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…While it does not reach the heights of PC path tracing - missing some reflective detail and not factoring shadows into the ray-traced calculations - it represents a substantial visual step up from…
…Software-based ray tracing for global illumination is a key Glacier engine feature: While some modern titles rely on hardware-accelerated ray tracing, IO developed a custom software ray tracing pipeline for…
…Practically speaking, for a game using ray tracing across the board, the overall experience with optimised settings is fine, thanks to a shader compilation burn on boot that caches the required PSOs…
…The inclusion of ray tracing, which wasn't present in the PS5 and PS5 Pro versions of the game, also makes the PC release unique. The Nixxes-developed port was released around…
…You could disable the fancier strand-based hair system and the ray tracing to improve performance, but ultimately, they feel like a core part of the game's visual identity. However, there…
Last month, Nvidia announced Quake 3 Arena RTX, a modern ray-traced demo of the classic multiplayer shooter . Now a new version has been released, featuring an updated version of the Area…
…What's interesting here is the "ray tracing quality" setting. On initial viewing, we're not quite sure of what that's actually doing - but we must assume it's something not…
…The most substantial achievement for this port is that it keeps ray-traced global illumination (RTGI) intact. This feature allows for indirect light and colour bounce between surfaces, resulting in more realistic…
…We were also told about an order of magnitude improvement in ray tracing performance, with hints that the target isn't just RT but path tracing too. There's the sense that…
…The resolution mode, which adds ray traced reflections, ray traced global illumination, and higher quality hair strand technology on top of the same 1080p base resolution, already has performance drops under 60…