It's been too sunny lately so no puddles so I would rather stay inside and watch some RT puddles on Cyberpunk.
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What do gamers actually think about Ray-Tracing?
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I also dislike RT, so I took an ice pick and stabbed my eyes and now I no longer need to see RT, life is better in black
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Hammer to the GPU, ice pick to the eyes... Everything OK Grim?
RT is crap even in real life. If the Simulation we live in was in Raster maybe our Simulation wouldn't have to be limited by the speed of light and we could actually explore the universe.
It was too early for it. Cards like the rtx 2060 shouldn't exist. They are not really viable for ray tracing. Car companies can't get away with selling full price cars that can only move very slowly, if you're on a decline, with no one else in the car. Nvidia shouldn't be allowed to sell ray tracing cards that can't really do ray tracing
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That's the thing that keeps every simulation in its place and not run around the sandbox!
The top end of the 2000 series can do though and the lower end ones will if you render at postage stamp resolutions like 800x600 :s they had to start somewhere.
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I have never thought to turn RT on, FPS tends to tank unnecessarily at the cost of shiny things
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RT is just what Nvidia uses to sell massively overpriced GPUs right, the performance is so poor they then convince you to buy another overpriced GPU to run at an acceptable framerate! 
You then don't bother with RT at all:
1. Games doesn't support it
2. Performance is woeful
3. You just don't like the look of RT and stick with rasterization
You then don't bother with RT at all:
1. Games doesn't support it
2. Performance is woeful
3. You just don't like the look of RT and stick with rasterization
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Caporegime
RT is just what Nvidia uses to sell massively overpriced GPUs right, the performance is so poor they then convince you to buy another overpriced GPU to run at an acceptable framerate!
You then don't bother with RT at all:
1. Games doesn't support it
2. Performance is woeful
3. You just don't like the look of RT and stick with rasterization
Sure i remember it being the same with Nvidia T&L and with Nvidia physx when they first came out
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Caporegime
There's more to RT than reflections, mostly its lighting and shadows.
To me it looks way better, but without RT games like cyberpunk can still look good in screenshots.
I think in motion RT looks way better and without RT most shadows don't follow real world physics
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But you aren't going to notice realistic shadows in motion that much, especially when focusing on other things. It's a poor use of resources when they could be used for better performance. Shadow detail should be quite far down the priorities.
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