It’s also a bit sus that the RTAO setting in Death Stranding 2 seemingly has no performance penalty over SSAO. Is it just broken lol?

3/3

I’ve never seen an actual technical breakdown of what’s happening there. Assuming this is the same deal of course, as in both games the difference between RTAO on/off seems almost nonexistent? This is in contrast to other games with proper RTAO where you can definitely tell like BF2042 & GTA V.

2/3

Hey @dachsjaeger.bsky.social I assume DF will cover the Death Stranding 2 PC port, and I have a specific question regarding its RTAO setting.
IIRC we’ve seen a similar RTAO toggle for Spider-Man 2 on PC/PS5 Pro, which was also similarly meant to “augment” the SSAO. What does that actually mean? 1/3

At the end of the day DLSS outputs a 2D image as the upscaled result. That 2D image can look drastically different than the input. So while the input geometry is untouched, what you see on screen post DLSS can be entirely different as it has no concept of geometry at that point.

I don't agree with the toxicity that DF is facing but the backlash over that video is more than warranted. Also what is there to see "in person" exactly? We're talking about pixels on a screen. It would look the same to them as it does to me seeing it in their coverage.

Oliver, you guys can't seriously be excited for this dogshit right? It's quite literally just a tweakable genai filter. It completely circumvents any and all rendering. We should not at all accept this as the future of gaming and rendering. Really disappointing coverage from you guys.

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Skinned BVH Comparision, without and with, the ancient dragon creates lot of occlusion /reflections in scene. Note there is no proper light bleed yet have used a default grey for skinned characters right now.

WIP RTGI. Now doing 2 indirect lighting, there are still some issues, but working on them

Testing out HWRT, BVH. Now all lighting is combined. The left image is with Skyshadowmap, Sunshadow, SSGI + SSR. The Right image is just SunShadow, Now Skylighting/SSGI/SSR is now all wrapped in HWRT. It just works

More BVH work, Now able to seamlessly load BVH across the zones as each zone have their own BVH(BLASes) with some overlaps in-between. I am yet to move the builds to Async compute queues and is next on my list as all this is foundational work for RT.

Progress on BVH/HWRT Implementation. Support lookup buffers to fetch the Triangle data for hit point, other attributes like vertex colors will be added as well. The Normal is important part as bounce calculations will be based on that.

Dude wtf, INSANE

Super weird seeing Battlefield being so unambitious from a graphical quality perspective. Battlefield 3 and 5 were pioneering.

Borderlands 4 reviewed - we've put in the hours and the degraded performance over time is confirmed on all consoles - but that's just one part of the story. Here's our review covering all console versions of the game: youtu.be/kRWW6qwjFBA

Also what do you think of Ray Reconstruction on Switch 2? Is it possible at all do you think?

The denoising here clearly doesn’t utilize it, I wonder what’s the performance margin sweet spot needed here.

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Hi Alex, have you seen this? Can you comment on this at all lol since it’s technically a leak?

This is super impressive, it would be awesome if DF could sit down with the Snowdrop people again to discuss their work here.
youtu.be/bhNIf6ZWTwQ

‪Holy shit dude. Is Avalanche done for? This was the only thing coming out of them since Just Cause 4 in 2018.

Is there anything regarding a potential sequel at least?

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Also the cubemap fallback for RT reflections is still extremely flawed, as it only captures the environment around the player but is projected onto everything including buildings in the distance, meaning that if you go under a bridge for example it will be reflected onto those buildings which is bad

@dachsjaeger.bsky.social
I really loved the coverage of GTA V Enhanced on PC that you did at DF, I feel like it’s worth mentioning though that it seems like the ocean in the game is left off the BVH, which causes boats to reflect the ocean floor and glow orange which looks very odd.

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I guess we’ll probably see the SSGI stuff from PS5 Pro as well then. Interesting.

Do you think we’ll see better RTAO than what we have on PS5 Pro or is it going to be just an augmentation of SSAO like we have there

The point is that your average desktop user will literally shit themselves if they ever even have to look at a terminal, and forcing them to do so is bad UX period.

And having an issue so serious in one of your operating system's core components is inexcusable.

Listen buddy, like I said, I fixed the issue myself without even having to google anything because I was already familiar with snap and how it works.

Sure buddy

Why have a graphical app store in the first place then? If you're just going to force the user to go to the terminal to begin with lol.