What are some good comparison examples of how this would look on old games? I've seen some videos on this tech but for new games and I'm not quite sure of how it would benefit classic games.
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NVIDIA has created a gaming studio to remaster classic PC games with Ray Tracing effects
- Thread starter Lashley
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I would play the shit out of a remake of any titles in the first half of your list. Especially Half-Life 2 and Deus Ex.
Care less about remakes of the multiplayer titles since I think those are less reliant on graphics to get their point across.
Here's a quick comparison for Quake 2. The difference can be quite dramatic in some parts.
Off-topic, but why wouldn't you downsample using the in-game resolution scaling? I'm playing at 5k downsampled to 1440p and it's still running at 120-144 fps on a Titan X Pascal.
Wow that looks really cool. Thank you.
Now I wonder how it would look on my beloved STALKER.
Better and natural lights, ray traced explosions and enhanced shadows will look nice.
Let me dream, the first Diablo is my favorite game ever and i want to see more.
I want the Classic experience, man! Only with G-sync, 144hz added.
If they were following the original art style of the game and remade what was impossible back then in ray tracing, that would be cool (if the result looks like the old game, but better), but completely changing the look of legendary games by some random/small team just for the sake of it sounds terrible to me.
Yea, but what I'm saying is that Quake 2 RTX only happened because the source code was released.
I want: Beyond Good and Evil
I want that emulator on Switch and would buy lots of Gamecube and Wii games again (also they could bring Baten Kaitos 1-2, thesecond was never released in europe :( )
I want that emulator on Switch and would buy lots of Gamecube and Wii games again (also they could bring Baten Kaitos 1-2, thesecond was never released in europe :( )
That's pretty cool, i hope it's a bit better than Q2 RTX though, Q2 RTX didn't really have proper set lighting & the default values were poor, you have to change settings per level to get good results, making it more of an editor than a proper remaster. if they do say Half Life RTX, i hope there is proper set values & since they have a full on team now, they can likely deliver a more hand crafted RTX experience.
I would say so. The stencil shadows are extremely stark though, so there's a risk that an accurate lighting model with bounces from ambient sources would illuminate the world much more than the originally intended look, and the flashlight might do a much better job of lighting up things that you're not directly pointing at. It would definitely be transformative!
i would assume that these would largely be ports where they work with the IP owners, as they create new sales potential for these games. So they could get whatever they need in terms of assets and code from the respective partners.
That would be awesome. Either way... I'm interested in which games they'll choose.
I would rather remasters of this games than emulations. For Galaxy it will would be strange anyway, one great feature was the pointer controls to collect stars, sometimes you had to do whole different things with your right and left hand, can not be reproduce with a normal gamepad, but with Joy cons it should be possible.
I would love it more for RPGs and Gamecube/Wii titles that probably won't get remasters because they weren't successfull enough. Emulating those would be cheap. But that's a bit off topic and probably won't happen anyway for non Nintendo games like Baten Kaitos so i hope for Remasters even if the chances are slim.
photorealism isn't the only thing that benefits from raytracing. every cgi movie that hit the theaters now use raytracing
That is a nice start.
Ray tracing is such a no-brainer for cyberpunk games.
yes I know but I don't feel this adds anything other than a gimmick that will stop being cool after 5 minutes
Why not global illumination helped out Poe immensely. The lighting in d3 can be flat raytracing would make it more dynamic, god forbid you kill a shitload of mobs though.
With RTX features enabled? Probably not even close. Had to run Control at 720p with a 1080 Ti and even there, framerate was all over the place. Quake 2 ran awful too.
It's pretty transformative. It's not just reflections. Accurate lighting makes a huge difference in how a game looks.
Diablo 3's art style is an odd one though, focused on almost oil painted backgrounds with more realistic models in the middle of it all, it reminds me of some animated movies. Im not sure if ray tracing would work well with it but it would be fun to see more games with it.
My company just bought me a i9 workstation with a 2080ti. Guess I'll be staying after work a lot
it's not the art style it's the shadows and effects that would get the most pop.
having dynamic ray traced shadows for the whole scene would look nice, but yeah as you said, the framerate will go bye bye.
D3 would look fantastic with path traced global illumination and shadows, like most games.
Oh god, I'd love to see the first two Thief games like this. It would have to be handled with care, though, considering how closely shadows are tied into moment-to-moment gameplay.