1 Game? What Game?

[PhilOCE]

I'm a super PC enthusiast and work in IT running my own business, so always feel the necessity to upgrade and get nicer components etc but the type of work I do I could make do with a good Quad Core, NVME M.2 and a larger 2.5 SSD + 2 monitors and a good chair Frankly!

 

However I have a new R9 3900x (OC'd) 64 GB 3600 MHZ GSkill DDR4 (lost the custom loop this time) a dirty great big Noctua provides almost identical thermals with a fraction of the hassle. I won't bother listing all the other stuff but everything is high end and unnecessary, oh but I will mention the RTX 2080ti that I just don't need and costed an obscene amount of money when you consider I have never played a game other than Solitaire on a PC!

 

I don't edit. I code, type, browse lots of tabs (lots) and email 100 minimum a day, so office 365 is often using up a bit of cpu and memory as well... Hence why I am posting.

 

If you had my setup or do have something similar or better and are proper into gaming which 1 all round, immersive, impressive, universally liked game that utilises ray tracing preferably, would you recommend I try? I think I finally owe it to myself and the computer before I really am too old!

 

Any suggestions would be welcomed and most appreciated!

 

Thanks a bunch!

 

Jay... 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Minecraft with the RTX add-on You can make it whatever you want and on top of that, the dynamic nature of the world really shows off how well ray tracing can bring realism.

 

People will say you could just use the SEUS mod, but SEUS does not use hardware accelerated RT.

[Slottr]

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

 

Great game, looks gorgeous, utilizes RT

[5x5]

Witcher III

 

Sadly, most RTX games so fat are mediocre at best and boring at worst

[Princess Luna]

8 minutes ago, PhilOCE said:

utilises ray tracing preferably,

Fat chance.

 

Any ways if I were stuck for say a weekend with absolutely nothing to do but play a single game... Hmm... I think I'd pick The Witcher 3, been a fair bit of time since I last enjoyed it.

 

But you know games are somewhat subjective to personal taste, if you absolutely wanna DXR then I'd go with Metro Exodus.

[JB780]

Battlefield V.

 

It looks amazing on ultra, has Ray Tracing and, despite some of DICE's screw ups around the game, is an extremely fun Battlefield game that you should get a few hundred hours out of.

[The Torrent]

18 minutes ago, PhilOCE said:

I'm a super PC enthusiast and work in IT running my own business, so always feel the necessity to upgrade and get nicer components etc but the type of work I do I could make do with a good Quad Core, NVME M.2 and a larger 2.5 SSD + 2 monitors and a good chair Frankly!

 

However I have a new R9 3900x (OC'd) 64 GB 3600 MHZ GSkill DDR4 (lost the custom loop this time) a dirty great big Noctua provides almost identical thermals with a fraction of the hassle. I won't bother listing all the other stuff but everything is high end and unnecessary, oh but I will mention the RTX 2080ti that I just don't need and costed an obscene amount of money when you consider I have never played a game other than Solitaire on a PC!

 

I don't edit. I code, type, browse lots of tabs (lots) and email 100 minimum a day, so office 365 is often using up a bit of cpu and memory as well... Hence why I am posting.

 

If you had my setup or do have something similar or better and are proper into gaming which 1 all round, immersive, impressive, universally liked game that utilises ray tracing preferably, would you recommend I try? I think I finally owe it to myself and the computer before I really am too old!

 

Any suggestions would be welcomed and most appreciated!

 

Thanks a bunch!

 

Jay... 

Witcher 3 had a ray tracing mod somewhere I’d easy spend a solid 1000 hours just playing through that.

 

then spend the rest of my life on rainbow 6 siege.

 

highly recommend an ultra wide for both of these.

[PhilOCE]

Also just out of curiosity, What's the very best driving sim taking RTX into consideration right now? Coz I would do lots of  those as I love cars but always find them all to be so unrealistic or realistic enough that you need a full on actual simulator cage etc. so i just find them rustrating because I have a real 660 HP Modified BMW So I've never bothered with driving sims but I am curious as my mate who loves them cant make his mind up and I gave up playing his years ago for reasons just given..

[Master Disaster]

I don't have recommendations but I just wanted to say that your rig is super overkill for coding, office and web browsing.

 

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, The Torrent said:

Witcher 3 had a ray tracing mod somewhere I’d easy spend a solid 500 hours just playing through that.

 

then spend the rest of my life on rainbow 6 siege.

 

highly recommend an ultra wide for both of these.

Hell yeah, especially for a gorgeous but slower paced game like the Witcher. With FPS titles I find a normal 16:9 monitor is better. 

Ghost Recon Wildlands has surprised me with how good it is, and the map is absolutely massive. Doesn't use RTX though, and some missions force stealth too hard (you can't let yourself be detected, and even if you kill a guy who sees you before he makes a sound or alerts his buddies, you still get detected via magic and then fail the mission, so you can't take your suppressor off and go in guns blazing for funsies). But overall it's been pretty damn fun and it's gorgeous even without RTX features. 

Other than that, probably Skyrim (haven't played it yet but it's pretty damn legendary), Minecraft like other peeps already mentioned, really any game with massive mod support, some of them will even have ray/path-tracing mods, but usually not using the RT cores, sadly. 

[PhilOCE]

Also thanks so far for the input guys I will pick one or maybe 2 and let you know how I get on. Keep um coming if you can...

 

Thanks again.. 

[Stormseeker9]

For me?  Something like cities skylines or planet coaster. Doesn’t make use of rtx but graphics on planet coaster with that card gonna be p0rn

[PhilOCE]

58 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I don't have recommendations but I just wanted to say that your rig is super overkill for coding, office and web browsing.

 

I know! That's the point I'm an enthusiast like I said! My car is stupidly fast and basically unusable on the public roads especially when the very maximum speed limit is 70mph which it does in first gear if it's dry! What's your point exactly?