Hey there everyone. It has came to my attention that ever since 1.5, the game seems impossible to run on decent settings with RT Medium / Reflections on my 3070 Ti. The issues is that there are less populated areas RT works just fine without FPS drops or anything but everytime I go to populated places such as Kabuki Market, Jig-Jig Street, any city center, the game FPS tanks to 30-40 (The lowest being less than 20 FPS). It seemed strange to me at first, I thought it was just optimization issues but the truth is that it seems new ray tracing settings makes any 3000 series card below 3080 (except for 3060 but it is really not a 2K card) unable to run the game on RT/2K settings because 8 GB VRAM is not enough any longer. Are there any other people who is having this problem also if so did you manage to find a solution or anything? I sincerely hope that CDPR somehow do something to make the RT performance more optimized (a tiny touch is all we needed because the max VRAM usage I saw was 8200 GB VRAM) because the game is amazing, I really do love playing it and RT settings are very noticable now, the game just looks dull without it. My system rig and settings are given below, have a nice day everyone.
B550 Tomahawk
5600x
3070 Ti Aorus Master
Samsung 980 PRO M.2 SSD
Crucial Ballistic 32 GB 3600 CL16 RAM
Corsair RM850x v.2
Noctua NH-D15
32 GB 3600MHZ CL16 RAM
Game Settings:
All the settings are highest expect for Cascaded Shadows Resolution, Volumetric Fog Resolution, Volumetric Cloud Quality, Ambient Occlusion, Screen Space Resolution being Medium. Motion Blur is Low. Crowd Density is Medium. Ray Tracing: Medium with only Reflections enabled. DLSS is Balanced with 1.0 Sharpness. I run the game on 2K.
I've also attached some screenshots regarding the FPS drops and high VRAM usage:
B550 Tomahawk
5600x
3070 Ti Aorus Master
Samsung 980 PRO M.2 SSD
Crucial Ballistic 32 GB 3600 CL16 RAM
Corsair RM850x v.2
Noctua NH-D15
32 GB 3600MHZ CL16 RAM
Game Settings:
All the settings are highest expect for Cascaded Shadows Resolution, Volumetric Fog Resolution, Volumetric Cloud Quality, Ambient Occlusion, Screen Space Resolution being Medium. Motion Blur is Low. Crowd Density is Medium. Ray Tracing: Medium with only Reflections enabled. DLSS is Balanced with 1.0 Sharpness. I run the game on 2K.
I've also attached some screenshots regarding the FPS drops and high VRAM usage: