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Step 1. Turn on ray tracing
Step 2. Check some forum or protondb and discover that the ray tracing/DX12 is garbage and gets like 10 frames
Step 3. Switch back to DX11, disable ray tracing
Step 4. Play the game
I don't even check anymore lol.
True, I've had very few games worth the fps hit
Best use of ray tracing I've seen is to make old games look good, like Quake II or Portal or Minecraft. Newer games are "I see the reflection in the puddle just under the car when I put them side by side" and I just can't bring myself to care.
The slideshow Control experience does look stellar for a bit
Control and Doom Eternal are the only exceptions to this rule I've played, but they are very much the exception.
If I know a game I'm about to play runs on Unreal Engine, I'm passing a -dx11 flag immediately. It removes a lot of useless Unreal features like Nanite
Then you get to enjoy they worst LODs known to man because they were only made as a fallback
Nanite doesn't affect any of the post processing stuff nor the smeary look. I don't like that games rely on it but modern ue5 games author their assets for nanite. All it affects is model quality and lods.
Lumen and other real time GI stuff is what forces them to use temporal anti aliasing and other blurring effects, that's where the slop is.
what's wrong with nanite?
Nanite + Lumen run like garbage on anything other than super high end hardware.
It is also very difficult to tweak and optimize.
Nanite isn't as unperformant as Lumen, but its basically just a time saver for game devs, and its very easy for a less skilled game dev to think they are using it correctly... and actually not be.
But, Nanite + Lumen have also become basically the default for AAA games down to shitty asset flips... because they're easier to use from a dev standpoint.