ray tracing

Hey there! As it seems, if you play Planet Coaster 2 via GeForce Now, the settings for „global illumination“ are greyed out. Despite using a RTX 4080, the game keeps telling me that I am not using a graphics card capable of raytracing. After a rather depressing chat with the customer service...

Just been experiencing my first game that uses more extensive tracing features. I think im definitely sold. Always been a fan of ambient occlusion, and ray tracing definitely increases the effect a few steps more. I also thought realtime reflections were not that interesting, but they're...

:unsure: After playing Hitman 3, it gave me another idea of what they can add to the graphics overhaul for Odyssey. Instead of Ray Tracing, they can implement the next best thing called "Screen Space Shadows". IO Interactive did a fantastic job with it in Hitman 3 as shown in the images below...

:unsure: If a big part of the DLC is that it is a graphics overhaul, then why isn't there any High Dynamic Range and Ray Tracing options discussed? If not ray tracing, then HDR itself, if done right, would make the game look stunning alone.

Yesterday I read that Wargaming had released an RT demo for World of Tanks - which works on DX11 and is hardware independent. .... so I downloaded it and tried it - looks very nice indeed. The method uses Intel's Embree ray tracing kernel collection (https://www.embree.org/) which has been...