’Atomic Heart' Arrives on PC Without Ray Tracing After Years of Nvidia Promotion
’Atomic Heart' Arrives on PC Without Ray Tracing After Years of Nvidia Promotion
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I’ve heard that RT support is present in a month-old build of the game that leaked, so I imagine they’re just working on some blocking bugs such as stability issues.
It was listed in the settings menu but didn’t actually turn RT on.
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Embarrassing for both the dev and Nvidia…
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Embarrassing for both the dev and Nvidia…
Maybe a bit, but the game is getting great reviews. RTX doesn’t make ANYTHING actually better. Well, it helps your power company a bit.
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Maybe a bit, but the game is getting great reviews. RTX doesn’t make ANYTHING actually better. Well, it helps your power company a bit.
Agreed on the game reviews/ RT not making games better…the embarrassing bit, well maybe less so for the dev but still not good AND for Nvidia its not great at all. As you implied most folks don’t think RT makes anything better at this point. Having devs fail to follow through with launch RT and depending on patches later won’t do Nvidia any favors with the gaming community. It only re-enforces negative views toward RT. While I do believe RT is likely the future…it is a LONG way off from becoming the default reality for PC gaming. Souring the community towards RT though, that could be a thing to kill it.
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I will say that the game does look and run brilliantly. At least the first 30 minute that I played around with. HDR on OLED really pops as well as is one of the better HDR presentations I’ve seen on PC. Running it with DLDSR 2.25x with DLSS Qualify and frame generation still allows for average 150-190 fps, on a 3440×1440 ultrawide, and the image quality and texture detail is absolutely superb.
That having been said…there’s very little excuse to not launch with ray tracing when it’s been advertised that way for years and they even had a downloadable RT tech demo out for it….With how many delays they’ve had so far, they should have just delayed another month and released it without the cut features. Their response to it is also silly.
Bottom line: Great looking game even without RT. But doesn’t excuse the exclusion of RT at launch.
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RTX doesn’t make ANYTHING actually better
it makes cinematic games visually better (unless ur having to reduce resolution and stuff in process) becasue those are mostly about the looks which is what raytracing is primarily for.
but ya still dumb they (nvidia) put a niche thing as the default instead of optional
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