Anyone that preorders a digital game is a dummy. Preorders were created to assure you got some of the limited physical stock.

I play in 1080p so can’t comment on 4k but I can confirm fps doesn’t seem to affect me after 30fps. I don’t perceive a noticeable difference between 30, 60, 120fps. Haven’t played higher than that. I suspect 4k would probably look better to me than a higher fps though. But I’m happy with 30-60fps and 1080p so…

I don’t mean to embarrass you, but you were also supposed to say “AI!”

Ain’t nobody got time (money) for that!

That is a prominent example of forced RT… basically, as I described with the TAA example in my other reply…

idTech 8 seems to be the first engine that just literally requires RT for its entire render pipeline to work.

They could theoretically build another version of it off of vulkan-base, to enable you to be able to turn RT off… but that would likely be a massive amount of work.

On the bright side… at least the idTech engines are actually well coded, and they put a lot of time into making the engine actually very good.

I didn’t follow the marketing ecosystem for Doom Dark Ages, but it would have been really shitty if they did not include ‘you need a GPU with RT cores’.

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On the other end of the engine spectrum:

Bethesda… yeah, they have entirely lost control of their engine, it is mangled mess of nonsense, the latest Oblivion remaster just uses UE to render things slapped on top of Gamebryo, because no one at Bethesda can actually code worth a damn.

Compare that to oh I dunno, the Source engine.

Go play TitanFall 2. 10 year old game now, built on a modified version of the Portal 2 Source engine.

Still looks great, runs very efficiently, can scale down to older hardware.

Ok, now go play HL Alyx. If you don’t have VR, there are mods that do a decent job of converting it into M+K.

Looks great, runs efficiently.

None of them use RT.

Because you don’t need to, if you take the time to actually optimize both your engine and game design.

My kid got the 2060, I bought a RX 6400, I don’t need the hairy arms any more.

Then again I have become old and grumpy, playing old games.

It’s funny, because often they aren’t prettier. Well optimized and well made games from 5 or even 10 years ago often look on par better than the majority of AAA slop pushed out now (obviously with exceptions of some really good looking games like space marine and some others) and the disk size is still 10x what it was. They are just unrefined and unoptimized and try to use computationally expensive filters, lighting, sharpening, and antialiasing to make up for the mediocre quality.

The majority sure, but there are some gems though.

Baldurs Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Doom Eternal, Elden Ring, God Of War, … for example

You can always wait for a couple of years before playing them, but saying they didn’t miss anything is a gross understatement.

Not arguing FPS here lol. Arguing 4k, which you can run in 144hz in a lot of games even without a 5090, you failed to mention if you had tried 4k which I assume you haven’t based on the switch to FPS instead of resolution

Runs FFXIV at 1440p.

Runs HL Alyx on my Rift.

Runs everything prior to this gen.

If I need to run a more modern game, I’ll use my PS5.

Nvidia is singlehandedly responsible for killing all competition but AMD. They destroyed all other GPU companies with the nastiest tactics to dominate the market, only AMD has been able to survive. You can’t blame AMD for chip shortages, it’s the after shock after the covid pandemic. Never ever has there been a higher demand for chips, especially thanks to the rising EV market.

You can’t say AMD is as bad as Nvidia, as Nvidia is the sole reason the market got ruined in the first place. They are the worst of the worst.

And don’t forget diaper Donny, who destroyed international trade with his fucking tariff wars.

Points with a finger and laughs

Look at that loser not using AI

Bullshitted pixels per second seem to be the new currency.

It may look smooth in videos, but 30fps upframed(?) to 120fps will still feel like a 30fps game.

Modern TVs do the same shit, and it both looks and feels like ass. And not good ass.

Hell, I’m still rocking with a GTX 950. It runs Left for Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2, what more do I need?

I am still on my GTX 1060 3 GB, probably worth about $50 at this point lol

I remember when High-end-GPUs were around 500 €.

Crypto mining with GPUs is dead, the only relevant mining uses ASICs now, so it would be more accurate to say:

Fucking youtubers and AI.

I ran vr on one of those. Not well, but well enough.

I have a 4090. I don’t see any reason to pay $4K+ for fake frames and a few % better performance. Maybe post Trump next gen and/or if prices become reasonable and cables stop melting.

As long as you make an upgrade that’s equivalent or better than the current console generation, you’re then basically good-to-go until the next generation of consoles comes.