eidolon @shaderphantom@awoo.space

Minecraft 3: Warped

Minecraft 2

I would be surprised if Sony continued to support the GNMX API for the PS5. Seems like raw GNM/Vulkanish is really the path forward.

vulkan and family didn't add anything new in terms of pipeline capabilities (nvidia task and mesh shader stages notwithstanding), but they do enable these sorts of massive scale pipelines which games are going to need to hit 4k

elaborating on this: if you're only able to draw 8 unique decals at a time, you're locking the entire G-buffer to do this draw, which means the next 8 have to wait on the previous 8, creating a serial bottleneck. instanced draw + all textures available in the pipeline = the GPU can draw all of these decal meshes on all the attachments at the same time potentially in parallel. since a single draw is exponentially more expensive at higher resolutions, the parallelization helps A LOT

it turns out, bindless textures and unlimited descriptor sets is extremely helpful for instanced drawing, which is of course heavily used by modern games for environment detail; it means The Surge 2 can draw all of its surface decals onto the G-Buffer simultaneously in a single instanced draw call, avoiding ALL of the penalty of rebinding textures between sets of 8 unique decals

getting some perspective on the practical benefits of vulkan is neat because it helps me understand that issue I had the other day: why are only d3d12/vulkan games reaching 4k60

Digital Foundry has a sponsored video interview for The Surge 2 that goes into extensive detail about modern graphics programming, and it rules

Discord down lol

egg

i've been trying to remember the word "impotent" for seven fucking days

doom 2016, in Vulkan mode, does reliably hit 4k60, but there are pretty big drops with some transparent effects and Bokeh DoF.

another observation: only the d3d12 games i've tested can reach 4k60. none of the d3d11 games can even hit 40.

you don't really notice how much of a difference it makes until you get scenes with varied luminance. then it becomes REALLY obvious how much more detail you can see.

oh goodness HDR10 is the real deal

lol I hit the button that enables advertisements on the TV, time to factory reset

"Eight non-humans brutally attacked in the space of two weeks! And you have yet to make even a single arrest! Spare us your usual platitudes, Commander! You very well why these crimes remain unsolved: it is because the perpetrators are humans!"