As I wrote here, ray tracing is a technology that has been used by filmmakers and studios to create the most realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections, but it took fleets of server farms to properly batch-process the video, frame by agonizing frame.
Net-net, I believe it demonstrates the increased popularity of ray tracing and puts another feather in Microsoft’s cap with Microsoft Game Studio Support.įor those unfamiliar with ray tracing, let me step back a bit and do some background education. Today, I’d like to talk about an interesting announcement NVIDIA made last week about a Minecraft beta with RTX support on Windows 10. NVIDIA has been busy hammering away at supporting more games and adding RTX technologies to more of its cards. NVIDIA provided a major boost to realism with its “GeForce RTX” branded graphics cards in 2019 that were the first to support accelerated ray tracing. Part of that reason for the growing fascination with PC games is its intense realism versus consoles. It makes sense that as more people are staying home, many are occupying their time playing PC games. I captured some of that in my recent blog here where I cited some comments NVIDIA’s CFO made on the topic. RTX Minecraft showcase of lava, ice, and luminescent blocks Pico Moorheadįor the past ten years, PC gaming has increased in popularity, but since COVID-19 hit the scene, it is becoming even more popular.
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