@HTEichTee Pre-baking the lighting has its own issues too, like dev time, file sizes and scope of the game
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@beyond_fps The point went over your noggin.
You can achieve visually impressive scenes with baked, handcrafted lighting. Brute-forcing RT to achieve similar, if not worse results while also gimping performance and relying on AI just to run decently has become such a fad at this point
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Sub 70 IQ logic
"Why does the 10 year old game that had state-of-the-art visuals look so good today?"
and then
"Why do some modern games chase state-of-the-art visuals?"
Rock Solid@ShitpostRock2
This game was made 12 years ago Remind me again why we need all the fancy, schmancy DLSS, ray tracing, and ultra-high-end graphics features in games today, when something like this can run perfectly fine on a GTX 1050?
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@Meito_1 @gabefollower I want it for the living room, so trackpads are important
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@beyond_fps @gabefollower Is it really better than a regular xbox controller i have been using?
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Steam Controller has sold out 35 minutes after the start of the sale...
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@gabefollower was impossible to buy for me a minute after release
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@RS00090 @digitalfoundry console specific optimizations was always a myth
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@digitalfoundry The fact that performance between the console's native OS and Linux is so close, even without the "console specific optimizations" is very interesting.
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PlayStation 5 Linux. What happens when the Sony console becomes a "Steam Machine"? digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/p…
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@beyond_fps I've been spared the Crysis 3 ones, which is funny because to me it's the best looking of all those. Like Crysis 1, it had a lot of future facing tech, whereas batman for example.....really looks like a suped up UE3 game. Mirror's Edge as well.
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@Chettlar Yes, and all the other ones I mentioned as well. They keep rotating between them.
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@beyond_fps You haven't seen batman continuously cummed all over for the past like 5 years?
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@Karai_Dan I played AC Unity a couple of years ago. It can look very good but also has terrible pop in and poor textures. Characters also don't look as good as current games (understandable). And even lighting is clearly inferior (pre baked lighting has its limits).
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@Karai_Dan No they haven't peaked.
And they look good because developers pushed tech forward just like some others do today.
I do play and played recently many mid 2010s games.
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@Sebasti66855537 @Charcharo I love how people always mis remember the past. Like when people talk about how much cheaper games were way back when and then you break out adds for 75$ snes games in 1994
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These people are so dishonest man. When Unity came out it was attacked for being unoptimized, a mess, too difficult to run, too demanding, worse than some even older games...
Now they forgot and the narrative changed. Deeply dishonest liars.
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Rock Solid@ShitpostRock2
This game was made 12 years ago Remind me again why we need all the fancy, schmancy DLSS, ray tracing, and ultra-high-end graphics features in games today, when something like this can run perfectly fine on a GTX 1050?
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@IksIksIkss @Charcharo We never achieved the same results +10 years ago
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@Charcharo @beyond_fps His point is "why do we need all of the new technologies that make performance significantly worse and use significantly more resources when we achieved the same results using none of it"
There is an answer to this but the poster completely misinterpreted the point
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@beyond_fps That's the kind of posts you'll see 10 years later about games like Alan Wake 2 or Cyberpunk 2077 and so on
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Anyway, which will be the next game?
Batman?
Crysis 3?
Driveclub?
Ryse of Rome?
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@Charcharo In 10 years he will share screenshots of Alan Wake 2 with 4K DLAA Path tracing and will claim that a RTX 3060 was able to do that
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@ProvenReserves @janrosenow We used less electricity in Germany, part to efficiency improvements and part less GDP.
Why produce electricity yourself, when you can buy it cheaper?
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Germany's electricity mix, 2000 vs 2025:
Renewables: 6% → 62%
Fossil fuels: 62% → 36%
Nuclear: 30% → 0%
Nuclear's exit was filled by renewables, not coal or gas.
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@ZacksJerryRig He is, birth rates have been on decline decades before tech took over.
Women being part of the workforce and higher education levels is what matters the most.
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@SteveSkojec @JJanegle This the reason and not because of social media like the guy from your video says.
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@JJanegle That's because it's not industrialized. If they could figure out how to get there, their birth rates would drop just like everywhere else it's happened.
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