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Crysis Remastered: this is what ray tracing looks like on consoles
The release of Crysis Remastered draws closer and today we can reveal a technical feature of the console versions that …
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Digital Foundry: Crysis Remastered: Console Ray Tracing Analysed on Xbox One X!
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Software Ray-Tracing yes. Crytek has been working on such solution for CryEngine
What. Is the 1X doing software ray tracing or something? How does it run in terms of performance-resolution?
Oh, I see.
Oh, I see.
It's answered in the article. Dynamic 1080p and present on PS4 Pro and One X only.
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The PS4 Pro too.
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Yeah, I just read it, I didn't see the article first. It's a bummer dynamic objects aren't ray traced but I hope this game will have next-gen updates with HW RT soon like on PC.
Looks real nice. Have they said anything about PS5/XSX versions? A free upgrade would make this a no brainer for me.
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You can bet there will be a PS5/XBSX port with all the hardware RT options.
This just seems like Crytek's way of saying "look at what we can do" with the already existing console hardware. It's an impressive feat.
Any computer can do ray tracing, it's just incredibly intensive. The new consoles simply include features in the hardware itself specifically designed to make ray-tracing less of a performance hog.
Raytracing is an optional toggle and it limits Xbox One X to a maxium 1080p and PS4 Pro to 'just under 1080p'. Both with dynamic scaling.
Yup.
In this case the reflect scene also has very simple shaders to reduce the additional load from shading.
Interestingly Crytek does a polygon/triangle RT.
Unlike Claybook which had distance field raytracer.
Skinned objects are not traced; "dynamic objects" should be. I will update the article to say that, I somehow wrote that wrong.
A tree falling will still be caught in the reflection, just not a character/deformable mesh.
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Haven't had a chance to watch the video yet, but will this software RT solution be included as well in the PC version of the game?
you betchyaWill this bad boy be ray traced tho ?
It is, along with hardware RT solution
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I wonder how much faster the hardware based version is going to be. I hope they don't spend all the acceleration gains on better quality, but also speed over the software based version.
Good news that software RT is also enabled on the PC version without RT acceleration!
Good news that software RT is also enabled on the PC version without RT acceleration!
Ah I see. I watched the video and you mentioend that there but not in the article. Regardless it's still very impressive.
Looking forward how Wolrd Of Tanks and Warthunder are including software ray tracing on consoles too.
3 games now and not just Crysis.
I think DF needs to take a look at it:
War Thunder Adds Raytracing and HDR on PC and Xbox One
War Thunder Update 1.95 is out now and it adds major graphics features to the game, such as raytracing (GI) and HDR on PC and Xbox One.
wccftech.com
It looks really good. I'm so bummed they kept the shitty suit modes from the 360 port though. Power mode as a standard is bullshit.
Yeah. I can see them doing it and say: look our Cryengine still rocking compared to UE and other in-house engines.
They will use hardware based RT and he said that in the video, but this is if they are planning to support next-gen consoles natively and not just rely on BC.
Basically, using the X/Pro additional power over base consoles for software raytracing instead of other uses.
The geometry on the console versions looks fucking rough, hopefully the remaster fares better on PC (and that the raytracing can be done on tensor cores).
Any idea on why Nanosuit models look so low-poly in this video? Is that related to ray-tracing mode?
Also it looks like they have replaced their previous approach which stores triangles in SVO node by maintaining a separate BVH?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is essentially baked in (and pretty expensive bakes too I think, though I have no point of comparison to what happens in games with baked lighting today so maybe I'm off here too, their examples require like 26 hours of precomputation - again, cursory glance so I'm not sure what hardware they are using). It's not dynamic in any way shape or form (based on a very superficial look see at the paper).
Static scene with opaque objects, but yeah. I would imagine studios like Naughty Dog would be very interested in this research as they heavily used static lighting.
I can imagine a near field ray trace done for specular in game with such static objects, and then the secondary, trinary, etc. bounces in those reflections and outside the near field being handled by such a system.
