games

or medium

because it looks better and runs at 240fps

if i bump shadows up 1 i instantly get like half fps sometimes

its retarded

Indiana Jones is weird Max, I've never seen better shadow maps

but then with full path tracing, it all goes to shit

i mean, i shoudlnt need 160-240 fps, but devs also shouldnt be sacrafcing like 200% performance

for shadows

yup

I feel like shadows are also barely impactful

bad volumetric fog is the worst performance drain

raytracing has killed shadows as a tech because no one wants to make manual shadows anymore

but even slightly high-rez shadows are just not worth it

visually, you can make more stunning scenes by manually tweaking shadows heavily and darkening areas just enough

^

people have forgotten that completely

but its cheaper, faster, and you can put RAYTRACING ON IT!!! if you just have it all raytraced from sources

forced perspective and shadows is 100000x better

so everything now is super accurate, but bland

than "realistic" lighting

nothing hurts more than openig a modern tripple a game, having a flashlight or moving lightsource, and the lightsource moving makes giant ass shadows through the chair and anything with holes

what epic super shitty raytracing implementation in the modern year

when we had figured out how to make this look good 10 years ago

wow!

I guess shadows is closest ambient occlusion here

I feel like Witcher 4 is going to be the game a lot of people realize that on since it's moving off the Red Engine and is instead UE5 slop W3 had such great lighting, everything was fire-lit and the sun cast these really warm scenes when it rose/set moonlight was cool

there's just no way that's going to work with modern raytracing

oh itll be orange spooky

itll be the supppper nice

ue5 orange

that every ue5 game has for """"sunsets"""

it's strange that you've had performance issues in games recently, that game doesn't strike me as one that looks super demanding

its not bad unl;ess I have a youtube video playing at the same time

i turned off antialiasing to see if that fixed it and it became unplayable

actually it was youtube as well as an interactive map that froze rendering every time I clicked into it

Nikki was unplayable whatever settings I set

I just put textures on highest and its running fine now

basedbasedbasedbasedbasedbased

Kamiya remains one of the best devs to tweet. Constantly just shitting on people who ask him stuff even if it's not retarded

the shit new va is staying lol

for ciri

the weirdest part to me is they changed her VA in all languages

if it was just the ENG one, they could cope and say it's because the current VA is "too old" or w/e

whens joseph andersons witcher 4 vid

:^)

I was actually wondering if he killed himself when it was announced

idfk what he's doing

I have to assume he's grooming girls in his Discord all day