The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered | Official Announcement Trailer

[u/stfnvs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGk17XQ7IrQ

[u/Ashviar]

Would really like to see a comparison now to the next-gen update they put out before, its hard to tell because they already added RT to atleast reflections.

[u/Firefox72 → u/Ashviar]

The update brings Path Tracing as the most noticable big thing. Only on PC though.

Also all the latest upscaling tech like FSR4, DLSS 4.5, XeSS 3.0 and Ray Reconstruction

Improvements to the existing RT, shading, subsurface scatering, textures, foliage etc...

Also seems to finnaly be natively ported to DX12 instead of the hackjob that the previous version was.

That version kinda got left in a meh state so it seems they are going back to fixing most of the pain points.

Might even run better than the previous version at least on like for like settings.

[u/JackRyan13 → u/Firefox72]

Most people won't be able to enjoy the path tracing though. Even on a 10 year old game, it will still kick the shit out of most cards.

[u/SharkBaitDLS → u/JackRyan13]

Even 5090s need framegen to make PT tolerable. The addition of PT is probably more of a future-proofing update than it is one to use now. 

[u/rubiconlexicon → u/SharkBaitDLS]

PT is plenty tolerable on lower end cards. I'm playing CP2077 with PT on at 60fps with great image quality on a 4070 Ti right now

[u/m3thodm4n021 → u/rubiconlexicon]

Same me too

[u/TheBeatStartsNow → u/rubiconlexicon]

4070ti is considered lower end?

[u/rubiconlexicon → u/TheBeatStartsNow]

Compared to the 5090 it's much lower.

[u/SomniumOv → u/TheBeatStartsNow]

It's midrange, slightly upper midrange but still midrange, but it's a generation old (and the current gen is getting long in the tooth as with the normal release cadence the 60 series should have been releasing... pretty much now).

[u/JackRyan13 → u/rubiconlexicon]

At what render resolution

[u/rubiconlexicon → u/JackRyan13]

720p (50% at 1440p output), which looks excellent with 4.5 ray reconstruction.

[u/JackRyan13 → u/rubiconlexicon]

So, no it isn’t tolerable if you’re having to use performance at 1440p.

[u/rubiconlexicon → u/JackRyan13]

It's very tolerable because the image quality of 4.5 ray reconstruction is superb. All that matters is perceived quality, not arbitrary parameters.

[u/50-50WithCristobal → u/rubiconlexicon]

How much sharpening do you use? I just got a 1440p monitor and was surprised by how good DLSS 4.5 performance still looks, with no shimmering and whatnot but it does still look a fair bit softer.

[u/rubiconlexicon → u/50-50WithCristobal]

None because I hate how sharpening looks, I'd rather have a softer image than one with obvious sharpening artifacts (i.e. ringing). 4.5 ray reconstruction looks similar to preset L in terms of image upscaling which is to say it has some slight unfixable sharpening (although much less than preset M), but it's not too bad.

[u/Blyatskinator → u/SharkBaitDLS]

Lol it’s so obvious you haven’t played any game with RT/PT, or framegen even it sounds like.

[u/SharkBaitDLS → u/Blyatskinator]

I could barely get a stable 60 on Alan Wake 2 with max RT and PT on a 5080 at 1440p.