Battlefield V's Ray Tracing tech is currently exclusive to Nvidia RTX products

WYP · Sep 5, 2018

DICE will retune their Ray Tracing tech when other manufacturers create DXR-capable hardware.

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Dicehunter · Sep 5, 2018

I usually get excited for new tech but I have never been so unexcited in my life especially as it's all about reflections, Shadows and lights ^_^

AlienALX · Sep 5, 2018

Cows moo. Did you know that?

haha, not being sarky toward you Mark just having a laugh.

Chopper3 · Sep 5, 2018

AlienALX said:
Cows moo. Did you know that?

haha, not being sarky toward you Mark just having a laugh.

I couldn't agree more, how is this news in any way?

looz · Sep 5, 2018

Because DXR is not vendor specific.

SPS · Sep 5, 2018

Dicehunter said:
I usually get excited for new tech but I have never been so unexcited in my life especially as it's all about reflections, Shadows and lights ^_^

This is the most exciting tech in years for me.

AlienALX · Sep 5, 2018

Chopper3 said:
I couldn't agree more, how is this news in any way?

Because Nvidia need to remind us how important RTX is and how much we need it, even though we would be beta testers paying £1200 for the privilege, praying it makes a foot hold and actually all comes to fruition.

Tom's (who used to own Tom's Hardware) post said it all.

SPS said:
This is the most exciting tech in years for me.

Oh yeah, me too. But I ain't dishing out £1200 based on a "if".

I will wait 2-3 years and "struggle" on with my Titan XP and Fury X.

Dicehunter · Sep 5, 2018

SPS said:
This is the most exciting tech in years for me.

More realistic reflections and shadows is quite meh to me to be honest but each to their own, Now photogrammetry that to me is awesome, We need more of that in games.

AlienALX said:
I will wait 2-3 years and "struggle" on with my Titan XP and Fury X.

I've decided I'm going to stay 1 GPU gen behind from now on and just buy the previous gen top most card pre-owned, It's just not worth it for me to be on the bleeding edge all the time when it comes to GPU's especially as I mainly play at 2560x1440P.

TheF34RChannel · Sep 5, 2018

I wouldn't upgrade from a titan either.

@Dicehunter what do you have now? You also move a tier lower, 2080 or something.

SPS · Sep 5, 2018

Yeah I'm not saying it's ready yet but it's a great first step.

Dicehunter said:
More realistic reflections and shadows is quite meh to me to be honest but each to their own, Now photogrammetry that to me is awesome, We need more of that in games.

Photogrammetry goes hand in hand with accurate lighting.

Dicehunter · Sep 5, 2018

TheF34RChannel said:
I wouldn't upgrade from a titan either.

@Dicehunter what do you have now? You also move a tier lower, 2080 or something.

MSI 1080 Ti Gaming X.

SPS said:
Photogrammetry goes hand in hand with accurate lighting.

There's accurate and then there's overkill, RT is overkill IMO especially when you see the performance cost.

SPS · Sep 5, 2018

Dicehunter said:
There's accurate and then there's overkill, RT is overkill IMO especially when you see the performance cost.

There's a whole untapped area of game art we've yet to experience due to zero solutions for accurate offscreen reflections, until now. The future is exciting.

looz · Sep 5, 2018

Dicehunter said:
I've decided I'm going to stay 1 GPU gen behind from now on and just buy the previous gen top most card pre-owned, It's just not worth it for me to be on the bleeding edge all the time when it comes to GPU's especially as I mainly play at 2560x1440P.

Well, Nvidia might stick to current performance per dollar figure and make next graphics card range cost $800-1600 :lol:

TheF34RChannel · Sep 5, 2018

Dicehunter said:
MSI 1080 Ti Gaming X.

Oh you're well looked after then, nice! Still undecided here but for now leaning towards no upgrade.

SPS said:
There's a whole untapped area of game art we've yet to experience due to zero solutions for accurate offscreen reflections, until now. The future is exciting.

True, but how long will it take to get around that, if they will at all? We're still waiting for some of these DX12 features that never saw the light of day despite advertising. So who knows.

SPS · Sep 5, 2018

TheF34RChannel said:
True, but how long will it take to get around that, if they will at all? We're still waiting for some of these DX12 features that never saw the light of day despite advertising. So who knows.

What DX12 features are you referring to?

TheF34RChannel · Sep 5, 2018

SPS said:
What DX12 features are you referring to?

Async compute for one. DX12 itself, in fact. It seems most titles are still 11.

Been watching an episode of PC world just now and they make a valid point which makes me want to wait for 7nm: next year we'll have 7nm, the faster speeds from the smaller node, actual RT and DLSS games and the whole thing has matured more.
My next games are going to be my childhood favourites commander keen - that doesn't need these cards

SPS · Sep 5, 2018

TheF34RChannel said:
Async compute for one. DX12 itself, in fact. It seems most titles are still 11.

Been watching an episode of PC world just now and they make a valid point which makes me want to wait for 7nm: next year we'll have 7nm, the faster speeds from the smaller node, actual RT and DLSS games and the whole thing has matured more.
My next games are going to be my childhood favourites commander keen - that doesn't need these cards

Quite a lot of games use async compute. You just don't get huge gains on fast hardware.

NeverBackDown · Sep 5, 2018

I don't see why you guys aren't excited about it. It's the future of graphics. In all areas. It's as close as we will get to real life lighting.

What you should be unexcited about is RTX cards. Being the first generation it will be good but nothing to make your jaw drop. However it's only going to be better in the future. That's exciting.

SPS · Sep 5, 2018

NeverBackDown said:
I don't see why you guys aren't excited about it. It's the future of graphics. In all areas. It's as close as we will get to real life lighting.

What you should be unexcited about is RTX cards. Being the first generation it will be good but nothing to make your jaw drop. However it's only going to be better in the future. That's exciting.

Yeah think you hit the nail on the head. Don't take your hate for the RTX cards away from what proper ray tracing brings to games.

NeverBackDown · Sep 5, 2018

SPS said:
Yeah think you hit the nail on the head. Don't take your hate for the RTX cards away from what proper ray tracing brings to games.

At first I hated everything about RTX and etc like they did. But talked to my professor about it and he gave me a different perspective to see it from. I'm now excited! Might just have to wait a couple more years though. Dice said they had to dial back the amount of Ray Tracing from the trailer/demos because it was hitting performance to hard. And consider how well optimized that engine is says a lot about it. Although they will undoubtedly get better at optimizating RT it probably won't be anything to drastic

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