Nvidia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Vulkan is the industry’s first open, cross-vendor standard ray tracing API, enabling portable ray tracing acceleration across diverse platforms. Vulkan is the industry’s first open, cross-vendor standard ray tracing API, enabling portable ray tracing acceleration across diverse platforms.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Another essential tool, the Shader Graph heatmap, provides a visual estimate of the cost associated with different Shader Graph nodes. Developers can leverage this feedback to make informed decisions when optimizing shader programs.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

Integration of real-time path tracing technology simplified Real-time ray tracing in games was made possible with the introduction of RT cores in the NVIDIA Turing architecture. Released at GDC 2023, the NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing SDK is available to developers everywhere. Watch the demo video to learn more. Video 2.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 26, 2021

To enable this, set the ‘Capture Type’ to ‘One-shot [Beta]’ While TraceRays/DispatchRays has been the common way to initiate ray generation, it’s now possible to ray trace directly from your compute shaders using DXR1.1 and the new Khronos Vulkan Ray Tracing extension.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2023

In DirectX Raytracing (DXR) this self-intersection check would be implemented in an any-hit shader. For more information, see Ray Tracing Gems: High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs. Figure 2 shows the sources of numerical error for secondary rays. edge1, mul(barys.y,

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Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Featuring third-generation Ray Tracing Cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores, they accelerate games that take advantage of the latest neural graphics and ray tracing technology. Path tracing takes a physics-based approach to how light moves around a scene.

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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. For more information, see Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing. Not recommended Avoid needlessly creating pipeline state objects and ray tracing objects.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 9, 2023

When using advanced rendering techniques like ray tracing or path tracing, Nsight tools are your companion for creating a smooth and polished experience. At SIGGRAPH 2023, NVIDIA hosted a lab exploring how to use NVIDIA Nsight Tools to debug and profile ray tracing applications. Make sure it’s enabled first.

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Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

One factor to consider is whether background driver optimizations were engaged and when their resulting optimized shaders were deployed. The observations are then used to compile a shader asynchronously. Understandably, this can cause a great deal of confusion in timing your shaders.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 4, 2022

NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing is the ultimate solution for ray tracing. Realistic physical illumination is naturally implemented with path tracing, which improves visual appeal and reduces defects. What challenges did you face during the process of integrating ray tracing? Debugging costs us significant time.

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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

JULY 19, 2021

Shader performance table from a Perf SDK report. Applications using the latest graphics APIs like Direct3D 12 and Vulkan, along with cutting edge capabilities like ray tracing, can push the GPU more than ever. NV Vulkan Ray Tracing Extension), OpenGL, OpenVR, and the Oculus SDK. For more information, see the v2021.1

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Nvidia

JULY 19, 2021

We have enabled Optix support for GPU Trace, including Vulkan applications that trace rays in the compute shader and use OptiX as a denoiser. GPU Trace is able to show NVTX markers, which when used with OptiX can provide helpful contextual information. Try out the latest version of Nsight Graphics today!

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For example, a shader can use warp shuffle instructions to exchange data between threads in a warp without going through shared memory, which is especially valuable in pixel shaders where there is no shared memory. Or a shader can perform atomic additions on half-precision floating-point numbers in global memory. x, u1 mov r3.yz,

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Nvidia

APRIL 20, 2023

The Range Profiler’s pie chart shows instructions executed, per shader stage. GPU Trace can measure total instructions, but a per-shader stage decomposition is only available in the Occupancy chart. What about the Shader Profiler? the Shader Profiler continues to be available through the Frame Debugger activity.

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Now, you can go through these methods to fix the black screen problem with Hogwarts Legacy: Update graphics driver Kill memory-hungry processes Disable fullscreen optimization Modify GameUserSettings.ini Uninstall overclocking and game booster apps Clear shader cache 1. Clear shader cache Go to Windows Settings.

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Now, you can go through these methods to fix the black screen problem with Hogwarts Legacy: Update graphics driver Kill memory-hungry processes Disable fullscreen optimization Modify GameUserSettings.ini Uninstall overclocking and game booster apps Clear shader cache 1. Clear shader cache Go to Windows Settings.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

In particular, shaders are complex and developing a new environment for previewing and editing shaders in Houdini is expensive and difficult to implement quickly. There are many tools for setting up various plug-ins and specifications and re-implementing those tools for Houdini was expensive.

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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. Do this whenever possible.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 11, 2024

Revealed during its Worldwide Development Conference on June 10, Gaming Porting Toolkit 2 adds support for Intel's Advanced Vector Extensions 2, ray tracing, improved compatibility with Windows games, and new shader debugging tools, as Apple noted on its blog.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 5, 2024

One of the great pastimes of graphics developers and enthusiasts is comparing specifications of GPUs and marveling at the ever-increasing counts of shader. Achieving the maximum theoretical performance represented by those numbers is a major focus in the world of graphics programming.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 30, 2025

Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell, GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs deliver groundbreaking new RTX features such as DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and NVIDIA RTX Kit with RTX Mega Geometry and RTX Neural Shaders.

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