In the real-world, light bounces around our environment naturally, creating the scene our eyes absorb. In many games, this effect is faked – or “baked” – but ray tracing enables each individual beam ...

Microsoft has shipped a set of Direct3D 12 upgrades that target one of the most persistent bottlenecks in PC gaming, the cost of real-time ray tracing. The updates, delivered through the DirectX 12 ...