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Ray tracing is quickly becoming inescapable and I think it's time we bit the bullet and embraced it (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (8 children)

What is the matter with you RT haters? It's a graphical feature that greatly improves the realism of graphics but comes at a performance cost, often large. But if you have the hardware, then you can run it fine. And upscaling helps. What the actual fuck is the problem here? How is this different than any other fancy new graphic tech that has come out? It's like people lose their minds when devs try to push the boundaries with graphics that require high end hardware to max out. Like no shit. Would you rather devs just make every game with crappy graphics forever? You don't want them to try to make stuff look better? I just don't get the hate.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I feel like the haters over exaggerate. Like they say that raytracing will never happen and shouldnt. Technology will eventually improve and methods get better. Saying never and getting upset that there is an option to toggle in a game that pushes graphics is wrong. Its silly to think otherwise.

That said I think a lot of the hesitancy and fear comes from the worry that we will be moving forwards too quickly. As it stands the hardware that isnt just adequate with upscaling but good at ray tracing is like $1000-$2000. AMD cards are at a handicap as well. I think the fear is that the industry dives in too fast and abandons the old lighting techniques leaving people with lower end hardware behind or with a low setting that looks way worse than the older methods of lighting.

I think the fear is unfounded though since consoles will always be the primary target and A) They use amd or nvidia's mobile chip and B) they have to have a competitive price. As a result it will be a long while before we go all in on ray tracing.

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