Real-time raytracing without RTX
Rasterization is the predominant technique used for real-time rendering in video games. Despite the growing use of ray tracing for lighting, rasterization is still used to render the bulk of the scene. Rasterization is faster, efficient, and often produces near-realistic results with some caveats.
Ray tracing is still overrated. I'd rather have "inaccurate" reflection that still looks artistically good than "realistic" ones that take too much resources.
Agreed. I really wish GTA 6 didn't go that route so we could get some proper performance. Games can still look stunning without it
You have to understand that ray tracing is not just the next level in cutting edge graphics, but it can significantly speed up development workflow. These are growing pains with game development. Eventually artist won't have to spend so much time meticulously placing lights and can use those resources elsewhere. We went through the same thing in the mid 2000s with pixel shaders. ps3 and 360 performance was terrible, but we eventually got it right with ps4 and xbox one. Now we are in the same era but with raytracing. The only difference is that pixel shading and bump mapping looked soooo much better than flat and gouraud shading of the 90s and early 2000s no one complained, and raytracing doesn't seem to have that effect to most people.
I'd agree there but for the fact GTA 6 has had one of the longest development times of any game ever. RT hasn't sped that up
From my very limited understanding, Ray tracing has the potential to free up compute resources and speed up development time. I don't think it's just a matter of "looking better" there other benefits that come with it.
Im a graphics whore, and how in developers pursuit of fast frames etc dont forget that it is graphical presentation that attracts the publics eye first. Demons Souls was like that for me, made me feel that the ps5 was a big upgrade over the ps4.
This was a concern a couple generations back, but we're at a point now where resources are not as much of a problem anymore. Even AMD is approaching current dlss in a few months.
Pathtracing is only really viable when ML powered shortcuts are used like ray reconstruction and neural radiance caching, which luckily AMD is getting now on RDNA4 hardware. PS5 Pro brought RT improvements over the regular PS5 but without these features it won't be doing pathtracing.
SOOOOOO many games should really go back to rasterized light maps. There's no reason for a game with no destruction and no day and night cycle to have fully real time lighting. Like why does Silent Hill 2 need to be completely real time? (Other than the fact that UE5 doesn't actually have rasterized light map options)
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