Ray Tracing

[SupremeGOAT]

Does ray tracing really make stuff look more realistic? I'm re watching that whole battlefield demo and i've gotta say THAT IS THE SHINIEST WAR TORN CAR EVER! I've never seen reflections so vivid in real life off an old card not to mention over the ocean. Look in the eyes if the person next to you... you see any reflections that vivid? Try poking yourself in nose to enable RTX... I think RTX is going to make games look stylized like a GTA mod... but thats just me... you can turn RTX off now...

[WereCat]

The whole BF V demo is embarassing. The low res textures, sprite particles, etc... 

[PopsicleHustler]

According to some, RTX destroys FPS. So that might be a problem, you would have to run 2080ti in sli to get 60+ FPS in BF5 for example.

[SupremeGOAT]

1 minute ago, WereCat said:

The whole BF V demo is embarassing. The low res textures, sprite particles, etc... 

that car looks like it was washed after it was destroyed...

[homeap5]

Oh, realism in computer graphics is always like realism on TV demos in shop - grass is ultra green, faces are red like santa, oceans are blue like someone spill tons of paint on them... You'll never seen colours like that in real life, but still - people (most of them) wants to buy that crappy oversaturated screens instead of natural ones. Raytracing supposed to be realistic technology (it is, it's nothing new, just now it's hardware supported/accelerated) but like in games - it's just computer graphics. When you drive your car, you'll not see shiny road, sun is not that bright, glass reflections so blinding etc. But if you set everything up so that it looks natural, you'll get boring graphics, because now we have no graphics cards that can give us realism, so instead of that - we have lot of effects. Maybe after 10 years we will have more realistic graphics.

[Semper]

There's two things going on here.

1. This is a demo, an early adaptation of a technology that consumers don't have yet. One example of poor implementation for what largely amounts to a tech demo "look guize we haz new technulogiez in gaem". It's not justifiyable to judge a technology based upon one implementation of an early adoption.

2. RT has it's uses, but I believe it's going to be a niche technology for the gaming aspect. Games that rely heavily on environmental atmosphere, such as walking simulators or horror games. Outside of that, fast action games are, as is, "good enough". We're too busy shooting, stabbing, punching, slashing, killing, or otherwise not paying attention to scenery close enough that we will notice a difference.

Also, a bonus point:
3. It's EA. in case you hadn't noticed, the Battlefield franchise is basically known as BattleLenseFlare 3: Can't See Anything Warfare Combat 2.0