Raytracing is garbage in this game

[devil_505]

I´m playing on a

Ryzen 7 5800X
48 GiB of DDR4-3000 (four modules, more then -3000 is not booting because the memory controller is at its limits).
Geforce 3060 ti 8 GiB
2 TiB PCIE 4.0 Samsung 980 Pro SSD

So not the worst gaming setup.

Performance with raytracing turned on is abismal to laughable in this game. It starts around 50 FPS on 1440p when I leave the Bazaar in the morning and stays there for a few minutes while I walk around in town. As soon as the sun rises it is game over, FPS drops into the 30s, later into the 20s.

Far worse then the low framerates is how inconsistent they are. You look into the city - FPS in the 20s, you turn your view outside the city - the 40s are back.

And if you think Old Villedor with RTX is bad, wait until you go to the big city. There it is completly unplayable.

I reduce the resolution to 1080p, no improvement. I enable DLSS and set it to balanced or performance, FPS are still terrible. Only way for me is to not use HDR in DL2 at all or only play during the night.

I read about people with 3070s and 3080s and they say it gets not better with the faster cards.

Who is here to blame? Did Techland suck while impementing raytracing or is NVIDA selling cards with features they are too weak to use?

I have little experience with RTX, only game with RTX support I played before was Quake II RTX. That was running okay (50s to 60s) on the 3060 ti.

regards

[halbermensch999]

No, they did not suck, RT is simply that demanding.
Get a faster 4000 card and you might have a better chance.
More realistically expect 5000 series to truly start doing better

[devil_505]

So Nvidia is selling cards with now useless features and is actively marketing that features even if they will only be usable for the broad masses in a few years with cards that need to come first?

I hope they spend their next vacation on lawsuit island! *jk*

[iReaps]

your 3060ti is a limiting factor sadly, to play awith decent frames with max setting and all ray tracing need better card...so maybe stop blaming techland for your cheap choices.

[devil_505]

I wouldn´t call 800 Euros cheap. It was the only decent card available below 1000 bucks, 3070 was above 1150 Euros when I purchased my 3060 ti. Don´t blame my cheap choices, blame that bloody scalpers making gaming so expensive. ^^

[simon]

A 3060 is not going to cut it in a new AAA title with RTX at higher resolutions. Its not the games fault. This game is very demanding with everything on high. Also, RTX is in its early days and its not wrong (or illegal) for companies to sell products that dont perform as well as newer products will when the tech matures.

Its unfortunate for you but its not the way the devs implemented RTX its just a bit more than your card can handle in this game. This is not new and PC games have always had titles that push the hardware available at the time to its limits. e.g Quake 1 with its requirement for a maths co-processor (which a lot of Pc's did not have at the time) and OpenGL or Crisis. A game which destroyed most PC at the time.

[ΜΣ†ΛĿ]

game uses more than 10GB of vram on my system. I know people with 10GB 3080s that have to lower settings to not go over the available vram, and there are reports of some memory leaks also. with a 3090 I'm seeing great performance on maxed settings no drops even after 6 hours of play (24gb vram) mostly hovering around 80-90 fps range at 4K with DLSS + RT

[Klunt]

You have a 3060ti! This game uses RTGI. It's beautiful, taxing because of the parallel performance needed. This game is pushing the envelope. Get a better GPU and stop crying.

[Ald0]

Yeah RT is very bad in this game now : artefacts everywhere, memory leak with RTX on, no shadow with RT light ..

[Mölli]

Just like Ald0 sayed. IMO biggest issue is memory leak what they need to fix as soon
as possible. First 30 min - 60 min is very playable and then fatal FPS dropping because GPU usage going 99% -> 50%-70%. Rubbish. Almost every single AAA title games released unfinished nowadays and disappointing gamers who have waited game itself very long time. It should be illegal to release beta games on version 1.00.

[Ghostvenger92]

looks like you have something wrong with your hardware somewhere, i get solid 60fps with raytracing at 1080p with FSR on Quality

[devil_505]

It has to be a bug with the DX12 renderer in this game. FPS with raytracing on are absolutely okay (50 - 60 FPS in 1440p with quality DLSS) as long as I stay near to the starting point. If I stray too far (half way between the water tower in Lower Dam Ayre and the Canteen) the FPS drop drastically from the 50s into the 20s. Now it comes - if I wait for a minute or two with the low FPS they return to the 50s and are fine until I walk too far off again.! It is like the game is loading additional data for the new area and that lowers FPS. As soon as it has finished loading the data the FPS return to normal. But why is it not happening without RT?

[MotherVicar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnAn5TRz_2g

Digital Foundry's analysis, maybe you will respect it a bit more, RT is the only reason the graphics of this game arnt laughed at.....

[TTV||Cdog_]

on the contrary my 3090 makes this game look amazing. no issues at all with stuttering, frames or anything. no copium here.

[Sneezums]

I have a 3060ti with a Ryzen 2600 and at 1920x1080 I currently get a solid 55-60 fps with all raytracing on it's highest (everything else is highest too). I was getting dips down to 30-40fps a week ago though and realized it was a temp throttling issue with my CPU. I added new thermal paste (and corrected a corner that wasn't fulling connecting) and haven't had issues since. Have you ruled out your CPU or GPU is throttling down due to high temps?

[MrCBlower]

Games runs great for me with RT on my rig with a 3060 and my wife's rig with a 3080.