RTX is a fucking meme

okay

>>714223347 (OP)
Its not, its just automation to do the effects

pretty clever stuff back then

But don't you want to tank performance for similar results that most people won't notice?
Nvidia is such a cancer to gaming.
They introduced ray tracing way too early that it has huge performance hits for minimal visual benefit.
So the games run like shit but it's okay because they also sell you fake frame tech.
The performance hit also is making games with lower resolutions but that's also okay because they also sell upscaling tech too.
Imagine creating huge problems in gaming then selling tech to mitigate the problem you created and spinning it as a features they should want and charging top dollar for it.
An incredible scam that gamers bought hook, line and sinker.

>>714223751
The AMDrone cope lmao

>>714223347 (OP)
Many of those "reflections" are completely nonsensical if you think about them for more than two seconds.

>>714223347 (OP)
>RTX
meanwhile UE4, the last good engine:

no RT just pure art direction

>>714223751
Create the problem, sell the solution. Oldest trick in the book.

>>714223347 (OP)
it's just a way for devs to be lazy with lighting when they're pumping out their franchise slop and for gfx manufacturers to convince people to pay for more expensive cards even though games don't look any better now than they did 5 years ago

rtx is cool but love little tricks like these
look at the rims and how the red/yellow spokes "reflect" within the chromed lip of the rim
but it's all just a manually painted texture

>>714223751
>They introduced ray tracing way too early
Anything worse than the RTX3080 is completely incapable of running ray tracing in such a way that:
>the image quality is acceptable
>the frame rate is also acceptable

In fact, if you are really demanding, NO Nvidia GPU is capable of running ray tracing in real time in an acceptable manner (my RTX3090 definitely isn't), so your only solution is to generate frames by magic, in addition to running at a much lower native resolution than the final rendering.

>>714223751
physics simulation is an incredible force for good and a much bigger step for progress than your tranny imitation of light

>>714223860
what game

I like it. Got a 5080FE for msrp

>>714225370
aperion in steam's search field

>>714225686
>f2p card game
nigga what

>>714223347 (OP)
None of those reflections make sense. Fake reflections like screenspace also can't reflect anything offscreen like picrel, which is reflecting the billboards from a building offscreen to the left. Also calling raytracing a meme is like calling Doom 3s stencil shadows a meme. Just because your shit PC cant run it doesn't mean it's a meme you retard

>>714223751
>>714223347 (OP)
Runs fine on my 5090 nigga. Nvidia has DLSS, framegen, and RTX while AMD is left with proprietary sour grapes technology and multi-cope generation

>>714224285
> a manually painted texture
shit is pre-rendered chud

>>714223347 (OP)
Is there a "modern engine" version of this?
Where the devs pull a clever move and circumvent their limitations by thinking outside the box? Or is everyone in gamedev low IQ now?

>>714223787
Ndrone prosecution complex.

>>714223935
are you retarded? you clearly don't know what rt does

>>714232070
Bro calm down, not everyone needs a photon-accurate simulation of a light bulb bouncing off Gordon Freeman’s crowbar. You act like RT is some holy grail when 90% of it is indistinguishable from baked lighting in motion. Meanwhile, devs with actual talent are still squeezing magic out of raster with good direction and smart tricks. Just because you dropped your college savings on a 50x0TI doesn’t mean it’s suddenly essential.

>>714233120
@grok is this true

>>714233120
bro you showed a picture with random lighting and said, "no rt just pure art direction" as if this is in anyway doing the same thing as rt, not only that the lighting in your screenshot looks like absolute shit, light doesn't work that way in real life and this is what rt tries to imitate real life lighting.

>>714223347 (OP)
That takes effort and talent
Modern devs can just automate that shit and have the consoomer tank the resulting performance overhead. Its ogre

>>714223347 (OP)
yeah but its fake, its not real

>>714223751
>Why yes I do have a Radeon gpu, how could you tell?

The games that have these features aren't even worth playing

>>714223347 (OP)
>all these coping and seething AMDjeets and poorfags ITT
kek

>>714223347 (OP)
>same thread
>same pics and videos
When will you hurry up and convince yourself so people outside Brazil don't have to see these posts?

>>714223347 (OP)
While THAW's version of Minneapolis looks pretty good for a level from 1999. You can't possibly have that method of lighting work very well if you want to have dynamic lights from something like a car or a flash light on the skater or a day/night cycle.

That is kind of why objects and building textures abruptly load in and out in THUG1, THUG2, and THAW when the time of day changes. Although those levels are specifically meant to be viewed at different times of the day, while Minneapolis was always meant to be viewed at night.