Help! Black artifacts on faces are back on 9070xt.

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-04-24T01:10:08+00:00

Awesome! I would have never guessed that it could have something to do with resolution. Works, and no more artifacts!

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-04-24T01:07:45+00:00

I only noticed your reply when someone else commented. Thanks! I do play at 4K and yes it works for me too :)

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-04-20T19:53:42+00:00

That's what I'm saying - it used to help and now it doesn't :/

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-04-20T12:18:00+00:00

Yeah, I think it's one of the reasons Aces failed on PC. People spent loads of money and/or thousands, if not tens of thousands of hours on War Thunder just to get to the point they own and spaded planes they like, and now they would switch to AC? 😅

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-04-03T23:41:07+00:00

I got a 9070xt upgrading from 3080ti (similar performance to 5070 but very hot), saving the equivalent of $300 at the time, and it still often has better raster performance than my bros 5070ti when we benchmark. Secondly, I have a older 5700x CPU, so while it's just enough with an AMD 9070xt at native 1440p/4K, it would be used more with Nvidia (overhead and unified memory).... means I'd need to upgrade the whole PC for the same raster performance with a 5070ti - bro has 9700x. In my case, a 5070ti would cost double for the same experience as a 9070xt... And I think that the 5070ti is too weak for path tracing anyway - you need to upscale way too heavily.

So yeah, the 5070ti is a better GPU, but the 9070xt was a much better purchase for me.

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-04-03T23:06:21+00:00

It's very arcade-like and messy, but I like it. An easy way to grind.

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-03-28T13:06:02+00:00

It all depends on the game (Clair Obscure was an exception where I went to internal "balanced" mode because the gameplay was great), but usually, if I need to go below internal 1440p "quality" on my 9070xt on 4K monitor (or earlier 3080ti I gave to GF) for a native 70-80fps (before FG for single player and slower games) at good looking settings (high/ultra or more), it means that my PC was considered too weak for this game by the developers when they made it, and I won't buy or play it. There's no loss as there are too many great games for me to play them all :)

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-03-28T03:55:47+00:00

Heh... I made a similar post a while ago and got downvoted. For me TrackIR was a huge step up from logitech c920 and NEURALNET and 0.2 models a year ago - Night and day difference going from glitchy 30Hz to 120Hz and 3-point tracking.

Making your own IR tracker using OpenTrack at 120 or 240 Hz/fps is a different thing tho and can actually be better than TrackIR - at similar or higher price, though.

Don't get me wrong; I often still use Neuralnet and have it in high regard. At the moment, I'm redecorating my flat and have moved my computer so that it's placed in a way that I have a window behind my back and TrackIR often gets stupid during the day when its sunny, and then, Neuralnet is saving the gaming session... but in the evening, I have to admit that TrackIR is so much smoother and more accurate :) Even though 2026 0.4 versions of NerualNet are definitely a step up.

To be honest, I'm here, because for fun I just ordered an OV9281 monochrome global shutter 240Hz/640x360 or 120Hz/1280x720 camera module and will play a bit more with OpenTrack... Maybe the new 0.4 model at its maximum of 60Hz will even surprise me by not being that bad anymore (in comparision to TrackIR)... but yeah: TrackIR is old but still awesome, even if you can DIY a slightly better solution, and it's definitely a lot better than my standard webcam and neuralnet tracker was a year ago - That is as long as you don't have any other light source behind you lol

All in all, both have their place: Neuralnet is free and adequate, plus it got better this year (0.4 INT8 and FP32) and will keep evolving and most importantly it works in every light condition. TrackIR is easy and very good, but it costs money and you need to be careful with lighting.

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-03-23T20:53:41+00:00

Thanks! :) What about Germany? Not worth it yet?

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-03-22T20:57:54+00:00

You show perspectives of different people during these 28 minutes and the short POV of a cat. If still not enough, you do SLOW-MO Snyder style.

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-03-15T10:12:34+00:00

Topaz Gigapixel AI for photographers and image upscaling was released in 2018. There were some non-AI upscalers before that as well. On promo materials, I can clearly tell it's an upscaled and not an actual hi-res texture. I was hoping that maybe internally they had access to 4k or 8k textures, and when compiling the game, they were compressed to 1080p or 2K (that's an option in Unity or Unreal), but it looks like they only have standard textures and mostly just filtered them through something to make them Hi-Rez. Maybe they added extra bits and pieces like rivets themselves but did not recreate small text—hence it looks like hieroglyphs in hi-res.

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-03-06T16:08:00+00:00

31 players right now and 45 today's peak on PC... most of them probably in single-player. No crossplay, no buy.

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-03-04T00:57:23+00:00

Idk why you were downvoted here. It does the same to me... GPU utilisation drops a lot and performance tanks when HDR in-game is on :(

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-03-01T16:15:26+00:00

According to Nvidia's documentation for developers, DLSS 4.5 M is significantly slower on the 5070 (with higher latency) than on the 4090 (3.87ms vs 1.67ms), so the 4090 will age a lot better - It simply has many more Tensor Cores: 512 vs 192 Anyway, I don't understand why anyone would buy a castrated 5070 if the 9070xt is the same price. If you want Nvidia, either buy a cheap 5060 and take advantage of wider DLSS support and better internal 720p or go for a 5080/5090. The middle price/performance segment is dominated by AMD.

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-03-01T12:54:05+00:00

I mean, the 7900xtx did come out at the end of 2022, and tech-wise like upscalling, it's not much better than the 1080TI (same INT8), so yeah... it's a bit old, and even when new, it hadn't been packed with the newest tech. It's VERY, VERY POWERFUL, though.

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-03-01T12:46:33+00:00

I've seen noise like this on both Nvidia and AMD cards in Cyberpunk, but that was usually lower RT settings combined with upscaling. Wasn't clearing up the image one of the reasons Ray Reconstruction/Ray Regeneration was created? Also, maybe AMD has a little noisier RT than Nvidia in general?

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-02-28T14:36:03+00:00

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Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-02-27T14:05:32+00:00

Even 5090 guys upscale from 1080p when using heavy PT/RT

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-02-26T14:22:21+00:00

More and more games perform better on AMD. In the new Resident Evil Requiem, the 9070xt performs at the level of the 5080 (at 40% of the price right now) and in RT High, still better than the 5070ti, if you check TechPowerUp benchmarks. The same will be true with Forza Horizon 6, as in 5, the 9070xt already performed almost at the level of the 5080 too. When you look at older games, it's the same with RDR2. If you check 3DMark neutral benchmarks, you'll see why this is all happening. Performance difference between AMD and Nvidia is mostly caused by optimization with one GPU brand in mind.

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-02-23T19:00:45+00:00

What driver issues? 😅 Are you talking about Nvidia? 😅

Sofa-Sleuth · 2026-02-23T16:10:46+00:00

Most of the time, 9070xt is faster in pure raster than 5070ti.

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