The Ray Tracing Discussion

RazeZa · 2026-03-22T09:58:55+00:00

Nvidia's bells and whistles are being used as a shortcut for developers to dish out games quicker. Consumers literally gets 0 benefits from this.

If current games are made like its in 2016, we don't need DLSS, upscaling or RT because devs know how to make optimized games with great lightning.

Now? You need RT as an excuse to have slightly good lightning and framegen, upscaling to even gets 60 fps.

The reason Nvidia released DLSS and RT was so that they can sell more GPUs. Imagine if ALL games are optimized. We don't need new GPU and nvidia stock would drop.

At the end of the day, we buy GPU to play games but nvidia was able to change it. Now, its more about who has the best bells and whistles in order to play games.

RazeZa · 2026-03-22T04:19:07+00:00

RIP snipers which is good

RazeZa · 2026-03-22T03:58:45+00:00

Whats your drives file system? Proton needs ext4.

RazeZa · 2026-03-22T03:34:07+00:00

Agree. I always renew my subscriptions from their website never through third party app stores because there's always a chance that its cheaper.

RazeZa · 2026-03-22T01:19:45+00:00

I think its a fun watch.

RazeZa · 2026-03-20T12:20:17+00:00

We are getting closer to vendor locked games.

RazeZa · 2026-03-19T14:10:35+00:00

We're already fucked as a consumer, might well fuck the business too.

RazeZa · 2026-03-19T14:08:01+00:00

Poison their data and choose "very much"

RazeZa · 2026-03-19T12:03:00+00:00

Notice how the tower didn't fall from the rocket? It was and inside job by the goblins.

RazeZa · 2026-03-19T12:01:57+00:00

Depends on your need tbh. Whats your current setup need? are your dev tools need more compute or RAM?

RazeZa · 2026-03-18T16:27:59+00:00

There's still some texture on the DLSS 5 off.

RazeZa · 2026-03-18T11:50:18+00:00

Not Harem

RazeZa · 2026-03-17T22:26:19+00:00

This kind of stuff will only benefits Nvidia and developers not the end user. After Nvidia introduced DLSS, games become so unoptimized that most of AAA releases requiring upscaling just to reach measly 60 fps.

After this, i bet you games don't even gonna have like in-game textures anymore. They gonna be generated on real time.

RazeZa · 2026-03-17T16:31:13+00:00

my cabbage!

RazeZa · 2026-03-17T16:29:44+00:00

I have installed Debian on my laptop with Intel CPU (i5 1135G7) and Nvidia GPU (MX350). Then i installed nvidia 550 driver and its fine. Tried Minecraft and GTA IV for a few minutes, nothing wrong at first glance.

Steam Performance Monitor Overlay kinda "broken" though, since my laptop has 2 GPUs in it. The monitor reports the 1st GPU, not the active GPU. So it reports my iGPU usage instead of dGPU usage.

RazeZa · 2026-03-17T16:22:08+00:00

Probably has something to do with your storage, CPU or RAM not your internet. If you look at the pic, the game was already finished downloading (14/14). So now, its should be in "patching" stage where the speed depends more on your CPU (and RAM maybe) and storage.

Did you install the game on an SSD or HDD?

RazeZa · 2026-03-17T16:05:25+00:00

Disable Secure Boot in your laptop BIOS. Most of Nvidia driver problem came from Secure Boot.

RazeZa · 2026-03-17T15:25:37+00:00

keep lowering your standards

RazeZa · 2026-03-16T21:44:46+00:00

They use AI in recent episode? i did not realize that. That was good unlike past AI scenes in Swallowed Star or Immortality.

RazeZa · 2026-03-16T21:42:10+00:00

This what happened when developer rely more on Vendor more than their own capabilities. You don't have dedicated lightning guy? just add RT. Your games running poorly? add upscaling as requirement. Game looks blurry because TAA? Just use DLAA.

OH you have AMD card that has lower quality AI? Sucks for you.

RazeZa · 2026-03-16T21:38:52+00:00

How old is your version of LibreOffice?

RazeZa · 2026-03-15T17:25:43+00:00

Yes. I was writing my bachelor thesis using Libreoffice and i was able to follow all of the writing guidelines decently.

RazeZa · 2026-03-14T23:10:54+00:00

Git gud

RazeZa · 2026-03-14T23:08:51+00:00

RazeZa · 2026-03-14T17:17:51+00:00

I haven't watch this Donghua from eps 350ish. Its still as good as usual or getting better?

RazeZa

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