The Complete List of PC Ray Traced Titles with Classification

[MfA]

GIBS? Is this the splatting stuff they showed off years back or?

Surfels, not splats.

It's a surface irradiance cache which accumulates lighting from traced rays same as RTXGI-SHARC ... except a little more advanced.

 

[trinibwoy]

GIBS? Is this the splatting stuff they showed off years back or?

Yeah it looks similar to Lumen but using surfels instead of cards. Glad to see it actually implemented. And it’s all dynamic if I recall correctly. No offline baking of cards like Lumen.

 

[DavidGraham]

Yeah it looks similar to Lumen but using surfels instead of cards

Yeah, but GIBS is purely hardware ray traced, there is no software version of it, unlike Lumen.

Did Nvidia really claim CP2077 was path traced before it got ReSTIR? That’s not how I remember it.

Yeah they did, see here.

RT: Overdrive in Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition - Pushing Path Tracing One Step Further | Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2024 | NVIDIA On-Demand

Ray Tracing: Overdrive mode of Cyberpunk 2077, released as a Technology Preview back in April 2023, revamped most of the game’s lighting pipeline with path

www.nvidia.com

 

[DavidGraham]

The new Gears E-Day will support hardware raytraced lighting, reflections and shadows on Unreal 5.

Reinventing A Mad World: Why Gears of War: E-Day Represents the Future of the Series - Xbox Wire

The Coalition discusses how returning to the core of franchise is building its future with Gears of War: E-Day.

news.xbox.com

 

[DavidGraham]

Supermoves supports hardware Lumen RT on UE5.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1800300231642488948

 

[trinibwoy]

The new Gears E-Day will support hardware raytraced lighting, reflections and shadows on Unreal 5.

Reinventing A Mad World: Why Gears of War: E-Day Represents the Future of the Series - Xbox Wire

The Coalition discusses how returning to the core of franchise is building its future with Gears of War: E-Day.

news.xbox.com

That’s great but sounds quite ambitious on current gen consoles. Hope they can pull it off.

Yeah they did, see here.

RT: Overdrive in Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition - Pushing Path Tracing One Step Further | Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2024 | NVIDIA On-Demand

Ray Tracing: Overdrive mode of Cyberpunk 2077, released as a Technology Preview back in April 2023, revamped most of the game’s lighting pipeline with path

www.nvidia.com

What was the original overdrive implementation? If it was per-pixel multi bounce GI that should also qualify as PT.

 

[DavidGraham]

Atomic Heart finally adds RT reflections and shadows to the game.

Atomic Heart Patch 1.14.4.0 finally adds Ray Tracing on PC

Today, over one year after its official release date, Mundfish has finally added support for Ray Tracing on PC.

www.dsogaming.com

 

[troyan]

Supermoves supports hardware Lumen RT on UE5.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1800300231642488948

Tried the demo. Lumen is so bad. It just falls apart indoors. "Med" and "High" are noisy and "Ultra" reduces performance down to 30 FPS in native 4K on my 4090. For example Alan Wake 2 outdoors runs with ~30FPS and Pathtracing in the worst case scenes. HW RT maybe increased reflection quality but performance is as bad.

 

[trinibwoy]

Atomic Hearts finally add RT reflections and shadows to the game.

Atomic Heart Patch 1.14.4.0 finally adds Ray Tracing on PC

Today, over one year after its official release date, Mundfish has finally added support for Ray Tracing on PC.

www.dsogaming.com

Wow I had given up on them.

 

[DavidGraham]

Assassin's Creed Shadows is confirmed to feature ray traced global illumination (directly from the lead technical architect).

https://twitter.com/x/status/1800675598769271100

 

[Dictator]

Assassin's Creed Shadows is confirmed to feature ray traced global illumination (directly from the lead technical archetict).

https://twitter.com/x/status/1800675598769271100

Based on the footage released so far I assume it must be ddgi probes? I did not see any per-pixel effects yet.

 

[DavidGraham]

Lego Horizon Adventures will feature hardware ray tracing on Unreal 5.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1800954830040506873

 

[DavidGraham]

What was the original overdrive implementation? If it was per-pixel multi bounce GI that should also qualify as PT.

Well the devs were a little light on details here. For regular ray tracing they relied on probe based global illumination.

With the iteration of REDengine used for Cyberpunk 2077, we relied on a hybrid indirect illumination technique, one that would allow us to provide Global Illumination across all target platforms. To do that, we used a GI Probes-based system that provided a dynamic solution for all the lights in the game within a certain distance from the camera and within a fixed world space resolution that was manually set per location depending on the needs, in most cases between 1.5m to 4m. This solution provides indirect diffuse to the geometry in the game

With Ray Tracing: Ultra and Ray Tracing: Psycho settings we also provide a significantly more precise, but somewhat delicate indirect diffuse response for sunlight only.

With Path Tracing we are totally free, no longer constrained by a fixed world space grid of probes and a rather small resolution of the system, and can provide a super detailed, pixel perfect, incredibly realistic indirect illumination. What’s more, we no longer provide just indirect diffuse, but also indirect specular response. As a result, light has so much more directionality and makes the visible world deeper and simply more beautiful.

Cyberpunk 2077 Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode - CD PROJEKT RED, RTX Inside The Game Interview

Learn more about the new full ray tracing mode, the NVIDIA technology that makes it a reality, and how CD PROJEKT RED uses DLSS 3 to deliver performant fully ray-traced gameplay for GeForce RTX 40 Series gamers.

www.nvidia.com

So it sounds like they did ditch the probes for the original overdrive implementation, another slide deck details that solution, it was a combination of RTXDI and ReSTIR DI. The ReSTIR GI was added later in the latest Cyberpunk version.

Cyberpunk 2077:
• Primitive lights – ReSTIR DI with uniform sampling
• Emissives and skylight – BRDF sampling
• Planning to add ReSTIR GI to improve the overall quality

https://intro-to-restir.cwyman.org/presentations/2023ReSTIR_Course_Cyberpunk_2077_Integration.pdf

Based on the footage released so far I assume it must be ddgi probes? I did not see any per-pixel effects yet.

I think it's the same one as in Avatar Frontiers of Pandora.

 

[DavidGraham]

Entoria is launching with rt global illumination, ambient occlusion and reflections on Unreal Engine 5.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1803131595580383668

 

[DavidGraham]

The First Descendant launched with ray-traced reflections, ray-traced ambient occlusion, and ray-traced shadows. It also supports DLSS3.5 Ray Reconstruction.

The First Descendant Launching With DLSS 3.5 and Ray Tracing, PAYDAY 3 & TRIBES 3: Rivals Add DLSS 3 Support

And the Riven remake has launched with day-one support for DLSS 2.

www.nvidia.com

 

[DegustatoR]

Interestingly it is a UE5 title.

 

[raytracingfan]

Per-pixel RT global illumination eliminates the need for any form of ambient occlusion, does it not? I'm curious how the performance costs for per-pixel RTGI compare to the combination of a less-accurate RTGI solution and RTAO.

 

[trinibwoy]

Interestingly it is a UE5 title.

Seems they upgraded to UE5 but are still using a UE4 renderer.

 

[MfA]

Per-pixel RT global illumination eliminates the need for any form of ambient occlusion

Ideally yes, practically not yet.

 

[trinibwoy]

Ideally yes, practically not yet.

Are there games using per-pixel GI and AO simultaneously?