The brighter the light, the more virtual photons the GPU must calculate, and the more surfaces it will reflect, refract, and scatter off and from. Ray tracing alone makes a huge difference in ...

Every few years, it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games look ever more realistic. Over the decades, we've had shaders, tessellation, shadow mapping, ray ...

The presentation of the reflection can also be influenced by variations in the glass itself. Path tracing in Alan Wake 2 also covers diffuse lighting as well, which essentially means that light ...

This is particularly true with the light right next to bench. Without ray tracing (right), there’s a stark direct reflection on the bench. With both ray tracing and path tracing, though ...

Resident Evil 2 ray tracing ... the increased reflection here. The vanilla version of Resident Evil 2 looks fantastic, but suffers slightly from this dull, matte look, whereby light doesn't ...