Picture of Your Games the 16th

[Malcador]

5 hours ago, HoonDing said:

The girl should smile more.

Closest she comes to that is a smirk in the ending cutscene.

[LadyCrimson]

Why 99.5% of players still don't care about full ray tracing. At least not for the 30-50fps cost. The RT-global illumination alone is decent and even that is a performance hit, but I could see it being a standard eventually. Can't compare with non-RT GI since there is none.
Shadows/reflections etc aren't maxed and I'm sure it would all look "crisper" or something on a new $7k PC w/"supreme" settings, but you get the point.

Pathtracing Off:

Full pathtracing on: a little change in colortone of those wall plates and the pedestal is better backlit?

No pathtracing:

Full pathtracing: whiter/brighter building/foliage lighting, water is a tad less brown, the bamboo railing is more top-lit/whiter?

Does it make a difference you can see? Yes. Is it worth the performance cost (and hardware cost/upkeep) or make some giant immersion difference?
Me: Heck no.

Edited December 19 by LadyCrimson

[marelooke]

4 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

Why 99.5% of players still don't care about full ray tracing. At least not for the 30-50fps cost. The RT-global illumination alone is decent and even that is a performance hit, but I could see it being a standard eventually. Can't compare with non-RT GI since there is none.
Shadows/reflections etc aren't maxed and I'm sure it would all look "crisper" or something on a new $7k PC w/"supreme" settings, but you get the point.

Pathtracing Off:

Full pathtracing on: a little change in colortone of those wall plates and the pedestal is better backlit?

No pathtracing:

Full pathtracing: whiter/brighter building/foliage lighting, water is a tad less brown, the bamboo railing is more top-lit/whiter?

Does it make a difference you can see? Yes. Is it worth the performance cost (and hardware cost/upkeep) or make some giant immersion difference?
Me: Heck no.

It also has an image quality impact per the folks at Hardware Unboxed:

 

[HoonDing]

It's literally that "they're the same picture" meme

[melkathi]

 

 

[melkathi]

Aaaah,

So THAT is why they labeled this a minefield.

[HoonDing]

these were some absurd setpieces

[LadyCrimson]

On 12/19/2024 at 8:36 AM, HoonDing said:

It's literally that "they're the same picture" meme

Monitor/screen type and settings does tend to affect how much of a difference is noticeable. eg, it's a fair bit more noticeable on the 4k OLED, vs older 1440 LED. Outside of "sunray shadow filter" and any fancy reflections, it's mostly about contrast and brightness and very subtle angling, re: light filtering, seems to me.

On 12/19/2024 at 8:35 AM, marelooke said:

It also has an image quality impact

I can imagine. And then if one has to add DLSS on top of it just to get the fps. Still cracks me up when people say how their 40xx runs it great at native supreme/fullPT at 1440/4k/100fps .... and then they finally mention using "DLSS at Performance + Frame Gen." The definition/knowledge of "native" seems to be slipping away. 

Edited Monday at 07:27 AM by LadyCrimson

[HoonDing]

I played the entire game with path tracing to medium but as soon as I got to Sukhotai my fps tanked completely.

[LadyCrimson]

Ok fine, it was on moderate sale. Certainly cute graphics. Controller feels clunky/awkward tho, especially within the menus.
But ... very cute art style.