Poll: Do you care about ray tracing / upscaling?

DAPUNISHER · Apr 27, 2025

@psolord

I've asked you before to use spoiler tags for your vids and screenshots or the post would be deleted. I did not want to rob you of all the work you put into your posts so I added the tags for you. But next time they get wished away to the cornfield. Again; Please use spoiler tags moving forward.

@marees

Those Oblivion mods are comical. Lumen be gone 🤣 There are some funny memes for it too

psolord · Apr 28, 2025

DAPUNISHER said:
I've asked you before to use spoiler tags for your vids and screenshots or the post would be deleted. I did not want to rob you of all the work you put into your posts so I added the tags for you. But next time they get wished away to the cornfield. Again; Please use spoiler tags moving forward.

Sorry bro, I forgot.

Thanks.

DAPUNISHER · May 1, 2025

Watch the graphical corruption on the clothing of the NPCs using the 4070 with 2x FG on the far right side. It'll happen within seconds of starting from the time stamp so you may need to replay a couple of times to catch both of the NPCs it happens to within the span of a few seconds. Drivers are not doing the older cards any favors it seems.

TurtleCrusher · May 7, 2025

FSR enables me to play games on old as heck hardware. I built a PC with the specs as followed.

Xeon E5-2680 V4 14-core 2.4-3.3Ghz 120W
16GB DDR4 2400Mhz
Radeon Pro WX 5100 8GB (think RX 470 w/ 75w TDP)
1TB Crucial P2 NVMe
Intel X200 Wifi-6
Add-in TPM Module (left of USB 3.0 connector on bottom) which makes it natively W11 compatible

Newer games that have FSR are playable. Even NBA 2K25 which is a next-gen title ran great with FSR and settings dropped. The Finals was A+. Cyberpunk had the most compromises to get playable frames.

Ranulf · May 14, 2025

Amusing part of a steam review of DoomDarkAges:

Look, I just want to enjoy a video game. I shouldn’t have to run tech support for an hour just to squeeze out a stuttery 45fps. I have good hardware. Like, stupidly good hardware. Most people would assume a 4090 and a 7900X would tear through a DOOM title considering that it's the original universal game that runs on everything. But nope. What used to be "plug and play" is now "tweak and pray." Owning high-end hardware doesn’t mean much when every new release tries to turn your rig into a sacrificial offering.

That said, if you've ever wanted to watch your GPU burst into flames while rendering a torch-lit corridor at 17fps, DOOM: The Dark Ages has you covered. Forget demons, your real enemy is the graphics settings menu, which might as well be the final boss. Every AAA game now needs DLSS and Frame Gen just to hit a desired framerate that's even close to what my monitor supports. It’s absurd—especially when the last two DOOM games were optimized so well. So who at id thought baking ray tracing into the engine permanently was a good idea? Whoever it was, they deserve to be trapped in a mirrored lava room where every surface reflects their mistakes.

Do people really care about Ray tracing? Not when it kills performance, needs an 8core cpu minimum (good argument against mid range i5/ryzen5 now) and gpu power/ram for frame gen and upscaling.

(whole review is good: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199794253594/recommended/3017860/ )

DrMrLordX · May 15, 2025

Gotta sell those 5090s somehow.

DAPUNISHER · Sunday at 8:02 AM

Steve and Roman talking about Nvidia's manipulation and strong arm tactics. No surprise to anyone paying attention. Trying to blackmail Steve to push MFG is the first story.

marees · Monday at 1:42 AM

GamersNexus: use code 'IDGAF'

Paratus said:
GN was informed they will start including more 4 frame gen DLSS in their charts if they want to keep interviewing NV engineers.

Ranulf · Monday at 2:34 AM

GN long video on the drama, the ending with Gordon was a nice touch. Guns out with references to GPP vs HOCP and HUB over rtx in 2020.

coercitiv · Monday at 3:38 AM

Ranulf said:
GN long video on the drama, the ending with Gordon was a nice touch. Guns out with references to GPP vs HOCP and HUB over rtx in 2020.

"just don't F it up for the rest of us on your way out the door"
GN Steve's message to Nvidia

DAPUNISHER · Monday at 7:07 AM

With Nvidia demanding MFG be in the charts, perhaps the best solution for reviewers is to use lossless scaling with older RTX and other brands. That way they can show 4x scaling on every card. Any visual and performance differences between the implementations can be highlighted. Might even make Nvidia's tech look better without the dirty deception of showing a much bigger bar better over older cards lacking MFG.

igor_kavinski · Wednesday at 3:49 AM

RDNA4 gamers rejoice!

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-announces-fsr-redstone-for-rdna4-neural-radiance-caching-ml-ray-regeneration-and-frame-generation

Shmee · Wednesday at 9:14 PM

marees said:
GamersNexus: use code 'IDGAF'

IDKFA and IDDQD

SnooSnoo · 2025-05-22T05:15:10-0400

Shmee said:
IDKFA and IDDQD

IDSPISPOPD

Poll: Do you care about ray tracing / upscaling?

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