Most animated movies made in the last 2 decades have used ray tracing in some way, in fact animation studios have been using ray tracing and path tracing for about as long as VFX companies.
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NVIDIA has created a gaming studio to remaster classic PC games with Ray Tracing effects
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Most animated movies made in the last 2 decades have used ray tracing in some way, in fact animation studios have been using ray tracing and path tracing for about as long as VFX companies.
Would love to see a ray traced Dark Souls, especially with how weird the lighting is in certain areas. Not sure if that's a "classic" though.
Maybe this could be an excuse for Konami to release a competent HD Silent Hill compilation?
Maybe this could be an excuse for Konami to release a competent HD Silent Hill compilation?
One more thing: old tech games plus latest tech (real time RT) look horrible together. Old models, old geometry, old everything BUT with realistic lightning! Not good IMO.
Yeah, i meant more 2D animated movies, D3's art style reminds me of a couple is all, i think D3 artists got their inspiration from one certain movie.
Alan Wake remastered with Ray Tracing would look incredible
We recently got some ray tracing for screen space reflections in Halo working, its pretty fucking cool.
I'll be really happy if Nvidia can push this forward, our results have been great. It brings out so many little things, you can even see the overshield now reflecting and moving it's light on the assault rifle.
Who's doing this? Looks awesome.
It's mainly this guy on our team named Jazz, who is working with Marty McFly who made the initial raytracing shaders for Reshade. What sets us apart from reshade is that we can tweak it to each level in our project based on a number of criterea, and there is no extra setup on the users part than enabling it in the mods launcher. You can read more up on the project at reddit.com/r/halospv3 and the two wizards working primarly on this are always sitting in the discrd as well if you have any more technical questions about it.
I totally missed the avatar so I didn't even know it was part of the SPV3 project. Thanks for the great work on SPV3, it's amazing!
Put that game back on the GPU-crushing throne!
Came in here to post this. It's because light and shadow are so integral to the game that I'd wanna see it ray-traced.
Actually yeah, what Crysis 1 really needs is to be ported into the latest version of the CryEngine on PC.
Life is Strange's lighting is pretty borked in some parts but I'd love to see raytracing appropriately applied to the game, particularly in a remaster made using UE4.
lol, forget about it. My 1080 Ti did around 7-12 FPS on the quake demo. We need dedicated hw ray tracing support.
Very much doubt they'll do games that use shadows as part of its gameplay design (e.g. Thief games and Riddick). For one they'd have to set up the lighting scheme perfectly so that the shadows are in the same places as originally conceived.
DLSS has its days numbered I think. Nvidias own sharpening filter is amazing, even better than AMDs RIS as it supports all APIs. If the game supports resolution scale setting plus the filter, it will look 99999999x better than DLSS.
ALT+F3 , you need the latest drivers and GeForce experience installed. They have several filters, sharpening is one of them and you can tweak it.
This really should be top of the list. 100% raytraced Crysis, so we never stop asking if your new PC can run it =D
While it may not be a new studio, I do hope this is something that they work on. There are so many classic games I'd love to see supporting ray tracing.
And Radeon Image Sharpening:
DLSS is a reconstruction technique, not just sharpening technique.
You should watch Digital Foundry's videos on DLSS:
And Radeon Image Sharpening:
DLSS is a reconstruction technique, not just sharpening technique.
That's not quite right. As said, DLSS is a reconstruction technique and for example in Control it definitely does a better job than running lower res with sharpening. DLSS is very useful until we have raytracing hardware that can do the high framerates we are used to. Then it can be still used for above native res quality. Sure, it does have some issues like working better the higher your starting resolution and only working with 16:9 resolutions in most games, which for me as a 32:9 display owner is a huge bummer as I could really use it. Nothing prevents you from pairing DLSS + sharpen filter either.
Doom 3 seems like a likely candidate for RTX remaster considering it's open source. Half-Life 2 would be amazing too.
Based on Quake 2 RTX the best games for it would be games that have a shitty lighting engine but otherwise good looking assets. Dark Souls 1/2 would be cool but unlikely to happen.
That's why I said if the game supports some sort of RESOLUTION SCALING + the sharpening filter, it produces better image quality and speed than DLSS, basically Nvidia killed DLSS itself with such a quality filter, and you don't need tensor cores.
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Reconstruction filters like DLSS add detail not present at the native rendering resolution.
Sharpening filters enhance contrast to make existing details more visible, but do not add detail.
The videos above explain it clearly.
You do know that Hardware Unboxed is heavily AMD biased, right? I suggest watching:
My personal experience is that DLSS works well at least in Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Control. I also use the Nvidia sharpen filter due to DLSS not working at 32:9 aspect ratio. To me you should not confuse sharpening filters with reconstruction just because DLSS had a rocky start.
Yes. I would love for it to come back and reclaim the throne.
Yes, would be lovely.
Global Illumination in case of sparse geometry should be quite nice and fast.
Yeah, honestly i think Quake 2 is kind of a mediocre game, good soundtrack & classic MP for it's day, but the gameplay feels floaty, the level design is boring & the art is the original brown & bloom plague. Quake 1 is so much better.