#METRO EXODUS RAY TRACING FULL#

As much ire is floating about regarding the softening of the image when using DLSS I would still recommend it for those wanting to use RTX Ray Traced Global Illumination when it is available, or at least give it a try yourselves and make a personal judgement call on its value. We also included a scened with RTX On vs RTX Off. We ran the same route but this time with RTX enabled to see the performance impact on all cards at all resolutions. This doesn't mean it's not performant impactful because it is. Metro Exodus features Ray Traced Global Illumination and replaces the baked in lighting with ray traced bounces coming from the sun and sky to handle to the way the scenes are lit. But you're not getting reflections or shadows here.

#METRO EXODUS RAY TRACING FULL#

Metro Exodus launched with full RTX support which is a welcome addition after all these months from the GeForce RTX series has released. Some may ask why we even test the lower end cards at this point and the only real reason is, why not? I don't expect people playing on a GTX 1060 3GB to be trying to play a game like this at UHD resolutions, but sometimes it is just fun to see where things fall. Even the enthusiast cards begin to suffer here a bit and it might be worth looking into lowering some settings in hopes of boosting that performance.Īnd finally arriving at UHD we see but one card standing above that magical 60FPS line. Moving up to WQHD we see a similar story unfold but at this point it leaves the mainstream cards out in the cold without looking into serious visual consolations. We included 4K screenshots to show the differences between the presets if you want to see how they impact visuals. We did all our testing using the Ultra Preset but we can see that adjusting down has a pretty big benefit on performance to eek out those extra FPS if you feel you need to. Testing preset performance is a good way to see how the game scales by simply adjusting the presets rather than individual settings for a quick idea. Graphics Settings Used In Metro Exodus Graphics Option We also did all our testing without Hairworks and Advanced PhysX disabled. Outside of the train area the average frame was typical of what you would see. 1% lows are more indicative of the reduced performance through the area where the train is as that's where it was at it's lowest for some time.

I want to point out that for the most part the game played very smooth and the 1% and. We got our results from a scene just after the incident at the church and set our route starting on one bank with the broken bridge, walking up the side to the railroad tracks, turning towards the Aurora, walking through the camp out the other side, then back down the opposite bank and walk for about 20 seconds down the riverside away from the train. That said, we captured in game performance using OCAT and extracting AVG FPS, 1% Lows, and. I have a feeling that because it's a DX12 title you'll see a lot of people use it since it makes gathering result data easy, but I found that actual in game performance to be more indicative of what to expect. The game does feature a built in benchmarking tool, but it's pretty far off from actual in game performance. Those flaming barrels are killer for performance. You can see frame rates go from 150 to 60 in the matter of coming around a corner and seeing a flaming barrel. Testing Metro Exodus was a bit of a challenge, not just because I got locked out a couple times but because it is a game whose performance varies wildly depending on the scene.

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