Unreal Engine ray tracing stuttering in AMD RDNA 4 GPUs linked to Nvidia-optimized game code

[mcnabney]

Nvidia is an AI company now.

I'm sure this will get even worse as developers continue to cater to a company whose interest in gaming is fading.

 

[EvilRebar]

It's not a conspiracy; if you have very low marketshare there is going to be less optimization from developers.

This is why it's important to look at how well devs support a feature (e.g., GSR versions) instead of just relying on a feature existing for a given platform.

 

[EvilRebar]

there is a youtube series from a game dev about common mistakes made in unreal engine. One of them is that Unreal often asks the GPU to render things that you can't see, say a building is in the way, it will render everything the building is blocking if you aren't careful. I see issues like that as something fundamental that should be taken care of by the unreal devs, not the devs using the engine to make games.

Threat Interactive been debunked by real devs as not understanding his topics. He's also pushing clickbait rage to raise money for vaporware development.

 

[EvilRebar]

Always fun when people blame amd for nvidia's known gimpworks tricks
there is a reason why amd hardware runs great on linux

Linux gamers have very low standards and are likely to minimize the issues in pursuit of platform evangelism.

 

[Watzupken]

The unfortunate reality is that Nvidia clearly had the first mover advantage when it comes to ray tracing. So it is not surprising many games using whatever game engine will be optimized for Nvidia hardware. In this case, it did not come as a surprise at all. It took AMD almost 8 years before they finally decide to put in real effort to improve RT performance since ray tracing started with Nvidia's RTX 2xxx series. AMD only became more competitive with RDNA 4.
Having said all these, I never ever felt that RT is a must have feature in games. It is nice to have if my hardware allow me to game at a comfortable performance. I am always ready and happy to disable it if it causes performance issues. So one don't have to get upset because some game engine runs better on certain hardware.

 

[Watzupken]

Linux gamers have very low standards and are likely to minimize the issues in pursuit of platform evangelism.

Not sure how does that translate to low standards though? Using Windows is high standard when it is a performance hog and a privacy nightmare?