Battlefield 5 RTX impressions

[Exposed]

So I finally got to try out Battlefield 5 tonight, 10 hour trial. I just have random thoughts on this so here goes:

- Game looks STUNNING without RTX. The game forced me to play several mini/tutorial levels in the beginning, each scenario was fantastic looking. This was on Ultra preset running at 4k, vysnc locked at 60 fps the whole time (no dips).

- After the tutorials, started playing multiplayer and kept getting capped every 10 seconds. This was just to get used to the visuals of standard Ultra preset.

- Played for 20 minutes on Rotterdam level. Felt sorry for whoever team I was on, just wanted to look at the windows and scenery. Still kept getting capped every 10 seconds on average. Literally would spawn, try to run somewhere, only to get capped by somebody I can't see seconds later.

- Performance at Rotterdamn was still vsync locked at 60fps, no stuttering, just smooth all around.

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- Turned on RTX and set display to 1440p, kept Ultra settings (including RTX). had to reboot the game of course. In fact, every time trying to change a setting or turn it off, game needs to reboot.

- Dropped back into a Rotterdam level. All I could say was HOLY ****! The lighting changed with RTX on, reflections galore everywhere, suddenly the game looked alot more realistic and what I THOUGHT was "stunning" before suddenly felt bland. All I could think was WOW! The meld of transparency and reflections in the apartment windows was stunningly realistic, I had to literally stare in awe while walking past. Same with the puddles of water, store windows, cars, etc.. The sun even reflected off these surfaces in a realistic fashion I've never seen approximated in a game before.

- Its different when looking at static screenshots or even the digital foundry video, its another thing to be immersed in the game yourself. It's like watching porn compared to actually ****ing.

- And what else made me grin? Performance at 1440p was actually damn good. About 52 fps. This was with RTX Ultra. Tomorrow I'll try RTX Low to see how much of a difference it makes.

- I tried taking a fraps video, but my performance got cut in half. I didn't take much screenshots either, any slight pause and I would get capped in the ass. Plus it's basically the same screenshots you've seen anyways, its just far more appreciative in person.

- Temps were NO DIFFERENT than what I had before. 76 peak.

So all in all this RTX stuff has potential. KAC and the other haters can kiss my ass. 4k is not possible at the moment (didn't bother testing), but neither is assuming all it can do is 1080p, 1440p is just fine. Just need a slower paced game so I can appreciate the RTX details even more without getting capped in the ass so damn often.

I suggest other 2080Ti owners download and see for yourself.

 

[acroig]

Thanks for sharing, I'm looking forward to seeing RTX in Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Oh, a big F U for you burnt out card joke (yes, I feel for it too).

 

[bill dennison]

Thanks

downloading said 55 minutes total

33% done now 32 minutes to go

your download settings maybe off

got one month of Premier just to look at it

 

[kboye]

Watched the pcworld stream LIVE stream. A drop from about 100-70FPS @1920x1080, reflections only, ultra no motion blur. No lighting or shadow difference that I could notice, they even mentioned it at stream that it looked to be reflections only for now.

 

[KAC]

When did I say hate? I only said I am not willing to pay the price for this shitty performance.

 

[bill dennison]

4k RTX low or medium might be playable in shadow of the tomb raider if you turn down other things a bit

this ?
not MP .

can't stay alive long enough to till

ran at 4k ultra aa off 20 to 40 FPS
slow but no or not much stuttering

also crashing to desktop a lot it maybe afterburner

this MP crap is not my type of game .

car and window reflections look cool
ground reflections better yes but not that much better than in The Division

…

I'll see if there is anything else I want to try on origin for a month
about done with butt****five

 

[Hapatingjaky]

Battle Field V only offers reflections not lighting with RTX support.

You are 20FPS higher then most when running at 1440P and you are running Ultra settings on a non overclocked system. Even Guru3D had issues pushing past 40FPS at 1440P on avarage with RTX on ultra and the 9900K they used was overclocked.

Setting RTX to low might net you closer to 60FPS.

RTX is gimick. Its a 60% hit in performance.

3rd Generation RTX cards should be playable, anyone buying in to it now is a moron...

 

[Exposed]

Battle Field V only offers reflections not lighting with RTX support.

You are 20FPS higher then most when running at 1440P and you are running Ultra settings on a non overclocked system. Even Guru3D had issues pushing past 40FPS at 1440P on avarage with RTX on ultra and the 9900K they used was overclocked.

Setting RTX to low might net you closer to 60FPS.

RTX is gimick. Its a 60% hit in performance.

3rd Generation RTX cards should be playable, anyone buying in to it now is a moron...

I had no issues going past 40fps at 1440p on Ultra. In fact I went back to the same scene and another screenshot with fps counter:

60fps vsync locked in that area with all those reflections going on. Other areas did dip into the 30's but I was surprised overall it stayed above 50fps most of the time.

I set it to RTX LOW and I was vsynced locked at 60fps. I couldn't tell much of a difference either, the reflections still looked amazing regardless of where it was.

You're being too hard on RTX. Especially since you haven't seen it for yourself. It's not something I would keep on with Battlefield 5, it's not a game to appreciate RTX details.

I also rage quit this ****ing game just now because it was just too cumbersome trying to take screenshots without getting capped or the game switching to another level. WHY is there not an offline mode with bots?

 

[logical]

Better start saving for the real 2080ti when it drops.

Game is unplayable as far as Im concerned. Resolution too low and if you bump it frames are too low. I would rock with RT if the visual difference were groundbreaking but its really just some some mirroring in BFV. The frame hit doesnt justify the visuals.

So heres your conundrum Exposed... you bought the card for 4k yet with RTX on you cant touch that with playable frames in BFV(and most likely any game that supports RTX in the future)... what do you do? Drop the resolution and play with RTX which defeats the purpose of buying the card or play with it off and not be able to use one of its main features?

 

[Exposed]

Like I said before, RTX is a bonus on already powerful cards. I'd be willing to drop down to 1440p IF it is implemented properly on a game worth playing.

In fact that's what I'm doing now. I just finished Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 4k 60fps max details (with exception of no AA). Then when the RTX patch hits, I can replay it at 1440p with RTX on if I want to.

Both of which are scenarios unavailable to 1080Ti owners.

 

[SIrPauly]

Thanks for sharing your subjective view. Did you see any artifacts with the reflections? Curious on your thoughts on rtx low.

 

[Exposed]

4k RTX low or medium might be playable in shadow of the tomb raider if you turn down other things a bit

this ?
not MP .

can't stay alive long enough to till

ran at 4k ultra aa off 20 to 40 FPS
slow but no or not much stuttering

also crashing to desktop a lot it maybe afterburner

this MP crap is not my type of game .

car and window reflections look cool
ground reflections better yes but not that much better than in The Division

…

I'll see if there is anything else I want to try on origin for a month
about done with butt****five

Crashing? Ironically I haven't had a single crash. Did you try checking performance at 1440p?

I'm pretty much done with this game. The RTX can look like Beyonce's ass for all I care, it just isn't fun.

 

[NWR_Midnight]

Crashing? Ironically I haven't had a single crash. Did you try checking performance at 1440p?

I'm pretty much done with this game. The RTX can look like Beyonce's ass for all I care, it just isn't fun.

The game randomly crashes since the patch yesterday, more so on dx 12, but also non dx 11.

Test it with Vsync disabled, and use the in game frame rate limiter. I suspect you will have higher lows and higher averages with it disabled. You also will not suffer from the input lag vsync brings with it, which is a killer in mulitplayer.

 

[Exposed]

The game randomly crashes since the patch yesterday, more so on dx 12, but also non dx 11.

Test it with Vsync disabled, and use the in game frame rate limiter. I suspect you will have higher lows and higher averages with it disabled. You also will not suffer from the input lag vsync brings with it, which is a killer in mulitplayer.

I must have played it for 3 hours total because it says I have 7 hours left on the trial.

It crashed once when I tried to alt tab out of the game, but hasn't crashed in game so far. DX12 Ultra preset at 1440p with RTX and 4k without RTX.

Unless someone has something they want me to check for, I have no intention of loading this back up.

 

[bill dennison]

Crashing? Ironically I haven't had a single crash. Did you try checking performance at 1440p?

I'm pretty much done with this game. The RTX can look like Beyonce's ass for all I care, it just isn't fun.

Crashing RTX on or off on the single player

mostly randomly crashes all dx12

like I said it maybe msi afterburner and dx12 it has done it in other games

 

[Exposed]

Thanks for sharing your subjective view. Did you see any artifacts with the reflections? Curious on your thoughts on rtx low.

I didn't see any artifacts, though what kind of artifacts did you mean? Basically what you see in the screenshots is what I see, it just looks so much more stunning in real time.

I couldn't tell an immediate difference between LOW and Ultra. Though I never really got a chance to spend minutes at a time looking at each scene in detail.

There was one interesting moment where I was just looking at my reflection in a store window, and suddenly a tank rolled passed by and I saw it's reflection as it did, complete with semi transparency effects as you would see looking at a store window on a sunny day. I thought that was really cool. Until I got capped a split second later.

 

[bill dennison]

I got lots of a "your dead" artifact

don't see the draw of the game

or why it has Ray Tracing you can't see anything running for your life with your hair on fire or dead


but didn't see any artifacts in the graphics




and my card did not blow up or run hotter

 

[logical]

Like I said before, RTX is a bonus on already powerful cards. I'd be willing to drop down to 1440p IF it is implemented properly on a game worth playing.

In fact that's what I'm doing now. I just finished Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 4k 60fps. Then when the RTX patch hits, I can replay it at 1440p with RTX on if I want to.

Both of which are scenarios are unavailable to you because you don't have a 2080Ti.

So no 4k? Are you happy dropping down for RT? Its sad having the most powerful card and cant use its features without having to go down in resolution. Its almost crippling to the point of where you essentially brought yourself back to having a 1080ti when you got a 2080ti.

If I buy a card as expensive as the 2080ti I expect certain things out of it.

As for the shot on me not having it available lmao. Sure its not available but even if it was available I wouldnt turn it on. Frame trade off and lower resolution aint worth the visuals. Im sticking to my guns and not buying the card on principle. RT isnt a killer enough feature to override the price.

As far actually using it in BFV I dont think its something thats needed in a multiplayer game. The game is too fast paced to even notice their implementation of RT. If some developer used it in a killer single player game it could be worth it. Metro could be the one but lets see what the final version looks like.

 

[bill dennison]

So no 4k? Are you happy dropping down for RT? Its sad having the most powerful card and cant use its features without having to go down in resolution. Its almost crippling to the point of where you essentially brought yourself back to having a 1080ti when you got a 2080ti.

If I buy a card as expensive as the 2080ti I expect certain things out of it.

As for the shot on me not having it available lmao. Sure its not available but even if it was available I wouldnt turn it on. Frame trade off and lower resolution aint worth the visuals. Im sticking to my guns and not buying the card on principle. RT isnt a killer enough feature to override the price.

As far actually using it in BFV I dont think its something thats needed in a multiplayer game. The game is too fast paced to even notice their implementation of RT. If some developer used it in a killer single player game it could be worth it. Metro could be the one but lets see what the final version looks like.

i'll wait on more games for that I think I could get RT playable at 4k by dropping other settings a bit

but can't stay alive long enough in this to test things and just not worth the time in this game


but even at 4k and 20 to 40 FPS it was smoother than I would have thought

 

[Exposed]

So no 4k? Are you happy dropping down for RT? Its sad having the most powerful card and cant use its features without having to go down in resolution. Its almost crippling to the point of where you essentially brought yourself back to having a 1080ti when you got a 2080ti.

If I buy a card as expensive as the 2080ti I expect certain things out of it.

As for the shot on me not having it available lmao. Sure its not available but even if it was available I wouldnt turn it on. Frame trade off and lower resolution aint worth the visuals. Im sticking to my guns and not buying the card on principle. RT isnt a killer enough feature to override the price.

Sounds like you convinced yourself. Who else are you trying to convince here?

Like Bill said, the game is actually playable at 4k if you're willing to accept 30fps with RTX on. One thing I should have checked is 4k with RTX LOW. If that gives decent framerates then you don't even have that argument. But this is not a game i enjoy so I wouldn't even play it at those settings.

Also, I didn't drop down to 1080ti class, because last I checked, a 1080Ti couldn't run this game with RTX on. And with it off, a 2080ti craps on a 1080Ti even at 1440p, which is why others here have bought a 2080Ti just for 1440p. Not even that argument of yours is holding up.

So if Acroig wants to play BF5 at 1440p with RTX on, that's his business, because the performance is there for that if he chooses. This thread doesn't care for your thoughts about "sticking to your guns on principal".