Ray Tracing

Following complaints of Dragon’s Dogma 2’s performance at launch, Capcom has released a new update for PC and PS5. It improves the quality of DLSS Super Resolution on PC while fixing an “issue related to the display of models under some specific settings.” As for PS5 players, there are now options to turn Motion Blur and Ray Tracing on or off. They can also lock the frame rate to 30 FPS.

Horizon Forbidden West has had an extremely strong debut on PC, as the second entry in the series by Guerrilla Games sold quite well in the US during its release week.

A Fallout: New Vegas RTX Remix mod is currently in the works, as confirmed by a new video shared online this week.

Horizon Forbidden West is among the best looking open-world games available, and the game is looking more gorgeous than ever on PC thanks to mods.

Diablo 4 Patch 1.3.5 is now available to download! This patch introduces several bug fixes and user interface tweaks into Diablo 4, as well as implementing Ray Tracing. Diablo 4 Patch 1.3.5 Patch Notes How are you enjoying Diablo 4 Season 3 so far? Are you excited for Ray Tracing? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below! Gauntlet Build Tier List Gauntlet and Leaderboards Guide for Diablo 4 Ray Tracing Reaches Diablo 4

Microsoft has proposed a new method to make ray tracing in games faster with future DXR API updates by leveraging SSDs to limit VRAM usage.

Blizzard has released patch notes for Patch 1.3.5, launching March 26, which will address several bug fixes and introduce Ray Tracing to the game.

On March 26, wanderers can conqueror the horrors of Hell with a suite of new graphical enhancements available to them with patch 1.3.5. Arriving alongside our next content update, Sanctuary will be further imbued with the luscious shadows and enhanced reflections of ray tracing, plus other visual enhancements.

Blizzard has released patch notes for Patch 1.3.5, launching March 26, which will address several bug fixes and introduce Ray Tracing to the game.

The first benchmarks of MSI's upcoming Claw Handheld gaming console have been leaked which confirms that it features Intel Core Ultra CPUs.

By Nvidia’s count, there are now 500 games and applications that employ DLSS upscaling and ray tracing visual effects – or "RTX technologies," in GPU superpower speak. While there’s arguably some cheekiness behind that count, as ray tracing in particular is not an RTX-exclusive feature, it is nonetheless quite the feat for a set of tools that launched in subjectively auspicious circumstances back in 2018.

London is looking absolutely amazing in this new AC Syndicate graphical showcase, showing Ubisoft's title from 2015 running with ReShade Ray Tracing.

Today, Gearbox Publishing and Blackbird Interactive (Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Crossfire: Legion, Minecraft Legends) have revealed the final PC system requirements for Homeworld 3.

The first benchmarks of Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake "Arc" integrated GPU have been leaked and it shows performance on par with Radeon 780M.

The first Intel Meteor Lake laptops powered by the Core Ultra CPUs are now appearing at various online retailers in the US.

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty officially drops today, and while Wccftech has covered the expansion’s PC technical chops, how does it measure up on current-gen consoles? Cyberpunk 2077 was originally kind of a mess on consoles, so it’s a question that begs answering. Thankfully, the folks at Digital Foundry have given Phantom Liberty and the recent Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 update for a spin, and the results are fairly good, although not without some drawbacks. You can check out Digital Foundry’s full video below, provided you have around 15 minutes to spare, or you can scroll on down for our recap.

YouTuber and artist 'Digital Dreams' has released a new video, showing off a heavily modded Starfield with over 50 mods and the artist's custom ReShade Ray Tracing shader.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is a beautiful game, you only have to check out a trailer or gameplay video to confirm that, but we haven’t heard many specifics about what kind of visual modes the game will offer. Well, in a new interview with IGN, Insomniac’s director of core technology Mike Fitzgerald basically spilled the beans on what we can expect.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Patch 7 is live, bringing with it key performance improvements on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. The PC version received its share of optimization and bug fixes, as well. Among the performance boosts on consoles is a solid 60 FPS in Performance Mode thanks to GPU and CPU optimization and disabling Ray Tracing. Those who prefer to play in Quality Mode should notice positive changes like reduced FPS fluctuation. 

Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon arrives in less than two weeks, and FromSoftware and Bandai Namco have revealed the full PC requirements for the game, both with and without ray tracing. Overall, the specs are very reasonable, which seems to be in line with a game that looks polished, but not necessarily boundary-pushing in terms of tech. Even ray-tracing requirements aren’t that high, although it should be mentioned ray-tracing is only present in the garage when you’re designing your mechs, not during regular gameplay. You can check out the full PC requirements for Armored Core VI, below.

NVIDIA has rolled out Geforce Hotfix driver 537.09 for the PC version of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, which aims to address some performance fluctuations.

Today, NVIDIA has announced that a soon to be released title is receiving some of its AI technology for graphical and performance improvements. Baldur’s Gate 3 will launch on August 3, and for those with NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU’s that support the tech, you will have access to two technologies at launch. The game has exited early access and this may have not been part of the game during that, but DLSS 2 and DLAA will be available for the game. NVIDIA DLAA will help to smooth out image quality while DLSS 2 will help boost in-game performance.

We've got a double Remnant II feature today, thanks to an interview with Gunfire Games' Design Director John Pearl and Principal Designer Ben Cureton. If you're itching to know more about the game's lore, combat, and mechanics, head to this article; here, the focus is squarely on technical aspects. For instance, we can confirm that Remnant II runs on Unreal Engine 5, though it doesn't use its trademark feature (Lumen) yet. We also discussed several PC and console-specific details below.