It won’t be many generations before they stop leaving it as an option that can be turned off, just to force upgrades…

It’s a new day, and another badly-optimized AAA Unreal Engine 5 game has hit store shelves. A couple of YouTubers, including Daniel Owen, have discovered serious performance problems in The Outer Worlds 2 that almost mirror Borderlands 4’s atrocious launch day performance. One of the most problematic graphics settings is the game’s ray tracing mode, which prevents even AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming champ from achieving 60 FPS at resolutions well under 1080p.

There’s actually a very easy fix for all poorly-performing AAA games: don’t be a fucking clown and buy shit games from shit publishers. They’re only pulling this shit today because they have been getting away with it for years, and they’ve been getting away with it for years because they have stupid idiot fucking customers who have been enabling them. If you bought this game and are upset that it runs like a snail with nerve damage, you have nobody to blame but yourself.

It’s a new day, and another badly-optimized AAA Unreal Engine 5 game has hit store shelves. A couple of YouTubers, including Daniel Owen, have discovered serious performance problems in The Outer Worlds 2 that almost mirror Borderlands 4’s atrocious launch day performance. One of the most problematic graphics settings is the game’s ray tracing mode, which prevents even AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming champ from achieving 60 FPS at resolutions well under 1080p.

Many of us here aren’t buying them. A core audience of people who don’t know anything about hardware capabilities and aren’t a part of niche gaming communities will keep buying them because they don’t know better. Most people look at a game and say, “that looks fun” and they buy it without another thought. Your advice will never reach those people.

Did the editor not watch the video the entire article is based on? It does >70 in at 4k with DLSS Quality (so 1800p native).

Not to say the game doesn’t have bad issues. Hardware RT is broken (that’s what prompted the performance drop on Daniel Owen’s video. Digital Foundry measured only a 6% drop with it on when not CPU limited, but the RT Shadows are shimmery af and makes it actually look worse than regular Lumen) there’s the usual shader compilation woes and a lot of the higher settings have a lot of cost for very little gain; but the article is clickbait bullshit.

The title specifies “with raytracing” so even if it only performs this badly with ray tracing enabled, then its technically correct.

It’s a new day, and another badly-optimized AAA Unreal Engine 5 game has hit store shelves. A couple of YouTubers, including Daniel Owen, have discovered serious performance problems in The Outer Worlds 2 that almost mirror Borderlands 4’s atrocious launch day performance. One of the most problematic graphics settings is the game’s ray tracing mode, which prevents even AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming champ from achieving 60 FPS at resolutions well under 1080p.

As someone playing this on a 3080 with no major issues, just turn off ray tracing. The game really isn’t that bad once you turn it off.

As someone playing this on a 3080 with no major issues, just turn off ray tracing. The game really isn’t that bad once you turn it off.

It’s quite crazy how much performance you gain from using pre-calculated lighting instead of raytracing. I know it looks worse, but there’s gotta be a way to find a happy middle ground, maybe a “raytracing lite” lol.

It’s quite crazy how much performance you gain from using pre-calculated lighting instead of raytracing. I know it looks worse, but there’s gotta be a way to find a happy middle ground, maybe a “raytracing lite” lol.

I find raytracing adds very little to the look of the vast majority of games unless they are slow enough to focus on shadows or fine details.

Maybe I’m not playing the games that benefit significantly from raytracing.

The Finals (and Arc Raiders) might be good examples of fast-paced games that use raytracing to make their details pop. Although I think they intentionally stagger their settings so RT will not be enabled unless your card has enough grunt to push those graphics (Using my Ryzen 7 5800x3d and an RTX 3090, getting easily 140-150fps in game no matter the action with medium RT).

Y’all member the time when hardware demanding games meant awesome graphics?

It’s quite crazy how much performance you gain from using pre-calculated lighting instead of raytracing. I know it looks worse, but there’s gotta be a way to find a happy middle ground, maybe a “raytracing lite” lol.

Dynamic lighting already exists. Look at Phasmophobia, it’s probably one of the heaviest Unity games because it uses it everywhere. Basically every light in that game is able to cast shadows, and it’s got a lot of lights. Doesn’t have any of the RT noise or lag too.

edit: it doesn’t come cheap though, they had to do some downgrades to port it to consoles. Interior candles for example, they’re no longer interactive.

in this case it doesn’t use baked lighting, it still uses lumen, just a software version of it with lower settings. I’ve tried a couple UE5 games with a hardware/software lumen toggle and every time hardware lumen is significantly slower. it’s one of the curses of unreal.

There’s actually a very easy fix for all poorly-performing AAA games: don’t be a fucking clown and buy shit games from shit publishers. They’re only pulling this shit today because they have been getting away with it for years, and they’ve been getting away with it for years because they have stupid idiot fucking customers who have been enabling them. If you bought this game and are upset that it runs like a snail with nerve damage, you have nobody to blame but yourself.