Speculation: ice planets and rtx 2000 series GPU

Just read an article on the new RTX GPUs and had a thought about how new ice planets.

Is FD delaying the changes to ice planets to sync with the new tech from Nvidia?

Would think it could look amazing if I have the new GPUs.

Thoughts and speculations?
 
Doubt it very much, ray tracing is still in it's infancy judging by the performance in recent RTX supporting games and it would take another couple of generations of GPU's before it becomes feasible for anything other than a tech demo.

Why would FDev waste their time on that?
 
Very much doubt it. Especially as Dav was asked about RTX technology in a live stream. And he said something to the effect of, it’s not currently being considered at this time.

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Just read an article on the new RTX GPUs and had a thought about how new ice planets.

Is FD delaying the changes to ice planets to sync with the new tech from Nvidia?

Would think it could look amazing if I have the new GPUs.

Thoughts and speculations?

this would be a disaster. what percentage of users have RTX (dont forget to add in ps4 and xbox owners into that list ;) )

i think it is highly unlikely FD would delay such a big update that was looked forward to from so many people just to support such a tiny minority of gamers.
 

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this would be a disaster. what percentage of users have RTX (dont forget to add in ps4 and xbox owners into that list ;) )

i think it is highly unlikely FD would delay such a big update that was looked forward to from so many people just to support such a tiny minority of gamers.

This. RTX is far away from being mainstream.
 
Ok, ok.

But, wouldn't it be rad?

FD: imagine the chrome and reflective ship skins that you could sell....to the PC....
 
This. RTX is far away from being mainstream.
VR is not mainstream to a large extent, but Elite works wonderfully in that.

Adding features for niche hardware is nice for those who can use it.
Having it paid for by the hardware manufacturer, not us players, would be even nicer though.
 
lol reflections, how about getting this first?

[video=youtube_share;CRfZYJ_sk5E]https://youtu.be/CRfZYJ_sk5E[/video]
 
There would be no need to postpone the release of the ice planets rework since RTX Just Works.
 
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VR is not mainstream to a large extent, but Elite works wonderfully in that.

Adding features for niche hardware is nice for those who can use it.
Having it paid for by the hardware manufacturer, not us players, would be even nicer though.

oh absolutely, i totally support FD supporting the cool toys... but NOT delaying / holding back content from everyone else to do it which is what OP was hypothesising
 
There would be no need to postpone the release of the ice planets rework since RTX Just Works.
If the hardware doesn't break down, then yes..somewhat, yes reflected godrays are bugged in BF5 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider hasn't got it's promoted update, yet, over three months after release.

Just read an article on the new RTX GPUs and had a thought about how new ice planets.

Is FD delaying the changes to ice planets to sync with the new tech from Nvidia?
1. DXR is not nVidia exclusive. 2. Binding core game mechanics to some new tech, that is only very thinly spread across the market, seems not very economical. If the surface generation was not bound to DXR, why is it being delayed.
 
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jesus christ that looks amazing. that game alone is making me wish i had got the 2080 instead of the 1080ti!

There you go: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inno3d-geforce-rtx-2080-twin-x2-oc-8192mb-gddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-073-in.html#comments

Sell the 1080Ti and purchase the 2080 Non-Ti.

Just looked at the Ti version

Man o Man the 2080 Ti is well overpriced for a gaming card, come on £1.5k for a gaming GPU :eek:

(Jenson/Nvidia have been snorting so much white sugar powder, there about to leave the sol system j/k)

Anyhoo, enjoy your 1080ti for a few years more, she`s a fine card.

PS congrats on the dirty nappies machine maker.[up]
 
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Ray Tracing really only make sense is you building the whole game from scratch, their potential to save a large amount of time in production.

Frontier is likely to only use it for a new game, with there business of treating games a service, it has potential to save them money longer term in asset creation, that my own personal theory and it give a reason why it being so aggressively pursued at the minute, especially as developers start to look at 4K and 8K games

But I'm not buying this gen of ray tracing cards for two simple reasons, 1 Nvidia are pricing the cards at cryptocurrency fever levels to try and take a slice of the profits for themselves unfortunately for them cryptocurrency was so last year man.

An 2: most games that claim that they are using it, are only using it for small portions of there game, I will wait a few years until whole games are being built on the technology and it move from just being a technological demonstration project.
 
jesus christ that looks amazing. that game alone is making me wish i had got the 2080 instead of the 1080ti!
And when you crank up all the nice ray traced details, the resulting stutter fest makes you doubt in your 800$ investment. Due to performance limitations, only one graphical aspect like shadows or reflections can be rendered with ray tracing. And even then the impact on performance is severe on the RTX cards.
 
And when you crank up all the nice ray traced details, the resulting stutter fest makes you doubt in your 800$ investment. Due to performance limitations, only one graphical aspect like shadows or reflections can be rendered with ray tracing. And even then the impact on performance is severe on the RTX cards.

I dunno we shall see...... i agree ray tracing is right on the cusp of being usable this generation - like most new tech when it comes out in its 1st gen - and i would not want to go back to 1080p now, just to get ray tracing eye candy.

but the latest patch for BF V i believe has the RTX 2080 "close" to QHD 60fps.......... and this is a game which had ray tracing added pretty late on, and isnt currently using DLSS. (as far as i know)

my hope is, if implemented well, and using DLSS ray tracing should be usable with the 2080ti and 2080 at QHD (equivalent) 60fps, and the RTX 2070 / 2060 at 1080p (equivalent) 60fps.

(I say equivalent because DLSS is not really the true resolution but it is faked albeit visually hard to tell imo)

(actually now i think about it is ray tracing confirmed for Anthem or is it just DLSS? it may be possible that video is actually not using ray tracing in which case it should run fine)
 
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this would be a disaster. what percentage of users have RTX (dont forget to add in ps4 and xbox owners into that list ;) )

i think it is highly unlikely FD would delay such a big update that was looked forward to from so many people just to support such a tiny minority of gamers.
Well VR is supported and a very small % of gamers have that, less than 1% on steam so anything is possible.
 
Well VR is supported and a very small % of gamers have that, less than 1% on steam so anything is possible.

I am a huge VR fanboy, completely biased and am one of those people who get ridiculed for admitting that "if game X in genre Y does not support VR then I am not interested".

however even I would say it would be madness to delay a game because it was not working in VR yet... and that is the difference. I am not suggesting FD should not investigate supporting ray tracing and DLSS, far from it, but OP was specifically suggesting FD had held back the ice planets to try to get ray tracing support in. That was the part that I think would be nuts and isnt what FD did with VR.
 
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