• Artyom@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    Step 1. Turn on ray tracing

    Step 2. Check some forum or protondb and discover that the ray tracing/DX12 is garbage and gets like 10 frames

    Step 3. Switch back to DX11, disable ray tracing

    Step 4. Play the game

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      Best use of ray tracing I’ve seen is to make old games look good, like Quake II or Portal or Minecraft. Newer games are “I see the reflection in the puddle just under the car when I put them side by side” and I just can’t bring myself to care.

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        3 days ago

        Control and Doom Eternal are the only exceptions to this rule I’ve played, but they are very much the exception.

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      If I know a game I’m about to play runs on Unreal Engine, I’m passing a -dx11 flag immediately. It removes a lot of useless Unreal features like Nanite

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        Then you get to enjoy they worst LODs known to man because they were only made as a fallback

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        Nanite doesn’t affect any of the post processing stuff nor the smeary look. I don’t like that games rely on it but modern ue5 games author their assets for nanite. All it affects is model quality and lods.

        Lumen and other real time GI stuff is what forces them to use temporal anti aliasing and other blurring effects, that’s where the slop is.