The embargo for Metro Exodus has just been lifted and we can finally talk about this highly anticipated first-person title. And in case you’re wondering, yes; the game supports from the get-go both DLSS and real-time ray tracing RTX effects. As such, we can now share our first performance impressions of it.
For this initial test, we used an Intel i7 4930K (overclocked at 4.2Ghz) with 16GB of DDR3 RAM at 2133Mhz, NVIDIA’s RTX 2080Ti, Windows 10 64-bit and the GeForce 418.81 driver.
First things first. 4A Games has used RTX for the game’s Global Illumination, Ambient Occlusion and Indirect Lighting. Contrary to Battlefield 5, these improvements can be easily noticed when switching between the ray traced and the rasterized versions of Metro Exodus, and will indeed improve the game’s visuals.
However, and similarly to Battlefield 5, real-time ray tracing comes with a huge performance hit. Let’s take a look at two comparison screenshots in 2560×1440 with RTX ON (left) and OFF (right).
In order to address this huge performance hit, 4A Games and NVIDIA have added DLSS support to Metro Exodus, however DLSS is currently not that good. On the left you will find the RTX+DLSS screenshots and on the right you will find the non-RTX images (we strongly suggest opening them in new tabs).
Performance-wise, Metro Exodus runs with 60fps (though there are some drops to 55fps) at 2560×1440 with RTX and DLSS on Extreme settings with PhysX and HairWorks on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti. However, you may have noticed that the RTX screenshots look blurry as hell. And that’s our biggest gripe with DLSS in Metro Exodus. While DLSS in 3DMark Port Royale and Final Fantasy XV looks amazing, the DLSS implementation in Metro Exodus is awful. We don’t know whether this can be fixed via a new driver from NVIDIA, however DLSS in Metro Exodus is underwhelming.
Below you can find a comparison between 2560×1440 with RTX+DLSS (left) and 1920×1080 with only RTX (right). As we can see, the game looks crisper and runs better in 1920×1080. This shouldn’t be happening. Not only that, but the sunlight, for some unknown reason, looks worse (less bright) when DLSS is used, something that has a negative impact on the whole image. Therefore, and until NVIDIA resolves all these DLSS issues, we strongly suggest avoiding it.
To better showcase the blurriness/low-res side-effects of DLSS, here are also some comparisons at 2560×1440 on Extreme settings with RTX enabled between DLSS On (left) and DLSS Off (right).
In conclusion, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti can run Metro Exodus with all its bells and whistles (PhysX, HairWorks and RTX) at 1080p with constant 60fps. At 2560×1440, there are some framerate drops to 40-44fps so those seeking smooth framerates (above 53fps at all times) will not be able to get them. Still, the game can be considered playable at 1440p with RTX enabled on NVIDIA’s most powerful gaming graphics card. And last but not least, DLSS is bugged at the moment and even though it improves performance, it significantly reduces image clarity due to its blurriness so we strongly suggest avoiding it.
UPDATE:
NVIDIA has just released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce 418.91 WHQL driver provides the optimal gaming experience when using DLSS and Ray Tracing in Battlefield V and Metro Exodus. We went ahead and tested this new driver and unfortunately the game still looks blurry with DLSS enabled (the screenshots on the left are with DLSS enabled whereas the screenshots on the right are with DLSS OFF).
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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The shadows are beautiful with RTX. Seriously
but only in interiors.
yes, interiors or crowded spaces with objects that occlude indirect light.
Problem is that RT need to be only light techinque not some gimmick for ultra setting.
That’s just no feasible right now. Way too expensive.
Some guy made a raytracing mode for Quake 2, and that runs okay if you’ve got the latest RTX cards. Not to mention there are still limitations, like only one bounce of light
Long time before full RT comes in, but we can see it getting there 🙂
One bounce light is more than enough for now. Claybook (2015) use Signed Distance Function Ray Tracing a.k.a Sphere Tracing for Shadows, ambient light and AO. IT goes 60fps on consoles in 1080p if I recall. And it`s a indie game. There are other Tracing techniques to use not to mention more advance rendering.
yeah but the game should look better with RTX off than what it looks with it off, its like they said “RTX will look good, but with RTX off the lighting will be set to low”
It’s something you just don’t see outside of games that bake the lighting information.
Global Illumination makes a world of difference.
It does it’s very beautiful. Now i hope they optimize it a little more just like dice did with bfv but we’ll see about that.
Oh we’ll see overtime maybe they’ll streamline it even further, idk. And yea if we could get DLSS to look sharper it would be great.
I’m not terribly sure these developers really have the coding chops to optimize the way it needs. Dice works miracles, but the Metro series has always been an underperformer when it comes to optimization.
Global illumination is lazy illumination, all 3d artist know this and most stil prefeer 3 point lighting even with techniques like pathtracing and raytracing, you can achieve great results with it and it will look great if games used this technique too now that we have rtx, like made on a render software.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-N149FMlWk
LoL I forgot this game releases since its not on steam, ehhh I ll wait for a year or pirate it and then buy it after 1year on sale
That DLSS is disappointing. This is a feature I was excited about but that looks horrific. You may as well lower resolution scale by 40% and skip DLSS altogether in games where it looks like that.
There’s no free lunches. If you want extra performance, you’ll have to give up some graphical quality
Calm down folks. This DLSS BS is just another exclusive gimmick to sell a GPU.
Next year they will probably launch another version, like DLSS 2.0. And again it will be exclusive for that upcoming GPU. So you can throw you 2080Ti away right now.
Nah it will be called DLSS+ and the version after that will be called DLSS+ Ultra.
Can’t wait for Capcom to use it so we can all look forward to Ultra Super Street Fighter Hyper Alpha Arcade EX World Edition with DLSS+ Ultra!
I prefer outdoor shadows with raytracing off judging from these pics, plus they have more contrast too. With RTX on everything looks too washed out (no I don’t want a real life simulator).
agreed
Watch Nexus video, the reason you prefer Fake lightning is because you used to it playing games, now you need to train your eyes again.
Realistic is Unbeatable.
I think it is a matter of artistic vs realistic.
Whatever you prefer is preference. I’m an artistic guy myself. Movies don’t even choose realistic lighting, with magic spot lights and such to make them look better. If realistic isn’t good enough for movies, it isn’t good enough for games.
Movies and games are different, games are simulation and movies need lighting to create a visible product, you dont have flashlights and cant affect camera angles.
You cant make dark movie and tell people to turn on the flashlight, you can do that in game if its realistic and logical.
Fundamentally, Ray Tracing “may” have a future. It’s just not now. It’s very underwhelming right now, because it just wasn’t given enough time to be properly implemented in the first gen RTX cards.
It’s up to Nvidia, on whether it truly has a future or not. They better not drop the ball on their next iteration, like they have in the past.
At the time when Ray Tracing will be widely avaible we probably gona push Path Tracing.
True enough. It’s all so up in the air, that it’s hard to truly invest in it, as a customer.
Still probably AMD will come with software Sphere Tracing that will be avaible on any dx12 GPU.
all of you talking about ray tracing while i struggle to find a affordable card due to bitcoin mining.
RTX is a combination of Microsoft’s DXR and Nvidia’s proprietary upscaling DLSS. Microsoft’s DXR definitely has a future, RTX on the other hand needs a huge performance bump. Let’s hope the 7nm versions are worth the wait.
Yet another Epic RetardTaX fail.
Just another street hobo that cant afford latest and greatest.
Poor people should be moved to africa.
Wrong on many levels. Makes me wonder what sort of life you have had.
Right on every possible level.
#stopbeingpoor
nice use of ad-crumenam fallacy
Thanks, im trying!
Actually, I’m a 50yo software developer that started my own company at 21. You on the other hand seem to be at the bottom of the pile, while doing nothing positive to crawl out of your hole.
BTW. You miss spelled envy in your name.
You are a 13 years old boy that trolls message boards to pass time using infantile expressions like “Epic RetardTaX fail”
If youre 50, then you are defiantly a misdiagnosed r?t?rd.
Why should I envy a pre-teen pauper that cant even afford 2080ti?
Dlss is the new txaa,promising but underwhelming at the moment
Everything looked blurry in those screenshots
Bad implementation of DLSS because yeah it’s realllllly blurry. Might buy it on Steam sale.
so far DLSS wasn’t blurry, BFV comparison video ISNT blurry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=qS8yjlmNHVs
I’d take the one on the right, thank you 😀
Seriously, that looks like the blurriest FXAA I’ve seen
am i the only one who really thinks it looks better with ray tracing off?
no
Yes, you are dumb af.
HOBO
EDIT, just watched the nexus video, and they talk about your kind of people: You got used to FAKE Lightning so much that realistic looks bad in your eyes.
The RTX makes the lightning realistic and you have to get used to it, well when you grow up and be able to afford RTX2080ti or the next RTX3080ti
“well when you grow up and be able to afford RTX2080ti or the next RTX3080ti”
you want to wait for rtx 3080ti instead of getting both rtx2080ti and 3080ti after it?
you poor eastern euorpean peasant.
my grandfather’s maid is eastern european. my father’s workers are eastern europeans, eastern europeans migrate to west and north europe like unwanted vermin. eastern european men here are either workers or pimps and eastern european women are all whures. although fortunately, your kind have stopped migrating to switzerland because you can’t afford to live here.
The f are you talking about hobo, I own 2080ti from day one, show us your PC spec, i bet its some pauper trash system with RX570.
Your shithole country is already swarming in muslime vermin, in 20-30 years the whole europe will be raising black/green flag and you’ll be Alah akhbaring 6 times a day. The camel piss drinkers won without shooting a single bullet, you let them in yourself, gave them social security money, free housing, health care and now they spawning 7-10 pups for each women [paid by your tax payer] while your Feminazi women maybe have one child, but most dont because they a F around till they 50.
Stop being poor, maybe ask your mom for share of her penis sucking money 🙂
typical low iq eastern europen. you have a 2080ti because you used all of your savings (that is if you do own one) and also you pay for hardware because you pirate games, if you could pirate hardware you would have done that as well. tell those lies to low iq people like yourself.
how is my country a shethole when i can sit home and do nothing and still have more income than 99 percent of your population?also you’re pees poor compared to muslims as well so let that sink in.
believe me, i’ve seen more people complain about eastern europeans than muslims here. you come to our countries and blend like virus then you proceed to do what you do best which is being a piece of shet human beings. rude, dirty, sexually aggressive and braindead people.
stereotype in america is every thief or criminal is black. in here there aren’t that many criminals but the ones that make it to the news are always eastern european. you low iq monkeys think you’re same as westerners but in reality you’re worse than average muslims, average muslims keep to themselves but i’ve yet to meet a pleasant eastern european male/female in my life. there’s a reason that americans used to call you white neegros.
i head it’s not just here, you have a negative image in north europe and uk too.
This is my Hobo PC, my Intel 480Gb optane costs more then your PC, my Corsair MP500 960Gb was 570USD on amazon when i got it last year, thats again more then your whole PC.
I have more RAM then you have NVMe space.
Oh and I pirate PC games thats why I have 721 steam games, 859 DLC + 20-30 Origin games, 10+ UBI launcher games, 20ish GOG games and 7 EPIC store games Metro being the last one [which a hobo like you going to pirate]
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3540731b06b130b3d60b7563a872399962989c235da998411952949c0f94a72e.jpg
wow you’re so rich 700 games? and a couple of thousand dollars rig? slow down ffs, think about us the poor peasants lmao. i bet you’re so rich that you have a 15k suv as well. you eastern european rich boys trigger my jealousy, have some mercy.
edit:
i just realized games cost a third of fourth of what they cost in here so another rich boy bonus for you good sir.
AAA games cost over 70USD on steam here.
Read my other replay, im not from eastern Europe and you deserve all the crap that you get from Slavs, thats because you weak.
And actually I dont care about cars, i drive small economic cheap car that cost me just 20K USD.
east europe, south europe. both equally disgusting.
The ones that disgusting are the ones that opened their doors to 3rd world immigrant filth, THATS the utmost pinnacle of disgusting ball-less weakens. [Well your women needed to get F by hairy cave men because you West/Center Europeans wear skirts and use lipstick]
Im not from Europe, but FYI I respect Eastern Europeans more then the sore weak Center/West Europe losers that invite 3rd world migrant filth and let their wife be molested en-mass, also you have no army, depending on Uncle Sam to save your miserable lives HAHAHA
You better learn Arabic fast!
we opening our borders is why gypsies like you are allowed to whure your women out in our brothels and streets. still, i don’t know how many times i have to tell you, i’d rather let muslims in than eastern europeans because muslims at least have morals and are varied. you’re all the same pieces of shets, wolves in sheep clothing.
someone told me that the ones that look less white (between european people) are the most racist ones, i have to agree with that person now. you come here from your own shetholes and tell us who to let in as if you’re any better than anyone else. the fact that your countries have shet economy is why you should keep your mouth shut when it comes to economy and society.
where are you from if not europe?it sounds like you’re far enough to not have any clue what the fck is actually happening. you sound just like a dumb sheep who gets his news from youtube rytards.
You clearly are dumb teenager that has his life confused.
Whos looking less white? Russians? Ukrainians? Polish? They are whiter then you trash, whiter then Spaniards, Italians and otehr half brown Europeans.
You clearly confused.
And a traitor, anyone that sells out his country to invaders that Bomb you once a month and want to take over is a filthy traitor.I dont need to live in Europe to watch the same news, i haven’t been there for 30 years, doesn’t mean i cant open a news channel.
P.S.
Ill make a screenshot of that, you are an 1000% SJW Trash, laughing stock of the web site
i was talking about south europeans. east europeans are the most incompatible group of people with westerners culturally that’s why they were called white neegros. of course i shouldn’t repeat myself but considering you are a 70 iq slow sheep who can’t comprehend a simple sentence then i’ll repeat myself as many times as you need.
by news channels you mean 50 iq youtubers like steven crowder or nobullshit or propaganda tools in fox and cnn right?those sources attract all sorts of low iq parasites. keep chewing on grass.
imagine being at least 30 years old and flex on gaming forums with a couple thousand dollars rig and a 20k car.
your comments reek of lie from all over.
How about you learn English first and then try to convey a point.
You said “the ones that look less white” and I told you that they [Slavs] are as white as they come [Slavs are NOT brown, so how you can say they look less white?] and that its Spaniards and Italians that dont look really white.
You see, you are stupid.
Nice try rejecting facts, you both like the Ostrich and the the 3 monkeys, you dug your Head into the sand, cover your ears and eyes, you dont see, dont hear and dont care, the room is on fire but everything is all right, its “FAKE news”. Crowder, Ben Shapiro EVERYBODY LIES….. FAKE NEWS…BELIEVE THE REGIME.. EVERYTHING IS OK…. ISLAM IS GOOD… NO TERRORISTS…
Stop replaying you are repeating and annoying, you already DUG your own grave, i made enough screenshots, half of the people here are “Eastern European Filth” and almost everyone HATE, DESPISE SJWs and muslimes, the fact that you came out as: Traitor and Hater of white people, SJW and Pro-Muslim propagandist going to end your carrier here, im going to follow you from now and post screenshots to all the people your talking to, we will see how many of them going to keep talking instead of Cursing your guts.
i could have pointed out your grammar mistakes too but it seems like you’re resorting to things that indicate you’re hitting the bottom of the barrel.
“the ones that look less white” very clearly means south europeans. i discussed east europeans 3 times and each time i said they were called “white neegros”. does white mean brown to you? “white negro” means they have white skin and they can blend with whites but they are culturally similar to blacks (according to americans). clearly, you have low comprehension skills. imagine being this dense to struggle with simple stuff like this and call others stupid.
you’re one of the dumbest sheep i ever encountered on the internet, if you’re an adult then god or whatever is out there may help you.
OMG what a shameless clown: Culture =/= looks
ROFL
So they LOOK less white or their CULTURE is less white [WTF does that mean?]??
One is not the another…
P.S. Im not the one bending down to muslim terrorists, i kill them!
“OMG what a shameless clown: Culture =/= looks”
you inbred of a human being, that’s what i said. i was being sarcastic that you think that way like a sheep.
at this point, i’m 100 percent sure you’re either trolling to not look bad and pretend you played dumb on purpose or you have to be the dumbest person i’ve seen that can type. you’re unbelievably dense and even houseflies have a higher brain capacity than you.
I humiliated you and shat in your face.
It says it was sarcastic, sure it was, after I told it that ill let everyone know about it’s attitude toward Slavs and sucking up to muzzies.
It is a Traitor AND a Lying Coward.
grab a rope and hang yourself right now. you’re a blackhole of rytardation.
It still talks.
It has no shame, nor honor.
If it was adult, it should of deleted it’s account and made a new username, started fresh.
isn’t it past your bedtime sweetie?
Nope. The RTX thing (at least in the way portrayed through the comparison screenshots) neutralizes shadow intensity making some parts unrealistically bright, and thus less photorealistic.
Hi John. What are frame rates at 4K with everything max out? Is it under 30FPS with DLSS off?
you can preload metro on steam but not on epic store. GG
really ?
yes
ok that’s epic
Cant wait for the day one codex edition
“While DLSS in 3DMark Port Royale and Final Fantasy XV looks amazing”
Yeah that flickering and shimmering in FFXV with DLSS on sure looks amazing.
What a ‘tragedy’ it’ll be if cpy/codex/fitgirl have already gotten hold of a press copy of this Epic Store timed-exclusive and have it cracked very soon after release. ?
i heard that someone has some files that are not locked or something like that and somehow that will help the supposed groups and this has to do with the epic store same way blood dragon was cracked early due to uplay.
>giving fitgirl credit when all the person does is repack scene releases and also makes profit from it
>giving a damn
It will happen
Somewhat amusing to realise that the only real competition surrounding the release of this game will be between those who crack games.
It’ll presumably be considered a badge of honour within the cracking scene to be the first to crack Metro Exodus due to the Epic Store controversy.
this from gamers nexus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mEP5k_-zso
shows how badly implemented ray tracing
we need to wait for directx implementation and next console cycles for better visuals
it is a hot mess right now
what? it looks bad? but all my friends like dark ivy who spent their life savings on rtx cards are telling me i can’t see for myself and i’m a hater.
is strange i tried to reply that guy with my own captures and PC specs but this site keeps deleting them and auto moderating them, i don’t know why some sites allow trolls to be free, and bans people with actual proof and facts.
you don’t get banned or censored under any circumstances here unless you post n*des or p*rn pics. shet on him as much as you like, you’re free.
Flags ahoy!!
Graphics look dated but still performance are very poor even on top notch hardware. RTX doesn’t do much either, most of the times there’s literally no difference, but when it does, it looks slightly more realistic, but totally not worth it for the price and absolutely not worth it for the peformance hit.
To the haters that just want to troll, here is BFV DLSS comparison, it aint blurry
https://youtu.be/qS8yjlmNHVs
to the haters that don’t agree with me and therefore they are trolls. i bought something and i’m justifying it, here watch guys, i’m a big man so i don’t cry just watch waaaah waahhh
I dont need to justify sh*t, its my only post, but YOU and otehr TROLLS and post TENS of anti DXR posts on every article.
YOU especially.
What does it say about you?
Feeling jealous?
me especially? first, i don’t care about rtx to talk about it, proof of that would be not finding my comments on rtx articles because i don’t click on them. you’re being a dumb butthurt f4g again. second, imagine being that much of a sheep to cry when others talk shet about things you buy. you’re getting more and more pathetic.
– said dagoat in the Metro Exodus RTX article.
Mind Blowing Dissonance!
My own captures with 2080ti
https://i.imgur.com/EbBEk0n.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Sk4qJsJ.jpg
own captures with 2080ti nvlink mode
dlss on
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ec7d72555cd5791f67262c2f29b953f251ccb69bd819c2b60e0b832f5d941cc0.jpg
dlss off
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/844e93ceda19af569ca48cead532c6da087fd9cc570b6b026f57639cce238ee3.jpg
I dont know where you took these images from, because they fake
But that video is not mine and its clear actual gameplay.
And here is what Guru3D has to say about DLSS on BF5
“I dont know where you took these images from”
What part of own captures don’t you understand and you should put your own videos and captures if you want to prove something, not someone else video , if you really have a rtx 2080ti like you stated then you can easily prove everyone here is wrong, but guess what you are not the only one with a 2080ti, and most people here are a little dissapointed with their purchase. And btw you are just using and ad-verecumdiam fallacy
Forget that video Guru3D has an article and Side by side comparisons. I visit that web site for over 20 years.
They said: NOTCH of blur, not BLUR, not LOTS of blur but NOTCH of Blur.
Case closed. [Unless you think that you smarter then they are]
I dont own BF5 and will never buy an SJW game [I also dont enjoy MP games, IMO its a genre for kids and teenagers, mainly], I do have Metro Exodus activated on Epic store, it still locked.
Metro exodus was a tad blur, I noticed it myself, but im not worried it will be fixed, the benchmark and FF has no blur, so it can be fixed.
P.S.
1) There is no fallacy, we are not discussing politic but commercial every people mainstream product that any adult with a credit card can buy in payments and not die of hunger, not luxury car or a yacht.
I will never argue with some exotic car owner about the pluses and minus of his car, how it handles and so on, even if I read about it, it means nothing compared to actually owning and using it.
There is no ad-verecumdiam fallacy, just hard facts.
2) You have a user pic of adult man, so you should be smart enough to see that most Turing haters are divided into two groups:
AMD fanboys that ALWAYS Hate everything Nvidia.
Jealous people [mostly kids and teens] that cant afford one, so they constantly post negative BS about it and look for controversy on empty spot.
here these are guru3d own capture as seen in the original aticle, you probably won’t see it clearly because they are small probably on purpose.
dlss on
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6b5f95ace64aed2d88bf3a44ca0eca512f774186139a5cffc5d9dda8443bac23.jpg
dlss off
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ab3718168c137364c366c163100d59007990310ffd10bde33997d0079805e32c.jpg
so that NOTCH of blur is just probably the writer opinion, and as a veteran IT engineer i can only say yes, I’m smarter than a media journalist, but why i don’t write reviews myself then, because my current job pays more than writing reviews.
techpowerup is a more reliable source, the makers of gpu-z and
cpu-z, the site where every gpu and cpu maker and vendor register their
hardware id on their database, has more years of experience than guru3d, and
regarding bfv dlss has more screenshot than only 3, and has a better
explanation of why this happens and yes in their analisis they said metro is more
blurred and they also explain why, they have better trained writers with proper knowledge. So i suggest you to go there instead.
And in your argument there is a fallacy and it’s called an ad verecumdiam fallacy were you put a word of a popular person or popular website to invalidate someone own proofs and arguments and claiming as fake as you did with my own screenshots, catured on my own PC with my own 2080ti, then you are saying that the guru3d doesn’t have that issue so everyone should be like guru3d and im probably thinking I’m smarter as their are, that’s a huge fallacy and not only works in pollitics, and in the top of that why defend a game you don’t even like or own. It just make 0 sense.
And btw turing haters not only are those, there is no black and white, people that have turing and seen their benefits and failures, people can critique the products they purchased with their money, only fanboys are defensive, and seeing how you act and defend nvidia, you are a nvidia fanboy, end of discussion.
Not only that you are poor and your mom is a corner ?r?stitute but you was obviously r?ped by a Slav.
There is a gang of older slavs in your high school that betas you up, forces you to suck them in school toilet, takes your pocket money and made you their slave.
You are a typical example of feminized EuroF?g that cant fight, and most of your kind was liberalized to the point that they bring afric?ns home to sleep with their wife’s and happy about it [Im sure your mom likes the Monthly ‘Help the R?p?fuge’ Day day when your dad brings up unwashed African R?p?fuges from the local dump they sleep in].