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Digital Foundry: Minecraft RTX Beta Hands-On: How Path-Tracing Is A Gamechanger
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Been playing on RTX 2060 with Ryzen 5 3600x with ADATA 16gb ddr4 2666hz RAM
Performance was better than i expected mainly 50-60fps in most of the RTX maps rarely goes 45fps
I didn't fiddle with graphic settings all stock what they set it to it did say it was using DLSS but i don't know which DLSS did they use it didn't specify at top
I did have weird big glitches in some maps outdoor lighting spazzing out black and white but indoors was fine, some maps outside lighting no glitches forget which ones
Performance was better than i expected mainly 50-60fps in most of the RTX maps rarely goes 45fps
I didn't fiddle with graphic settings all stock what they set it to it did say it was using DLSS but i don't know which DLSS did they use it didn't specify at top
I did have weird big glitches in some maps outdoor lighting spazzing out black and white but indoors was fine, some maps outside lighting no glitches forget which ones
My personal issue with it so far is the lack of texture on reflective objects, the mirror like reflections can get confusing sometimes and have that perfect sheen to it.
Performance seems ok enough from my usage between 40-60 with some 80s but Totems and Temples got it to the mid 30s. I'm on an 8700 and an RTX 2070.
Performance seems ok enough from my usage between 40-60 with some 80s but Totems and Temples got it to the mid 30s. I'm on an 8700 and an RTX 2070.
Also curious about this. I'd like to set 1800p without having to change desktop res.
It looks incredible, and now that DLSS 2.0 has greatly improved the performance of RTX, I'm very excited for next-gen ray-traced games - even if most won't do full path tracing.
Hopefully they will be able to do something about the temporal lag/ghosting, and hopefully the 30-series will bring big improvements to RT performance.
One thing I am left wondering, and it may seem obvious, but: can RTX render imperfect mirrors?
I think that's the one thing we've yet to see in a ray-traced game; but I don't know if it's just because they want everything to be extra-shiny to show things off, if it can't be done, or if it can be done but is considerably more expensive to render.
Hopefully they will be able to do something about the temporal lag/ghosting, and hopefully the 30-series will bring big improvements to RT performance.
One thing I am left wondering, and it may seem obvious, but: can RTX render imperfect mirrors?
I think that's the one thing we've yet to see in a ray-traced game; but I don't know if it's just because they want everything to be extra-shiny to show things off, if it can't be done, or if it can be done but is considerably more expensive to render.
Oh no. We're really going to have to suffer through lots of "but how does RT change the gameplay" like we did with 3D on the 3DS, aren't we?
Anyone know how to load in the world in the DF video? Where to drop the files/how to load them?
Tried dropping the folder into AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_8wekyb3d8bbwe\minecraftWorlds
but no dice, it doesn't seem to load onto the list
Tried dropping the folder into AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_8wekyb3d8bbwe\minecraftWorlds
but no dice, it doesn't seem to load onto the list
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apparently this is what people said about Crysis back in the day
DLSS 2.0 really is great. Can't even tell it's not running native resolution here. I really wish this tech could be ported to other games as well, just so you could opt for 144Hz or something in Ultra settings.
RTX looks great as usual, too. Really excited for this stuff to take off in more places. Running around 50ish FPS on my i5 9600k and RTX2070 (non super) @ 1440p. If I run at 1080p I can go 60-70 easy, and with DLSS it hardly looks different to me than 1440p.
RTX looks great as usual, too. Really excited for this stuff to take off in more places. Running around 50ish FPS on my i5 9600k and RTX2070 (non super) @ 1440p. If I run at 1080p I can go 60-70 easy, and with DLSS it hardly looks different to me than 1440p.
Haha that's not my pic, but I do have some. The guide told us "this is the part of the tour where I turn around and let you take some pics".
C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\games\com.mojang\minecraftWorlds
Thanks, was just now returning to post that I found it,
I missed the LocalState\games bit.
Great vid btw
So it seems like you can't actually "play" normal Minecraft yet, right? You can only load into these pre-made worlds and wander around, maybe doing some quests they have in them? I was really hoping to be able to create a new random world with RTX and just play survival.
The city map makes my laptop die lol
Also apparently hitting stuff makes it glitch out:
Also apparently hitting stuff makes it glitch out:
Your GPU doesn't have RTX so it would run at literally 4-5 FPS or so. Maybe even less
Ray tracing can be displayed on any monitor. When it comes to ray tracing, your CPU and motherboard kinda matter but not nearly as much as your video card. The cards you listed aren't RTX cards so they don't natively support ray tracing. It will run terribly, if it runs at all.
Dictator not exactly minecraft related, but I wanted to know your thoughts on this. Nvidia put out their latest video in their RT Essentials series and they bring up depth of field and motion blur via ray tracing. it's one function I haven't seen talked about, and I wanted to know your thoughts on the potential quality of such an implementation
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I'm very impressed. I'm playing this on a RTX 2060 laptop and in the high fidelity maps like the Aqua and theme park one, I'm mostly between 40 and 60 FPS, at 1080p DLSS (under water in the 30s). On my WQHD monitor I can usually maintain a steady 30 FPS, although there are some scenes where I fall under 30 FPS, like under water or the enourmous inside of a castle. I wish there was a way to enable DLSS Performance (720p) on WQHD and 1080p (540p), so I could reach that steady 30 and 60 FPS. Chunks are at 16.
Unfortunately, the Temple map is unplayable, regardless which resolution or settings I use. But I don't mind it, the other ones are more asthetically pleasing IMO.
Path Tracing in Real Time is incredible and all that on a laptop.
Unfortunately, the Temple map is unplayable, regardless which resolution or settings I use. But I don't mind it, the other ones are more asthetically pleasing IMO.
Path Tracing in Real Time is incredible and all that on a laptop.
which map? they all do something different causing some swings in performance
Oh, most, just saw there is a new game ready driver too, so will test that out also
Is that video showing actual examples of realtime raytraced DOF and motion blur? It has the same artifacts as the methods used in games right now (unwanted blurring of foreground/background elements around the edges).
Raytraced motion blur is something I really want to see in games as well. It's insanely heavy in offline rendering.
Fair. DM me any time you want to wax poetically about John Wesley paintings or Marfa's best pizza shop.
There are rumors that Microsoft is working on some sort of AI upscaling. I think there were shots of Forza Horizon 4 running at 4K native but upscaled to 8K in real time using AI with no real change in performance.
Sorry, didn't watch the vid yet(Going tomorrow after I looked at all worlds myself), but I don't see other threads about this.
What is DLSS upscaling from at 1080p and at 1440p? I'm guessing 540p and 720p? All I know is I can't tell the difference with and without upscaling other than a big FPS drop with it off, which is really really cool. Bugging me right now without knowing haha.
What is DLSS upscaling from at 1080p and at 1440p? I'm guessing 540p and 720p? All I know is I can't tell the difference with and without upscaling other than a big FPS drop with it off, which is really really cool. Bugging me right now without knowing haha.
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The Series X demo was a simple world that ran from 30 to 60fps @1080p, which means on average 45fps, if not less, that with less crowded enviroments, and lots of interiors. However the 2080Ti is able to sustain locked 60fps @1080p and complex worlds, and is likely running a much higher and complex set of visuals as well. Clearly the Series X RT capabilities are much lower than a 2080Ti or even a 2080.
Nooooo! I was gonna ask if Minecraft Dungeons has any RTX features :(
Like what? Sry I just have a hard time figuring how gameplay could change simply from raytracing or any lighting outside of moving mirrors and similar in puzzles but that have been done for ages.
That doesn't "mean" an average of 45fps... it would depend how much time the game spends at what frame rate what the actual average is. All we know is the XSX managed an average frame rate of somewhere between 30 and 60fps at 1080p with no machine learning upscaling assistance. The pcgamer benchmarks have an RTX 2080 at 1080p with DLSS 2.0 off managing between 38 and 50fps. So it sounds to me like with machine learning off XSX GPU performance is likely pretty comparable.
Looks amazing. I never got into minecraft but if a version of this comes to Series X I'd lose hours to it.