Dark Souls 2 has come a long way

Oho we can go back even further, Dark Souls 2 OG (PlayStation 3) vs DS2LE Path Trace build

Now it's quite an even larger leap ayye

But that's mod vs mod, what about about un-modded vanilla Dark Souls 2?

Here's the un-modded DS2 SOTFS vs DS2LE Path Traced Build

But, it's also quite performant on low end GPUs, here's a laptop RTX 3060 with 6GB VRAM, AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS CPU (2021 Asus Zephyrus G14)

1080P DLSS Balanced mode, and the game manages to maintain 60FPS

This is at the default 1 path

Can see especially in the last two images here how the lighting is being calculated in real time with proper color spread and light bounce that would've otherwise been blue/grey & glowy

This was tested on an RTX 5080 with DLSS performance mode with 6 paths.

Over the weekend I got to test out
@dslightingengine.bsky.social's latest evolution of the best Dark Souls 2 mod, a Path Tracing build of DS2LE in the works.

Here's some comparisons of vanilla DS2LE vs DS2LE Path Traced

Performance testing with help of community. This is 6 Paths per pixel RTX 5080 4K Performance - DLSS 4.5. Default is 1 Path per Pixel.
Thanks to AvgCroissant, don't think they are on this platform but I will keep it updated. Users can choose trade off between raw resolution vs path count.

Not even kidding if it weren't for this game, I wouldn't have been able to survive a very difficult period of my life

Death Stranding 2 is my fav PS5 game, like ever, and I'm dying for it to come out on PC, I'm itching, JUST ITCHING for a replay, but I must hold, just a little while longer...

Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein colluded together to take out Gawker, which resulted in me losing about $7200 of income over 3 years. Stick it to them by reading my article and tipping me on paypal.me/stompsite so I can pay for my ~$300-350 doctor's visit tomorrow morning

Game devs use this place so I sometimes pop in and out.

Even I forget I have a Bsky at times 🗿

Oh damn even to black people too, the games industry sure does love giving golden parachutes to the shittiest people imaginable while firing employees for not caring about a chud podcaster getting capped

The writer of Hellblade, Tameem Antoniades has pretty much gone off the deep end, full blown right wing schizo posting, posted bigoted anti-Muslim shi.

Big Facebook boomer energy💀

Can anyone else name a single politician other than Zohran who is bold enough to say and do this?

Yeah, I still love the game and I'm pretty certain that everyone else who worked on it isn't shitty. A lot of care and love was put into em. Especially if the development of pt2 is anything to go by🙂

Good grief!

Create more polarization?? The world is burning and you're saying that!

Also fwi, these guys aren't babies ignorant to reality, they know real well what they're doing and enjoy it.

The people being subjugated deserve justice, not for their oppressors to be coddled and put into HR rooms

Because they're white supremacists, most of the men working in ice have backgrounds in law enforcement & military service, they aren't people effected by layoffs and the overall economy like you and I.

Hell he'd probably take it a step further, dude is a total tool, and apparently he supports ICE
bsky.app/profile/usam...

Me with my narc dad tbh

Oh yeah the Aya Neo 3 also does that wacky cool modular controller thing!

The GPD Win 5 kinda gives off that vibe in a ridiculous way with how it handles battery / power input.

I CAN'T TELL IF I'M DISILLUSIONED WITH THE HUMAN RACE OR PROUD TO BE A PART OF IT

Tameem Antoniades agrees with Charlie Kirk on the matter that 9/11 should be invoked on Muslims that had nothing to do with it if they ever dare to partake in govt/try running for mayor etc purely due to their religious/ethnic background

I can't believe I was a fan of Hellblade...

“In my opinion, every company that has caved to their demands has contributed to the harassment and climate of fear the rest of us are enduring, and game companies that have done so, in particular, have painted a target on the back of every single person in this industry” 👏

In my humble opinion, you encapsulate the true essence of what it means to be an artist and are someone worthy to aspire too.

I hope things work out for you, the industry has proven that you can keep your job even if you make racist comments, as long as you don't trip off a white supremacist

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Vulnerable people want to be part of society.

We want to join your causes, visit with you, touch grass, etc.

But if it means we have to risk disease and disability to do it, we probably won't.

Just because you've decided you're okay with the risk doesn't mean you can make that choice for others.

if you're tired of friendslop, that's not very hopecore of you, truly in your hate era, so not teeheepilled, should be smilemaxxing, have you ever heard of yay theory, don't be a genrecel, i love to play companionlikes, it's so sugoipunk