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[Gonzito]

DS2 looks good enough, but the image quality and stable framerate is much more important to me, than some RT effects. So i prefer DS2 over any UE5 game on console that runs at 800p with heavy drops. The IQ here is PRISTINE and sadly this is not a common thing this generation

This is my main issue with UE5. It can look good but the image quality is poor always, even if you use TSR, the ghosting is disgusting and the performance in general is trash and I say this as a guy with a 4090 and one of the best amd cpus in the market.

The engine has potential but it's not good enough. I prefer playing a game like DS2 which looks and feels great in comparison

 

[wafflecioccy]

This is my main issue with UE5. the ghosting is disgusting and the performance in general is trash

The engine has potential but it's not good enough.

A lot of UE5's flaws were fixed with UE v5.6 and upcoming 5.7 (nanite foliage)

 

[Gonzito]

A lot of UE5's flaws were fixed with UE v5.6 and upcoming 5.7 (nanite foliage)

Yeah but all the games that have released before are stuck with poor performance and poor image quality, that is the issue here

 

[winjer]

A lot of UE5's flaws were fixed with UE v5.6 and upcoming 5.7 (nanite foliage)

But most studios don't bother updating their engine mid project.
And considering how long it takes to develop games nowadays, it's going to take years until we see these improvements in our games.

 

[Senua]

This is my main issue with UE5. It can look good but the image quality is poor always, even if you use TSR, the ghosting is disgusting and the performance in general is trash and I say this as a guy with a 4090 and one of the best amd cpus in the market.

The engine has potential but it's not good enough. I prefer playing a game like DS2 which looks and feels great in comparison

Image quality is not poor using DLSS

 

[Gonzito]

Image quality is not poor using DLSS

It is. Its poor even while using DLAA, which is fucking native

I see always smearing, ghosting and all sorts of awful effects in every single stupid UE5 game

 

[Senua]

It is. Its poor even while using DLAA, which is fucking native

I see always smearing, ghosting and all sorts of awful effects in every single stupid UE5 game

Using transformer model? Something isn't right then.

 

[Gonzito]

Using transformer model? Something isn't right then.

Yeah, UE5 is not right I agree.

 

[PeteBull]

Cyberpunk 2077 still stands out.

Yup, re-playing it currently and with normal rt on ultra(no psycho/no pathtracing) it still looks great on my 3080ti thx to that transformer dlss4 model, artifacts from upscaling are substantially reduced vs previous method.
Kinda shame new xbox gonna be made with coop of amd since going nvidia could have been 1 objective advantage it could get over amd based ps6...

 

[Senua]

Yeah, UE5 is not right I agree.

Got any examples to post of what you see?

 

[Gonzito]

Got any examples to post of what you see?

These types of visual issues are mostly visible in motion. Is not something you can see on static screenshots. When you are playing the game, you get to see these artifacts and problems that only happen in this engine. Ray tracing in combination with upscalers seems to exacerbate this issue even more. Another engine that has this issue as well is the Red Engine, in Cyberpunk there is a lot of temporal ghosting too, even with DLAA and such but its not so bad as an unreal engine game luckily, and at least Cyberpunk performs well without stuttering or any issues

If you want to see real ghosting, go and watch gameplay of Wukong on playstation 5. Its almost like having a glaucoma

 

[winjer]

Image quality is not poor using DLSS

A side note, that affects all temporal upscalers is that frame rate actually affects the quality of the upscaling.
The reason is that temporal upscalers rely on accumulating data from several frames. So if a temporal upscaler requires 32 samples, then a game running at low frame rates will take much longer to accumulate the necessary data.
This is from one of the developers that made FSR4. He is comparing the RTX5090 and 9070XT, but the same logic applies to any GPU in the same performance range.
This means that FSR4 or DLSS4 running on a console at 30 fps, will look inferior FSR4 or DLSS4, running on a PC at 100+ fps. Even if the base resolution and settings are the same.

For a 2x upscale, the sequence length that is recommended for FSR and XeSS is 32. That means 32 frames are required to complete the sequence, and fully converge to a super-sampled output pixel. You may think this sounds very long - and it is. The algorithm utilizes motion vectors and other tricks to keep samples valid so previous data can be used throughout the convergence.

Finding benchmark data for FSR 4 vs DLSS 4 at the same modes had proven tricky. However, if we grab 1440p average game data for the GPUs in question from Hardware Unboxed as a ballpark figure, we arrive at Radeon RX 9070 XT at 119fps versus Geforce RTX 5090 at 192fps.

If our jitter sequence is 32 frames for a 2x upscale, that means there are 3.71 full accumulations per second capable on Radeon RX 9070 XT, or 6 on Geforce RTX 5090.

In other terms, at these frame rates it takes 269ms to fully accumulate on Radeon RX 9070 XT, or 166ms on Geforce RTX 5090. A huge 100+ms difference in convergence rate. With animation, particles and then camera motion in play during these quality comparisons, that is a lot of time to display lower quality pixels.

These days we are all getting told anti lag improvements of 15-20ms are groundbreaking. That frame generation latency hits of 30ms are unacceptable. So should a graphical convergence difference 2-3 times that be acceptable during a quality review?

Why FPS matters when comparing upscaling quality

I posted a small snippet of information on bluesky recently about reviewers comparing upscalers. I have seen outlets compare images rendered with GPUs in different market segments, such as AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT to Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090. I stated if this is done, FPS needs to be limited to be a...

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[Xtib81]

Cyberpunk 2077 still stands out.

I can't wait to see what the sequel will look like. Considering it will likely release in 2030-31, we should be close to photorealism.

 

[Bojji]

These types of visual issues are mostly visible in motion. Is not something you can see on static screenshots. When you are playing the game, you get to see these artifacts and problems that only happen in this engine. Ray tracing in combination with upscalers seems to exacerbate this issue even more. Another engine that has this issue as well is the Red Engine, in Cyberpunk there is a lot of temporal ghosting too, even with DLAA and such but its not so bad as an unreal engine game luckily, and at least Cyberpunk performs well without stuttering or any issues

If you want to see real ghosting, go and watch gameplay of Wukong on playstation 5. Its almost like having a glaucoma

You are probably talking about lumen artifacts and noise created by poor denoiser. There are also motion trails with lumen not related to dlss or any other reconstruction technique.

 

[Senua]

These types of visual issues are mostly visible in motion. Is not something you can see on static screenshots. When you are playing the game, you get to see these artifacts and problems that only happen in this engine. Ray tracing in combination with upscalers seems to exacerbate this issue even more. Another engine that has this issue as well is the Red Engine, in Cyberpunk there is a lot of temporal ghosting too, even with DLAA and such but its not so bad as an unreal engine game luckily, and at least Cyberpunk performs well without stuttering or any issues

If you want to see real ghosting, go and watch gameplay of Wukong on playstation 5. Its almost like having a glaucoma

You are probably talking about lumen artifacts and noise created by poor denoiser. There are also motion trails with lumen not related to dlss or any other reconstruction technique.

I will "play" some Hellblade 2 and look out for these artifacts because I did not notice them but now I know what to look for I'm interested. Will definitely agree though that UE5 is lacking on consoles