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I feel like I could write a 20 page academic paper on the philosophies of CP2077. I’m not completely done yet, but it’s fair to say it is having a fairly large affect on me.
It's the age old question of "should I wait or should I upgrade". There's always going to be something new on the horizon. In this case the 5090 is probably at least a year away. Even when it does release, what are the odds of getting one with all the scalpers scooping them up as usual?
DF did a pretty comprehensive video on all of the first gen UE5 games that have either come out or are about to come out. And it was a notable video because it talked about all the RT implementations, Lumen implementations, etc or lack there-of. There are lots of games coming with various amounts of RT. And UE5 definitely requires more to push than previous game engines. Because new rendering techniques require more. Still UE5 is very optimized with software RT and Lumen/Nanite.
Personally I wouldn't get a 4090 just for those two games. RT is still in it's infancy so will probably be 5090 or 6090 before the card is somewhat future proof. Unfortunately VRAM is becoming a limitation on the 3080 10GB models so it might struggle quite a bit with upcoming games, especially UE games so there will probably be quite a few games that requires a mix of medium and high settings on the 3080 in the near future unless you are at 1080p. I usually buy new cards when i need them and I rarely buy for a single game, unless it is a massive must play title.
Value is in the eye of the beholder. Millionaires can buy a new machine every year with 100% new parts, built by a boutique, and not feel it.
I brought up the DF UE5 video. System requirements are going up. Not sure what about that you don't get. Does it matter to you? Well, depends on what you want to play and how much you want to spend.
Sure, but historically that's always how its been. It generally has been rare to have hardware in front of software. But the consolification of gaming has made it so that a good chunk of games haven't scaled to performance past what a PS4/PS5 needs. Now with UE5, Northlight, and Red Engine 4, I think that's changing. Because those titles scale from a 2060 to a 4090.
Get the 4090. I currently use 3090 and 4090 for gaming. The difference is huge. A generational performance uplift from 3000 series to 4000 series is one of the biggest in the recent GPU history.
Yeah, it's around 75 percent in raster and even more in raytracing... It's a huge jump. I'm sticking with my 3080 for now and holding out for the 5xxx series, but if you have the cash it's already a gigantic uplift to go from 3xxx to 4xxx. Add in better power efficiency and frame generation and it's even better.
This is what I am doing. Painful to wait, but not gonna upgrade my 3080 to a 4090 at this point.
Path tracing in this game is still a "tech preview." In other words, not fully implemented.
Just a re-release for the holidays? Only thing I can think of.
You work for a PR firm don't you?
That first sentence is quite the run-on, so I doubt it. Many other issues with it structurally. LLM-generated, perhaps.
I think path tracing looks pretty cool. Cool enough for me to upgrade from a 3090 Ti to a 4090, at least. Having said that, it's gratuitous in terms of the performance cost.
Yep. I reported it right away as that originally but got a response saying it was probably copy paste /shrug. Seeing a lot of it on various forums.
Presumably this means that there will be either additional content or a reworked system. That is what every other major point release was (like vehicle combat, police update, etc). Looking forward to what it will be. Though I do have to mention I've been playing through CP + PL again for the third time, and I just sorta wish that they could push all these major releases faster so I could enjoy them with the game. It's great that they're happening at all, I much prefer the continued support to not, but I feel like these major updates are things that should've been available at launch or with PL, etc. Rather than having a launch and this stuff coming much later.