so, if a company decides to, for example, start using some MIT licensed software, does that suddenly materialize extra responsibilities for that software’s dev?

there should’t be any averaging! Just render the damn frame!

You can’t tell me we could get something like mgsV on previous gen hardware at 60 fps, And that hardware with 9 times the processing power can only render a lower resolution, noisy image which is then upscaled and denoised… at 30 fps.

“But raytracing!!!”

If these are the compromises that need to be made just to shoehorn that in, then current hardware isn’t really capable of realtime raytracing in the first place.

no, it depends how you want to render it. Older games still had most of today’s effects. It’s just that everyone is switching to unreal, whose focus isn’t games anymore. And which imo, looks really bad on anything except a 4090, if that. Nobody is putting in the work for an optimized engine. There is no “one size fits all”. They do this to save money in development, not because it’s better.

ffs even the noisy image isn’t always at native resolution anymore.

no, I fucking hope not. Older games rendered an actual frame. Modern engines render a noisy, extremely ugly mess, and rely on temporal denoising and frame generation (which is why most modern games only show you scenes with static scenery with a very slow moving camera).

Just render the damn thing properly in the first place!