Played with Fire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Thanks to advancements in real-time rendering technologies, such as ray tracing, and next-generation VR headsets, users can now experience environments that look and feel almost indistinguishable from reality. From lifelike textures to realistic lighting, the focus is on creating experiences that immerse users completely.

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Nvidia

JUNE 22, 2021

This is a challenging task, even in cinematic rendering, because it is difficult to find all the paths of light that contribute meaningfully to an image. Solving this problem through brute force requires hundreds, sometimes thousands of paths per pixel, but this is far too expensive for real-time rendering.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Developers can apply now for access to RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI), the latest advancement in real-time ray tracing. REAL TIME RAY TRACING MADE EASIER RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) Imagine adding millions of dynamic lights to your game environments without worrying about performance or resource constraints.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 12, 2022

SER is a performance optimization that unlocks the potential for better ray and memory coherency in ray tracing shaders and thus increased shading efficiency. Background Shading divergence is a long-standing problem in ray tracing. Init(D3D12_DESCRIPTOR_RANGE_TYPE_UAV, 1, 0); // output texture ranges[1].Init(D3D12_DESCRIPTOR_RANGE_TYPE_SRV,

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Game Errors

DECEMBER 15, 2022

After the Witcher’s next-gen update which was released on the 14th of December, players have reported substantial frame rate drops and weird texture and model rendering on PC. Ray Tracing makes it laggy. Turn off Ray Tracing. Turn off Ray Tracing. DX12 version issues. Restart the game.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. Recommended Use a dedicated thread for resource creation to avoid hidden OS costs and blocking frame rendering, as this can result in costly OS paging work.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

For interior scenes and close-up exteriors in architecture, Lumen is highly effective and makes rendering easy, comfortable, and quick and offers the highest quality at the same time. One of the reasons is its physically based rendering material system and importing pipeline that makes importing models and projects into Unreal Engine easy.

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian , NetEase Game Engine Development Researcher and Manager of NetEase Thunder Fire Games Technical Center, to see what he’s learned as the Justice team added NVIDIA ray-tracing solutions to their development pipeline.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

This laid out a vision of a new era of computer graphics for video games that featured photorealistic, ray-traced lighting, AI-powered effects and complex worlds with massive amounts of geometry and high-resolution textures.

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Nvidia

APRIL 20, 2023

GPU Trace can measure total instructions, but a per-shader stage decomposition is only available in the Occupancy chart. On modern GPUs, the L1TEX cache is a combined L1 Data Cache that contains a Load/Store Unit + Texture Unit. Despite the short name “L1”, it includes Texture as well. What about the Shader Profiler?

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Special register access ( NvGetSpecial ) Extended atomic operations on FP16, FP32, and Uint64 variables ( NvInterlocked* ) Variable rate shading ( NvGetShadingRate , NvEvaluateAttribute* ) Texture footprint evaluation ( NvFootprint* ) WaveMultiPrefix functions ( NvWaveMultiPrefix* ). src0u.y = srcLane; // source lane g_NvidiaExt[index].src0u.z

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

Instead of computing the amount of light that reaches a certain surface every frame for every light source, we precompute all this information and store it in a single texture. The main goal of my GSoC project is to completely rewrite the light mapper in Godot and, instead of a voxel approach, use ray tracing to compute the scene lighting.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

[stextbox id="info"]This post is an update of Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing.[/stextbox] This post is an update of Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing. This post gathers best practices based on our experiences so far using NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in games.

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Example: Soft light from a computer screen) There are two main methods to calculate lighting quality: Ray Tracing. These are pre-made textures that store lighting info for objects that don’t move. Texture Compression. Makes texture files smaller, speeding up loading times and using less memory.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 6, 2025

Alongside these GPUs, NVIDIA introduced NVIDIA RTX Kit, a suite of neural rendering technologies to ray trace games with AI, render scenes with immense geometry, and create game characters with lifelike visuals. RTX Kit enhances geometry, textures, materials Source

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