Greentext

6639 readers

1227 users here now

This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

Be warned:

Anon is often crazy.
Anon is often depressed.
Anon frequently shares thoughts that are immature, offensive, or incomprehensible.

If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works

769

Anon turns on raytracing (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

171 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is such a minor improvement, though. Especially, as you've mentioned, on a 1080p screen. And, sorry to say, but having to fill up 150+ Gigs of space for a 20-30 hour game is a complete waste with, as I've said several times, immensely diminished returns.

Let's take UE5, for instance. Texture streaming has become necessary because we can't afford to have a coherent texture map loaded in all at once, precisely because those textures are stupidly large. This causes so, so many performance issues, that I'd argue it's been a downgrade even coming off UE3.

I'd rather have a smooth and OK-looking game which doesn't require me to get a second SSD just to fit it all, than to face significant stutters every time I do a 180° turn because the engine is struggling to load Gigs of uncached textures, which, again, barely look any better.