This is where things start to get a bit messy. Both Microsoft's new implementation and the Nvidia RTX demo are based on DXR, or DirectX Ray Tracing, an extension of DX12. That makes sense for this new ...

Is There Minecraft Ray-Tracing on Xbox? Technically, yes, there is, but you need to do a bit of playing around, noted below. Ray-tracing is available on the Minecraft Preview build of the game on Xbox ...

Ray tracing is one of the latest and most impressive graphical improvements video games have seen in the last few years. This system focuses on making light sources behave more realistically, which ...

When you think of Minecraft, you probably imagine blocky graphics and simplistic textures. But the recent beta launch of ray tracing support for NVIDIA's RTX graphics cards transforms it into an ...

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Minecraft's Super Duper Graphics pack may be no more, but a more impressive upgrade is on its way. Minecraft is getting real-time ray tracing - or more accurately, path tracing. This is part of a new ...

In August last year, Mojang and Nvidia announced ray tracing support for Minecraft, coming in as a replacement for the canceled Super Duper Graphics Pack, but only for PC users. That ray tracing ...

Ray tracing is becoming extremely demanding among developers and gamers. Although it's a very good feature to elevate the usual gaming experience, its requirements are no joke. In "Minecraft," this ...

After further clarification from Nvidia, the following article has been updated to reflect that the announcement was of three new game titles, not nine. This brings the total number of games ...