Windows 10 October 2018 Update Enables Ray Tracing Support For Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs
Oct. 4, 2018As noted in our review and coverage of the Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs,ray tracing technology improves game visualsby a huge magnitude, but it was dependent on a number of pieces falling into place.
Also, Microsoft’s DXR API will serve as a standard platform and lets developers leverage the real-time ray tracing capabilities ofNVIDIA’s RTX line-upof GPUs, includingthe RTX 2080, which we reviewed. The first few games which support the ray tracing technology are Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Battlefield V and Metro Exodus.
NVIDIA claims that‘ray tracing is the definitive solution for lifelike lighting, reflections, and shadows, offering a level of realism far beyond what’s possible using traditional rendering techniques’, and theresultsso far have been quite promising.
With ray-tracing, illuminating elements in a frame becomes much simpler for developers, and results in more life-like visuals with far superior lighting effects, as we have seen in ourgameplay experience with the new games.
