Do you use Ray Tracing?

[Hadley333]

I've heard people swearing that this game makes you a beliver for Ray Tracing. I'm only over 80 minutes in but so far I don't see it.

I think the game look gorgeous overall though but even with this game I don't feel (so far) that Ray Tracing is worth the hit on performance.

[N00B]

No.
It sucks.
It always has.

[primelink]

Ray tracing is amazing in this game it takes a good game and makes it ultra. You need to max out RT on ULtra over drive. You also need to know what to look for. Things like glass and car windshields and Store windows, buildings, lights in neon. Night time is where things shine. RT is best on NVIDIA cards where you can enable DLSS Quality and adjust sharpening. You should easily get 120-130 fps on RT Ultra and RT Overdrive at 70 fps on a 3090 and up.
I had an AMD 6800 XT and RT was off the table but with a 4090 this game cooks hard.

[funkynutz]

Depends which screen I'm on... At 1080, yeah (mainly for the reflections). At 1440...? Hahahahhaahhaaa. No. My mid range GPU can't do that AND keep a playable framerate.

[Spanish Shooter]

I use RT overdrive. It is very beautiful visually. Although since the last patches they have screwed up the RT with ghosting and other errors.

[Pakratjr]

I've played with it a few times but I never noticed a significant enough of a improvement in anything to warrant the.... all be it small..... hit in overall performance.

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by Anonymous:

I did before 2.12. But for some reason ever since 2.12 dropped, Ray tracing caused too much fps decrease. Which is weird.

For some reason it seems the opposite to me. Fps used to drop a bit after a while of playing before, and I had to restart the game to fix it, or just put up with the 10 or so drop in frames, which I normally did (I have fps locked at max 60 fps in Nvidia control panel, and it dropped to 45-50 after a while). But now that problem seems to have gone *knocks on wood*

I'm 'only' on a RTX 3070 Ti, but I've been stubborn about always playing with all ray-tracing options on (ultra), as I like pretty graphics.

I wish I had a path tracing capable card, though, after watching this comparison video, which was pretty interesting. It shows vanilla, ray tracing and path tracing comparisons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6emAxMeqZHU

[Zero McDol]

I use ray tracing with all of my games via reshade. In this game though, I use the native ray tracing, so RT lighting set to medium, and RT shadows and Local shadows on.

No RT reflections though, because it's too much of a fps hit for my RTX 3060 and currently frame gen isn't playing nice since the recent update, so had to turn it off.

[Xengre]

Originally posted by NOOB:

No.
It sucks.
It always has.

^This person has an actual potato with a screen hooked up. Okay, but they're running on an ancient PC so they're biased.

Do I use Ray tracing in this game? Well, yes... I have a RTX 4090.

Do I believe ray tracing in this game is impressive? Absolutely. This is one of the prime showcases for ray tracing.

Do I think it matters a ton for this game though? No... First, most of the missions in thsi game tend to put you away from the city center with all the fancy lights and stuff (in fact huge amounts of missions put you on actual outskirts and stuff), it very very very rarely rains on a non-modded game, and a huge chunk of the time is going to be played during daytime unless you intentionally constantly force it to be night time. Much of the other time you are also inside buildings, of which very few benefit noticeably from ray tracing. Realistically, you don't get a ton of exposure in practice to optimal ray tracing impacting scenes. However, while graphics can wow a person I don't feel like this game you are going to really be paying attention after maybe an hour or so. It also depends on what ray tracing and graphical settings you are playing at.

Now, while I say this even subtle ray tracing effects like shading can be significant, but I'm not going to overestimate their overall value. Ray tracing is a huge deal for both the actual game developers (makes development easier rather than certain planning, baked lighting, etc. not to mention has practical valid uses for visibility in games like horror games and such) and players but we're not quite at the tipping point. Cyberpunk 2077 is a good showing compared to other titles out there and it does, definitely, look better with than without when fully cranked up but unless you are doing a direct side by side comparison like the YouTube video posted above it will likely be more of a subtle element to you beyond the first few dozen minutes.

[rantzov]

Of course yes, both ray tracing and path tracing. Game looks georgous.

[Swanky]

I would use raytracing if I found a way to better deal with the accompanying increase in volume as the fans start to go at full speed...

[Xengre]

Originally posted by Swanky:

I would use raytracing if I found a way to better deal with the accompanying increase in volume as the fans start to go at full speed...

Maybe a headset since u are thermal bound?

[Dixon Sider]

I use max ray tracing on max settings in 4k and it looks fantastic. I am on a 4090 though lol

[Azrael]

Originally posted by Hadley333:

I've heard people swearing that this game makes you a beliver for Ray Tracing. I'm only over 80 minutes in but so far I don't see it.

I think the game look gorgeous overall though but even with this game I don't feel (so far) that Ray Tracing is worth the hit on performance.

here[imgur.com] are some[imgur.com] examples[imgur.com].

[Hadley333]

Originally posted by Swanky:

I would use raytracing if I found a way to better deal with the accompanying increase in volume as the fans start to go at full speed...

What gpu do you have? I’m sensitive to fan noise and always undervolt no matter what I have for a card

[Blur]

It’s path tracing or don’t bother