Tag Archives: Ray tracing

Cyberpunk 2077 is looking to be the best ray-tracing showcase yet.

Some of the biggest games in the world have been implementing ray-tracing in the last year, including the likes of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Minecraft. Now, World of Warcraft is going to be joining that group, as shown by a recent update to the alpha for the MMO’s …

Back in August 2019, Nvidia and Microsoft teamed up to announce Minecraft RTX, bringing full path tracing to the game. There has been plenty of development work done since then and now this week, we'll be able to try Minecraft RTX for ourselves as the open beta is launching.  Minecraft …

RTX support for Minecraft was announced back at Gamescom 2019. It already looked impressive at the time but over the following months, more work has been done and today, Nvidia is sharing another sneak preview ahead of release.  Minecraft with RTX is coming very soon and to show off what …

While GDC didn't end up going ahead this month, we do know that real-time ray-tracing was due to be a big part of the discussion amongst developers. This includes the release of new ray-tracing extensions for the Vulkan API, enabling more developers to start developing games with RT in mind …

Real-time ray-tracing is continuing to spread its reach, with a bunch of studios adopting the technology and supporting it on PC. Currently, Most games adopting ray-tracing are tied to the DirectX 12 API but that could start to change, with a standardised specification coming to the Vulkan API. The Khronos …

While Wolfenstein: Youngblood was teased to be an RTX-supported game in the run-up to release, the game's ray-tracing and DLSS updates have taken quite some time to get ready. Now, six months later, the RTX update has arrived, with ray-traced reflections and DLSS now available.  NVIDIA announced that the update …

In this end of year special, Leo looks back on his favourite hardware of 2019

Nvidia's RTX features are starting to catch on with developers and the list of supported games continues to grow. At E3, a few more major releases were added to the full list.

Last week, Microsoft announced its new console platform, the Xbox Series X. This new console will use the “next generation RDNA” architecture (RDNA2) from AMD, which will have ray tracing and variable-rate shading (VRS).  Xbox Series X will use an SoC made by AMD, with a CPU component made of “Zen 2” …

Nvidia Lightspeed Studios is planning to remaster more classic PC game titles from the past decades with ray-tracing effects, after the Quake II RTX-enabled makeover they did earlier this year was a success. According to a new job listing by Nvidia Lightspeed Studios, which was picked up by DSOGaming , …

Even though none of AMD's current generation of graphics cards officially support Microsoft’s DirectX Raytracing (DXR), according to recent reports, it seems AMD has been putting code in its GPU drivers since July this year. As reported by PCGamesN, recent images from AMD’s China partner summit event, which were shared …

Console gaming fans will be happy to hear that Sony has confirmed in an official statement, its next-generation console, the PlayStation 5 will be out next year with a launch date at the end of 2020. Additionally, there will be other big changes to the PlayStation 5 controller. The old …

Popular free-to-play tank sim, World of Tanks, is to receive an update which will let anyone with a DirectX 11 graphics card enable ray tracing within the game – so you don't need an RTX 20-series GPU. At World of Tanks' annual ‘Wargaming Fest: Tanker Day' event, it was announced …

Earlier this year, we saw the launch of the RTX Super series of graphics cards, bringing upgrades to the RTX 2060, 2070 and 2080. For now, there doesn't seem to be an RTX 2080Ti Super on the way, but that could eventually change, as a mysterious new TU102-powered graphics card …

Just last week, Mojang announced that it was cancelling the Super Duper Graphics Pack for Minecraft, the game’s first in-house graphics overhaul set to rival some of the most impressive mods. While the graphics pack may no longer be coming, there is something else in the works, with Minecraft set …

Back when NVIDIA first announced RTX GPUs, a number of games were listed to support real time ray-tracing. One of the first games to be announced was Assetto Corsa Competizione, but it looks like that announcement may have come too soon, as RTX implementation is low on the list of …

Wolfenstein: Youngblood is coming out in just one week's time, putting a twist on the usual Wolfenstein formula by focusing on co-op play. In Youngblood, you will play as either Jess or Soph Blazkowicz, the twin sisters of B.J Blazkowicz on a journey to Paris to find their missing father. …

Cyberpunk 2077 is on the way and it will be coming out much sooner than anticipated. The game already looks incredible based on the early footage we saw last year but it is going to look even better at launch, with real-time ray-tracing being added to the PC version. CD …

Last week, Activision officially announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, a return to the series that propelled the franchise into the annual blockbuster it is today. Call of Duty titles often don’t get much credit for how good they look or how well they run but there will be plenty …

To kick off Computex 2019, NVIDIA has had two big announcements so far. The first was the launch of the RTX Studio laptop initiative, aimed at bringing more workstation-grade laptops to market for creators. The second announcement is geared more towards the gaming audience, with two new games getting RTX …

Back in March, Crytek debuted the ‘Neon Noir' demo at GDC, showing off real-time ray tracing in CRYENGINE for the first time, all running on an RX Vega 56. The demo does a good job of showing off ray-traced reflections specifically but now Crytek has shared an update diving deeper …

While we've known for some time now that Intel is working on its own discrete graphics cards under the leadership of Raja Koduri, there are still a lot of mysteries left to be solved. We know that the Intel Xe architecture will cater to both data centres and gaming PCs, …

At GDC last year, we saw multiple tech companies begin discussing the potential for bringing real-time ray-tracing to video games. Nvidia was the first to really begin pushing that boat with the launch of RTX graphics cards, featuring specific hardware to make ray-tracing faster and more efficient. From today onward, …

Shadow of the Tomb Raider finally has RTX features - are they worth turning on?

Back when Nvidia began showing off RTX and DLSS running in games for the first time, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was one of the few big titles supporting the technology. Unfortunately, the last six months have gone by without any word on when the RTX patch would arrive. That …

Soon you'll be able to turn ray-tracing on with your non-RTX graphics card.

There has been a lot of talk surrounding real-time raytracing over the last year. Nvidia, Microsoft and AMD all announced plans to begin supporting the technology at GDC 2018. Now this year, Crytek is carving out its own piece of the pie, releasing a real-time raytracing demo for CRYENGINE. CRYENGINE …

This is a very busy week for videogame releases. We've got Metro Exodus, Crackdown 3, Far Cry New Dawn and Anthem all coming out at once. Nvidia GPU users planning to jump in to one of these games this weekend will want to check out the latest driver update. Nvidia's …

Nvidia's RTX 2060 has been announced, bringing the entry-level price of Turing down to £329.