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Watch Dogs Legion on pc with raytracing looks awesome (i.redd.it)

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[–]Yuskus1234Xbox 277 points278 points  (14 children)

Wait.......... That's not a real picture?????

[–]locoyou20000 64 points65 points  (8 children)

HOLY SHIT!!!

I thought it was r/pics or some gif but dam I had to see 2 times the name of the community like dam

[–]OterXQ 16 points17 points  (7 children)

Side note, video game car designers are better than real life car designers

[–]Brokinnogin 29 points30 points  (5 children)

Thats mostly because real cars have to be possible to build and not cost more than the earth.

[–]707DazZer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

And comply with regulations, which is the most difficult part.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

And follow EPA emissions requirements

[–]andurilmat 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Not if their a volkswagon

[–]Electric_Blue_Hermit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a lot of 3D animators are employed to make 3D cars for commercials and many 3D game artist might have done such work at some point

[–]Lavanthus -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

Like 99% sure he put a filter on this and maybe some minor edits.

My game doesn’t even look that good.

[–]R3d4r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You got a rtx 3000 series?

[–]s1n0d3utscht3k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah not gonna lie thought the same thing

granted I’m on my iPhone X with the brightness at lowest level cuz it’s dark ....

and I had no idea what car that was lol....

but I seriously thought it was a joke and the pic was real

[–]matthawk0328 149 points150 points  (33 children)

Holy crap. Is this a legit screen capture. If so that looks extremely real.

[–]Gonzito3420[S] 128 points129 points  (23 children)

It's a ingame screenshot. There are certain moments during daytime where the lighting seems extremely realistic. I'm amazed by this game's graphics even tho performance isn't that good unfortunately

[–]GoodAtMethBadAtMath 12 points13 points  (3 children)

this is freakin' amazing, cant get that on my crappy monitor

[–]dayglo98 7 points8 points  (2 children)

aren't you looking at that pic...on your monitor ?

[–]JoeNeedsSleep 0 points1 point  (1 child)

No, on my phone

[–]Trash_Cornductor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Then just use your phone as a monitor

[–]Ghost_Sights 0 points1 point  (18 children)

What do you mean performance? Your pcs performance or games performance?

[–]Gonzito3420[S] 20 points21 points  (17 children)

Games performance. I have a rtx2080ti so i shouldn't have problems to run it but the games suffers from poor gpu utilization

[–]nitefang 13 points14 points  (4 children)

Just adding to it, same thing here. Same card, it looks great except it is extremely jumpy, dropping frames, that sorta stuff. I can’t get it run well either even at minimal settings.

[–]Audiomaxi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

RTX 3080 here. Same

[–]Ociex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yupp same and frie n d has 3090 and cant squeeze out much more

[–]DefNotaZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got fed up and locked it to 30

beautiful rendition of London tho, worth

[–]403Verboten 1 point2 points  (8 children)

I just got a 3080 up from a 1080 and I only saw a jump of like 30 fps. From 30 solid to 60 almost solid and that's without ray tracing and 1080p. It's extremely poorly optimized.

Edit: I'm running an i7770k and it never hits over 80% even when driving. Everyone is complaining about this, look at all the comments on this video https://youtu.be/vumOA0-_we4, nobody is getting a consistent 60+fps while driving, not on ultra and dlss looks terrible so not an option, looks far better with it off.

[–]longhorns2422 2 points3 points  (2 children)

3080, 1080p, no raytracing, and only 60fps?

What are your other specs? This seems odd. Jackfrags is running a 3090 and 4k nearly maxed out with a locked 60fps.

You should definitely be able to run 1080p above 60 without raytracing (I would imagine)

[–]JeffZoR1337 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yeah something is definitely off there, but... It definitely has some issues. For me performance is meh but the biggest issue is the game simply keeps disappearing on me. Essentially it crashes but with no info. It just snaps away and the game is done, no error, no notice. Just blips away. Haven't been able to really get started unfortunately.

[–]dayglo98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you have random crashes on PC try this, only takes a minute and it solved it for me :

In the folder where your game is installed, go to the \bin folder, right-click on WatchDogsLegion.exe and select 'properties.'

Go to the compatibility tab, check the box labelled 'disable fullscreen optimizations.'

Click the 'Change High DPI Settings' button. On the window that pops up, check the box at the bottom 'Override high DPI scaling behavior.'

The item under that box should be set to 'Application' if it isn't already.

[–]ninjazombiemaster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Game is very CPU heavy so you may be bottlenecked. I have a 3080 and a 9900k at I generally get 60fps on Ultra at 3440x1440 with both RT and DLSS on while in the open city. Frankly still too low in my opinion but its good enough.

[–]Audiomaxi 0 points1 point  (2 children)

1440p everything on with dlss on balanced produces 80-100 FPS

[–]Rybka980 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The game does whatever it wants apparently. Rtx3080 + i7 9700k 5ghz OC and I got 50-60 fps while driving on max settings 1440p with dlss balanced and rtx ultra. That game is hot garbage. Btw it looks great sometimes but most of the times it looks like gta5 with better faces and rtx.

[–]Audiomaxi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dont get me wrong. The Game runs Like crap and is boring af.

[–]tourist_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you running a Core 2 Duo?

[–]TomLeBadger -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It seems really CPU limited. My 980ti sits at 60-70% utilisation. I had to tune down settings that had medium or above impact on CPU to get it playable.

Looking at the whole picture, it seems exceptionally well optimised graphically, but there are some big ass issues that are just murdering CPU usage in this game.

[–]edbee14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

same here but watch dogs 2

[–]Kardest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, what give it away for me is the tree.

Still it does look really nice.

[–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (2 children)

What is life? What is the real world? Why does that look more HD than my neighborhood? What is the Matrix? Why do my eyes hurt, Morpheus?

[–]ReallyNotFondOfSJ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Because you've never gamed with them, Neo.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he's not beginning to believe

[–]Rattleshakes1 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Shit I thought this was r/pics until I saw the title. That looks so fuckin nice

[–]jasielrt95PC 50 points51 points  (6 children)

My biggest problems with a lot of games is that they have great graphics but horrible animations that break the inmersion.

[–]toasty-cosplays 24 points25 points  (2 children)

And that is Watch Dogs Legion to a T

[–]rikgrime 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Far cry 5 too imo

[–]jasielrt95PC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Compared to watch dogs i think it has better animations.

[–]sumchoppa64 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Imagine gta 6, it's going to be insane because rockstar always has really good polish and animations.

[–]RagePandazXD 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Thought this was an irl photograph of some lambo concept car tbh. Then i read the title.

[–]Nandy-bear 9 points10 points  (3 children)

Shame it runs like shit. The game's lighting is a shitshow, I dunno what they're doing but the disparity in FPS is maddening, and it's caused by certain light sources. Not all of em, just some.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

It’s probably not light sources then, it’s probably too many shadows being created where they don’t belong.

[–]Nandy-bear 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Nah it happens indoors too in areas with not many places or nooks to cast shadows, but only from certain light sources. It kinda feels like it's certain light sources making too many unnecessary calculations, maybe something to do with the way they do RTX and it carried over to non-RTX. I dunno.

My mate actually helped make it lol but I've been apprehensive about nitpicking over it, the development was tense and I kinda feel like I've been shitting on it a lot (I shit on ubisoft constantly to him..mostly joking but at a certain point you're just bagging on a dude's workplace ya know ?), I feel like if I bring up any more issues I'm just being overly negative to his hard work.

Bloody hard to keep quiet tho :/

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Games are just fucking huge dude. People don’t realize how much data even 30 GBs is, let alone 60 - 100 in most AAA titles I’ve played. They’re just so rushed on development that you can’t clean up as you go, you make it work and pray everything else works with it as everyone adds stuff.

And once it’s done, every time you change something something someone else did will break. It’s maddening.

But like I said, it’s probably creating shadows (and reflections) in objects you can’t even see. Multiply that by the thousands of surfaces on your screen and iffy optimization, PC is now toaster

[–]Blaschinskiy 15 points16 points  (7 children)

First, if someone says, that ray tracing is not worth noticing, i show them this. Second, developers should learn how to optimize this for average players.

[–]Gonzito3420[S] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Yeah fuck these people that says that raytracing isn't that impressive

[–]obviouspayphone 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The problem is usually poor implementation (selectively using it) or the hardware. People are dumb and have no imagination, so unless it knocks their socks off, you’re yelling into the wind.

[–]ninjazombiemaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also a lot of RT on vs off comparisons have done a poor job of really illustrating why RT is superior. We've gotten so good at faking reflections, shadows, global illumination/occlusion that the limitations of the techniques aren't frequently obvious.
Youtubers are making videos comparing the two, but keep showing the many cases where SSR/AO/GI/etc work well so RT ends up looking pointless.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

It’s not something the developers control. You can’t ray trace unless your GPU is designed for it (such as the RTX cards or the newly-announced AMD lineup)

[–]ZeikJT 3 points4 points  (0 children)

False. You can raytrace with any processor capable of calculations (POV-Ray has existed since 1991 for example). Whether you can do it well or without slowing down the amount of frames you can pump out depends on the graphics pipeline of the your game. RTX cores on the new cards are optimized for the kinds of calculations that lead to performant and decent raytracing but they're by no means required.

NVIDIA even brought raytracing to non-RTX cards.

Crytek showed off hardware agnostic raytracing.

Non-photoreal games can more easily do raytracing without grinding to a halt, but the more complex your geometries and render passes the more likely your game is to benefit from the new dedicated RTX cores.

[–]Blaschinskiy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rtx is for rtx cards, i know. I’m saying about optimization in general. Btw, publishers must not use rtx as main advertisement. There is major flaw about overall optimization in modern time in lot of AAA games, because most developers don’t want or don’t have time for this.

[–]ZeikJT -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Show them this: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/jl1w2b/raytracing_in_watch_dogs_legion/

[–]cndnkid87 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I don't understand the hate this game is getting

[–]28502348650 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People love to shit on anything Ubisoft. Sure, there are better game developers out there, but I loved all the Ubisoft games I played.

[–]TheReaping1234 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Outside the upper left branches and the moss hanging on the upper middle right side of the bridge, I’d swear this was a photo.

[–]Rauldhs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ok so firsr i was thinking that someone is flexing with a car parked on the street then i read the title( sorry if my english is bad )

[–]ThousandCloud 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Kinda looks like the location from the getaway

[–]nitefang 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It does until you start moving, and it becomes a slideshow.

[–]TheButterAnvil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And runs like aaaasssss

[–]Theredphantom32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really I think the only thing that gives it away is the poor texture resolution on the tree. It's amazing how realistic this image is.

[–]JetV33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice!

You shouldn’t park your car like that though...

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Thats the game? I thought it was a real life photograph.

[–]ankerous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For this and similar enriched graphic photos of GTAV, the cars are almost always a dead giveaway that it is a game and not real.

[–]tiron84 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like or hate Ubisoft they did a pretty good job with this game, it’s not perfect but no game is

[–]Kristophigus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah this game is very pretty when you turn on RTX. It's the only game I keep RTX on so far. I've only got a 2070 super but the framerate is still quite playable between 40s-60s.

[–]Brokinnogin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its like how Ubisoft said Watchdogs 1 would look.

[–]Deathmark25 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes it does

[–]me-tan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All that effort spent on perfectly capturing how London actually looks, but nothing on how Londoners actually talk

[–]KnightsLegacy 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Is Watch Dogs a Unisoft game? It looks alot like the Division.

[–]Sapang 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's made by Ubisoft

[–]Stalker2400 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Imagine GTA 6 with RTX

[–]Rauldhs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We don t need to imagine it we ca see it in real life

[–]slayer828 1 point2 points  (0 children)

finally looks like the E3 videos they made of the original watch dogs.

[–]Dawnfreak -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They pull this bait and switch graphics bs every game.

Fool me once, shame on you, Fool me twice. Well you'll never fool me again.

[–]Pedantic_Philistine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s also a buggy, incomplete mess.

It’s a Ubisoft game, so you all know what that means.

[–]birdsat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just an fyi, that will get burried: The Raytracing in WT: Legion only affects reflections like mirrors or puddles. Not the lighting.

[–]TtotheC81 -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

Reminds me a little of Camden before the yuppies gentrified it.

[–]EightarmedpetPC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Camden’s been gentrified? It was still goths and Spanish tourists last time I checked (possibly 2015).

[–]plztNeo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure I've driven down that road in Camberwell

[–]hornyjarjarbinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

holy hell, this is insaaaane

[–]Darth-Yeezy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

X

[–]D4nt3__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had to zoom in real close to notice it wasn't real, impressive stuff

[–]cheechfool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats sick. I need a gaming rig

[–]PrimG84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Photoshop in a real car from Forza Horizon 4 and it would be very difficult to tell if it's a real pic or not.

[–]Ghostplaya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Omg i didnt believe it for a second

[–]TheSkullVo1d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is real life right?

[–]Jawabosk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually thought this was real for a good minute.

[–]Zealeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate it when people post an amazing picture and don't say where it was taken at.

[–]TeaPack1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shame that it runs like crap with RTX tho :/

[–]-BastilaShan- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only looks nice if you somehow manage to get rid of all NPCs. And btw this is a Video running at real-time FPS.

I got a RTX3080 and the Game runs like absolute garbage at 1440p.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that Notting Hill?

[–]TheMagicPizaa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, though this was a legit picture...

[–]Kristophigus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find the shop area in Camden looks amazing. Definitely gotta get some screenshots around there. Some areas at night look crazy good, too.

[–]Ex_Machina_1 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Whats ur FPS tho.

[–]ninjazombiemaster 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Dunno about him but in the outdoor areas I'm usually getting 60fps (50-70 spread) on an RTX 3080 with maxed settings including RTX + DLSS @ 3440x1440. Interior spaces are often 120fps (my frame cap).

[–]Ex_Machina_1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not bad, at all.

[–]jes394 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You cant trick Me with a irl picture

[–]v161l473c4n15l0r3mPlayStation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s. That’s nuts.

[–]PhanThief95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, that’s not actual London?

[–]IamAbruhmoment69420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It do

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks beautiful, almost thought this was a real image. Well. Enjoy gaming.

[–]ItzzYeBoiCookie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a nice fordaghini aventaGT

[–]BassWeight25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That does, quite frankly.. look spectacular.

[–]datchstatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats cap, totally a photo

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol I thought this was a real picture XD

[–]Emasraw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pc specs?

[–]prattable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There aren't enough flying drones for this to be Watch Dogs Legion.

[–]AgressiveSocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scenery yes. Character models...

[–]DrPepster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How well can you run this game? I have a 3080 and an i7 and I still only get like 40 fps on high.

[–]impaul777[🍰] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genuinely thought this was real wowza

[–]Hackeyking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shit, I didnt want to buy this, but now...

[–]bongsoundPC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Attention to detail is amazing, the UK really does look that shitty

[–]al-Assas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's funny for just another raytracing joke.

Then, you realize it's not a joke :o

[–]Beldor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the ripped awning on the right to see it’s a game. Jesus this is good.

[–]Half-life22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

C'mon guys someone crack it

[–]kutes 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What's keeping these games from being indistinguishable from IRL? I'd imagine we are at the point where the textures from 10 feet away are as detailed as my eye can see.

[–]Gonzito3420[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When it comes to enviroments we are reaching a limit where sometimes its hard to tell between reality and game. But when it comes to human representation and animations we are still far from perfection

[–]Trickmaster19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give the picture of game not screenshots of movie

[–]ohreeeealy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sir, your vehicle is parked illegally.

[–]OaksByTheStream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Raytracing is a gimmick"

[–]leafinthewind_2206 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully it looks this good on the ps5

[–]mamunk69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy shit. I generally don't care about graphics or whatever, but this is really impressive. I had to glance at it twice to make sure it wasn't a real picture of somewhere. Just wow

[–]AlexDavis2001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t read the title first and legit thought this was a photo