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'We can’t wait for players to experience this level of detail in The Witcher 4' — how CD Projekt Red and Nvidia are teaming up to transform the future of PC gaming
Nvidia and CD Projekt Red are collaborating to integrate Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry foliage technology into The Witcher 4, aiming to create more realistic and detailed forest environments. This partnership will leverage advanced path-tracing lighting effects and a new level-of-detail system to reduce memory usage and improve performance, with the technology also being made open-source.
Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry system will be sprucing up the forests of The Witcher 4, making for some lush-looking…
Nvidia announced its RTX Mega Geometry foliage system will be used in The Witcher 4, enhancing its forests with advanced ray tracing and triangle updating techniques. This technology, leveraging opacity micromaps and selective updates to ray tracing structures, aims to significantly reduce CPU overhead and improve performance for high-fidelity, path-traced assets. The game, built on Unreal Engine 5, is expected to feature extremely dense forests, and this system is designed to handle the visual complexity while maintaining game-ready performance.
Sumo partners with Arm to help test mobile game capabilities on new AI-powered chips
UK games firm Sumo Digital is partnering with chip specialist Arm to evaluate its new AI-powered neural technology for mobile gaming. Arm's technology aims to deliver PC-quality graphics on mobile devices using AI-accelerated GPUs. Sumo Digital CEO Gary Dunn expressed excitement about the potential for a paradigm shift in mobile gaming capabilities.
Crimson Desert and Toxic Commando add DLSS 4 multi-frame generation
Nvidia has announced that Crimson Desert and John Carpenter's Toxic Commando will support DLSS 4 with Multi-Frame Generation. This new technology, available now in the Toxic Commando demo and for Crimson Desert on March 19th, can generate up to three intermediate frames per rendered frame, significantly boosting performance. However, Multi-Frame Generation is exclusive to Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs.
SGJ Podcast #504 – Technical Marvels in Gaming
This podcast episode discusses technical marvels in gaming, with a particular focus on the advent of 3D acceleration cards in the 1990s. The hosts also touch upon other significant advancements that have shaped modern gaming graphics and experiences.
This GTA 5 update is for Nvidia PC players exclusively
Nvidia has released a new Game Ready driver that provides DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation exclusively for PC players with GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards in Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced. This update significantly boosts frame rates in ray-traced environments, offering up to a four times performance increase at 4K resolution while maintaining low latency.
