@[email protected] to PC [email protected]English • 3 months agoA Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'www.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1632arrow-down110cross-posted to: [email protected]technology[email protected]
arrow-up1622arrow-down1external-linkA Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'www.pcgamer.com@[email protected] to PC [email protected]English • 3 months agomessage-square94fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]technology[email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•3 months agoYes, but it’s exponentially expensive compared to cheating.
minus-squareSharkAttaklinkfedilink4•3 months agoWell they built entire video cards series to address that, I hope they were worth it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•3 months agoWe haven’t had decent GPU pricing since we started ramming that onto cards, although I will openly admit we’ve also had a lifetime of wacky fucking shit go on since then.
minus-squarePup BirulinkfedilinkEnglish4•3 months agoand it’s still incredibly computationally expensive
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•3 months agoyes and no, ray tracing still requires decisions about fidelity, the same poor decisions can be made in either rendering system
Shouldnt ray tracing fix that?
Yes, but it’s exponentially expensive compared to cheating.
Well they built entire video cards series to address that, I hope they were worth it.
We haven’t had decent GPU pricing since we started ramming that onto cards, although I will openly admit we’ve also had a lifetime of wacky fucking shit go on since then.
and it’s still incredibly computationally expensive
yes and no, ray tracing still requires decisions about fidelity, the same poor decisions can be made in either rendering system