***The Official Ray Tracing Thread - Read the First Post before posting***

[Calin Banc]

Funny that and there were people saying they don't want RT because it makes things too dark

It does go to show how much raster misses out on even in games such as this where the raster effects are still arguably very good but that's what happens when you have to do these things manually and literally make sure to cover every single frame/scene....

Don't celebrate just yet, as you still have fake lights in path tracing mode. You can disable them via a mod...
Also it helps to see the poor quality of reflections as well on something outside of "hero" assets. I'm not sure how much is just lack of interest into bringing up to date everything or engine limitations, but it is what it is... Sadly, no options to have a 1:1 reflections and such. Probably through modding....

PS: and @mrk said Alan Wake 2 had fake/bake lighting with the doors

LE: darn, how bad that leg it looks animated like that! ))

CB 2077 - Imgsli

 

[MikeLoader]

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1enf2to/black_myth_wukong_review_leaked/?share_id=588kKjj91ZvQeV_4-3N5Y&utm_content=1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

Damn how cool aint this. And now, people Really really have to start worry about China doing awesome video games. Oh and also - No Woke from them I guess
Go China go...!

 

[mrk]

PS: and @mrk said Alan Wake 2 had fake/bake lighting with the doors

Not said, showed, because it does

 

[Calin Banc]

Not said, showed, because it does

Well, of course. Apparently not the only one.

 

[Nexus18]

Good to see more and more games using RT GI

 

[MikeLoader]

About bloody Time!

 

[mrk]

4K / Max / DLSS Perf / Frame Gen (dlls v 3.7.20) - Imgsli

Given raster is just raster, the fps difference between path traced and raster in such a simple scene like this isn't as big as one would expect at 4K.

 

[Nexus18]

Black Myth: Wukong Benchmark Tool on Steam

The "Black Myth: Wukong Benchmark Tool" is a PC benchmark application specifically developed for "Black Myth: Wukong". It evaluates your hardware performance and system compatibility through the real-time rendering of an in-game sequence.

store.steampowered.com

Very hard hitting this! Would say similar to AW 2 levels of perf. With RT on very high and other raster based settings dropped to medium, low and with dlss perf, seeing about 35-40 fps at 4k, no frame gen so with that modded in, probably get it to about 70-80 fps which will be much more playable. Looks to be another well optimised UE 5 title on the vram front, dedicated vram wise, not seeing more than 7GB at most used.

Roll on 50xx for that RT goodness already........

 

[JediFragger]

Would say similar to AW 2 levels of perf.

Oof, RiP AMD!!!!

Looking more forward to Space Marine 2 personally, an AMD game so at least it may have decent perf/upscale

 

[mrk]

Here's a run with the scaling for upscaling set to 100% internal render res (4K) instead of the default 50 (1080P):

And normal settings but just Frame Gen off:

And when you exit the "UPSCALING IS BAAAAAAAAD" hate wagon and use actually good settings:

 

[D3K]

For some reason my bench result say RT is off, but its on in settings (and you can see its on in benchmark).

I hope they split the post-processing feature into it's constituent parts. There's nasty in there amongst good.

 

[mrk]

It's UE5, so don't expect any separation in the settings beyond what UE offers by as standard. Local file mods will be needed to turn off specific things.

 

[humbug]

It's UE5, so don't expect any separation in the settings beyond what UE offers by as standard. Local file mods will be needed to turn off specific things.

I don't have the game, out of interest what are those?

 

[mrk]

The usual unreal engine .ini file line additions to add options or disable options etc. Can't recall them off memory but usually if a game needs tweaking then someone has already posted the lines to add in engine.ini in the game thread so just go about editing the file and job done.

 

[humbug]

The usual unreal engine .ini file line additions to add options or disable options etc. Can't recall them off memory but usually if a game needs tweaking then someone has already posted the lines to add in engine.ini in the game thread so just go about editing the file and job done.

Unreal Engine has a limited amount of ready made flowgraph nodes for this kind of stuff but anything added to the .ini file can be manually made as an active user input switch by the developer, if they chose to.

 

[mrk]

Yeah that's the thing, they don't choose to and just put in whatever Epic put into the UI by default generally. A few games are outliers but generally some faffing about with ini files is needed for the best experience like disabling chromatic aberration being the main one.

 

[Dicehunter]

Just tried the Black Myth benchmark on my 7900XTX... it wasn't pretty XD

Maxed out everything including RT, Frame gen on, FSR set to 75% which I'm guessing would be akin to the Quality setting and 100% being akin to "Native AA" and average FPS at 3440x1440 was 17... ouch.

Turned RT off, Everything else left the same and average FPS was well over 100.

I know the next round of cards are RDNA4 which are targeted to be low and mid range only with their highest end card being akin to something like a 7800XT but much cheaper and much lower power consumption etc.... but for RDNA5 their RT perf needs to be turned up to 11 otherwise AMD will lose more marketshare to Nvidia purely on the fact Nvidia's RT performance in most titles is a lot better.

 

[heatonpkmassive]

Just tried the Black Myth benchmark on my 7900XTX... it wasn't pretty XD

Maxed out everything including RT, Frame gen on, FSR set to 75% which I'm guessing would be akin to the Quality setting and 100% being akin to "Native AA" and average FPS at 3440x1440 was 17... ouch.

Turned RT off, Everything else left the same and average FPS was well over 100.

I know the next round of cards are RDNA4 which are targeted to be low and mid range only with their highest end card being akin to something like a 7800XT but much cheaper and much lower power consumption etc.... but for RDNA5 their RT perf needs to be turned up to 11 otherwise AMD will lose more marketshare to Nvidia purely on the fact Nvidia's RT performance in most titles is a lot better.

Get out of here with that balanced and reasoned argument, we'll have none of that

 

[Nexus18]

Oof, RiP AMD!!!!

Looking more forward to Space Marine 2 personally, an AMD game so at least it may have decent perf/upscale

The callisto protocol, jedi survivor, TLOU, starfield say hello....

Just tried the Black Myth benchmark on my 7900XTX... it wasn't pretty XD

Maxed out everything including RT, Frame gen on, FSR set to 75% which I'm guessing would be akin to the Quality setting and 100% being akin to "Native AA" and average FPS at 3440x1440 was 17... ouch.

Turned RT off, Everything else left the same and average FPS was well over 100.

I know the next round of cards are RDNA4 which are targeted to be low and mid range only with their highest end card being akin to something like a 7800XT but much cheaper and much lower power consumption etc.... but for RDNA5 their RT perf needs to be turned up to 11 otherwise AMD will lose more marketshare to Nvidia purely on the fact Nvidia's RT performance in most titles is a lot better.

Yup if they can't get it sorted by rdna 5, that's amd done imo.

 

[Nexus18]

You can finally play Doom 2 with full Path Tracing and voxels

Finally, a modder has made it possible to play id Software's classic Doom 2 with voxels and full Path Tracing.

www.dsogaming.com