Is it worth it to play with Ray tracing?

[davidhakamura]

I like to play my games with the highest configs possible but for some reason the ray tracing in Elden Ring looks kinda strange to me

[⛧Vinn⛧]

If you like it you like it, if you dont you dont.

[Angel]

it's not worth it in elden ring there isn't even any upscaling to go with it lol

[Bankai9212]

considering some issues performance has in some places it's not worth it.

[Xengre]

The ray tracing is pretty poorly implemented so no. It simply doesn't tangibly improve the visual quality, even ignoring the performance.

If you actually want a ray tracing experience that is relevant try something like Cyberpunk 2077, Metro Exodus (granted night is too bright, only issue there), Alan Wake 2, and uh... I can't think of many more because most actually quite suck.

I know there are some others with mods to improve the ray tracing like Hogwarts that might be worth a look, assuming you have a powerful enough computer.

[k4Qu]

only if u are willing to play offline with framegen mod. even so there are some areas in the dlc where you will want to drop to dlss quality. there is also a bug where sometimes it glitches out and u lose 50% fps, disabling rt and turn it back on fixes it.

i think visually its very much worth it, if u can take the ssao pop in. its tied to the lod, and thats by default terrible. you can mod the lod of some things, but for example grass is hardcoded and u will always have the pop in.

that said ive dealt with those issues and very much enjoyed rt on my 2nd pt for over 200h now.

[stuck in gold in Jerkmate ranked]

Definitely not. This DLC for whatever reason is horribly optimized , you'll end up going to many open areas or boss fights that'll drastically bring your fps down so using ray tracing will not help at all.

[LuckyCheshire]

Raytracing is terrible in Elden Ring, both in implementation and optimization. For people who actually like how it looks, I always recommend that they put it on the lowest level. Since you don't seem to even like it, yeah leave it off. You're not missing anything, and your game will run a lot smoother.

[Zoid13]

Originally posted by k4Qu:

i think visually its very much worth it

really? i feel like it hardly makes a difference at all visually. you get a tiny bit of barley noticable extra AO grounding the grass, in a lot of areas it makes aspects of the game even darker, and the water reflections are honestly almost the same and some softer shadows here and there.

Froms old engine isn't built to take full advantage of raytracing.
the performance hit for that tiny difference oof... i mean sure the games locked at 60 anyway so if you have a 4090 you may as well run with it on :P 100% not worth if its taking you below 60 lol

https://youtu.be/0Sd9ATeZ-3A