The Complete List of PC Ray Traced Titles with Classification

[DavidGraham]

FBC: Firebreak will launch in June 17, NVIDIA says all the full ray tracing/path tracing tech in Alan Wake 2 will be in FBC: Firebreak (which could potentially mean Mega Geometry as well).

Additionally, all of the jaw-dropping Full Ray Tracing technologies seen in Alan Wake 2 will return in FBC: Firebreak, giving gamers the opportunity to greatly enhance image quality

With this, there will be 3 path traced games launching in close proximity to each other: Doom Dark Ages (in May), F1 25 (in May) and FBC: Firebreak (In June), not counting Half Life 2 RTX demo which launched about a month ago.

Remedy Entertainment's FBC: Firebreak Launches June 17

Remedy Entertainment announced today in a developer live-stream that FBC: Firebreak, the upcoming three-player cooperative first-person shooter set in the mysterious world of Control, will launch worldwide on June 17, 2025. FBC: Firebreak is Remedy Entertainment's first self-published game and...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[GhostofWar]

I'm looking forward to FBC glad to see the alan wake 2 upgrades over control have been added.

 

[DavidGraham]

Expedition 33 received a mod that enables Hardware Lumen and DLSS Ray Reconstruction.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Mod Enables Hardware Lumen & Improves Ray Tracing

Modder 'Caseyclysm' has released a new mod for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that aims to improve its Ray Tracing effects.

www.dsogaming.com

 

[GhostofWar]

There's an update on the article saying it doesn't enable hardware lumen.

"According to various reports, the mod does not enable Hardware Lumen. However, it will improve the game’s Ray Tracing effects (and it will increase the BVH for RT). Thus, I’ve edited the title of the article to reflect this."

 

[DavidGraham]

The first screen shot comparisons of Doom Dark Ages Path Tracing, shows much higher quality reflections, lighting and shadows.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1917611153812869464

Doom: The Dark Ages - First Path Tracing Graphics Comparison

id Software has shared the first comparison screenshot between the vanilla and the path-traced versions of Doom: The Dark Ages.

www.dsogaming.com

Additionally, Deadzone Rouge launched with ray traced Hardware Lumen and ray traced shadows, using UE5.

 

[Scott_Arm]

The Doom: The Dark Ages bundle is being advertised as:

Path Tracing With Neural Rendering
Explore Dark And Sinister Realms, Path Traced

Unlock DOOM: The Dark Ages with path tracing** for game-changing realism powered by GeForce RTX 50 Series delivering physically correct shadows, reflections, and global illumination.

Sichere dir DOOM: The Dark Ages Premium Edition mit ausgewählten GeForce RTX 50-Series.

Kaufe einen qualifizierenden Desktop-PC, Laptop oder eine Grafikkarte der GeForce RTX 50-Serie.

www.nvidia.com

I wonder if it's just DLSS, or if they're using something like the neural radiance cache Nvidia released.

 

[techuse]

I don't understand why they are holding back PT footage.

 

[DavidGraham]

The new GTA 6 trailer shows many instances of ray traced reflections and several of ray traces global illumination.

 

[DegustatoR]

several of ray traces global illumination

Eh, the jury is still out on this one. Aside from characters (player and NPCs) having some obvious RT bounces on them (same thing with the trailer 1) I didn't spot a lot (if any) of these on the world objects or architecture. There's some obvious sun light occlusion but not a lot of apparent light bouncing.