GART: Games and Applications using RayTracing

CP2077 still to this day has the most impressive RT showcase i think, five impressive ray tracing features at the same time in a big modern city, in special at night.

 

Dec 9, 2021

 

Music from "Heilung", very nice. Who cares about the visuals.

 

Any news on a VR version like the first game?

 

Interestingly enough, the team responsible for this Matrix demo is the same team responsible for the StarWars Reflections demo that debuted during Turing Ray Tracing launch.

At any rate, when the Matrix demo gets launched on PC eventually, I am sure it will run only on Turing, Ampere and RDNA2, while RDNA1 and Vega2 will be discarded entirely or get downgraded to oblivion visually. My guess is that Epic will not even bother with them, nor will AMD. Also I am postulating the 2080Ti will be faster than 6900XT when running the demo.

And just like Metro Exodus Enhanced and Minecraft DXR, running UE5 titles with advanced visuals will require an RT capable GPU as a minimum.

 

January 2, 2022

 

Oh wow, all i wanted lol Said it before when the Q3RT launched, the first HL ray traced would be amazing. Lets hope more of these classics get these overhauls.

 

Just reminded me i havnt finished the zen levels in Black Mesa, now I'm thinking I should just wait until HLRT comes out
Maybe they missed a trick adding RT to HL instead of Black Mesa

 

At GDC 2022 nVidia will talk (and introduce?) about "Kickstart RT":

https://schedule.gdconf.com/session...start-rt-easy-open-source-ray-tracing-/885256

 

DSOG - Ray Tracing support coming to Chernobylite on April 21st

 

Atomic Heart Trailer - RT & DLSS support
February 9, 2022

 

Sci-fi survival horror game, On Air, gets a new Ray Tracing trailer (dsogaming.com)
February 16, 2022
Support ray tracing reflections, refractions, shadows and DLSS.

 

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-5-is-now-available-in-preview

Guess this about settles whether UE5 will be using RT h/w or not...

 

The discussions where fun though

 

Makes quite a large difference for a rather ’small’ improvement.

 

@DegustatoR Despite some noisy or flickering shadows in a few examples, the local shadows option looks pretty much universally better to me.

 

RTX Technology Showcase has been released. Click on "get started" to enter the download page. Executable and also source files are available.

EDIT: It turned out that this is just an update to a demo released in April 2021.

https://developer.nvidia.com/game-engines/unreal-engine/rtx-branch/technology-showcase

 

I think that's been released since forever ago. I remember messing with it a long time ago.

 

It got an update: https://developer.nvidia.com/game-engines/unreal-engine/rtx-branch/technology-showcase/get-started