TL;DR: NVIDIA will release the Path Tracing Patch for DOOM: The Dark Ages on June 18, enhancing in-game lighting with advanced ray-traced effects. This upgrade offers more vibrant visuals and ...

Let's talk about path tracing, hardware-heads. While the difference between ray-tracing and path-tracing has been debated, the industry has largely settled on using ray-tracing as an umbrella term ...

TL;DR: id Software's DOOM: The Dark Ages, running on id Tech 8, features advanced ray-traced global illumination and RT gameplay mechanics. A June PC update will add Path Tracing with DLSS 4 ...

Ray tracing is yesterday’s news. All the cool kids or at least all the kids who can build a desktop PC that costs as much as a used economy sedan are talking about path tracing now. This more advanced ...

When Doom: The Dark Ages launched back in May, developers id Software promised that it would add an extra graphics option in a later patch, specifically path tracing. The stompy-stompy shooter uses ...

In brief: Compared to traditional rendering methods, real-time path tracing is often less labor-intensive and can help produce more realistic lighting and shadows in 3D graphics. However, due to its ...

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The original Max Payne is now more than 20 years old, designed for the era of the PlayStation 2 and first-gen Xbox. Some fans of the title refuse to let it die and have released a new mod to bring Max ...

The technology currently only runs on the beefiest GPUs, and even then only with upscaling and frame generation for playable frame rates at high resolution. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

The gaming industry has been a forefront for technology since its early days, pushing the expectations of things like handheld computing, online communication, and of course, graphics. For the last ...

Something to look forward to: Nvidia and numerous independent modders have been updating iconic PC gaming classics with next-generation path-traced lighting for the last few years. With the company's ...