Path tracing articles

Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing, Explained

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FEATURE By Nick Evanson, November 30, 2023, 1:02 PM TechSpot Tech Culture

#TBT Every few years it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games look ever more realistic. We've had shaders, tessellation, shadow mapping, ray tracing – and now there's path tracing.

Testing Nvidia DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction Using Cyberpunk 2.0

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FEATURE By Tim Schiesser, September 23, 2023, 7:13 AM TechSpot Gaming

The next iteration of Nvidia's DLSS technology has landed and today we're checking out what DLSS 3.5 is and taking a closer look at ray reconstruction, which has been integrated into Cyberpunk 2.0.

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Software Gaming

Nvidia says resolution upscaling like DLSS (and not native resolution) is the future

Company claims industry will move away from native resolution

By Daniel Sims, September 20, 2023, 4:54 PM 107 comments

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ReShade project may bring path tracing to Skyrim and all other DirectX 9 and later games

Path tracing ReShade add-on supports DirectX 9, 10, 11, 12, OpenGL, and Vulkan

By Daniel Sims, August 1, 2023, 3:54 PM 9 comments

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Hardware Gaming

Intel wants to optimize real-time path tracing so even integrated GPUs can handle it

Results could be good news for Intel's iGPUs and Arc dedicated GPUs

By Daniel Sims, July 6, 2023, 5:02 PM

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Even the Nvidia RTX 4090 struggles with Cyberpunk 2077's RT Overdrive mode

Just 19 fps without DLSS 3

By Rob Thubron, April 5, 2023, 5:16 AM 12 comments

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Modders discover Portal RTX files can make Half-Life 2 and some other games look stunning

WTF?! Modders are having a field day with Nvidia's RTX Remix tool, and they haven't even gotten their hands on it yet. Apparently, you can take the files that enable RTX Remix in the recent Portal remake and drop them into the .exe folder of other games to give them a less-than-flawless visual upgrade with no further modification. Copyright lawyers are already rolling over in their graves and they aren't even dead yet.

Full story By Cal Jeffrey, December 14, 2022, 3:53 PM 8 comments

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Quake II has received an RTX makeover, now available to download

Look at all the pretty lights!

By Julio Franco, June 6, 2019, 11:43 AM 37 comments

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Experimental mod adds ray tracing effect to games, including Crysis

Yes, it can run Crysis

By Rob Thubron, May 9, 2019, 8:13 AM 7 comments

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Watch this: 30-minute live play shows off Minecraft's 'ray tracing' mod in all of its glory

The mod takes a nasty bite out of performance, though

By Cohen Coberly, April 24, 2019, 2:13 PM