actually it doesnt, it still a hybrid solution where ssao is still present and when you move the camera the effect will go away along with the camera.

Same and 3080 can’t really handle 4k ultra + RT all. I need to use performance dlss if I wish to have good frames

I still use Reflections, but that is it.

I haven’t noticed any stuttering but it brings a major performance hit. IMO, the best improvement is the RTAO (which now actually works the way it was supposed to).

Nvm, i had to add another line to get the distant shadows:

“r.RayTracing.Culling=0”

But apparently this leads to severe stuttering in some scenes :/

[System.Settings]
r.RayTracing.Reflections.Hybrid=1
r.RayTracing.Reflections.MaxRayDistance=12000

Hybrid blend Ray Traced reflections with SSR where possible, improving performance – IIRC, Metro Exodus uses this, as well as Control.

ScreenPercentage reduces the rendering resolution of RTReflections to half, dramatically increasing performance, but resulting in flickering around reflective surfaces, so with a substantial visual cost. Don’t know if the default for Hogwarts is 100, so maybe setting it to 100 might improve the RTs alot. EDIT: Saw it was already presented on the post.

MaxRayDistance lowers the maximum distance the rays will trace, improving performance – interesections with geometry further than the threshold won’t have RT reflections, however. Lowest I see work to good results in RT games is 2000 – I reckon it can be increased to higher numbers to improve quality.

MaxRoughness is default roughness threshold, but lowering this setting will offer substantial performance gains. The lower this value is, the more frequently it will fall back to other raster methods for rendering reflections.

Credits for Wessberg post on Reddit, almost verbatim.