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It's a new day, and another badly-optimized AAA Unreal Engine 5 game has hit store shelves. A couple of YouTubers, including Daniel Owen, have discovered serious performance problems in The Outer Worlds 2 that almost mirror Borderlands 4's atrocious launch day performance. One of the most problematic graphics settings is the game's ray tracing mode, which prevents even AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming champ from achieving 60 FPS at resolutions well under 1080p.

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I find raytracing adds very little to the look of the vast majority of games unless they are slow enough to focus on shadows or fine details.

Maybe I'm not playing the games that benefit significantly from raytracing.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The Finals (and Arc Raiders) might be good examples of fast-paced games that use raytracing to make their details pop. Although I think they intentionally stagger their settings so RT will not be enabled unless your card has enough grunt to push those graphics (Using my Ryzen 7 5800x3d and an RTX 3090, getting easily 140-150fps in game no matter the action with medium RT).

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

@1440p?

I get 70-80 @4k with a 3080, same processor. I think the RT is on high though.

The game runs incredibly well for how good it looks.