What do gamers actually think about Ray-Tracing?

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Posted as a separate post so not to mess up other useful threads regarding ray tracing.


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You can blame Microsoft for the state of game audio, years ago it was really good. I would like to know what it would be like if they hadn't killed hardware accelerated audio.

Exactly this .....^

MS damaged audio features and made any soundcard useless with every update to windows.

 

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RT won’t be a mandatory “must have” or break current gen mid range GPUs (unlike the 1080ti and 5700xt in Alan Wake 2- mesh shaders etc) for another 5 years at least.

They fixed the mesh shader issues with new recent patches.

 

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Luxo junior, back in the day

The fun times in tech, funny that Nvidia didn't last with Apple too.... wonders why , all AMD workstation cards now in Apple desktops and has been for a long time. Forgot even Nvidia was in Apple systems, just remember Microsoft and Sony and other companies running for their lives once they got involved with Nvidia and never to return.

$600 back in 2001, 2024 $1,051.95.

Top card was $1,051.95 back then in 2024 prices, today 4090 FE is $1600 and not even the full chip enabled and really $2000+ for any decent AIB and a top AIB ASUS strix oc in USA right now is $2300 from well known USA hardware retailers..

See how the world has gone mad and you can't blame inflation ? Technology was meant to get cheaper over time which it did but nowhere near what was promised back then and even back then prices were seen to be obscene for a $600 GPU but the difference back then is the prices would come down and even end up in cheap bins at most pc stores back then even before the new generation would be out. I lost count how many times I picked up graphics, sound cards, motherboards and CPUs back then in the cheap bins, cards for 1/3rd or more the retail price, just because they had damaged packaging or returned or even brand new not opened but they wanted to clear them for new stuff.

Now you never see that and they keep them at the same price and do the fake black friday deals and sale deals $50 off if you're lucky... This in UK I mean.

 

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A lot of the studios need good HDR monitors for grading first. This is the biggest issue. It's getting better. I know a few US based calibrators hired out by gaming studios to recommend and calibrate their monitors for HDR but it's not the norm. Making progress though. It's a major issue for me and disheartening to see poor or no hdr implementations.

Thankfully RTX HDR works much better than windows autohdr and even some of the poor native implementations out there. It's still bandaid and not a fix though.

The only thing that seems to do HDR correctly for PC gaming is the Steam Deck OLED.. Would you believe ... Windows and Microsoft....