Dr. Quadragon ❌ on Nostr: People are upset that some modern games require raytracing, and on the one hand, I ...

People are upset that some modern games require raytracing, and on the one hand, I get it. You want a game, turns out you can't play it, because you don't have the tech required, and GPU market is a little bit shit right now.

On the other hand, I'm old enough to remember the same situation with dedicated GPUs altogether. When the games that listed hardware acceleration as a hard requirement were starting to come out, I was maximum pissed, despite having a pretty competent machine. I can run Quake I, II and Unreal, why is Q3 being so fussy?

And knowing that raytracing is not just a visual effect - it's actually a very different way of doing real-time computer graphics, well, there *had* to be some point in time when the devs just *have* to drop support for the old way. That's why the devs do it in the first place - just so they don't deal with a bunch of old hacks anymore.

It's also reminds me of X/Wayland situation. At some point, you *have* to drop legacy support and transition.