Reshade Enables Ray Tracing in Quake 3, FEAR and GTA V
The latest alpha version of the popular Reshade app enables you to include ray tracing in many modern and classic titles. Thanks to the app, we can achieve a much better image quality, but it is done in exchange for a large computer load.
On the YouTube Star Wars: Jedi Outcast have recently appeared on YouTube. The effect was achieved thanks to the Reshade app, which was developed to the technology.
Ray tracing for everyone?
The latest version of Reshade, which s ray tracing, is currently in the alpha phase and is being developed by Pascal Gilcher. It enables PC gamers to toggle global ray tracing in all DX9, DX10 and DX11 ed games.
In the titles mentioned above, the new ray tracing method significantly improves the overall image quality, but there are also significant performance drops and some glitches due to the way the technology implemented in Reshade works.
One of the drawbacks of the current version is that objects that are not seen by the player are not taken into in the calculation, which causes some imperfections in the generated image. This means that with fast movements in a closed space, we can see how ambient occlusion effects are calculated and generated in real time. It is not known whether it will be possible to solve this problem in the beta or final version, however, it can be safely stated that the new Reshade affects the quality of graphics in older games in a very positive way as it is. Here are some examples.
To get access to the early version of Reshade, which s ray tracing, you need to the author with a minimum of $20 on Patreon.
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