The Complete List of PC Ray Traced Titles with Classification

Doom The Dark Ages now requires a GPU with ray tracing capability to run.

Do note that like Indiana Jones, Doom: The Dark Ages will require GPUs that support hardware Ray Tracing

 
Assassin’s Creed Shadows will now have upgraded ray tracing for global illumination and reflections. It was only global illumination before.

This one is also interesting as it seem to support non-RT GPUs but that support is indicated only for 1080p/30 target with some undisclosed upscaling and framegen at play.
I wonder if the s/w implementation there will be so slow that it will essentially require RT h/w too.
 
Seems Assassin's Creed is one step closer to fully relying on hardware ray tracing in it's pipeline. The game will use a multi tier ray tracing system from the ground up that allows for maximum compatibility.

Selective ray tracing
This mode uses ray tracing only within the Hideout portion of the game. The reason behind this, is that the Hideout allows extensive player customization at a level never seen before on Assassin's Creed. Because of that, we cannot use traditional, pre-calculated, global illumination techniques, and therefore need to adopt a real-time approach with ray tracing. In all other gameplay situations, such as in the open world, ray tracing will not be used.

Standard ray tracing
This mode uses the hardware ray tracing capabilities of the GPU to compute real-time global illumination.

Extended ray tracing
This mode uses the hardware ray tracing capabilities of the GPU to compute both real-time global illumination and reflections. This is the most extensive usage of ray tracing.

Software ray tracing
For GPUs that doesn't support ray tracing, a proprietary software-based ray tracing approach will be used, developed specifically to ensure Assassin's Creed Shadows remains accessible to as many players as possible.

 
Seems Assassin's Creed is one step closer to fully relying on hardware ray tracing in it's pipeline. The game will use a multi tier ray tracing system from the ground up that allows for maximum compatibility.

Selective ray tracing
This mode uses ray tracing only within the Hideout portion of the game. The reason behind this, is that the Hideout allows extensive player customization at a level never seen before on Assassin's Creed. Because of that, we cannot use traditional, pre-calculated, global illumination techniques, and therefore need to adopt a real-time approach with ray tracing. In all other gameplay situations, such as in the open world, ray tracing will not be used.

Standard ray tracing
This mode uses the hardware ray tracing capabilities of the GPU to compute real-time global illumination.

Extended ray tracing
This mode uses the hardware ray tracing capabilities of the GPU to compute both real-time global illumination and reflections. This is the most extensive usage of ray tracing.

Software ray tracing
For GPUs that doesn't support ray tracing, a proprietary software-based ray tracing approach will be used, developed specifically to ensure Assassin's Creed Shadows remains accessible to as many players as possible.


That’s pretty impressive if it all works.
 
I was reading the README for Nvidia's ray tracing denoisers when I stumbled upon a paragraph that could throw more fuel onto the fire of the "Frame Generation is fake frames" argument.

INTERACTION WITH FRAME GENERATION TECHNIQUES​

Frame generation (FG) techniques boost FPS by interpolating between 2 last available frames. NRD works better when frame rate increases, because it gets more data per second. It's not the case for FG, because all rendering pipeline underlying passes (like, denoising) continue to work on the original non-boosted framerate. GetMaxAccumulatedFrameNum helper should get a real FPS, not a fake one.
It's interesting to see Nvidia itself write that generated frames are somewhat "fake". This does bring up an important point that I haven't seen mentioned in discussion of generated frames versus "real" frames though: various temporal techniques including spatiotemporal denoising achieve better quality with higher base frame rates, but generated frames do nothing to improve their quality. Ultimately, it's another reason why games should still be targeting at least 60FPS as a base frame rate, in addition to concerns over latency.
 
So apparently it somehow runs on a 1070 and 5700?
If it works like Avatar and Outlaws, it will run slower and look worse on such hardware.

Rise of the Ronin launches on PC with "ray tracing support" whatever that means.
This seems to be the first game with RT on Katana engine.
The PS5 version has ray traced reflections.
 
Spider-Man 2 is launching with ray traced reflections, ray-traced interiors, shadows, and ambient occlusion. Ray Reconstruction and DLSS4 are also supported.

Sony also detailed that you can increase the object quality in reflections and the distance covered in the reflections the same way as in Spider-Man Remastered and Miles Morales.

 
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This will be the thread for all ray traced games on PC, whether software (compute) or hardware (accelerated), all games will be constantly updated, and are classified according to the type of ray tracing used. I did my best to arrange them from lightest to heaviest. Out of topic posts will be reported for deletion.

Software:
Teardown (Path Tracing)
Voxlands (Path Tracing)
Tiny Glade (Global Illumination and Shadows)
World Of Tanks (Shadows)
Crysis 1 Remastered (Reflections)
Gears 5 (Screen Space Global Illumination)
Days Gone (Screen Space Global Illumination)
The Outer Worlds (Screen Space Global Illumination)

Software Lumen Global Illumination and Reflections (World Space for static elements mixed with Screen Space for dynamic elements):
Fort Solis
Jusant
RoboCop Rogue City
Immortals of Aveum
Ark Survival Ascended
Lords of the Fallen
The Talos Principle 2
Satisfactory
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake
Slender The Arrival
Stray Souls
Quantum Error
Mortal Online 2
Cepheus Protocol
Bodycam
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
Still Wakes The Deep
Entoria: The Last Song
Frostpunk 2
Lego Horizon Adventures
Incursion Red River
Palworld
Project Borealis: Prologue
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure
Spirit of the North 2
Funko Fusion
MechWarrior 5: Clans

Ambient Occlusion:
Battlefield 2042
Saints Row 2022
Dead Space Remake
Madden NFL 24
Skull and Bones
Madden NFL 25
EA FC 25

Shadows:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Call Of Duty Warzone Caldera
Shadow of Tomb Raider
Dirt 5
Godfall
The Riftbreaker
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Mortal Shell
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered.
Jurassic World Evolution 2
Poker Club
Life is Strange True Colors
Mercs Fully Loaded
World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands
World Of Warcraft: Dragon Flight
Halo Infinite
Kakudo
Endless Dungeon
Homeworld 3
World Of Warcraft: The War Within
Unknown 9: Awakening
Flight Simulator 2024

Shadows + Ambient Occlusion:
Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War
Deathloop
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Forspoken
Elden Ring

Reflections:
Battlefield V
Wolfenstein Youngblood
Watch Dogs Legion
Ghostwire Tokyo
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed
Observer System Redux
Doom Eternal
Arcadegeddon
Myst
Crysis 1 Remastered
Crysis 2 Remastered
Crysis 3 Remastered
Marvel's Guardian Of The Galaxy
Forza Horizon 5
Chorus
Paradise Killer
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 3
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 7
Loopmancer
Martha is Dead
Fritz Chess 17
Fritz Chess 18
King Of Fighters 15
Steelrising
Q.U.B.E. 10th Anniversary
Blind Fate Edo no Yami
Gotham Knights
Tower of Fantasy
Batora: Lost Haven
Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
Myth of Empires
Gungrave G.O.R.E.
The Cycle Frontier
Domino Simulator
Soulmate
Pinball FX
The Outlast Trials
Layers of Fear
Armored Core VI
Q.U.B.E 2
Ripout
Suicide Squad Kill Justice League
Synced
Retreat to Enen
Persona 3 Reload
Atomic Heart
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
Gori: Cuddly Carnage
NBA 2K25
Evotinction
Predator Hunting Ground
Delta Force: Hawk Ops
Mortal Kombat 1
Rise of the Ronin

Reflections + Ambient Occlusion:
The Medium
Marvel’s Midnight Suns
Hell Pie
Forza Motorsport 2023
Dark Picture Anthology: Man Of Medan
Dark Picture Anthology: Little Hope
Dark Picture Anthology: House Of Ashes
Dark Picture Anthology: The Devil in Me
Until Dawn Remake
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Infinity Nikki

Reflections + Limited Global Illumination:
Resident Evil 8 Village

Reflections + Shadows:
MechWarrior V
Deliver Us The Moon
Deliver Us Mars
Bright Memory
Ghostrunner
Ghostrunner 2
F1 2021
Redout: Space Assault
The Orville
Far Cry 6
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
The Callisto Protocol
Hellblade
Little Nightmares II
Amid Evil
Hitman 1
Hitman 2
Hitman 3
The Diofield Chronicle
Dolmen
Returnal
Perish
Turbo Sloths
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
Orbit.industries
The Idolmaster: Starlit Season
Diablo IV
The Casting of Frank Stone
Echo Point Nova

Reflections + Shadows + Ambient Occlusion:
Wrench
The Ascent
Industria
Dahlia View
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Five Nights At Freddy's Security Breach
Trail Out
Exit From
Titan Station
Beyond Evolution
F1 2022
Sackboy A Big Adventure
Hogwarts Legacy
Day Dream Forgotten Sorrow
Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart
Fishing North Atlantic
Daydream Forgotten Sorrow
Gripper
The Eternal Cylinder
Time Breaker
To Hell With It
The First Descendant
Age of Mythology Retold
War Thunder

Reflections + Shadows + Water Caustics:
Sword and Fairy 7
Justice

Reflections + Limited Global Illumination + Water Caustics:
Chernobylite

Reflections + Shadows + Indirect Lighting:
Control

Global Illumination:
Metro Exodus Standard Edition
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
Ring Of Elysium
Icarus
Rune 2
Moonlight Blade
The Finals
Dragon's Dogma 2
Planet Coaster 2
Space Engineers 2

Global Illumination + Reflections:
Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition
Fortnite
F.I.S.T. Forged In Shadow Torch
Ant Ausventure
Warhammer 40K: Darktide
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
The Fabled Woods
Warhaven
Raze 2070
Starship Troopers: Extermination
The Isles Evrima
Supermoves
inZOI
Silent Hill 2 Remake
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead
Torque Drift 2
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black
Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Global Illumination + Reflections + Shadows:
Bright Memory Infinite
LEGO Builder's Journey
The Persistence
Escape From Naraka
Cyberpunk 2077
Dying Light 2
Pumpkin Jack
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
The Witcher 3 Definitive Edition
Hello Neighbor 2
Stay In The Light
F1 2023
Exoprimal
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
F1 2024
Star Wars Outlaws

Path Tracing:
Doom The Dark Ages
Indiana Jones and The Great Circle
Black Myth Wukong
Alan Wake 2
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty Warzone
Cyberpunk 2077 Overdrive
Desordre
Minecraft RTX
Quake 2 RTX
Portal RTX
Portal Prelude RTX
Doom 1 (mod)
Doom 2 (mod)
Quake 1 (mod)
Half Life 1 (mod)
Serious Sam First Encounter (mod)
Dragon's Dogma 2 (mod)
Resident Evil 2 Remake (mod)
Resident Evil 3 Remake (mod)
Resident Evil 4 Remake (mod)
Spider-Man 2 will have ray tracing on PC:
 
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