Feels pretty safe to assume it's time for that long awaited RT update to hit Doom Eternal on PC. Doubt PS5/XS updates would be mentioned here.
Siege I'd guess is there for more Reflex marketing.
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NVIDIA AT COMPUTEX 2021 keynote to feature DOOM Eternal
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Feels pretty safe to assume it's time for that long awaited RT update to hit Doom Eternal on PC. Doubt PS5/XS updates would be mentioned here.
Siege I'd guess is there for more Reflex marketing.
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I predict a separate press release style announcement following the event.
I hope to god. I've been waiting for the update to drop before starting on my X. Given how they dropped the last DLC, we might also get the same treatment with the patch.
Most likely. Though given its an RTX event you can rule out DLSS for consoles obviously.
I'm pretty sure that they've lumped the RTX RT implementation into next gen consoles native versions development.
What will be interesting though is to see if Eternal will get something extra in RT on PC when compared to PS5/XS.
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Watch Nintendo drop a Switch Pro video an hour before this event where Nvidia will then show their new shield using the same chipset.
The lightning and reflections in Eternal are already insane as is, and that's baked in. I can't imagine how the game will look with RT. ID are absolute wizards, though man. 4096x2160 just for the shits, ultra nightmare settings, and I'm still somehow getting 60fps sustained. Like, lol what?
My prediction: DLSS 2.1, RT reflections, and RT shadows (for shadowed particle effects in particular).
GI and AO are already baked in and with the game having largely static environments, it works just fine. Reflections and shadows are the only things that could make a material difference to the presentation.
GI and AO are already baked in and with the game having largely static environments, it works just fine. Reflections and shadows are the only things that could make a material difference to the presentation.
What does RT Shadows actually entail? How can you have RT Shadows without the lighting being raytraced? I've always been confused by that.
Cod modern warfare and black ops cold War are RT shadow but not light. I'm sure DF has covered those games so you find their videos on YouTube.
RT reflection is a no brainer for the game, consider how many metallic surface the game has.
I am curious to see what id pulls off with ray tracing, considering DOOM Eternal's lighting is mostly baked in and highly stylized to boot, and reflections and shadows are really something I'm not going to be paying attention to in the midst of gameplay.
Can't wait to get all of the frames with DLSS, tho.
Can't wait to get all of the frames with DLSS, tho.
Doom 3 RTX when, id.
Every light source has a size associated with it. Ray-traced shadows trace the rays between the light source (its described shape, usually spherical with a prescribed radius) and whatever is intersecting with it, and ONLY interacts with the light source in this way. Point lights have a specific size and falloff distance and only things that intersect with this shape are considered for ray-traced shadows.
Ray-traced global illumination, on the other hand, effectively treats surfaces as reflectors (which, unless they're literally venta black, they are) and calculates the number of times a ray of light bounces. Ambient occlusion is basically just the reverse of this, calculating the occluders rather than the reflectors. Ray-traced reflections are pretty much the same thing as global illumination except with a roughness cutoff (smoother surfaces require fewer bounces to look convincing) and a much lower number of bounces, hence why it's very popular as the use-case for console games - not to mention it tends to have a larger visual effect as reflections are the one thing you really can't bake well, with cube maps always being very obvious and screen-space reflections having severe limitations.
I hope this is understandable.
Yep. The UAC levels in particular are going to look amazing with RT reflections.
Jokes on you, there is a console version of DOOM Eternal powered by NVIDIA.
Switch?
The jump to conclusion was that Nvidia has some special, and then other solutions get announced later.