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>"RAYTRACING IS BAD BECAUSE... BECAUSE I'M POOR OKAY"
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No, it's bad because it is an insanse performance hit for a difference most people can't even tell without direct side by side picture comparisons, and sometimes can't tell the difference even with that present.
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>>723963818
Left is more realistic and pleasing to look at
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I hate reflections. I want my games to be more readable. Reflections make everything far too busy. Its why every game has to have a quest compass, glowing pickups, a minimap, and yellow paint all at the same time now. Because you can't infer or see anything at all on the actual screen anymore with all the busyness and clutter.
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>>723963997
You can tell immediately in that direct side by side comparison
You lost tranny
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Endless tech demos few games
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I prefer less screen tears, that's for photo mode
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>>723963818
>still looks like hot garbage
>could have used all that processing power on making the game not feel absolutely empty
call me when you can have 600 independent NPCs in a single given area in those AAA slop games
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>meanwhile in 2004, on 128MB DX9 video cards...
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>>723964179
Benchod hijra dalit you bloody!
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>>723964475
Noooo you need to boost or stock prices to have those visuals
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>>723963997
most RTX on/off comparison pics are fake as fuck. Even PS2 games had reflections unlike these so called "RTX off" pics. They're just trying to trick people into buying their overpriced cards
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>>723963818
>photo mode
I see what you did there, brownie...

Also
>left: 116fps
>right: 44fps
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>>723963818
>116fps to 44fps
talk about performance drop
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>>723964576
:^)
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>>723964475
This is ugly af, even for 2004... and yes. I played the game on release and was not impressed
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>>723963818
>44fps
I'm not sure if you should be so cocky OP.
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>>723964730
I doubt you were even alive in 2004, kiddo.
HL2 was absolutely mindblowing day 1, and still one of the most beautiful and atmospheric games out there.
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>>723963818
Can anyone show me a comparison video with a bunch of explosions, and physics effects flying all over the place running on Unreal 5?
Because all I've ever seen is photos, or the camera slowly moving around in a room.
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>>723964856
Looks like a PS2 game but with high resolution textures
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>>723963818
I played arkham knight recently and there were reflections and colors projected everywhere.
>But but it's not perfect!!
Then we're having a different discussion, and anyway it still looked fantastic.
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One thing I've never really understood is PC gamers who are happy and even brag about having shitty or old hardware. Like I don't think you need to buy a 5090 or anything or any of the overpriced cards that aren't worth their price but at the same time PC fags on here talk all day about how superior the platform is to consoles yet a lot of them are rocking GTX 10 series or order cards. PC technically is better than consoles but only if your hardware is recent enough.
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I'm no tech expert, in fact I'm quite retarded. But I feel like the raytracing issue is a moot argument because fidelity/resolution has plateaued to the point that they should stop trying to increase polygon count with massive diminishing returns, and most of the increased processing power from this point on should focus on ray tracing/frames per second.

This should be the last gen where this is an argument, and it should just be a given to have ray tracing from this point out.
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while we're here what ever happened to direct storage?
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>>723965385
....is that supposed to be a bad thing now?
I dare to say many PS2 classics look far BETTER than the modern slow, from purely artistic perspective.
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>>723963818
>44fps
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>>723965584
They're probably older than you and weren't mindbroken by streamers shilling RGB garbage.
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>>723965805
I'm 33 anon. I don't use RGB I just think if you're gonna play on PC you might as well have a decent rig so that you can indeed benefit from higher resolutions and frame rates.
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>>723963818
>"RAYTRACING IS GOOD BECAUSE... BECAUSE I'M RICH OKAY"
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>>723965584
>One thing I've never really understood is PC gamers who are happy and even brag about having shitty or old hardware
That's because you're a corporate shill, that still believes some oldass "newer = better", where as any gamer that has been alive longer than the Twin Towers have not existed KNOWS that this has not been the case for the past 20 years.

>PC technically is better than consoles but only if your hardware is recent enough.
Incorrect.
For starters, just my GPU can be superior than the ENTIRE SYSTEM on a console.

Second, the superiority of PC comes from multiple fronts:
>THE largest gaming library on the planet
>Cheapest game prices + shittons of free games
>No "generations" to speak of + access to consoel games if you want
>Chance to fix and mod games to your liking
>Freedom to fix and upgrade your hardware and software
>Option to use any controller ever created
>Choice to use as many screens of any res and Hz you want
>The unrivaled multitasking and content creation options

There's also the aspect of absolutely greedy Jewishness quickly taking over the industry, that keeps pushing more expensive, more bloated + terribly optimized "flavor of the month" rehash trash, that looks barely better, often WORSE than some 10+ year old classics (ie. MGSV, TW3, Crysis 3, Mirror's Edge, Batman Archam games...), that ran at 1440p, High settings, no upscalers / FG, on 1GB GTX cards back in the day.
Meanwhile, the modern UE5 slop (which really is the only shit demanding massive VRAM pools and RT at this point) require >16 times faster hardware + 10 times more storage space to even run "okay" at lowest settings, WITH upscaling.

And then you wonder why every single tech and game discussion gets wrecked by "LOL You're just POOR!! :^)"... that's toootally how a regular human being and a consumer talks about this stuff, yeah?
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>>723966018
ftfy
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>>723966491
All of that to justify not getting an at least decent GPU. This isn't about corporations it's about intentionally staying on outdated hardware. imo 1440p is the sweet spot resolution and you don't have to spend a lot of money to get a card that is decent at that res. Even older games benefit from newer cards. Mods do too if an upgrade gives you more vram. Everything is better with newer hardware even 20 series is better if you're still on 10 series or older. You're not making any sense. If you really enjoy gaming on PC why wouldn't you want better hardware so you can have better looking games, run more mods and heavier mods, and have a higher frame rate ? Also buying used nets you huge discounts on PC parts just do that
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>>723963818
>from 100+ fps to 40fps
jfc
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>>723963997
The difference is night and day, anon
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>>723966994
>All of that to justify not getting an at least decent GPU
Define "decent PC".

If the device can run a huge majority of ALL vidya (talking about >99%) at satisfying speed and resolution, while also tackling the other daily tasks... what's there to complain about?
It really sounds like a corpo-shilling or iPhone toddler mentality whenever you schizos start fuming whenever someone is NOT running the RTX 5090 or still has a headphone plug on their phone.

>it's about intentionally staying on outdated hardware.
Literally what I just said. "YOU GOTTA OPDOOT, GOY!!!" in a disguise.
I'm glad that I'm an 1980s' kid, that was born before the internet and disposable consoomer tech became mainstream.
Wasting money and world's resources is not cool, and does not improve your gaming experience either.

I was still on a 2nd gen Intel i7-2600K and GTX 1060 6GB up until early 2024, and life was honestly good. It was only the very recent UE5 slop that started pushing the old warhorse to its limits, which again goes to proof that there's a correlation between the GPU and UE5 game shilling, and the overall decline of the industry's quality.

>imo 1440p is the sweet spot resolution
I've been on 1920x1200 and 60hz since 2009, and that's not gonna change any time soon. I know this also makes you seethe.

>you don't have to spend a lot of money to get a card that is decent at that res.
Correct: the GTX 1070 can do it in everything BUT the Epic's Unreal 5 trash.

> Everything is better with newer hardware even 20 series is better if you're still on 10 series or older.
Not everything, goy.
2000-series provides next to NO practical benefit over GTX 1000 series, this has been proven over and over again. The ONLY benefit would be the hardware RT and DLSS support, but those are only 1st and maaaybe 2nd gen versions, that suck ass, and are still limited by the terrible 1st gen RTX arcitecture.

The tech matured properly at 3000 series, and at 200€, the 12gb 3060 was a steal!
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>>723967731
he doesn't play the game he just takes screenshots
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>>723963997
I guess MSAA was overrated too since every PCfag has 20/200 vision
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look same see no problem here
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Oh look it's another microshit jeet thread
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>>723963818
>IS THAT LIGHT REFLECTING OFF THAT ROAD UNREALISTICALLY!?!??
>OHHHH SO BASED!!!
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>y-you are poor cause you didn't spend all your money
what is this fallacy called?
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>>723967936
You're not making any sense.

MSAA was THE go-to AA method and would still be preferred by a huge majority of people, if only it WORKED properly on Deferred Rendering engines and was implemented well.
Both which should not be an issue over 15 years after the advent of DirectX10.
But the main culprit preventing its wider re-adaptation is once again Unreal 5 itself, and how it relies on low-res, dithered 1-bit shading and transparency effects, which DEMAND the use of blurry TAA.
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>>723967968
Funny how we had already solved the reflections 20+ years ago, only for lazyass UE hacks to come up with a "cheaper, good enough" SSR trash to replace it... which they would then use to shill RT a few years later as a "solution" to the "problem" they'd created...
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>>723966105
PCs are more than higher resolutions and framerates, lad.
It's having access to 40 years of good games. Graphics whores such as yourself need not apply.
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>>723966491
Based
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>>723969179
>It's having access to 40 years of good games
And "free" internet and mods and private servers and multitasking. I know . What I'm saying is I don't know why someone would have a pc that can benefit from all these incredible things and yet stay on decade or older hardware. Upgrading even a little yields better overall results everything you do on your PC not just gaming will benefit from more recent and faster/better hardware not just GPUs. SSDs for example
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>>723963818
>good cyberpunk ambiance vs thoughtless light spam.
Yeah I'll take left even when my comp can put out right.
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>>723969427
Are you somehow not able to understand that people have different rigs for different reasons? who the fuck are you to shame them if they're happy? Do you think you're some kind of genius for saying that better performing stuff performs better?
Again, you seem like some kid who got pulled into the upgrade meme by streamers or social media.
We used to make fun of people who showed off their rigs to feel special, we used to say "E-peen" derogatorily. That was before the people who influenced you were paid by the tech companies of course.
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>>723964475
>*stutters*
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>>723963818
People hate raytracing because it tanks the performance
>just use DLSS and frame gen
What's the point of turning up the graphics and playing on a lower resolution with higher input latency and visual bugs?
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>>723969808
Only when my pentium 4 choked on physics.
Hell I'm old enough to remember when my X600 128mb card didn't have pixel shader 3 and got cucked out of the shadows in Episode 2.
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>>723968276
it's like this right:
the warrior finds his status in who he leads and who he follows
the priest in his wisdom
the merchant in what he sells

... and the laborer, subordinate all the others, in what he buys
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>>723968521
>examples from games with less than a thousand polygons in frame at any given time
post a game with actual graphics next time
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>>723965385
...that was literally the most console gen back then. PS3 hadn't released yet. How is looking like a game from that console generation (but better, because PC) supposed to be a criticism?
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>>723970047
Why was BioShock 2 multiplayer so kino and underrated
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>>723970047
You're not only wrong with your claims, but also further proving the point.
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>>723970272
it was outsourced to a decent dev (digital extremes)
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>>723963818
imagine fucking caring about this
imagine thinking poverty has anything to do with it when you need a modern gpu just to play games at acceptable framerates to begin with
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>>723970047
You mean showed actual good games?
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>>723963818
Ai will do it better
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>>723963818
>44 fps
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>>723969427
Upgrading does yield better performance, but how much of it do you use, really?
A 5080 is much better than a 2080, a Ryzen 9 is better than a Ryzen 5, 1TB RAM is better than 16GB, but if all you're playing is indies and retro games you won't get anything out of it. You can play the latest AAAs just fine too, maybe not with max graphics but if you don't care about maxing out the settings then it's a non-issue.
You have to consider your use case, not upgrade out of FOMO or because "new hardware better"
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>>723970707
>You have to consider your use case, not upgrade out of FOMO or because "new hardware better"
I don't understand. How would this help nvidia's stock price go up?
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Here I combined them together to create the best of both worlds.
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>>723970864
what wizardry is this
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>>723970864
That's insane you can't just have a reflection without gaychasing
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>>723964132

Except, neither of those things are even true.
It's literally the entire point of using raytracing.
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>>723969931
>you have $1000
>he has $1000
>you keep your money
>he spends all of his and then calls you poor
who is the poor here?
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>>723964856

I'll let you in on a little secret, HL2 uses raytracing.
It's all pre-calcluated, but the entire lighting setup for the maps used a form of (primative) raytracing.
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I DON'T CARE ABOUT GRAPHICS JUST MAKE GOOD GAMES WITH A DISTINCT ARTSTYLE
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>>723971391
So pre-baked looks great and runs great? Thanks for agreeing
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>>723971391
>HL2 uses raytracing
It does not. Pre-baked lighting using radiocity or primitive 3D software raytracing has nothing to do with modern day hardware raytracing, and it only underlines the fact that MOST games would do just fine with pre-baked lighting, cutting down system reqs and improving performance exponentially.
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>>723971147
Raytracing doesn't make things more pleasing to look at.
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>>723963818
>devs stopped using lighting techniques to manually create similar looking effects because gamer goyim just buy $3000 GPU's that render the game at 1/4 resolution with meme tracing then use AI to upscale it back to the original resolution instead

Grim.
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>>723963818
>44fps
Bruh, nice looking PowerPoint presentation you've got there.
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>>723971391
That's like saying it used AI because it has npcs
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physx looked more impressive and nvidia threw it in the trash, you can't even use it in modern cards.

Its going to be the same for raytracing, a decade from now you won't be able to use it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dUjUNrbHis
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>>723963818
Why not just have pink tinted ground textures and save about 500€ of hardware requirement?
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>>723971281
>I have more than $1000
>You don't have $1000
>I buy expensive toys and still have more left over than you
>you can't buy shit so you're grumpy
>I call you poor because you're a crying faggot
You're still the poor here
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>>723963818
ecks dee
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>>723972946
Streamers aren't your friends, kid
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>>723973272
>streamers
what a random thing to say
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>>723968521
Mirror reflections are not in the realm of even being close to remotely the same thing as screen space reflections. They are different solutions for different problems.
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>>723973323
I was alive before you got memed on to be a consumerist moron by shills. Your inability to understand is not my problem.
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>>723973421
>I was alive before you
that gives you an instant win then does it? Being alive longer and still failing at life means you're the winnrar
ha ha
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>>723973583
It gives me more perspective and therefore superior decision making capabilities yes.
No need to be butthurt, my laddie.
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>>723972889
Baked lighting requires extra development time. The point of ray tracing is to make development easier for when optimizing for rasterized hardware is no longer required, or when the PS6 comes out.
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>>723973780
Seems like a management skill issue, many such cases.
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>>723973748
>I have superior decision making capabilities
It's a shame your super powers didn't help when it came to your finances
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>>723973917
>I MUST consume or I've failed at life!
Yeah those streamers really did a number on you.
Besides seething were you going to argue your point any time soon? I mean you can remain BTFO if you want to.
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>>723974073
No. You failed at life because you get butthurt over what other people do with their money. I don't give a flying fuck what you or anyone else does with their cash, yet you're here day after day crying like huge triggered spastic every time anyone owns something which you can't have.
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>>723972946
>i waste money
>this makes me better than you
>my headcanon is you don't have money if you don't waste it
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>>723974241
>Headcanon
So BTFO forever it is then
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>>723974262
>this makes me better than you
Nobody said this but your inferiority complex voices in your head
fucking lol
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>>723964475
Now show it in motion
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>>723966502
>consolekeks
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>>723971807
I too, have watched Vincenzo
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>>723971391
You're right, I don't know why these retards are seething.
All Source games have used pre compiled ray tracing. It's why it took so long to render a map after you've made changes to it.
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>>723963818
Damn, that's almost two thirds of your FPS gone. Surely for an equivalent performance drop you could make far more substantial changes to the game than adding some reflections.
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>>723974374
>i have more money than you and my headcanon is you're grumpy
>ermm i never said i was better than you!
dishonest faggot seething that his headcanon isn't giving him an internet victory.
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>>723974374
It's funny because the original post you replied to wasn't even directed at anyone besides OP but you still made it about yourself to earn a sense of superiority for no reason
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>>723963818
>"STRAWMANNING IS AN ARGUMENT BECAUSE WE JUST HAVE TO SELL THESE MASSIVELY OVERPRICED AND USELESS AS FUCK RTX CARDS, OK?!?"
the sooner every single last person and company abandons nshitdia permanently, the better
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>>723974723
>>ermm i never said i was better than you!
You literally said you were older and have superior decision making skills.

It's hilarious that you feel inferior. It's obvious now. Every time someone has nice things your toes curl up and you seethe with envy.
Are those voices in your head telling you that you're useless again? lol
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>>723974935
I can reply to whoever I want. It's funny how you get triggered by a graphic lighting effect because it puts your life in perspective
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>>723974963
>You literally said you were older and have superior decision making skills.
no i didn't, i just injected myself into the reply thread to make fun of you.
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>>723966491
PC is the better experience but the whole point of consoles is the plug'n play aspect instead of troubleshooting something for an entire afternoon.

You casually say that there's no "generation" thing but you know damn well playing older games on new PC's very often isn't just a matter of booting up the game.
>access to console games
A lot of those games are still imperfect via emulation so the actual best thing is to have access to both PC and a console so you can actually properly play the games that you can't properly emulate on PC.
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>>723974963
That was me not that guy. It's fucking based you're seeing me in the shadows now, never knowing where I'll btfo you again. Is this what batman feels like?
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>>723965584
videogames are about gameplay, not graphics you cumdrooling mouthbreathing gluedrinking fucking nigger assed faggot assed KIKE
pcs are better than consoles because THEY ACTUALLY HAVE FUCKING GAMES YOU DEMENTED FUCKING COCOSUCKER
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>>723975117
>I didn't say it
>>723973421
>I was alive before you
>>723973748
>It gives me more perspective and therefore superior decision making capabilities

Does the little nobody have a need to feel special? lol @ u clown
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>>723975142
All you crying hobos blur into one.
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>>723972497
>you can't even use it in modern cards.
You mean you can't use it in ancient 32 bit games. Control runs fine with GPU Physx.
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>>723975250
>>723975304
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRXtjPRIj7U
"Oh my god he's EVERYWHERE!!"
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>>723975250
>everyone i don't like is samefagging
lol retard, no wonder you think wasting $1000 that others are smarter not to waste means you're better.
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>>723965592
it was never an argument to begin with, it was always faggot shit to artificially inflate the demand of overpriced hardware, and parroted by faggots who don't even play games since they not only do not give a single shit about nor could they ever explain anything to you about GAMEPLAY
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>>723975424
I don't watch super-hero shit.
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>>723963818
>>723964596
Looks nice. What game are those?
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>>723975490
>I don't play games
Find one of your streamers and watch them play it then it's actually fun. Also has way better graphics than your gaychasing slop.
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>>723975449
>the reply chain shows it isn't him
>there's more than one retarded butthurt broke faggot in the thread
imagine my shock!
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>>723963818
Now show me a flickering light.
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>improve visuals by 10%
>reduce performance by 400%
the art of deal
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>>723975576
>streamers
what?
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>>723972946
pure coping mechanism at display here
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>>723975578
>>723975674
>Condition: Nervous
kek
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>>723963818
The left looks better
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I'm not paying for hardware I don't need, for technology that I didn't ask for, for games that I don't want to play.
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>>723963818
>turns a non-reflective surface into a mirror
>44FPS
Kill yourself.
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>>723975716
your responses are getting more retarded the more you reply
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>>723975578
>if i keep calling you broke maybe it'll become true
kek
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>>723975836
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELOM1-m8CoU
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>>723975862
>cries about computer tech he can't run
>it's not because I'm a brokey
what is it then?
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>>723963818
this is just reddit rgb lights for games
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>>723963818
Ray tracing would be cool if it didn't turn everything into wet glass
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>>723975946
>if you call retarded useless hardware for what it is, it means you can't run/afford it
keeeeeeek
>a-actually paying for the apple pro stand is good!!
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>>723975946
Oh no he's stuck in a loop
>Condition: Terminally Retarded
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>>723976185
>I can afford it
>that's why I get triggered when people call me poor
you're not making sense, brokey
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>>723976289
>i-if i keep calling you triggered because you keep calling me a retard for making shit financial decisions i can pretend i win
KEEEEEEEEK
keep these headcanons going i wanna see what you pull next
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>>723965584
I have a rtx 3090 and a i7 6700k which is a cpu from 2015.

It literally plays every game at 4k 120fps. I only buy new hardware when it improves the specs I can game at. Haven't had to upgrade in 5 years time for the GPU and 10 years for the cpu.
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>>723976289
>BPM: 9001
>Condition: Butthurt
You really should play the Arkham games by the way, lad. They're a lot of fun and they run on very low-end hardware. Those nvidia cunts you're bootslobbering removed support for physx in Asylum and City on their latest cards by the way.
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I think if it's a light touch it can work, but the games where it's best shown off do it so heavily that it just comes off tacky. cyberpunk looks fucking atrocious.
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>>723976538
>I'm not broke
>I'm not triggered
fucking lol
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>>723976576
they're shit. I've got them in my steam library and played about 5 minutes of them
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Reminder that raytracing cannot do this.

Also the shit game in the OP cannot have more than 1 shadow cast per object LMAO
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>>723976538
>you keep calling me a retard for making shit financial decisions
computer parts must be really expensive in your part of the world if buying them financially ruins you. Or maybe you're just broke
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>>723976681
Oh no I'm so hurt by your bad taste!
I'm going to cry into all the fun I had.
Oh wait you're like 12 and had no idea those games existed since you said "watch" >>723975490 here cluelessly.
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>>723976605
>a-are you broke yet
KEEEEEK
>>723976840
>if buying them financially ruins you
who are you quoting?
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>>723975541
CP
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Really impressive how some people convince themselves that the only reason you can get called a retard for buying overpriced bullshit is because they can't afford it and not because it's a retarded thing to do.
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>>723977010
the quote is in yellow and comes from the post with the number above it.
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>>723977256
why is it a retarded thing to do?
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>>723977390
Buying a pile of shit with a premium label slapped on top of it still means you bought a pile of shit.
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>>723977459
>buying a powerful GPU because you enjoy games is retarded
why?
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How can Ray Tracing improve my experience playing NetHack, CBN, HoMM3 and C&C Generals?
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>have more money than you
>i don't spend it
>exponentially keep having more money than you because you have a spending problem
like you're obviously not gonna win this but keep coping because the desperation in the mental gymnastics are pretty entertaining to read
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>>723977530
You can spend your money however you want, but don't cry when you start conversations with "you only think it's bad because you're poor!" and get slapped in the face for it
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>>723977724
>if you buy computer parts means you have a spending problem
why?
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>>723977821
You've just said it's shit and retarded. Don't back out now. Why is it shit and retarded?
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>>723977821
>don't cry
you mean like poorfags in every ray tracing thread ?
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>>723963818
why do PC niggers think real life looks like everything is made out of glossy candy??
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>>723963818
Why not just put in the effort to make it look like that without ray tracing?
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>>723977898
Overpriced hardware for marginally better results. Is that so confusing? I've never seen an improvement that made me think "wow this sure is worth dumping $1000 and replacing my 3090 that can already run most shit in 4K for".
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>>723977982
>>723977256
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>>723978072
Why do console peasants not understand that this is some indian shill?
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>>723977898
Because it looks like shit nigga.
>wowzers the game that already looked good now looks like it's made entirely of mirrors!!!!
If that's your thing then congrats and feel free but for such a shit result it's a terrible investment.
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>>723978204
>Overpriced
>$1000
>have to replace my GPU
So it's all down to money. Like you've been denying for the last 30 minutes you stupid retarded cunt
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>>723978371
>Because it looks like shit nigga.
And that's why you lose your shit in ray tracing threads?
You're not fooling anyone.
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>>723978373
>i'm not wasting $1000 on shit
>oh so you're poor???
>no you're just retarded
>why?
>because i'd be wasting $1000 on garbage
>oh so it comes down to money huh? you finally admit it...
are you genuinely retarded?
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>>723978072
Ray tracing reflections are cheaper for glossy surfaces.
So it's just a performance optimization.
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Graphics faggotry is gay modern games run like shit anyways
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>>723978604
Once again, these retards think that not wasting your money on things you think are useless cannot possibly be for other reasons other than not being able to afford it.
I'm sure these retards also bought a Switch 2 they don't ever use
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>>723978604
yes. It's down to money.
Poorfags will jump through endless logic hoops about everything else being shit , retarded, not worth it etc but you'll never admit the reality that you can't afford it.
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>>723978752
>enters ray tracing thread
>cries about it being shit, useless, expensive
>others see through the bullshit that poorfag
>"reeee I'm not a poorfag I'm not a poorfag"
yes you are
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>>723978204
A 3090 can do path tracing about as well as a 5060ti though, so you can enable it.
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>>723963818
Raytracing
Pathtracing
Ray-reconstruction

They're all different kinds of light engines.
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>>723977837
>you cannot help but paypig every time say nvidia has to bump their fiscal year with overpriced hardware that only add more mirrors and gamer lights into games at a miniscule gain
>you must shit on people who don't in order to justify it
yes you have a spending problem
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>>723979250
Ray-reconstruction is more like a denoiser though
Big part of why pt is usable on the 4060ti/5060/5060ti, even on something faster at a higher resolution like a 9070xt the image quality will overall be poor.
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no points in arguing with poorfags when they believe that graphics evolution peaked with crysis
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>>723979408
Yes, precisely. They do the same things, but in different ways.
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What i think is funny is that /v/ has gone unchecked for so long there are now retards adamant that spending money for no reason is GOOD actually. Like theres a long ass argument going on in this thread with one guy desperately trying to argue that something being expensive for no reason is fine because he has the money to buy it.
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>>723979637
story as old as time
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>>723979637
>spending money for no reason is GOOD actually.
Well a build with a flagship cpu + gpu costs like $4000, and you are getting something in return for it...
It's not like niggs be spending unlimited money for nothing in return, it's a cheap hobby and almost universally the more you spend the more you win.
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>>723965584
I have a 970 and I AM superior to you
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>>723979394
>you cannot help but paypig
I can afford to. Why not?
>paypig
poorfag language
>you must shit on people
You shit on everything you can't afford.
>you have a spending problem
you have a financial problem
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>>723978939
>more attempts at social shaming because he can't defend his opinions
Feminine
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>>723963818
Ah yes, this truly is worth 5000+ dollars and more than halving your performance.
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>>723980158
defend what opinions?
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>>723979637
Who doesn't even play videogames no less. I can only assume it's an nvidia shill (paid advertiser).
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>>723979947
>almost universally the more you spend the more you win.
your hobby is buying hardware
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>>723980258
>He can't even remember his own opinions
Fucking embarassing
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>>723980010
Based 970 chad
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>>723963818
Me in the back.
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>>723979637
If I had been duped into spending ludicrous amounts of money for something that literally does not improve my gameplay experience (and in fact it actually worsens it) I would be pretty desperate to defend it too I guess.
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>>723977530
none of the games i enjoy require a ((("powerful")))
njewdia gpjew or anything remotely close to it, i don't play gay nigger modern triple gay faggotslop, get gassed, kike
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>>723977898
because it's overpriced hardware for even shittier results
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>>723980010
I rate this comment a 3.5 out of 4.
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>>723980831
>njewdia gpjew or anything remotely close to it, i don't play gay nigger modern triple gay faggotslop, get gassed, kike
lol buzzword zoomzoom
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Remember to mock retards using womanly social shaming tactics
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>>723963997
>Can't tell the difference
Huge cope
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>>723980653
Yeah but all it does is dig themself a hole when you ask why they spent $5000 dollars if they think all modern videogames are shit and too brown. Theres obviously the cope that "oh i can render AI and play modded minrcraft" but by then everyone knows hes a retard.

The people who shout the loudest about not being retarded and everyone else being brown and poor are often the actual worst
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>>723980896
>overpriced
poor
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>>723978371
the retarded kike you're replyingnto didn't fall for it, he's trying to use jewish pilpul to try and sell it to retards, he's a kike working for nvidia in a gay ass attempt at a viral marketing campaign
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>>723980010
Imagine buying a GPU for any reason beside aesthetics
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more like soullesstracing wwww
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>>723967968
you can feel the fps drop even on this webm lmao
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>>723980992
>>723981062
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>>723963818
Fervid looks like a lame movie
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>>723980120
>mental gymnastics buried under 7 layers of denial
>shit flinging while literally still hooked up to the corporate milking machine
i don't know which one is more funny
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>>723967968
Wow cyberpunk is a piece of shit. Arkham Knight didn't have this problem by the way.
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>>723978373
>oy vey goyim, you MUST give your money to nvisraeldia or else you're a poor antisemite and we'll dock your credit score!
とってもシャッバトシャロム、ハイミ-くん!
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>>723980372
Nah, my current build was like $1000. You don't have to get the best you know?
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>>723981005
>completely ignoring the "insane performance hit" part of the post
Huge cope
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>>723981062
you're a jew, so nothing you say matters, in fact only the opposite of anything you claim is the truth
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>>723965584
you dont get it retard.
I can have 15 year old hardware and mog your shitty console libraries any day.
having that option alone is great. you do not have it.
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>>723980946
lol pathetic pilpuling kike
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>>723981482
I have a 5090. What performance hit.
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>>723979637
he doesn't buy it, he's trying to sell it, nothing more, nothing less, this kike doesn't even play videogames, all he does is rape his ukrainian child sex slave in his dingy israeli dungeon when he isn't being a kike shilling on 4chan
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>>723981849
>I'm not a butthurt poorfag
You're not convincing anyone
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>>723978072
only nkikedia shills do
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>>723965584
My laptop with intel integrated graphics is superior consoleshit with how many things it supports compared to a cucked closed ecosystem of sony or microshit.
And I do have a proper PC too with a 1080TI which was worth $700 I paid when I bought it new, today's $700 GPUs are not worth it. It's as simple as that.
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>>723965385
Prove it. Prove the stupid retarded thing you just said. Pull out a PS2 game that looks like that.
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Sick of you gay faggots always arguing about this dumb shit so let me drop some truth bombs.
Ray tracing is good and looks good.
Ray tracing provides comprehensive dynamic lighting beyond what existing techniques offer.
Performance impact and hardware requirements can be absurd.
Plenty of ubiquitous techniques were once huge banes on performance which people criticized.
It is often used as a crutch by lazy or incompetent devs though this does not have to be the case.
Ray tracing does produce blur and other artifacts in some games due to it not being feasible in real time with current hardware.
If implemented well, ray tracing can ensure that all moving objects have fully detailed lighting in every scenario all of the time.
Poor people do in fact complain about ray tracing despite never having used it because they can't afford modern hardware.
Shills do in fact shill ray tracing and ignore its shortcomings.
In years to come, ray tracing will be ubiquitous and these arguments will seem silly.

Don't even > me unless you agree because these are raw indisputable facts.
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>>723982193
No one who has ever used the "looks like... le PS2! xD" argument was even alive when the PS2 was relevant.
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>>723982621
HL2 was literally released during the PS2 era
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Cyberpunk and Minecraft are the only two games I've seen that actually fully utilizes ray tracing technology and changes the experience.
Name 5 other games that do this.

Every other game with ray tracing doesn't do shit or it make the game look and perform WORSE. It's a meme technology meant for you to spend more money than you should.
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>>723963818
I'm not poor, I just bought an AMD card. It was still really, really expensive.
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>>723982727
it's optional for me
it's not optional for you

I use it
You can't

simples
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>>723982791
>It was still really, really expensive
They only do midrange gpus now though?
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>>723982621
I use it but not with regards to the PS2 since I have many fond memories of being blown away by how amazing PS2 games looked. I usually say Xbox 360.
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This thread is full of console owners
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>>723982847
rig is a few years old, this was 6000/3000 series just after the crypto spike hit the covid spike. I still think the pathtracing looks better, looking forward to cheap ex-AI gpus getting resoldered onto consumer boards after the 2026 correction.
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>>723970047
>real time reflections in modern games are le impossible
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>>723983521
>reflection has different lighting
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>>723963818
this but unironically
i wont be playing gta6 because i could barely run rdr2
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>>723968521
>>723970047
>>723983521
RTX modern games are so hazy.
It's like I'm looking through a fart cloud the entire time
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>>723963818
RT is, aside from a handful of games that do it well, still a meme yes. The performance hit simply isn't worth it and it usually does not look superior enough to warrant the hit. This'll get better with time but it's been 6 years of RT and we're clearly still not even close to getting out of the growing pains phase.

The Nvidia gimmick that actually ISN'T a meme is DLSS upscaling. It used to be a meme but has matured into something you'd be insane not to use.
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>>723983521
>same jank solution from gta 5 on ps3
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>>723977210
Thanks asshole I googled "free CP download" and got an FBI warning
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>>723983621
>anon thinks reflections have the same lighting IRL
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>>723981910
Feminine and womanly. Defend your ideas don't just attempt to socially shame.
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>>723968283
>MSAA was THE go-to AA method and would still be preferred by a huge majority of people
If a working version of MSAA released today most people would hate it and never use it. That's because MSAA doesn't address 90% of the image issues we see nowadays, and it has the performance hit equivalent to raytracing all to just fix the jaggies a little bit. Nobody would realistically use it.
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>>723984282
Forza still uses MSAA because their game engine dates back to like 2007. But that's the only exception I can think of.
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>>723984261
Are you a console owner?
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Any of you "CONSOOMER" posters own your own home or have saved up enough to get a loan for one?
You're not a permarentoids, are you? Because if you are simply still hanging on to the old "good enough" hardware your parents bought you before kicking you out for being a neet then you are in no position to criticize even the most rampant "MUST BUY NEW THING" drone if your money just goes to someone else's pocket instead of your hobby.
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>>723984740
Yes, I am posting on a NES
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>>723984910
figures
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>>723985030
>Doesn't even know what a NES is
These are the people who claim to love videogames more than you lmao
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>>723964856
>HL2 was absolutely mindblowing day 1
no it wasn't. It was a chore to play through. I was happy when I reached the end.
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>>723985149
How did you extrapolate that I don't know what a NES in from my reply?
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>>723963818
Yeah it's pretty noticeable when you don't implement any other form of lighting. You could get something that looks 98% as good as the left with 10% of the workload if you know how to program basic lighting effects
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>>723967968
are you even trying
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>>723985315
Because your next move was to ask me what specs my PC has and I'm cutting you off and making fun of you?
Again, you can't defend anything you can only use womanly tactics. Really obvious ones.
Eat shit, OP you dumb marketing bitch.
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>723982579
>no replies
lmao, this thread is literally a schizo replying to himself
boy was it a good idea to get rid of id counts in threads
fucking hiroshi, retarded greedy cunt
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>>723963818
>Turn on goytracing
>PC heats up like a volcano
No thank you
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>>723985561
> your next move was to ask me what specs my PC has and I'm cutting you off
Why would you care if someone asked you what spec your PC is?
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>>723963818
I'm glad raytracing allows us to have purple light and reflections, as both of those were impossible before.
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stupid nigger stop replying to yourself
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>>723985573
>>no replies
you just replied to it
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>>723985702
Because you're going to try and use womanly tactics again and I enjoy being smarter than other people. Any assumptions you make will be ignored, any attempt to turn this around will be ridiculed.
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this site needs to rangeban india, israel, and australia
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>>723963818
the left looks better
t 4070
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>>723986012
You think the IP counter was removed to make it HARDER to shill lmao?
This entire website is designed for advertising. They use every post as a "mention on social media" regardless of content. It's a whole scam.
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>>723985960
I'm not trying to do anything. It's quite telling how you're so defensive about your PC specs though
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>>723986103
Yet you're here?
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>>723986104
Oof, there he goes with I notice not defending raytracing at all and trying to social shame instead of having an argument.

>>723986161
Pajeet is MAD.

I'm just hoping a lurker sees how to handle you morons.
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>>723971281
remarkable how badly you missed the point
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>>723986229
you're clearly having an episode or breakdown or something.
what is wrong with you?
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>>723978939
>starts thread by calling others poorfags for not buying into raytracing
>nooo you can't slap back get out get out get out
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entire thread is a poorfag saying he isn't poor while having a melty
lol
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>>723986851
more like
>entire thread is OP getting humilliated by people who don't make retarded purchases after opening with an attempt to one-up them
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>meanwhile Source 2
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>>723985561
schizo here imagining whole ass arguments in his head
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>>723986953
I'm not the OP and I don't make retarded purchases.
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schizzo posting is the new poorfag cope
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>>723987026
So you're a poorfag?
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>>723987264
No, why?
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>>723986304
>more attempts at social shaming
Lmao
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>>723987305
I can see you anon. I'm watching you right now.
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>>723986954
looks almost like a ue4 game, impressive
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>>723987471
Looks way better than your raytracing slop. You're allowed to be honest.
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>>723987373
>Had to give up all attempts because he got btfo
LMAO
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>>723987594
I can see you anon.
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>>723963818
now show the working mirrors
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>>723964475
The HL2 method of doing water reflections was a much closer approximation to path-tracing than the modern screen-space reflection methods. HL2 would render the scene twice from the water's perspective, allowing it to capture geometry from the environment that a screen-space method would miss. It does have occlusions that path-tracing methods do not though. Additionally, it only permits a fixed number of reflective surfaces, which is why water, when present, was the only reflective thing in the scene, and why there was typically only one "level" of water.
It's a neat technique, but it's still an approximation and the industry wanted to move towards having many independent reflective surfaces.
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>>723987896
>now show the working mirrors
You can see the reflections from the glass on the floor
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>>723963818
this entire thread just keeps demonstrating that GFXlets are fucking mentally ill.
>this overly glossy shit (600fps) looks better than this other overly glossy shit (22fps) lmao are you a nvidiatard/poorfag?
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>>723964475
Op confirmed for basedtoy. And this method is much less resource heavy.

Someone should make a food analogy of this. One to cause ass hurt for both op and anti food analogists.
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>>723963818
What elegant and tasteful lighting.
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>>723963818
>>723963997
left looks better
shit is weird, fake-reality
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>>723964475
I would like to point out that when HL2 released I could not run it either.
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>>723963818
>44 fps
you are brown
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I did some comparison screenshots a while ago, but forgot which is which so if anyone of you can tell me which of this and the next image are ray traced I'd be grateful.
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>>723966491
>Zluda had all these cool phyxs work on all graphics cards when AMD didn't pull out and tell the devs to trash the work they funded
AAAAAAAAAAAH
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>>723988758
A 4070 super or 3090 will be over 60fps when you turn dlss on
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>>723988857
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>>723983521
>no shadows
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>>723988946
Neither is path traced. Hard to say which is ray traced because you're using potato settings or something.
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>>723989294
That is ultra settings my bro.
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>>723964730
Kek, HL2 was a technical marvel and the best looking FPS of that time, kys.
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>>723963818
raytracing is a meme
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>>723963818
>muh graphix
okay.. but is the game any GOOD?
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>>723989515
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>>723968283
tsr cover distant jaggies a lot better than msaa. it's also an upscaler. in most cases, the point of tsr is to adjust the internal resolution a little bit until you get the frame rate you want.
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>>723963818
>66% fps loss just to increase the brightness
Fell for it again.jpg
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>>723983521
ironically, ue5 still has plana reflection built right in, and you can let players control it. in this scenario on ue5, you set the reflection to only catch the room, and nothing outside. then you let players decided if they want to cast shadows, and what resolution to run at. in most scenarios in real life, mirrors are in rooms in buildings. basically, it's a non issue, but nvidia can't sell a 7090 ti for 25 grand this way.
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>>723979456
that's warhead
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>>723989705
What upscaler are you using? Is the second one ultra rt?
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>>723963818
Right could have been achieved without ray tracing. Left was just made that way so that ray tracing can be an option.
Im not going to argue that left is more realistic or looks better since that would be retarded cope but I am disgusted that the existance of ray tracing actively makes games look worse.
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>>723989584
>paid 10k for an overclocked 5090
Your PC is a meme
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>>723989584
Run the CP2077 pathtracing preset benchmark. Show the results.
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>>723987538
But I am being honest. It's just like HL2 back in the day, unimpressive tech with a pretty picture. Next you'll tell me MGS5 looks better than any game released this year.
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here's a comparison for cyberpunk.
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>>723990171
>worse
where?
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>>723990469
That's a shot that purposely downplays the benefits of the higher settings though
What would be better is some random alley or something where the lighting just falls apart without pt
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genuinely asking, how would rasterfags make left image look better than right image by only using ancient lighting tech ?
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>>723963818
>poor
>even a 5090 drops under 60fps
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>>723963997
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4cDy0YsaYWU
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>>723990469
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>>723990649
Only at native 4k
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>>723963818
the only better part is the reflection which older games did better
this and picrel is literally the dickface image
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>>723990642
>That's a shot that purposely downplays the benefits of the higher settings though
what do you mean on purpose? i thought the area looked neat, so i took a screenshot with the different settings. if you need strategic screenshots to make raytracing not a meme, that's an indictment of the tech.
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>>723963818
AMD users have been trying to downplay meme it into irrelevancy because their GPUs are shite at it
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>>723990647
probe-based (potentially big install size) or screen space GI, or some combination of techniques.
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>>723990649
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>>723966502
this only makes me like him more
do a crt filter one
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>>723966018
>>723966502
2003 should have a fun font, and 2023 should have a boring, sterile font.
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>>723966018
background should have a thick layer of anti-soul gas kek
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>>723990505
Right's look could have been done without ray tracing using more traditional lighting techniques.
Left only looks that way because they wanted ray tracing to be an option.
Left looks admittedly worse than right.
Therefore, the only reason that no ray tracing looks worse than yes ray tracing is because of the mere existance of yes tracing.
If left was actually made to resemble the look the devs had envisioned then that would make the ray traced option look like absolute shit.
Therefore, the existance of ray tracing forces devs to actively make their games look like shit under the no ray tracing option.
Hope that clears things up.
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>>723982406
>post a PS 2 game that looks like that
>posts a PS 3 game
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>>723991241
go look up when HL2 released and what year the PS3 released
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>>723985554
Path tracing is taxing, yes, CP2077 raytracing is not
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>>723991240
>tinfoil hat time
retard
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>>723988946
This one is rasterized. The ray traced one has appropriate highlights, shadows and ambient occlusion. The raster one looks random by comparison, it has a distinct inappropriate glow on certain surfaces that is quite apparent to anyone who is used to RT. It does look quite nice still though.
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>>723990954
amd can do regular (console optimized) rt now, it's just path tracing that's a no go
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>>723964179
what is it with incels and their obsession with trannies? it's almost like they're suffering from the exact same mental illness or something.
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>>723991535
touched a nerve?
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>>723991369
I did. You still posted a PS3 game
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>>723991461
No, that is the ray traced one.
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>>723963818
>44FPS
lmao, useless shit
>b-but muh colors
how about you make a good game first ? fucking nerd
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>>723991646
the game was ps2 era
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>>723991420
Im just pointing out the obvious. If left was actually made to resemble right using traditional lighting methods then when you switch on ray tracing it will look like neon barf hell. Imagine someone rubbed vaseline into your eyes and then pointed a flashlight directly into your face.
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why does this game make people seethe?
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>>723991858
>vaseline
buy a new monitor
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>>723963818
>44 fps with top of the line pc
lol, lmao
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>>723991973
>RTX4080
>top of the line PC
lol
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>>723963818
Left is more realistic. Neon Lights have very little covered IRL and they barely reflect off shit. Also concrete dry surfaces do not bounce off visible light.
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>>723991740
So was Metal Gear Solid 3 but posting a picture of MGS Delta is not posting a picture of a PS2 game
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>>723992094
the game came out when the PS2 was in stores.
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This is a game from 2015, no edits or alternations, just a direct screenshot taken with the game's freecam.

No ray tracing btw, just a very primitive form of ssr.
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>>723992319
can't you play it now other games have ray tracing?
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>>723972946
>he has to create an unlevel playing field in order to "win"
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>>723992319
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>>723971676
>>723971516
It increases file size massively. A single doom dark ages map would be over 100 gigs of prerendered lighting data alone and then you retards would make a thousand threads complaining about filesize
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>>723992078
>Also concrete dry surfaces do not bounce off visible light.
No? So then how the fuck do you see them?
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>>723992917
thats a fucking lie, the lighting data for a map is fucking 50kb at best.
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>>723993102
are you retard?
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>>723993102
..
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>>723992996
a material giving enough light bounce for you to visibly see it with its own eyes, DOES NOT MEAN it can bounce enough fucking light to look reflective or reflect visible "bright" light. Concrete does not bounce every single light in a 200m radius like in dogshit RTX. It barely bounces enough light to be visible, which is why roads are so dark at night. At most they catch the faint color of stuff like stream lamps.
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Me:
>have ray-tracing capable card
Also me:
>turns off all ray-tracing
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>>723963818
kino/not kino
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>>723992917
Then why did game size triple across the industry the moment RTX started being adopted lmfao.
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>>723966018
colors aren't faded enough
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>>723992917
Forza Horizon 3 which relied on baked lighting + low tech real time stuff like cubemap reflections was 50GBs.

Forza Horizon 5 which uses ray tracing only is 175GB

myeah......rtx frees up so much space guys
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>>723993304
>game is about future cyborg getting brain implants
>"Don't you see that the road tarmac has a little too much reflection power on it. The game is just unrealistic"
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>>723963818
>looks better without it
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>>723993718
My point is that ray tracing looks worse and less realistic. Cyberpunk with RT off and everything else at max looks much more realistic and drives the artistic vision of whats meant to be grungy city.
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>distinct aesthetic
vs
>visual noise
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>>723993903
if you could actually use path tracing you'd know what you said isn't true
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>>723963818
as good as it looks in cherry picked areas it looks equally shit where the road looks like it's been turned into a mirror.
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I'll take my consistent frame timings over pretty gfx, tyvm
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>>723992319
2015-2016 games are by far the best and most realistic looking. FH3, Arkham Night, NFS, The Division 1, Witcher 3...
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>>723992996
by absorbing the light that hits them and emitting photons at a different fucking wavelength, i.e.; NOT A FUCKING REFLECTION YOU BRAINDEAD NVIDIGGER
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>>723994279
you seem really upset. own AMD by any chance?
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>>723994123
>uncposting this hard
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>>723963818
The only real problem with raytracing is that is computationally expensive, but much of the available hardware struggles to run it. There's being poor and then there's just being ripped off by devs and card manufacturers.
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>>723963818
>raytracing is when pink lights
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>>723990456
mgsv DOES look a million MILES better than any game released this year, but that's not what's important, what's important is that it /PLAYS/ A MILLION MILES BETTER THAN ANY GAME RELEASED IN THE PAST 10 YEARS YOU FUCKING FAGGOT ASSED NIGGERKIKE
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>>723994580
own a yarmulke by any chance?
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>>723965769
Crazy how much better this one looks than the latest SH.
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>>723995617
Is saying you own AMD an insult?
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>>723963818
Left is better because Cyberpunk isn't supposed to be brightly lit
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>>723964132
It's only realistic if you think that the big purple lights do not emit purple light in the environment.
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>>723995295
It looks flat and boring and plays like ubistar gay cowboy simulator
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>>723995710
is saying you wear a skullcap an insult? must be one of those criminal ultra orthodox kikes who wear the gay furry cylinder hats instead
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>>723996736
>just random projection, blurting retarded shit out
weirdo
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>>723982406
>>723991369
>>723991740
>>723992178
Concession accepted.
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>>723996831
kike
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>>723997006
you're the retard schizo poorfag who had the meltdown earlier aren't you?
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>>723997087
you still haven't denied it, kike
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>>723997171
>retard schizo poorfag
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>>723997264
are you or are you not a kike?
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>>723997360
no. i live in a place which has none. I've never knowingly met one either. retard schizo poorfag
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>>723997441
jeet
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>>723997479
you're not very original. Have you tried shouting "shill" . I've seen that line also doesn't work but you seem retarded enough to try it
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>>723997591
>saar you are not original saar bloody bastard bitch
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>>723997734
>hates jews
>hates indians
you're a pakistani aren't you , lol.
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>>723966994
His gpu is better, as the newer ones can't do what the mp4 he posted shows. And you're brown
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>>723997829
only a jeet would say this
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>>723991535
What is it with you and your obsession with incels?
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>>723963818
>sub-60fps on a 4080
I'm not sure that any amount of money can buy acceptable RT performance.
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>>723997889
>retard schizo poorfag starts name calling
must hurt being poor and fucking goats
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>>723971281
Really depends on how you look at it. Your cash is going to be worth less with each passing day. If he spent $1000 on something that appreciates in value [read: not retarded fucking video games]-- he is on the path to wealth and you are not.
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>>723963818
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>>723995295
>mgsv DOES look a million MILES better than any game released this year
you are morbidly out of touch if you unironically believe this
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>>723963818
>RAYTRACING IS BAD BECAUSE... BECAUSE I'M POOR OKAY"
Yes.
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>>723975598
This kills the RT fag.
The sizzling noisy smearing of rt in-motion ruins any appeal it might bring.
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>>723983875
>RTX modern games are so hazy.
>It's like I'm looking through a fart cloud the entire time
its the anti-soul gas
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>>723998456
oh no , the 90 hour game is ruined because a room has a flickering light
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>>723982406
THIS NIGGER CAN'T EVEN COUNT TO TWO AHAHAHA
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>>723998489
I like how you had to increase the brightness and contrast to make it worse
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>>723964470
There is a mod for more npcs and random events on cp2077. There are random gangoon fights and chases.
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>>723998643
I like how there's fog indoors.
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Once Ray-Tracing becomes a common thing that any low-budget GPU can do while giving good frames, you'll magically see the sentiment on /v/ reverse. /v/ is full of Brazilians, slavs, and NEETs who pretend that everything they cannot afford is shit and not worth having
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>723998543
This retard can't even read.
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>>723998643
>I like how you had to increase the brightness and contrast to make it worse
oh sweet summer boy...
who's gonna tell him?
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>>723988261
GROK IS THIS REAL???
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>>723998831
I have a few of those games and they don't look like that. your pc must be shit
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>Once Ray-Tracing becomes a common thing that any low-budget GPU can can do while giving good frames
Will never happen because retarded devs will keep sucking goyvidia cock until they wonder why they lost their jobs.
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>>723985697
It's how Europeans heat their homes now since their nations are broke.
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>>723998643
i took this screenshot in Hogwarts Legacy (unedited)
yes
a fucking HARRY POTTER WIZARD game
do you see a problem with this or not?
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>>723998986
no. the only problem i see is you're running 1440p low settings
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>>723998764
>/v/ is full of Brazilians, slavs, and NEETs
It's full of Indians being paid to insult you if you don't buy expensive things. It's basically the final form of marketing on 4chan.
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>>723963997
LMAO POORFAG COPE
BROWN
POOR
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Raytracing is fine when you've got a big area and you want the engine to figure out the lighting conditions on the fly, but if you're in a smaller area then baked-in lighting often looks better.
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>>723999057
disingenuous retard faggot detected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIm6By6AWoo
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>>723998764
Refer to the graph, Mr Singh.
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>>723999182
you're running low settings on your toaster. holy shit what a retard
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>>723999057
>there is no problem with the hogwarts wizard game being gray and foggy
i fucking hate zoomers i swear to god
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>>723969808
The only technical issues the game had were the loading times, levels were short as fuck. But it ran like a fucking dream for what it visually offered on contemporary budget hardware.
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>>723999285
i guess 9800X3D + 5080 counts as a toaster nowadays
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>>723999338
>good looking game looks like a PS3 game on his PC
>complains about fog messing his image quality
you can't make this shit up. you have bigger issues with your piss poor computer than fucking fog you stupid fuck
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>>723999482
this is on high you chimpanzee
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>>723999561
>it's on high though
still looks like shit with or without fog. your pc is broken if that's the best it can look in a playable state
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>>723963818
I think it's bad because budget and dev time goes to the graphics department and not story or gameplay department that way. But I am not a dev so I don't know if this takes a lot of time and effort
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>>723963818
>44 fps
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>>723999629
>being this much in denial over direct evidence
launch the game and show me a screenshot in 1440p on high right now faggot retard
oh wait you cant afford the game, poorfag
and you cant even pirate it because youre definitely the one on a toaster judging how much you were projecting earlier
maybe one day theyll put anti-soul gas in minesweeper for you to enjoy, scum
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>>723999979
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>>723999182
The fog doesn't look anything like that on my PC. It looks more like the no fog video, in terms of the close distance looking grey and washed out with fog.
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>>723963818
Gaytracing is bad because it diverts budget away from making an actual video game
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>>723999126
Tell me which one of these shots has RT on.
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>>723993379
Might as well upgrade to a card that can handle stuff like PhysX then.
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>>723964856
Half life 2 was genuinely a garbage game and to this day I consider the people who like it to be halfwitted morons easily influenced by marketing gimmicks and social pressure

Everything ever said about Halo applied 100x more to half life 2
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>>724000528
top one because shadows look proper
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>>723963997
would you turn it on if your gf gave you a new graphics card for xmas?
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>>723999979
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>>724001027
STILL don't see the problem?
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>>724001125
I'd be more worried if it looked like your game than mine
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>>724001183
when were you born?
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>>723973917
dude spending money frivolously doesn't make you a good person or a winner, it makes you a fucking idiot

women do 80% of consumer spending and you behave and act like a woman

TV man tells you to buy thing so you dutifully go out and buy it, what a fucking schmuck. Guys like you brag about having money and then someone looks at your finances and you're $70,000 in debt paying one credit card off with another.
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>>724001245
I don't share personal information on the internet
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>>724001341
lol so much projection in a single post
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>>724000528
>uses tomb raider which only has rt shadows
lol
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>>724000790
>shadows look proper
>strong directional light source at short distance
>undistinguishable blobs
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>>724000945
I have a 4090, I don't need a new graphics card. So many people are assuming I'm saying this because I don't have PC capable of ray tracing, when I'm simply not retarded and say stupid shit just to rationalize my expensive purchase unlike you all.
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>>723977530
Tells everyone you're a low IQ drooling retard who throws money at whatever a snakeoil salesman sells you

Guys like you are called marks
your entire personality revolves around flashing money at people; superificial displays of status, and idiots like you actually end up spending more on everything for no good reason, putting yourself in debt for the sake of status that was sold to you by marketing agencies and salesmen

When you're actually rich, you don't flash money at people. It causes problems. You hide the fact that you have money. It's poor people pretending to be rich who are trying to show it off and brag because they've got nothing else backing their social status.

Every time someone is bragging "I am so rich I can buy whatever I want" they're a poorfag poseur; that mentality is the exact opposite of what gets you and keeps you rich.
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>>724002214
>lol so much projection in a single post
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>>724002214
tell everyone another story while I sit here with my cat
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>High end graphics card
>Ray tracing is still a massive hit to performance
>Needs upscaling and fake frames
lmao
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>>723963818
Doesn't fix the gameplay though
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>>724002057
>butthurt because anon was right
Be graceful in defeat.
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>>723978373
High end GPU's used to cost $400 before the nvidia and amd duopoly started colluding together to price fix and restrict supply during the cryptomining craze.

Now the high end is over $2000 and the sky is the literal limit - you can buy $50,000 GPU's if you want.

But that would be fucking retarded to buy a $50,000 GPU to run some videogames, just like it's fucking retarded to buy a $1000 GPU when every game you're playing already runs at 200fps on your current 10 year old $200 at the time gpu.

There is absolutely nothing normal or good about the current price/performance of GPU's. You are just an idiot that thinks pissing money away is a virtue. Brain developed wrong.
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>>724002874
it's fun watching you get it off your chest anon.
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>>723964690
It's both funny and sad how a 2005 shooter decimates modern shooters.
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>>723963818
Vice City looked like that 20 years ago without meme tracing.
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>>724002874
>used to cost $400
A GTX 690 was $999 in 2012
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>>723964730
>lie
why are lefties like this
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>>723995804
IRL they don't, it's the reason we use the white-yellow spectrum for lights, other colors, and neons in particular, don't disperse well enough to properly illuminate an area, this is the reason why OP's pic does not look like light, it just looks like they applied a pink tint to it.
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>>724003083
>Vice City looked like that 20 years ago
Vice city only looked like that in your aging imagination, grandpa
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>>724003553
The Malibu Club looks exactly like what is in the OP image. You probably don't even know what that is.
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>>723998764
If everyone were a superficial cash flashing retard the price of everything would go up 9000% and the only actual rich people would be the ones selling trash to suckers

nobody who is rich brags about what they spend, it is thoroughly poor coded behaviour.
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>The shill is still at it
Tirelessly getting BTFO over and over again kek
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>>724003514
in the pic you posted the lights are aimed at the ceiling
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>>724003703
You are absolutely fucking delusional.
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>>723970483
>Ken-Sama approaches a sliding door, then opens it like a normal door
What the fuck
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>>723963818
i doubt this shit works well even on a 5090, and by the time the hardware catches up nvidia will have probably abandoned it for another meme anyway
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>>724003860
GPUs are too expensive but that doesn't make ray-tracing technology bad. People only insist it's worthless tech because they can't afford the GPUs that can do it properly.
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>>724003992
The lights at the sides of the bed aren't, and they don't illuminate shit, they shine brighly close to the source but then just disappear, the small yellow lights on the other hand fill the entire room and reflect from distant objects, it's not an "own" it's just wave dynamics.
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>>723963818
>goes from atmospheric to tacky
really not selling path tracing at all
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>>724004001
Looks better than op
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What is it about graphics and hardware that makes people foam at the mouth like wtf is going on in this thread, I didn't know this shit was that serious to you all
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>>723998489
>Demon's souls in the antisoul gas list
That game it actually makes sense for there to be antisoul gas considering the Old One is spewing it all over Bolataria and soon the world.
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>>723964730
there were exactly 0 games release in 2004 that looked better than HL2
the only one that even comes close is halo 2
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>>724006279
Far Cry looked better than HL2
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>>724005872
>it's SUPPOSED to look like shit, chud!
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>>724006437
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>>723964475
>128MB DX9 video cards.
TAKE ME BAAACK
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>>723963818
you could reach same results on the left easily (and for quarter gpu load), if the devs werent lazy fucks
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https://youtu.be/vUFE4M0oaIc
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>>724006437
Yeah it's the entire plot anon.
big ass demon covering the world in antisoul gas.
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>>724002836
Kill yourself.
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>>723998324
every game released this year looks like dogvomit, seethe cope and dilate, malachai
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>>724002874
>High end GPU's used to cost $400
yeah in the fucking 90s maybe
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>>723996831
ironic retard
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>>723997441
kikes like you always lie, so, the opposite is the truth
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>>724009252
>max 1 shadow per object
L
M
A
O
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https://youtu.be/wn8g-aBvxZE
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>>724009287
>anon doesn't know what he talks about
again? I've seen this episode already!
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>>723964179
in a game where the devs made shit baked lighting thats why you fucking homo faggot nigger
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>schizo anon goes "nerr nerr" on old posts
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>>724009772
>no argument
Concession accepted.
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It looks brilliant. I just don't want to see it everywhere.
There's this idea that a game NEEDS to look like fucking real life to succeed or be commercially viable, and it's just not correct. What's worse, they tend to use this as an excuse to just skimp on the actual game part of it, as if I'm going to pay $80 for the collaborative digital artwork.
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>game released in 2002
>multiple shadows per object
Lost technology
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>>724010110
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>>724002321
That's doesn't make a lotta sense..
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>>723963818
There's literally no reason that glass shouldn't have a reflection on the left side other than pure dev laziness. Also, there's plenty of raster GI techniques, but again laziness + nvidia money
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>>723990982
>720p internal resolution
>4x "framegen"
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>>724011297
https://youtu.be/XeHqPHRAWR0
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>>724011297
>720p monitor resolution
>can't into frame gen
>can't into path tracing
lol
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>>724006361
Looks like a jak and daxter knock off
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>>723969880
Screenshots look better, that's all that matters to these "gamers"
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>>723964475
Thats the thing.
You don't actually need raytracing in order to get realistic/good looking games. Raytracing is just the easy solution for developers with the tech doing all the work for them. You got old titles like FEAR which still look great because the developers paid attention to detail and placed all the lightsources/maps/shadows perfectly.
Meanwhile the moddern pinkhairs and jeets want you to buy a 2000 USD GPU so that GPU can do the work for them.
This is not adding value to games - you are paying extra so lazy/incompetent developers can pick the easy route.
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>>723963818
>path trace the lighting in development and bake that into the default look of the game
>still no need for ray tracing
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https://youtu.be/gKzg6Llcrsc
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>>724011537
wrong on every single count, cultist
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>>724012263
>baked lighting
>dynamic day/night cycles
Do you retards even think for a moment before posting this dumb shit?
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>>724012557
>You're wrong. I have a RTX 2060 and a 1080p monitor
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>>723963818
I'm an idort, own everything kind of idort. I don't notice a difference. That said, I'm not gonna hate on it just cause I don't see a difference, it's just not a selling point for me. Not worth mentioning when advertising a product.
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>>724012640
>*bakes your post into my ass*
>still no need for path tracing
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>>724012263
Yeah would be great in a game with no moving objects
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>>724013087
What does, "insufficient funds" mean?
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>>724002321
KEK
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>>724013461
crazy how people can same fag



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