PLEASE TURN OFF RAY TRACING!!!

[twiggy]

ray tracing in this game only works on reflections and its incredibly low quality even on the highest setting, turn it off!

ALSO, turn off screen space reflections since its almost as ugly as ray tracing

heres screenshots of how ugly ray tracing is compared to it turned off and screen space reflections turned off. notice how awful it makes puddles of water look

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2958040613

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2958040815

[7igma957]

Downgrade from Village.

[🍃🪻🪷Sylvie🩵🍸🍵]

No thank you. Raytracing looks great.

[twiggy]

Originally posted by 🧋🌷Sylvia🍃🌼:

No thank you. Raytracing looks great.

not in this game

[twiggy]

why did you give me a clown award? isnt it perfectly obvious that ray tracing makes the game look uglier???

[Daddy Gato]

Facts

[Metro]

Yes, the RT implementation in Re4 is terrible, which is strange considering that RT in Village looked pretty good.

Even playing in 4k the RT reflections look super grainy and low quality.

[Skkooomer Lord]

Originally posted by 🧋🌷Sylvia🍃🌼:

No thank you. Raytracing looks great.

[maul]

Originally posted by twiggy:

why did you give me a clown award? isnt it perfectly obvious that ray tracing makes the game look uglier???

Plenty of examples on Youtube where RT looks undeniably better. You're cherry picking.

[JackieTheDemon]

Nah, raytracing on my PC looks fantastic.

[Shep]

It's a toss-up with smaller puddle reflections, especially at oblique angles like that where there's no geometry for it to reflect, but it definitely looks much better than SSR for areas like the lake, where you don't get that noticeable artifacts/shimmering from the screenspace information being obscured by the player model.

Telling people definitively to pick one or the other is kinda asinine though. I saw everyone saying "turn hair strands off", but I've been playing through with it on and I'm kicking myself for not doing it earlier.

[E G G]

ngl the RT in the puddles at the village segment look like dogwater but in the castle and island parts where its wet concrete reflecting it actually looks really good.

[Steel]

OP is right, not sure about the jesters. I'm a huge RT enthusiast and will happily sacrifice FPS for it when it looks amazing like the recent Witcher 3 update, but in this game it really sucks. RT is nothing but a very expensive and often crash-prone fix for the game's awful SSR.
You fix the SSR, but you lose 15+ FPS to do it and introduce crashes in VRAM limited scenarios.

The real solution? Just turn off SSR. The cubemaps are good enough.

[SmokeyDaBear]

Yeah Digital Foundry cover it already.