Poll: Do you care about ray tracing / upscaling?

[DAPUNISHER]

I will buy a cheap 4K gaming TV and new A/V receiver ... someday. That is when upscaling and FG will have real value to me. HDR is not a big draw for us color deficient folks.

 

[igor_kavinski]

HDR is not a big draw for us color deficient folks.

It's not really about colors (yes they are more vivid and saturated on good 10-bit HDR displays) but rather stuff popping out and making its presence felt on the screen. An example that I loved seeing was when playing Forza Horizon at night. It was dark enough that everything looked dull but I could still clearly see everything. The tail lights of the car looked like real lights due to them being a lot brighter than the rest of the image and in the distance, fireworks were going on in the sky. And I was just driving all around and enjoying the feel of the car and the display of vivid colors on the screen. But I have to admit that I love night scenes and do feel that HDR can't do much for daylight scenes, other than momentarily blinding you with brightness but then that's what happens often in real life too when sunlight is involved.

And Samsung seems to offer color deficient modes to make them look better for affected people:



I have these on my Samsung monitor too.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Gratitude

I will get down to Best Buy and have them demo it for me.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I will get down to Best Buy and have them demo it for me.

HDR400 monitor is kinda useless. It will leave you wanting more.

HDR600 is a good middleground.

HDR1000 is the best but expensive.

I got this: https://www.samsung.com/latin_en/mo...-g60sd-27-inch-360hz-oled-qhd-ls27dg602snxza/

It doesn't specify max brightness (or maybe it does and I can't seem to find it in the specs). The typical one is kinda bad but thankfully, things really improve when you turn on Windows HDR mode. I don't find the colors inaccurate or anything in this mode coz well, I'm no digital artist with an eye for these things but it looks kinda more subdued than my LG TV and phone AMOLED display. Still, the smoothness is often perceptible even just while scrolling stuff and even with low quality media, there are scenes where the highlights get boosted despite the content being SDR. I can only imagine that proper HDR content would look much better but a bit too busy to try at the moment.

Now raytracing with HDR, that could be a sight to behold. But don't want to download and load up CP2077 just to see that. I wonder if there is a demo on GoG that offers those two things in a reasonable download size.

 

[SolidQ]

DF is again talking BS. When i was watching ancient gameplay video, there is show with Xess 1.3 is mostly tie, based on game

AMD FSR 3.1 Still Lags Behind NVIDIA DLSS 3.7, Intel XeSS 1.3 in Terms of Image Quality, Despite Improvements

While allowing frame generation to be used with any upscaler or anti-aliasing solution, AMD FSR 3.1 still leaves something to be desired

wccftech.com

This guy have pretty good point about DLSS vs FSR war, and i'm agree with him.