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How many of you actually use ray tracing in the games you play?

Do you use Ray Tracing in the games you play?

  • I only play games with Ray Tracing options.

    Votes: 46 17.9%

  • I will sometimes enable Ray Tracing in games.

    Votes: 92 35.8%

  • I will enable Ray Tracing momentarily check it out then turn it off to get better res/performance.

    Votes: 50 19.5%

  • I prefer not to use Ray Tracing.

    Votes: 47 18.3%

  • My GPU doesn’t even support it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    Votes: 22 8.6%
  • Total voters
    257
evhvis said:
It is transformative in the few games that do it right, but a lot of games only add it as a marketing gimmick. CP2077, Control, Metro exodus enhanced, Alan wake 2, Assassin's creed shadows are examples where RT makes a huge difference, to the point where turning the RT off makes the game look like medium graphics. Unfortunately you need a lot of GPU power to run those, basically a 3080 with upscaling is around the minimum for the first 3 and you will need a 9070 XT or 4070 ti super for the latter two with upscaling at QHD (1440p) resolution.

The DLSS TF model at quality with Ray Reconstruction is very close to native without any DLSS/DLAA, and in some places it is superior, but the DLSS CNN model and FSR4 will lose out a bit on fine detail, motion stability etc. Having to run CNN model or FSR makes it a tradeoff between much more realistic looking lighting, that is a lot more dynamic, and having more fine detail with better image stability. Comparing max non-RT to max with RT on an Nvidia GPU with DLAA and Ray Reconstruction is a big win for max RT IMO when you ignore the framerate.
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Especially in Control, I turn off most RT because the mirroring of everything and the solar haze is so stupid and fake that it annoys me an awful lot. Metro is fine, I haven't played the others, just watched videos so I can't say.
 
horse said:
yeah, admittedly the RT performance in R&C:RA is all over the place with my 9070xt. Most maps run fine locked to 60, but there are a few where the performance just goes to shit. It kinda feels like 'the honeymoon is over' type of thing, where it starts off great and then it's just like wtf. I think this game could've used another performance patch or two tbh. I also get crashes while transitioning into cutscenes every now and then, it's kinda killing the experience for me.
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It's new and Valve is decent at patching things so give it a minute.
 
Logan M said:
I felt the same about HDR until I upgraded to an OLED and Windows 11. Windows does a terrible job of managing HDR but 11 noticeably improved that. Once I saw it working correctly on a massive OLED it was truly impressive and changed my whole view on it for games.
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Ok, that's interesting. I'm still on Win 10 and have decided Microsoft needs to drag me kicking and screaming over to Windows 11, but the time is approaching now.
 
Logan M said:
I felt the same about HDR until I upgraded to an OLED and Windows 11. Windows does a terrible job of managing HDR but 11 noticeably improved that. Once I saw it working correctly on a massive OLED it was truly impressive and changed my whole view on it for games.
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What changed in HDR for games?
 
I don't in my i7-10750H, 115w 2060RTX laptop.
Then again I don't think I have games that support it or IDC to bother with it.
Also, IDT my system could really handle it IIRC.
 
hajalie24 said:
I just got a 5080 and it seems like Ray Tracing is still unusable? Admittedly haven't tried lots of games but I expected Portal RTX to not run so terribly...
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Does it havd DLSS 4? If yes then how is the experience with that ??
 
I love RT. It makes Fortnite look so unbelieveably great. The first time I saw it after their Unreal Engine update (with an RTX 4090) was the only time I have been blown away in the past 10+ years graphically. Truly incredible.

I love RT even more this generation because now whether you're on a 9070 XT or a 5070 / Ti / 5080 / 5090 you can get that similar experience that I had.
 
Part of the PC gaming experience for me is all the eye candy, and seeing the latest tech in action so yes... I turn RT on in any game that supports it.

In order to support my choices to run at 4k as well, I keep buying these god tier GPUs every generation... I can't help myself.
 
What settings are you using? Mine still runs like crap w transformer on

Frame gen boosts the crap out of it to 90 fps. Which is a massive leap but is the quality still as good?

I can't find many good videos or what no about this path tracing settings stuff. Weird. Or dinner was a bit much and I am passing out from the rum.
 
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