Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl performance analysis—Everyone gets ray tracing but the entry fee is high

Fourteen years after it was originally announced, Stalker 2 is finally here. Having gone through such a protracted development, you can be easily forgiven if you thought that day would never come. I had doubts about its readiness for the November launch myself but to my pleasant surprise, Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl (I'm not writing all those periods GSC wants me to) is bang on schedule.

If one ignores the first, aborted attempt at making the game using an in-house engine, the first few...