Ray tracing performance on PC just got a quiet but significant push forward. Microsoft has officially standardized Shader Execution Reordering in the DirectX Agility SDK 1.619 release, making SER a ...

If RT was anything to go by, DLSS 5 will be ubiquitous, and it might require a new GPU ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Path Tracing or Full Ray Tracing is widely considered the end game for real-time lightning in games, and it's best to think of it like ray-tracing for ...

A follow up post after I added material graph system in my mini engine. To be more specific, it should be “bringing material data to a hit group shader and differentiate them”. The result is almost ...

Evolve Blog breaks down inline vs pipeline ray tracing and why the choice still matters for engine architecture. The benchmark found similar results on NVIDIA and Intel, but AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Half-Life 2 RTX Remix is the gaming equivalent of a magic trick in that it's a mod that takes one of the greatest PC games of all time and gives it a ...

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AMD has historically lagged behind Nvidia when it comes to ray tracing in games, but according to the latest leak, AMD ray tracing is about to completely change with the launch of its RDNA 4 ...

Ever since Nvidia launched its RTX GPUs, the company has been banging the drum on ray tracing as a major, must-have feature that will eventually transform the entire gaming industry. Unfortunately, ...

For two consecutive years at WWDC, Apple improved Metal, with Metal 3 running on Apple Silicon Macs and on iOS and tvOS devices. Here are the big changes to Metal in the forthcoming iOS 17 and macOS ...

Press Win + R and enter %LOCALAPPDATA%. Look for the ValorMortis folder. Navigate to ValorMortis > Saved > Config > Windows.

Special hardware units handle ray traversal, freeing up the GPU shaders. While video game consoles have finally reached the age of ray tracing, performing those graphical calculations in real time can ...