicked Yes though.
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Yes. It looks amazing when a game makes use of multiple ray tracing effects.

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I love the way ray traced lighting looks and some games will probably only run on ray traced hardware, like Metro Exodus.

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I love the way ray traced lighting looks and some games will probably only run on ray traced hardware, like Metro Exodus.

Ok, I honestly would love to see Exodus with perfect ray tracing. Did 2 playthroughs on Xbone and it still looked amazing.
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I dont have an RTX card so no.

Probably pick up the 3060 Ti whenever its available at MSRP.

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No. I don't.

I appreciate effects that push realism but lets be real, it has zero effect on actual gameplay.

I prioritize gameplay.

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my bachelor thesis was about ray tracing

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No but bump mapping still matters

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I've turned off ray tracing without realizing and didn't even notice until I checked the settings again.

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Choco posted...

my bachelor thesis was about ray tracing

What's your opinion on it? I'm sure you know more than me about it.
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I wish they'd forget about this gimmicky bullshit and make games with amazing stories and inspiring art

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Nope. I'll try it out if/when I get a GPU or console that supports it. From what I've seen in screenshots, it looks marginally better, but not a huge difference.

Now on the other hand, that... DLSS was it? The one that lets the GPU render at lower resolutions then upscale it really well, and results in a significant performance improvement with very little loss of quality... now that is something I'm excited to get when I next upgrade.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

No

Now, DLSS, that one I do care about

You enjoy making things blurrier at a lower resolution than what you paid for?

Just buy a 720p monitor or something.

Trumble posted...

Nope. I'll try it out if/when I get a GPU or console that supports it. From what I've seen in screenshots, it looks marginally better, but not a huge difference.

Now on the other hand, that... DLSS was it? The one that lets the GPU render at lower resolutions then upscale it really well, and results in a significant performance improvement with very little loss of quality... now that is something I'm excited to get when I next upgrade.

There is a very significant loss of quality. DLSS is marketing garbage

JaleelWhite posted...

There is a very significant loss of quality. DLSS is marketing garbage

AMD fanboy, I take it?

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Trumble posted...

AMD fanboy, I take it?

I own a 3090. I use my GPU for what it's intended for instead of overpaying for legally blind simulator.

This guy is either getting paid to trash DLSS, or he's doing it for free and wishing he was getting paid
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

This guy is either getting paid to trash DLSS, or he's doing it for free and wishing he was getting paid

Again, I bought my 3090 and my Samsung G9 to take advantage of its hardware. If I wanted to pretend I was underwater, I'd buy a 1050 and dig up a monitor from the local dump.

https://youtu.be/7BpOQUkMI4o

Now link all the videos that show how great DLSS is.

Not to mention that video is about an outdated version of it that no game uses anymore.

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modena posted...

What's your opinion on it? I'm sure you know more than me about it.

there's not much of an opinion to be had really
ray tracing is actually barely video game related
it's used for 3d animated movies, rendering photorealistic images, etc. where rendering time barely matters
so obviously the technology does have its place
video games don't look as good because they can't do the more extreme shit. it's not that ray tracing is "bad" or doesn't look better than typical video game rendering, it's just there's different types of ray tracing and obviously video games have to go with what's fast enough (outside of cutscenes).
that said i don't actually know how good modern video games look because i mostly play nintendo and indie games lol

but yeah it's interesting how people see this topic and immediately think of video games (which was probably tc's intention as well) since that's where people actually hear about the technology.
and it's kinda sad that people are now calling it a gimmick based on its worst application lol

tl;dr it depends

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No because reasons

Ray! Next time someone asks you to trace a god, you say yes!

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Definitely. Full ray tracing will be the biggest technological jump in gaming since 3D.

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Thanks for that reply Choco, saved me 30min trying to find a good article that got to the point in less than one scroll lol.
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