Turn off the Nvidia gimmick that is useless. Why get half your card’s performance by half for a feature that is barely noticeable.
Ray tracing is 100% not a gimmick. It’s just the method they choose for wow maybe not be the best for the type of game it is.
Eh, only a handful of games are using it. There needs to be more meat and better performance before I jump on board with the ray tracing.
Can anyone comment on if “light” sources from armor work?
I don’t see how that’s possible considering I run at 1440p Max settings with raytracing only using a 2080 super and I still pull 120 plus except when it’s the bag guy time and 4 trillion people show up and then I’ll drop down to like 45
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RTX 2080+ 3800X I don’t bother with ray tracing, it doesn’t hit the average FPS that badly out in the world anymore like it did on the PTR. But the actual visible difference is minimal because as far as I can tell there are zero spot lights in the game. The main issue I have is the 90% frames make the game feel very not smooth even though they aren’t that bad (no visible stutter just it feels a lot less smooth). I just keep it disabled, I don’t see a point in having it on until DLSS is built in at this point.
What exactly is raytracing? I am currently considering upgrading my card in the new year but I just don’t understand what raytracing does.
I’d explain it but wiki does a better job:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing_(graphics)
Basically it’s bouncing rays between things and tracking how the light changes and what it can hit. It’s not exactly new, games have been doing it for ages for Ambient Occlusion and global illumination. But never exclusively and usually never at this high a resolution (e.g. just a few rays to hit test etc.)
Done right it can produce an amazing image. Done wrong it’s just a waste of compute resources.
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Sweet. Thank you.
I don’t find it noticeable enough to justify it to take up so much resources personally … I also turn silly things down like ground clutter…
Man I would be pissed to pay $1000+ for what might possibly be one of, if not THE best graphics card and it not be able to run wow at the tippiest top settings.
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People need to understand the 3090 is not a gaming card really, its a titan card with the name removed.
Ok well for one my 4k screen is 4k ultrawide which is
3840 x 1600 = 6,144,000 pixels
vs
True 4k 3840 × 2160 = 8,294,400 pixels
Second I’m running an 5950x with single core 5.1-5.2 with 1,933FLK (Can’t hit 2000 fabric yet 
maybe after an AGESA update. with Ram at 1:1 3866 CL 14-15-15-35
Finally I’m using a RTX 3090 Strix OC that happily sits at 2100mhz clock 10000mhz memory. It does this without even raising the power limit, the problem is heat. The card is crazy hot and starts to down clock itself to about 2000mhz core. No amount of case airflow seems to help this. The card needs to be water cooled I think.
Long story short I’m not using intel… crazy times right?
EDIT: I still wouldn’t use ray tracing, I’m using a Acer Predator X38P at 160hz full 8bit and what would be the point of that if I’m sitting around 100fps.
I can’t see a reason to turn on raytracing in a 16 year old game its like polishing a turd sure it looks better but what was the point?
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You’d think, but NVidia deliberately disabled the titan driver optimizations. So it doesn’t actually function as a titan.
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wait really?!? thats honestly such a low blow.
Really really, it’s basically just a show off card. NVidia is allegedly working on a new Titan with 48GB of VRam.
The 3090 is 100% due to the marketing department and i guess it tricked any sucker into thinking 8k gaming existed lmao
If you can trick people into paying 1500 for a golden sample of silicon… why not? ;p
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Weird flex that you have a 3090. You could have another car for that. Enjoy your 60 FPS.
Also your GPU isn’t the entire story here. You’re missing info on the rest of your system.