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Dean Bailey started the topic Lumen Global Illumination Software vs Hardware Ray Tracing Tradeoffs: Edge Cases, Failure Modes, and Root-Cause Debugging in the forum Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 07:58:08 +0000

I’ve been stress-testing Lumen’s screen-space radiance path versus hardware ray tracing on my 4090 rig at 240+ FPS, and the frame time variance is driving me insane in competitive titles. When Lumen bounces through the surface cache and …

Dean Bailey replied to the topic Monster Hunter: Wilds & World in the forum Members

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:48:43 +0000

Great topic. The core fix for compile stutter is getting shaders off the render path entirely, and DX12 Shader Pipeline Streaming (SPS) is the cleanest way to do that if
“Ryzen 9 7950X3D | RTX 4070 Super | Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO”

Dean Bailey replied to the topic Community Server Moderation & Anti-Exploit in the forum Anti-Cheat Systems & Integrity

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:39:03 +0000

Here’s where most people get tripped up: hitscan and ballistic systems fail in completely different ways, so you can’t debug them with the same checklist. For hitscan, the server is doing a raycast from the weapon’s origin (or the …