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Digital Foundry [Sponsored]: Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War: Next-Gen Feature Analysis: Ray Tracing + 120Hz Support!
- Thread starter chandoog
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I got a crash once after waking my PS5 from sleep in 60 hz mode.
Guess I'll have to reinstall the entire game. Can't start the campaign. Even playing with bots crashes the game in the middle of the match.
Doesn't seems related to my hardware since I got just one crash while playing and installing at the same time Dirt 5.
This video is a great showcase of what RT can do for shadows, most of the focus with RT has been around reflections but damn these side by sides are a huge difference. It also seems to make AO completely obsolete? Is there any reason to keep AO on while RT shadows are in use?
AO does something completely different. It adds indirect shadows to already shadowed regions. It makes sense to leave on, yes.
In this case, PS5 uses SSAO, like PS4Pro.
After watching both the Godfall video and this, I have to say that I don't like these kind of sponsored content.
Good for them making some money out of it and the videos have been flagged appropriately. But even though the analysis might be good, it is just highlighting the positive aspects which makes the overall video seem boring. The Godfall one felt worse though.
Don't think I will continue watching any of those videos.
Good for them making some money out of it and the videos have been flagged appropriately. But even though the analysis might be good, it is just highlighting the positive aspects which makes the overall video seem boring. The Godfall one felt worse though.
Don't think I will continue watching any of those videos.
120 if you have the option.
The denoiser is temporal - so if a shadow reveals itself from being obscured, it will fizzle a bit and then settle over about 2 frames to be stable and high Detail.
It is not an LOD or cascades, just the fact that RT shadows in this game are sub native resolution and 1 sample per Pixel per Frame. They are probably quarter res.
It's rtx'd shadows which are more subtle than rtx'd reflections. Your mileage may vary as to how much it improves the atmosphere over regular shadows.
Anyhow, it's basically the difference between Miles in fidelity mode vs Miles in performance. If you want a better looking game at 30 vs a better playing game at 60. Same principle here except 60 vs 120.
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Es ist such a radical departure from how shadows had been done in the past. I still have your Metro Exodus example bookmarked as a go to reference for how physically accurate RT shadows can notably improve fidelity in a post resolution world. Vielen dank for the explanation.
Und, like typical shadow maps, I assume RT shadows appear at comparable range from the camera/player.
Have you by any chance looked at RT in multi? There have been many reports or significant framerate drops for prolonged periods of time and even crashes on PS5 and XSX.
So the next mission had hella raytracing. Seems like, contrary to Modern Warfare, RT shadows are not mainly used for artificial lights, which threw me off. In the current mission I'm playing it is sun shadows that are being raytraced. There is also artifacting in the distance and shadows popping and out though. I wish the game had a more consistent RT implementation.
Edit: And now within the same mission suddenly no more shadows are RT. I'm just gonna stick to 120hz mode.
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I've been paying close attention to them and experimenting on and off since yesterday (on PS5). No crashes yet but the framedrops seem entirely random in MP and Zombies, more of a bug than the GPU being taxed too hard. Chaotic scenes run fine but downtime (including between rounds in zombies when there's nothing out) it can tank for no reason. Turning it off helps for now. Hope they fix it soon
Thanks, I see the exact same things. Framerate just tanks for no apparent reason.
Gotcha. I just didn't think 120fps would be needed for campaign. MP for sure.