Thursday, April 11th 2019
NVIDIA Also Releases Tech Demos for RTX: Star Wars, Atomic Heart, Justice Available for Download
We've seen NVIDIA's move to provide RTX effects on older, non-RT capable hardware today being met with what the company was certainly expecting: a cry of dismay from users that now get to see exactly what their non-Turing NVIDIA hardware is capable of. The move from NVIDIA could be framed as a way to democratize access to RTX effects via Windows DXR, enabling users of its GTX 1600 and 1000 series of GPUs to take a look at the benefits of raytracing; but also as an upgrade incentive for those that now see how their performance is lacking without the new specialized Turing cores to handle the added burden.
Whatever your side of the fence on that issue, however, NVIDIA has provided users with one more raytraced joy today. Three of them, in fact, in the form of three previously-shown tech demos. The Star Wars tech demo (download) is the most well known, certainly, with its studies on reflections on Captain Phasma's breastplate. Atomic Heart (download) is another one that makes use of RTX for reflections and shadows, while Justice (download) adds caustics to that equation. If you have a Turing graphics card, you can test these demos in their full glory, with added DLSS for improved performance. If you're on Pascal, you won't have that performance-enhancing mode available, and will have to slog it through software computations. Follow the embedded links for our direct downloads of these tech demos.
Whatever your side of the fence on that issue, however, NVIDIA has provided users with one more raytraced joy today. Three of them, in fact, in the form of three previously-shown tech demos. The Star Wars tech demo (download) is the most well known, certainly, with its studies on reflections on Captain Phasma's breastplate. Atomic Heart (download) is another one that makes use of RTX for reflections and shadows, while Justice (download) adds caustics to that equation. If you have a Turing graphics card, you can test these demos in their full glory, with added DLSS for improved performance. If you're on Pascal, you won't have that performance-enhancing mode available, and will have to slog it through software computations. Follow the embedded links for our direct downloads of these tech demos.
30 Comments on NVIDIA Also Releases Tech Demos for RTX: Star Wars, Atomic Heart, Justice Available for Download
And no, watching a YouTube video is fundamentally not the same thing as running any of these demos in real time Nvidia! It almost felt like contempt from them towards early adopters.
That is slowly starting to change, I know fully well these aren't representative of actual gameplay, but in the early days of RTX, forums were filled with people asking were to download all these cool demos shown in every RTX demonstration.
To this day I still don't comprehend the level of stupidity behind the decision to hold these demos back, I sort of get the star wars demo being kept from the public due to licensing issues, but what about all the other proprietary demos Nvidia so proudly demonstrated when RTX was released?
Thanks for the heads up!
Try harder.
I'd also like to see what the competition has in 2020
They sold a product with no way to experience the promised features, how’s asking for nvidia to share these demos with their costumers worthy of earning the “entitled gamer” title?
My reference to their stupidity in not making these demos available to the public until half a year after the cards were release, - or having any software that supported the card’s new features on release date for that matter - is justified by the fact that Turing sales had a really hard time taking off the first few months cards were available, leading to the point were nvidia themselves had to correct their financial expectations due to unexpectedly poor sales of these new cards.
Self inflicted wound? Hell yes. I’m not saying these demos would’ve made a huge difference, but it would’ve been a good idea to have both games and a way to experience this new technology on release, don’t you agree?
Obviously not great or even good but not garbage either.
Star Wars may have been shitty but it looked no worse than the movies so it could have been shit too.
GG Nvidia.
ouch.
RTX just runs like crap, on everything.