Watch Dogs: Legion with ray tracing requires a hefty PC

[HEXUS]

A powerful PC with RTX 2080 Ti only managed <60fps at 1080p with max quality settings.

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[DevDrake]

30 FPS in what resolution ?

[Phage]

I'm not sure that this RTX is the way forward. If we look at the Crytek bench, I'm not sure that you can see much difference, and it runs just fine on my old 1080ti



https://hexus.net/tech/news/software/136805-crytek-releases-neon-noir-raytracing-benchmark-tool/

[mtyson]

30 FPS in what resolution ?

These tests were in 1080p

[philehidiot]

I'm not sure that this RTX is the way forward. If we look at the Crytek bench, I'm not sure that you can see much difference, and it runs just fine on my old 1080ti



https://hexus.net/tech/news/software/136805-crytek-releases-neon-noir-raytracing-benchmark-tool/

It would be daft of them if it looked comparatively shocking on lower spec PCs that don't cost a couple of grand to build. I think they might be going for a Crysis style monster game where they can use the graphics as a marketing point for years to come. But, they still need to ensure people on lower spec machines that make up the 99.8% of the gaming community will be impressed by it.

[QuorTek]

Somehow these awesome GFX cards is just a hoax or lots of bad coding..

[Tunnah]

Furthermore, it thought that running the PC game with maxed out settings and raytracing on an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti packing PC would give some indication of how the game might appear on the next gen consoles due in time for Xmas.

That is some hardcore optimism.

[EvilCycle]

This will only be the third Watch Dogs game that runs like poo on PC (second one still does to this day, and the first one probably only runs "ok" because of how old it is now), I think they are just making sure it isn't a surprise this time.

[kalniel]

I actually thought it was quite impressive - the detail for an open world style game was nice and it's probably going to give cyberpunk a run for it's money graphically.

In terms of performance I think it comes down to how much RT was the bottleneck - if it was the main bottleneck then next gen cards and presumably consoles should be OK as that's the area that's going to be improving the most.

[Phage]

But but but - is it needed ?
Run that bench and see if you can tell the difference.

[Spud1]

I genuinely didn't realise "watch dogs" was still an active IP - given the first game was a very poor GTA clone and the second just didn't get much of a mention anywhere other than it being "average" and "Better than the first one".

Looks pretty though, if the new RTX cards can offer the performance we all expect/hope for and they fix the problems the previous games had then it could be worth a look..

[chj]

Do the RT cores on NVIDIA cards use an open standard which AMD will also be using in the future or do developers have to specifically choose to use those RT cores on a proprietary standard like Physx?

[kalniel]

Do the RT cores on NVIDIA cards use an open standard which AMD will also be using in the future or do developers have to specifically choose to use those RT cores on a proprietary standard like Physx?

These days they use DX12 ultimate, which is not proprietary. I don't know what they used before this though.

[chj]

These days they use DX12 ultimate, which is not proprietary. I don't know what they used before this though.

Oh good, at least when choosing a graphics card you wont be paying for silicon that might not be supported down the line.

[kalniel]

Oh good, at least when choosing a graphics card you wont be paying for silicon that might not be supported down the line.

No, they're fine from that point of view. There's more a question of obsolescance through lack of performance if we get the ramp up that's expected in future generations.

[half_empty_soul]

well next gen game so not a big suprice, nvidia have to motivate people somehow to upgrade