How's RTX in 2025?

rtx is fake. i ask any of my neighbors, theyve never heard of it.

Whenever my neighbor knocks on the door to ask about RTX I lie through my teeth and tell him that Ive never heard of it

>>717645023 (OP)
I never turn it on and i have 4080

>>717645667
ditto

>games where the devs are too lazy to bake native lighting and rely entirely on raytracing look better with it enabled
Whoa....

>>717646851
>to bake native lighting
What's that? Is that a checkbox I can click in Unreal Editor? Do you have a Blueprint for that?

>>717645023 (OP)
I find it pretty interesting that Battlefield 6 doesn't have ray tracing. Wouldn't surprise me if ray tracing turns out to be some meme tech like PhyX or 3D in the future

Remember when game devs knew how to make games?

Yeah that was about 20 years ago

>>717648770
Doesn't matter, it secured 3 generations of sales boosts to nvidia, it did its job, and the consumer is now paying for it (higher gpu prices)

>>717648770
Ray tracing is here to stay because it allows devs to be lazy, and so they will flock to it, since they are all the laziest of fucks.

Ray tracing (and path tracing) simplifies game development immensely. Complex lighting and shadow maps take hours to bake, extended periods to rig up, and minor changes require re-baking the entire scene. It's time consuming, expensive and extremely difficult to get results that are broadly acceptable regardless of what else is going on in the scene. Interactive destructive environments, changes to character models end up simply looking out of place.

Ray/Path tracing fixes all that. There's nothing to figure out, set the light sources, render the scene, change it however you want and everything is always perfect.

The real problem with it is how much it rapes framerates. GPUs need to spend precious silicon that could have been used to get more power and performance on Raytracing-specific parts. Very annoying. But we can't stop the industry from being lazy, so there's nothing to do but live with it. At least next-gen GPUs will probably more than double ray tracing performance, (for both Nvidia and AMD) so I guess it won't be much of a problem for whoever still has money left by then.

>>717645023 (OP)
Is that Phil Lamarr?

>>717645023 (OP)
The ray tracing did genuinely really boost the game's graphics, it was pretty ugly at launch and it really gave plants and trees the depth they lacked.

>>717645023 (OP)
still in prototype phase, if devs don't make universal replacement then it's dead technology

>>717650958
doesn't matter how much it fucks the framerate, the PC gamers have shown they can spend 2000$ on graphics cards, they're never going to go lower now. You reap what you sow PC goys

>>717651516
You're right, the game looks slightly less like morrowind running mods with the Ray Tracing on

>>717652715
>won't spend money
>calls people who will spend money goys
So it's full mask off time, isn't it, Hyman Goldberg?

>>717646851
There's no such thing in the virtual World

>>717652715
If I spend $2000 on graphics cards it's so I can get 4k 120fps. Not doing it for slop.

>>717652848
My GPUs have been 280gtx, 670gtx, and then got 1060 during overwatch, and 2 years ago 7900xtx. There's absolutely no real PC games worth playing on PC anymore. The best of games are long, long gone. We're so fucking past the prime there are generations of gamers who don't even know what they missed, and they have the audacity to say "there wasn't anything we missed". It's that bad

>>717652925
You don't play games, though.

>>717645023 (OP)
Games already use ray-tracing to bake lighting, outside of real-time reflections and procedural environments there's absolutely no reason for lighting to be ray-traced in real time since you can already compile multiple lightmaps on top of eachother for when you want different lights switched on or off.
It's just brute forcing a square peg into a round hole using retard strength

>>717651516
More like ao on and off

>>717653015
You're right, I stopped playing after 2007. Too many genres and games got axed, what followed were console ports poorly ported to PC running Unreal Engine 3 and... well that's led to today hasn't it? BF2 was the last good Battlefield game, and everyone is hyping BF6 how it's as good as BF3 and BF4, when those two weren't true PC battlefield games. If I wanna play true Battlefield game today I have to play 2014 game Planetside 2 or something

>>717653187
>talks about gaming
>then debates the quality of different Battlefield titles
You don't play games.

>>717653250
Palworld was ok, sadly not very good multiplayer implementation

>>717645023 (OP)
>RTX on
>black man still black
What's the point of this technology again

>>717653489
If you buy oled the blacks are of the darkest level, more black than you can imagine. truly reach levels of black that even blacks find disturbing

>>717651516
>-38 fps
yeah so worth it

>>717645667
>here's cyberpunk, your 3080ti will struggle with max settings with dlss at 4k
>get 4090
>oops we added more intense rt now you struggle
>5090 shows up
>lmao all path tracing, add framegen for playable framerates
I quit pc gaming, but ditto with a 4090

>>717653187
>You're right, I stopped playing after 2007
Good for you. Fuck off.
Go hang somewhere else where you do enjoy the things you talk about, you miserable cunt

>>717654968
>uses a game developed by literal slavs as his point of reference
What's next? STALKER 2?

>>717645023 (OP)
>Consider the following

>>717655029
>he says this while seething

>>717654968
It's easy to fall for the marketing, but if MSRP availability weren't an issue, I would have gone for a B580 and 5800x. The 5800x regularly goes for less than $100. You tend to play less games when caring about bleeding edge and it's generally mortifying to feel like you overspent.

>>717645218
they've played us for absolute fools

>>717652925
yeah but you can play the old classics in 4k 144hz 3d and more now

>>717648125
>Is that a checkbox I can click in Unreal Editor
Yes it literally is actually. Don't try to make it sound complex, baking lights is literally one button away in UE
The difficulty is in tweaking them to look just right because it takes a while to bake and then when you move them you have to rebake the whole thing