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Powerful Shader Insights: Using Shader Debug Info with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

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As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a. To manage this level of complexity, it becomes necessary to observe a decomposition of shader performance at the HLSL or GLSL source-code level.

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New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

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Easier ray-tracing integration for games with Kickstart RT In 2018, NVIDIA Turing architecture changed the game with real-time ray tracing. This scene highlights ray tracing, global illumination, ambient occlusion, and ray traced shadows, enabled through KickStart SDK.

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Improve Shader Performance and In-Game Frame Rates with Shader Execution Reordering 

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NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). Background Shading divergence is a long-standing problem in ray tracing.

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Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

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“NVIDIA DLSS 3 introduces truly impressive frame generation technology and the Unreal Engine 5.2 plugin will offer developers a great choice for increased quality and performance of their games,” said Nick Penwarden, vice president of engineering at Epic Games. Watch the demo video to learn more. Video 2.

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Advanced API Performance: CPUs

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The main design philosophy of D3D12 and Vulkan is to enable game engines to distribute graphics workloads across multiple CPU cores. Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. Evenly balance work across all threads for best results.

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Implementing Path Tracing in ‘Justice’: An Interview with Dinggen Zhan of NetEase

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NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing is the ultimate solution for ray tracing. We stick to using cutting-edge technologies in our development work to create high-image quality games and enhance players’ immersive gaming experience. What challenges did you face during the process of integrating ray tracing?

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Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

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NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8

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