^^ Avatar had frametime/pacing issues at launch needing patching remember, there was also an issue with ray tracing.
Here is a visual show of texture sharpness with all the upscalers and RTXDI on vs off:
My recommendation is use RTXDI on LOW, this retains soft shadows that look good vs the hard edged shadows with RTXDI off but you don't have as big an fps hit vs RTXDI Ultra.
I'm on the space station now and the reflective floors of the Imperial Empire is rather tasty.
Sadly the planet's water and the station's floors highlight something Ubisoft seem to have forgotten, all those HW ray tracing options yet the game is still using screen space reflections
You're basically losing up to 40fps to benefit from RTXDI/RT reflections and everything all to be treated to screen space nasties,
@Nexus18 will not approve of this
^^ Oh and earlier this happened, GPU usage tanked and the frametime sky rocketed, it is clear that there is a memory leak at times as all of my VRAM is being used and the engine/OS is having to swap to system RAM which results in random moments of GPU usage drop as that swapping between RAM and VRAM happens. This seems to mostly happen with RTXDI set to Ultra, playing with RTXDI on low or off has yet to show the same issue. The graph above fixed itself when I moved into a different area of the same location. So it seems to definitely be streaming asset related and however it is handling memory during that process or something.
With everything I have seen so far, and I'm well into the campaign, it seems RTXDI is not implemented well at all, given that screen space effects are still being used and that RTXDI visually only slightly improves shadows whilst kidnapping 40fps in the process.
We're supposed to accept that this is truly next gen gaming from Ubisoft:
Though the areas it does look good, do actually look good:
Tech quirks aside, anyone been to
the food stand with the robot chef that cooks you and Nix up a spicy treat? You get a reward if you do the button combos right:
Also be sure to check your ship cargo hold as there's a case in there with inbox items you get as rewards, these are clothes for you and Nix etc to customise appearence, easy to miss if you take one of the other exits or don't look at the shelves or use Explorer mode:
Finally, just ending with some lols, the shooting combat genuinely is excellent, shooting a gas cannister and watching thick volumetric fog cover the area then running in shooting is an experience I've not had in other games before, even though the hand to hand combat is terribly disjointed and borderline hilariously laughable, it offers some form of amusement I'm finding lol. The AI can be crap as well although given the fact that in all the movies Storm Troopers can't aim for ****, it's no surprise that all enemies are kinda dumb.
