Ray Tracing

smoothbrains

Future of gaming. Shit they're even finding ways to implement it on non RTX cards.
youtube.com/watch?v=efOR92n9mms

I downloaded the demo and it ran fucking fantastic all the way cranked, over 100 fps on a gtx 1080 TI and an overclocked ryzen 1600x.

If I were a wrinklebrain, I'd pay $1000 to see slightly different reflections in video games but alas.

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it probably is the future, but it'll melt my shitty i7 and 1070

>60fps
>1080p
>thinks he knows ray tracing

get help

It's just a picture, brainlet.

A picture that says RTX on it.

>a pic that says 60fps and 1080p on it?! You need professional help! Reflections?! What?? Where am I?!
You seem like a sane and well-adjusted individual.

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It does absolutely nothing for gameplay, so I'm marking it down as a gimmick. It CAN look nice, most of the time, at least in the few games I own that actually support raytracing, it's "look the puddles look a little nicer". Combine that with the fact that visibility is getting worse and worse every year in multiplayer gaming (shooters wise) and raytracing will likely only make it worse, so I'm perfectly fine leaving it as a niche "look at our game" gimmick.

It depends on how you look at it

Basically until now, lighting in games has either been prebaked or used tons of really hacky techniques to kind of visually simulate how light actually functions

Ray tracing is just how light actually functions. It's not a clever programming trick or worl around, and it's a fairly accurate simulation. And in that regard it's one of the biggest technological leaps weve had in the industry for ages. So that's a pretty good thing and will most definitely be the default within the decade

On the other hand many games look as good as they do -because- the lighting is prebaked. There's deliberate intention put into every scene. When ray tracing really takes off you're going to see a lot of games with identical lighting. Itll be good lighting, but it's going to be like how you could tell when a game was using Unreal just by the way it looked

>Is it a meme
yes
>or is it the future of gaming
yes

Have sex.

It's just a gimmick, but so was 3D games back in the 80s so who knows what will happen.

a theoretical future but not quite yet. just because the Xbox Series X can run Minecraft raytracing at 60 FPS, or so they claim, doesn't mean much in the long term. however the fact that the next gen wants built-in raytracing to begin with shows we will probably see more games with it in the future

What about the PS5?

Now you're propositioning me like a caveman? What is your deal, crackhead?

looks like absolute shit

Move the camera down where you can't see the trees and gaze upon your barren, reflectionless poor person water.

The most honest and objective answer here.

It's pretty much what all lighting in video games aspires to be, nothing faked, real reflections, real illumination from any source.
It'll probably have the biggest impact on development down the line.
If you can ray trace all the lighting you don't have to fake anything, prebake or think about how additional light sources will impact the scene or performance.

Currently not worth the tax on the framerate. I've got a 2080, and the framerate takes a distractingly bade FPS dip whenever I turn on raytracing.

It's the future. It's basically a realistic simulation of how lighting behaves.
But most games don't use it fully yet, t's mostly used for shadows and reflections. But for example, Metro Exodus uses it for global illumination and it looks amazing:
nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/news/metro-exodus-nvidia-rtx-ray-tracing/Screen1_RTX_ON.png