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Well, the video description does say "Watch this exclusive video showcasing the beauty of A Plague Tale: Requiem with AI-powered NVIDIA DLSS and stunning ray traced effects."
Maybe I'll need to use dlss balanced or even performance at 3440x1440 then...
At least dlss performance mode is far more usable now!
That's not gonna feel great with a mouse and keyboard
Are you for real still on a Vega 64 bud? You plan on upgrading to a AMD 7000 series GPU next month or waiting another two years for a RTX 5000 series so you can play Portal without fake frames?
It won't really matter for the 5 minutes people play to grab some screenshots.That's not gonna feel great with a mouse and keyboard
I do think it's kind of wild that we've come so far with what's achievable with rasterization in terms of performance and visual fidelity, and now we're almost going backwards in the rush to embrace real-time raytracing. Asobo's Plague Tale: Requiem is visually breathtaking and (currently) features no RT whatsoever. I don't think Asobo are particularly great at optimizing their engine, but the artistry is phenomenal. When we're already capable of creating incredibly beautiful games like Forza Horizon 5 (that can effortlessly render hundreds of fps on AMD or Nvidia hardware), throwing away all of that performance in chasing ever more realistic lighting and materials seems like an dreadful waste.
I guess that's just the nature of technological progress and the drive on the part of creatives to create something 'real' - when I used to work in CG visual FX in the 90's we had access to many ray-traced features (shadows, reflections, refraction) but we never used them because they were too damn slow to render. Instead we used shadow and reflection maps and every trick in the book to create realistic looking scenes without the render cost of doing it 'accurately' - of course, as time went on, CPUs got more powerful but our render times never went down because with more powerful hardware we started to use global illumination, ray-traced area lights etc.
Funny (and I guess, predictable) how real-time 3D seems to be following the same path
Can't wait for half life with the RT treatment too.
Oh, I've no doubt it's a real boon to the artists - it certainly was to me when iterative renderers started to appear in the VFX space in the early 2000's. You're both right and wrong though - GI solutions (formerly rendered, likely now real-time) are commonly baked into lightmaps in modern rasterized games - the biggest change there for devs is the immediacy of the results with RT-capable hardware. Of course, baked solutions will never be as accurate as physically-based methods but they can be very convincing though (The Last of Us is a great example).The studio behind Metro series has stated that RT (the hybrid RT version they have), helps them decrease the time to create a scene and is much easier and faster to change something. In this case is the total opposite of rasterization where you have to spend a lot of time doing what RT does naturally and quick. Plus rasterization also "locks" objects, after all, you can't have a free moving/interactable object if you prerendered a shadow for it.
I am not here to pee on peoples parades but CBP2077 looks better with RT off in those shots. Art style wise and to my subjective taste.The studio behind Metro series has stated that RT (the hybrid RT version they have), helps them decrease the time to create a scene and is much easier and faster to change something. In this case is the total opposite of rasterization where you have to spend a lot of time doing what RT does naturally and quick. Plus rasterization also "locks" objects, after all, you can't have a free moving/interactable object if you prerendered a shadow for it.
With that said, yes, rasterization has come a long way indeed. But look at Doom how it looked in 1992 and how it looks almost 30 years later. Same will be with RT.
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For CB 20077, as an example with a particular scene, the RT version has a yellow tint (alongside better lighting which puts in a better light the assets), most likely, due to being a better GI solution, it captures better the colors of the environment as light bounces around. Kinda "pops" by itself.
That's the non-RT version
Yet light bounces are more accurate in the ceiling.That's the non-RT version
The ceiling's actually reflecting the illuminated billboards at the back there - you can also see more detail in the reflection of the 'Combat Cab' billboard on the ceiling. The robot's got some really nice lighting in the RT version - the metal back foot is darkened by the reflection/shadow of the knee directly over it and it no longer picks up the random specular highlights seen in the non-RT version (which make it look almost like it's lit from beneath).
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