Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project will be created by a number of Half-Life mod teams that will work with NVIDIA's RTX Remix to add features like full ray tracing, DLSS 3 and more to the game.
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The new mode allows PC players of Cyberpunk 2077 to play the game with ray tracing effects. The 1.62 update also adds support for NVIDIA DLAA, Intel XeSS 1.1, and new Benchmark improvements.
FromSoftware has finally delivered the ray tracing features it promised for Elden Ring even before the game's launch. The performance intensive feature is available on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5.
The Half-Life 1: Ray Traced third-party mod is now available to download, giving Valve's first game a new look with some moody lighting effects that make the first person shooter look even creepier.
Although AMD didn't promise any gains specific to ray tracing with its recent RX 6000-series driver, rumors suggested there were big gains to be had. We tested to see if there was any truth to these.
The creators behind Dead Space bring us a new story, a new setting and similar game mechanics, but is it as scary an experience as Striking Distance Studios' marketing claimed it would be?
NVIDIA RTX Remix is a platform that will allow modders to add Ray Tracing to decades-old classic games that worked on DirectX 8 and 9. The tool will add a lot more data for "realistic" light effects.
At its GeForce Beyond event today, Nvidia unveiled the next RTX project its teams are working on, that being Portal with RTX. This free DLC adds ray tracing and DLSS 3.0 support to the classic game.
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Intel has shared ray tracing performance figures for its Arc Alchemist GPUs for the first time. The company however has inadvertently admitted that it isn't as good as mighty Nvidia, just yet.
Arm has introduced Immortalis-G715, Mali-G715, and Mali-G615 GPUs out of which the first one is a top-end mobile GPU meant for flagship smartphones and it will support hardware Ray Tracing.
Ray-traced reflections and shadows are coming in with the next game update for IO Interactive's Hitman 3. To help frame rates remain steady, Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR are coming in too.
With CD Projekt RED now back in charge of development, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt enhanced next-gen edition has a new launch window. The free upgrade is slated to land in Q4 of 2022.
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AMD's upcoming RX 6950 XT, the flagship RDNA 2 refresh graphics card is able to match the RTX 3090 according to purported official benchmarks. Numbers for the RX 6650 XT and 6750 XT have also leaked.
An all-new benchmark for graphics cards called 3DMark Speed Way is here. The test measures DirectX 12 Ultimate features like raytracing (DXR), variable rate shading, and mesh shaders performance.
IO Interactive today confirmed another year of support for its hit stealth title Hitman 3, with new features like ray tracing coming soon. The rebooted franchise has so far reached 50 million players.
FromSoftware will be offering two performance modes on current-gen consoles to either hit 4K or get 60FPS gameplay. Ray tracing support is also planned for the upcoming action RPG.
Samsung today posted a comparison picture of ray-traced reflections running on its upcoming Exynos chipset that will pack AMD RDNA 2 graphics. This flagship SoC may be called the Exynos 2200.
With Far Cry 6 only a month away from launch, Ubisoft today gave an in-depth look at the PC system requirements as well as what exclusive features will be available at launch on the platform.
At GDC 2021 today, Nvidia showed off a couple of ray tracing and DLSS demos that it ran on an ARM CPU paired with an RTX 3060. The first was a gaming demo while the second was a sample scene render.
The new WHQL-certified 471.11 Game Ready driver comes packed with ray tracing, DLSS, and Reflex support for more games, DLSS for Proton-run titles, a whole range of bug fixes, and more.
Nvidia today announced that its RTX technologies will soon be introduced to Doom Eternal, Red Dead Redemption 2, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege and a bunch of more upcoming experiences.
Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition has got an official launch date. The game will be launching on May 6th. It features highly upgraded visuals like enhanced ray-traced graphics, and much more.
The delayed 1.2 update for Cyberpunk 2077 is almost here. Its patch notes reveal a huge number of bug fixes, optimizations, and gameplay tweaks. Ray tracing is headed to AMD graphics cards as well.
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In addition to the free next-gen upgrade coming to the console version of Metro Exodus, 4A Games is also working on an enhanced PC version that will deliver broad ray-tracing enhancements.
AMD today brought support and optimizations for Hitman 3 and Quake II RTX with its latest Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 21.1.1 driver. This first GPU driver of the year also has bug fixes.
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Minecraft players on PC with RTX-enabled Nvidia graphics cards can now enable ray tracing in their worlds without enrolling in the beta. DLSS support is also included for maximizing performance.
The final driver release of November by AMD brings with it support for Ubisoft's latest title Immortals Fenyx Rising, and the Khronos Group's newly available Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions.
CD Projekt RED is developing a next-generation edition of its hugely popular RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, letting players experience Geralt's closing journey in even higher fidelity.
As part of its RTX 30 series GPU event, Nvidia also announced that Fortnite will be adding RTX support, along with DLSS and the new Nvidia Reflex SDK. It will get a new map to show off the visuals.
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Crytek has announced the revised release date of Crysis Remastered to be September 18. The shooter is heading to PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 with a software-based ray tracing solution.
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Microsoft has kicked off registrations for the beta program of Minecraft RTX, a new version of Minecraft featuring real-time ray tracing. It's exclusively available for Windows 10 players.
The upcoming raytracing-powered graphics to Minecraft is soon coming to beta. Nvidia today announced its RTX GPU owners will be able to jump into the graphically enhanced Minecraft build on April 16.
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DLSS 2.0 uses TensorCores to run the deep learning network at 2X the speed of the original. Other key features include training for multiple games, increased upscaling, and better rendering.
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RTXGI SDK v1.0 boasts key features including multi-bounce global illumination without bake times, optimized memory layouts, compute shaders, and support for multiple coordinate systems.
Nvidia's latest graphics driver release arrives during CES week, and there's a bunch of new features included, like Variable Rate Super Sampling for VR users, a Max Frame Rate setting, and more.
The long-promised real-time raytracing support update is finally arriving to Wolfenstein: Youngblood. The cooperative shooter from last year will soon sport ray tracing powered reflections.
Blizzard's new World of Warcraft expansion, Shadowlands, could feature several new engine-level features like Nvidia's RTX and Microsoft's DirectX 12, to make for a next-gen experience.
In a surprise announcement, Mojang and Nvidia revealed today that Minecraft is getting real-time ray tracing support on its Bedrock-based Windows 10 version. It will be a free update.
Nvidia has announced real-time ray tracing support for Bethesda's upcoming title, Wolfenstein: Youngblood. The title is also being offered bundled with eligible RTX GPUs for a limited time.
Nvidia today released its Game Ready 425.31 WHQL drivers bringing support for ray tracing to several of its GTX cards. There are also optimizations for Anno 1800, releasing next week.
