Tag Archives: Raytracing

Back in 2020, Mojang and Nvidia teamed up to implement full path-traced ray-tracing in Minecraft, releasing a bespoke version of the game on PC called Minecraft RTX. Recently, ray tracing showed up in the preview version of Minecraft for Xbox Series X/S consoles, but Mojang has since removed this, claiming …

If all goes according to plan, Dying Light 2 will officially release on the 4th of February 2022 for PC, as well as old-gen and new-gen consoles. Ahead of launch, Techland has now revealed the game's PC system requirements, with the minimum targeting 1080p at 30FPS, recommended targeting 1080p at …

Today at Computex, Nvidia announced the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards. Alongside these new GPUs, the company also announced a number of games getting RTX feature support, including the likes of Doom Eternal, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Rainbow Six Siege.  This follows on from rumours …

Late last year, CD Projekt Red announced plans to upgrade The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for next-gen consoles and PC. Things have been quiet since, but the studio gave us a brief update this week, pointing to a release in the second half of 2021.  Saber Interactive, the team behind …

Last night during AMD's RX 6700 XT reveal, we also got a small update on Resident Evil Village. AMD confirmed that the developers will be utilising both raytracing and AMD's FidelityFX features in the PC version.  In a tweet from the Radeon Twitter account, we also get a video demo …

With AMD entering the ray-tracing capable GPU market this month, there has been some confusion around what games will be supported and whether or not previous RTX-supported titles are using proprietary technology for ray-tracing. Fortunately, Nvidia has begun clearing the air. 

With the impending release of the next-generation of consoles, one of the main highlights that console manufacturers have been bringing attention to is the ability to use RayTracing, to allow for much more accurate lighting, shadows and reflections. That being said, it appears as though one of the PS5’s major …

The DirectX 12 API has been around for most of the current gaming generation but as we look towards the future, an update is due. Today, Microsoft announced DirectX 12 Ultimate, labelling it as the “best graphics technology” it has put out to date, which also reaches an “unprecedented alignment” …

With GDC 2020 being cancelled, March was in danger of being a relatively quiet month for next-gen gaming news. Fortunately, Microsoft is opting to host all of the panels, talks and announcements it had lined up as part of its own livestream.  Today, Microsoft announced ‘Game Stack Live', which is …

Back in June 2019, when id Software announced Doom Eternal, the studio promised that the game would support ray tracing. Now, however, in an interview with Digital Foundry, Marty Stratton has said that the game won't launch with ray tracing capabilities. In this interview, the executive producer at id Software, …

Nvidia's list of RTX supported games has been steadily growing this year, with big games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Control, Cyberpunk 2077, Minecraft and more joining the roster. Now to cap off the year, Nvidia has announced six new games set to support real-time ray-tracing in 2020.  During …

Whatever GPU you have, you can now try out ray tracing with Crytek's lastest demo...

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The 10th anniversary HOF RTX 2080Ti is really something special to look at and even features an inbuilt water cooling block for improved cooling performance. It's pretty hard to justify spending £1800 on a graphics card but it is definitely a special piece of technology that I was very pleased to take a closer look at... 

Last week at an event in London, we had the opportunity to get hands-on with Remedy's latest game 'Control', complete with Nvidia RTX graphics to show off real-time ray-tracing. Today, we share our impressions and show off early pre-release gameplay.

Briony gives her PC the mother of all upgrades with a brand new KFA2 RTX 2080 Ti!

Wolfenstein: Youngblood is coming out in just a few days time and is set to be one of Nvidia's big ray-tracing showcases this year. Currently, all RTX GPU buyers will get a code for Wolfenstein: Youngblood. Given all of the RTX-specific promotion this game is getting, you might have expected …

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 …

Now that Windows 10 1809 is finally rolling out once again, game developers can finally start implementing RTX features into games. DICE is already prepared, with Battlefield V getting RTX support starting from today.

We finally have full support for real-time raytracing in games as Microsoft's Windows 10 October update has begun rolling out. This features the DirectX Raytracing API, alongside other OS improvements and features.

Nvidia's RTX 20 launch is taking place in just a few days time but early adopters will need to hold on for a bit longer to experience real-time ray-tracing first hand. This is Nvidia's key feature for this launch but unfortunately, the ball currently lies in Microsoft's court when it …