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NFS Underground looks great with Hi-Res textures and RayTracing
- Thread starter dex3108
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Other than car/human models, I still find Underground to look really nice today (without any mods either).
It's available they just don't let you watch it embedded.
Open it on its own page or the app on mobile.
Click the video title and open it in the YouTube app. It's monetized because of licensed music
Is that your entire takeaway from this video showcasing ray-traced reflections?
I read in the comments the game was running at 25fps so I'm going to guess AA was disabled or something to improve performance.
It may not have RTX support but you can still run raytracing code on any kind of processor.
Hmm ok I'll take your word for it, I'm not too knowledgable about the subject.. I just thought that if you don't have an RTX supported GPU you cannot use Raytracing but I guess I was wrong
It looks like one of those "let's make everything shiny because we can" graphic experiments that took place during the later part of the Xbox cycle, but without the care and thought of Wreckless.
I mean, it's a fan project. Can't hate it. It just doesn't look great.
I mean, it's a fan project. Can't hate it. It just doesn't look great.
Nvidia's RTX is basically a form of hardware RT accelerator. It helps RT calculations immensely but is not the only way to run RT.
You could in fact render a static image using RT on a 486 CPU for example. Would take forever but could do it.
After all this years this still looks more fun to play than the modern NFSs. But a strong case for raytracing this is not.
Also, was there always a McDonalds billboard in the game?
Also, was there always a McDonalds billboard in the game?
Really the issue here is they put an RT reflective shader into a road material that was made before PBR materials were a thing, so you're getting an overly reflective layer alongside a texture made the old-fashioned way, so there aren't any parts of the texture that have less reflection than others. The whole thing is like a weird mirror you're driving on.
The aliasing doesn't seem like much of a problem compared to the low frame rate, ghosting, and image noise.
The RT shader doesn't use RTX acceleration anyway.
RTX is specific hardware built to speed up ray tracing. It's not required to use ray tracing.
The RT shader doesn't use RTX acceleration anyway.
I bought this a while ago in a Cash Converters store for 1 ā¬. Guess it's time to finally install it.
Nvidia marketing worked well, I see :)
They didn't invent RT, they're just the first to "kind of" offer a consumer level hardware solution for it.
Obviously not perfectly optimized, but kind of brings it forward a generation.
NFSU was always aggressively bloomy and shiny. Invented wet roads. But yeah, this basically turns it into the 360 version of that by flipping those settings to Ultra. PS2 game+PS5 tech=PS3 graphics.
I wonder if next gen consoles, playing backwards compatible games, will be able to add in effects like ray tracing.
I know they'll upscale... and possibly increase frames per second, but I wonder what else they'll achieve.
I know they'll upscale... and possibly increase frames per second, but I wonder what else they'll achieve.
It looks like NFSU just with more AO. I think the RT reflections meshing with the already existing car reflections isn't really doing this any favors, but it does at least look better than the original so there's that.
BC with an XBX/PS5 patch they could totally add in RT effects.
With a decent patch you could effectively remaster a game...in my books thats a good thing, for devs not so much because the games will be discounted as fuck by then, but selling a PS5/XBX remaster you could charge whatever you want.
Looks pretty neat, will check it out. I still have my Underground DVD (or was it a CD, even?) around.
Nah, I wouldn't even call it that, since Most Wanted 360 was that. This just looks garbo. I don't think I've seen a game with injected SSRT that looks good, but given all these games lack proper materials to leverage RT, it's not surprising
Hey, when your reference point is actual video game developers that's what happens.
people constantly talked about how everything looked wet in nfsu back in the day
That's just how the game looks. Even recent NFS games are too wet...
Most Wanted was less about looking flashy and more about piss filter and bloom. It looks awful.
They temporarily disabled the piss filter to emphasize things like cops arriving, so you can see what a pissless Most Wanted looks like.
After actually comparing to old NFSU, my problem with how this looks would be that the lighting is significantly subdued and less stylistic. It just looks darker, less dynamic, more boring. Technically improved, artistically worse. I too would prefer playing it without this applied.
Need for Speed Underground [FULL GAME]
Original version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1ERGmEfyg0 Every race in Need for Speed: Underground, utilizing every vehicle the very moment it's unlocke...
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š„ NFSU1 - Redux , but with RT Shaders š„
U1 DE is here - https://youtu.be/xqsWiPbTy8c https://www.artstation.com/artwork/48PJLW
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