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This is a different looking game with rt on. Actually looks mid without it. Incredible with it on.

Me who gets 120 fps on a laptop with rtx 4060, at maximum possible settings without any upscale technology

Ray tracing could make or break a game. How cool would it be to see Spiderman running through town covered in cuts while desperately trying to reach his destination?

The problem is next: if you're buying not high end rtx gpu in a few years u will not be able to use rtx and u will have just poor performance. In that case for long budget scenario better to but amd. So for budget u'have to buy amd or if u have money then buy ..80 series + of rtx cards.

Hi, Atomic Heart hare RT reflections

Off looks good❤

just another try to ressurect the corpse. the game feels outdated with or without these upgrades.

When we played this in the 90s. This is what itt looked like to us. And we didnt even have ray tracing cos WE USED OUR IMAGINATION!!

it looks worse with it. better off just uping the textures to max if you can. ya they rushed it. I bet if they did it the right way and took some months to correctly implement it, it would look way better. the reflections look like the water is solid/foggy and the wall reflections go dull

‏‪1:09‬‏ It's really crazy, even the smallest details have ray tracing.

Not better. Just different. At least in the game. Once you're playing, it doesn't matter if RT is on or off. You're seeing it for what it is and you're enjoying it anyway.

fps ON fps OFF

I thought rt reflections wasnt there, in the video I can see it. Maybe just in few places ?

Would you say it’s worth it?

even the water looks bad, the original looks polluted. Rtx claims another victim

@ray do you have the Grain setting off? the Image looks super clean (in a good way).

It makes the water realistic.

this showcase makes RTX better than the official Nvidia trailer lol

RTX je fake. Podivej se zrovna zde v DOOM Ethernal v sirokouhlem spektru uplne v rohu na odrazy tech svetel a v naproste vetsine uplne v rohu obrazovky ti pri zapnutem RTX odraz zmizi. Naopak ve vypnutem RTX ten odraz tam neni,dokud se na to nepodivat uplne v rohu obrazovky,kde se jakoby RTX zase odrazi. RTX je proste FAKE!!!

Am I the only one who just doesn't see the appeal of RT? Performance takes a massive hit and the result doesn't look that much better...maybe in 10 years the GPU's will be powerfull enough but today I just don't see it...

sadly the RT doesnt add much of elemt to help you return

It looks nice but i would prioritize getting high FPS first, the base game already looks great.

What gpu do I need for good ray tracing

This game was definitely made with raytracing in mind. With it's sleek, clean, blocky environments.

if only the difference wouldn't be playing in 40 fps or 60...

Idk guys i can make same picture just playing with my monitor setting a bit.

Good Video, thank you!

Mostly good implementation but some dark areas during day time are unrealistically too dark. I guess the number of rays and the amount of reflective areas are still too limited in a game.

I get 112 fps Ray Tracing on and 1440p epic rtx 3070(130w) laptop msi gp66 leopard dlss quality

Looks nice in images, but the FPS hit is not nice to actually play it like that

What's the framerate without upscaling?

Some things look better in environment without RTX.

I miss this channel being active. Not enough stuff to cover? Tbh rtx is still quite slow moving (which is understandable but a little annoying)

Ardith Street

great video. It's clear that RT is poorly optimized in this otherwise magnificent next gen-update ... drops my RTX4070 from 100~ to 40~ just turning RT on with rest of the settings at ultra+. Just sad I play with RT off it's not worth it even though RT does make the game look way better no doubt just sad

Gotta have it on. IMO, as long as you have a 6700XT 12GB or better, just max out all the settings (not LOD @ 300, but everything else). I game at 1440p, game looks smoother than the fps I'm getting, but I attribute a lot of that to my monitor's Freesync Premium. It just looks way too good to leave it off. And if you only have a 1080p monitor with a 6700XT, you should get surprisingly good fps. I dunno, I have the Dyling Light 2: Reloaded Edition and with a 5900x (fully tuned with PBO/per core CO/voltage tweaks)/6700XT 12GB/2x16GB DDR4 @ 3666 C16 dual rank RAM w/ fully tuned timings/subtimings/installed on my 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus M.2 NVME/all on an Asus STRIX B550-F Gaming Wi-Fi II (which allowed all the tweaks down to the deepest of levels), the game runs 100% stable, 100% smooth/stutter free, loads SUPER fast.... I am enjoying it. The 5900x has double the L3 cache of a 5800x, so I'm not sure how much this game takes advantage of massive L3 cache amounts. Think I'll check some 5800x vs 5900x DL2: Reloaded benchmarks.

To my layman's eyes, only difference I can really see is the reflections.. Everything else is exactly same.

It's not enjoyable because of the FPS hit. I'm a big fan of Ray Tracing, so I was excited to hear about the Next Gen update. The update still looks great without Ray Tracing and with everything ultra and 4k.

M-A-C-H D-I-E S-C-H-E-I-S-S N-E-R-V-I-G-E M-U-S-I-K W-E-G !!!!!

What I'm going to say is not about you but about the game itself, so please don't take any offence: This seems like a HUGE waste of performance, I'm used to ray tracing with obvious global illumination différenciation, and stuff that is just... Where you can easily say "ho fuck yeah, that's raytracing"

Huge improvement and adds to the Hl1 Atmosphere

sometimes i like the rtx off more like at 4:02 the rtx turnes the wet soil into puddles and when people walk on it it looks very unrealistic.

Probably the worst implementation of RT I've seen yet. I keep trying to turn it on to see if it's worth the gigantic hit to the frame rate, and I'm playing 7K at about 80 FPS, very smooth. With max RT on, frame rate is 50 and not very smooth, and the image quality is barely improved. Most games with RT look so much better it's worth running it at a lower resolution for the quality improvement ray tracing provides.

For anyone wondering about RT on this game nowadays, here it works: 1. RT Shadows have a very limited range and will not appear much different than highest setting most of the time. Yes its more natural but RT in this game is not compatible much with their engine so its kind of forced. You will lose a lot of frames with both RTs. 2. RT Reflection medium is best way to add RT to this game. Medium and High are comparable with more rays in High, basically if a scene has 10 elements High will show all of them but Medium will show 7-8 of them and you will not sit still to count them anyways so it will appear same. 3. Use DLSS and Frame Gen too if you can. Frame Gen is very good in this game, very very good. Use it So what's the result. On a 4060 Laptop: 1. 150+ FPS on Max settings 2. 62 FPS on Max Settings + RT Shadow and RT Reflection High. Problem here is that we have dips in frames, it fall back to even 45 FPS sometimes. 3. 76 FPS on Max Settings + RT Shadow and RT Reflection High with Frame Gen. Yeah its not doubling the frames. 4. 85-90+ FPS on Max Settings + RT Reflection Medium with Frame Gen. This setting works best for me, I was hardpressed to find differences between RT Medium and High Reflections. I spent a lot of time to find them, but conclusion is that you can find the difference only when Reflections are being done on the non mirror like surfaces, medium here looks a bit noisy. I will try 3rd option again but 4th one is safest bet with no drops below 60 FPS, creating a very smooth experience overall. And RT Reflections does add a lot to the game, shadows? I was not able to find much difference, it works only close to him, very bad implementation of RT Shadows.

the mod is garbage

Some things look better, other things just look "different"and some just look worse to me. For me the performance cost is not worth it yet.

Half life is better without ray traicing

Why it is so dark with ray traicing? Much better without it!

Not proper ray tracing, shadow tracing still failed

Still ray tracing without ray tracing