Forward of the Recreation Builders Convention subsequent week, Nvidia shared extra particulars on the ability of its newest Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Sequence graphics playing cards.
Jason Paul, vp of the GeForce Platform Expertise at Nvidia, mentioned that demand is off the charts for the 50 collection graphics processing items (GPUs). Within the first 5 weeks of gross sales, the 50 Sequence shipped twice as many items as the primary 5 weeks of the 40 Sequence years in the past.
And gamers are utilizing the playing cards the best way they have been meant to be, as 92% are turning on DLSS4 and 96% are utilizing Reflex and 90% are utilizing ray tracing.
Nvidia introduced enhancements throughout its neural rendering and RTX know-how suite, together with that neural shaders are coming to Microsoft DirectX in April, and RTX Remix is formally releasing out of beta alongside a brand new playable Half-Life 2 RTX demo.
Nvidia additionally mentioned RTX Package is receiving main updates with Unreal Engine 5 assist for RTX Mega Geometry and RTX Hair, and Nvidia ACE autonomous recreation characters are debuting in two titles.
Half-Reside 2 RTX — Remastered with Nvidia RTX Remix
You possibly can relive the critically acclaimed and award-winning Half-Life 2, reimagined with full ray tracing,
remastered belongings, the groundbreaking AI-accelerated efficiency of Nvidia DLSS 4 with Multi Body
Era, and the very best responsiveness with Nvidia Reflex.
The Half-Life 2 RTX demo exemplifies the unimaginable energy of the brand new GeForce RTX 50 Sequence graphics playing cards, and the capabilities of the Nvidia RTX Remix modding platform, Paul mentioned.
Each body of gameplay is upgraded with beautiful full ray tracing, new hand-crafted hi-res physically-based textures, and new enhanced high-poly fashions evocative of the originals. Constructed by Orbifold Studios, a group mod workforce, efficiency is accelerated with Nvidia DLSS 4 and system latency is minimized utilizing Nvidia Reflex.
The Half-Life 2 RTX demo includes a Ravenholm chapter and a Nova Prospekt chapter–use “New Game”
to decide on the Ravenholm chapter. Upon finishing it and returning to the menu, choose “New Game”
to decide on the Nova Prospekt chapter.
There are greater than 100 titles out there that assist DLSS4, together with Spider-Man 2, Enlisted, Monster Hunter Wilds and FragPunk. That’s not dangerous for 1.5 months, because it’s the quickest ramp of a brand new gaming know-how for Nvidia — 16 instances sooner than DLSS3, Paul mentioned.
“Given this great adoption of RTX technology by our gamers, we’re obviously working really hard to get the tech into more and more games,” Paul mentioned. “And GDC is the place where we really work on this. The focus at GDC this year is on AI-powered gaming. This includes our DLSS 4 neural shaders that allow programmable shaders to access the Tensor cores, and ACE generative AI models that lock and unlock new gaming experiences based off of DLSS.”
Seven new video games are getting DLSS4 as nicely, together with Stellar Blade, a high-rated action-adventure RPG. It was the best-selling recreation in North America when it launched on PlayStation final yr, and it’s coming to PC with DLSS 4 in June. The martial arts fight recreation Phantom Blade Zero can also be coming to DLSS4, as is the RPG Misplaced Soul Apart.
Paul mentioned the distinction between efficiency and high quality mode is a couple of 20% to 25% enhance in FPS, whereas nonetheless sustaining DLSS3 high quality.
Nvidia and Microsoft are saying at GDC that neural shading assist is coming to DirectX by way of an SDK preview in April. Nvidia launched RTX Remix in beta final yr, and over 30,000 modders have tried it and printed over 100 mods. A whole lot extra are in improvement. One mod that launched was Painkiller, a remaster of the traditional recreation by the identical title.
Now RTX Remix is formally releasing as a software for modders to make unforgettable characters and worlds. Now it has a featured referred to as character alternative, which remasters characters. The RTX Remix beta runtime, out there immediately, can get about 125 frames per second (FPS) with body technology at 4K max.
Paul additionally talked concerning the ACE know-how used to make AI avatars, recreation characters and companions. Inzoi, a life simulation like The Sims, is the approaching from Krafton later this month. The town’s NPCs (non-player characters) are referred to as Zois they usually good companions. ACE is powered by a half-billion parameter small language mannequin. Inzoi releases on March 28.
“It enables players to customize their family, home, and game world to create unique stories and unique gaming experiences,” Paul mentioned.
One other title utilizing the tech is Battle Royale Naraka BladePoint.
