Crysis Remastered is coming to PC next month with Nvidia Ray Tracing and DLSS
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NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Thoae sand and carrier scenes were phenomenal. It's crazy how far graphics have come.
I think the same with VR, when you compare todays detail with that of the movie lawnmower man.
AlienALX
Well-known member
I was so broke at the time I could not afford internet. I used to have to go out war walking during the night to find unlocked networks with my Asus EEE
I bought it from Amazon for £19.99
TBH I did more gaming in that year than I ever have. It's amazing how distracting and consuming shooting the poo on the internet can be.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
With AMD's RT cards being very close to launch I wonder how existing games with RT, BFV, Control, Metro Exodus, CoDMW and now Crysis Remastered will handle it, Will they work out of the box or will the devs have to implement something new as all have the "Nvidia RTX" branding.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Nvidia doesn't own the RT technology. They are using the DXR feature of DX12. It's owned by MS. Nvidia just provides extensive support when you use other Nvidia technologies such as DLSS which allows for them to get their brand association in with every title that releases because well it's easy to with no competition.
AMD will have to provide the same support and driver support too for devs to better work on AMD specific optimizations. If they don't well then that's on them and that'll suck for PC. Hopefully with similar architectures in next gen consoles they will be better off with PC too.
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Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Oh I know about the DXR API I was just wondering if the games may have some artificial switch to not let other DXR capable GPU's turn those RT specific settings on, Minus DLSS of course, Due to Nvidia being involved.
Avet
Active member
It will work on red and green cards regardlessly. What will be more likely scenario is that RT features will run better on Nvidia cards because they were developed on Nvidia's hardware, drivers, and with Nvidia's help.
AMD can't even get their regular drivers sorted. I doubt the new cards will run smooth at launch. Nvidia on the other side has had many years to polish their cards, drivers, and they worked on every singe RT implementation to date, and probably every other that will be released in the next year or so.
Yeah things will mostly work but there will be some libraries NVidia offer ontop of DXR some developers may leverage to speed development along that may need their AMD equivalents to be implemented for games that leverage them. NVidia will have a strong head start for a year or so, then the effects of every multiplatform RT game being designed to get the most out of 56CU or less RDNA2 chips (And maybe much less with Xbox Series X) for their primary profit making versions will start to show through, and further down the line it's likely much more effort will be invested into optimising RDNA2's implementations within game engines in the mid term now they have a reasonable base for NVidia for the time being and most of their profits will be from RDNA2 devices. This "console optimisation" effect is so powerful you can still run most modern games hiccup free on a £150-in-2012 AMD GPU, wouldn't underestimate it.
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