Monday, October 14th 2019
NVIDIA's Lightspeed Studios Aim to Remaster Games With RTX Effects
NVIDIA's efforts with Quake 2 RTX haven't gone unnoticed in the community, providing a distinct overhaul in image quality to the now decades-old game. Raytracing and its global illumination capabilities have already been well explored in this publication, and its effect in older games - the ones that already run remarkably well in modern hardware - has been well documented, with some third party solutions (such as ReShade) including the effect to great measure in a number of games that haven't been built from the ground-up for raytracing.
The new Lightspeed Studios from NVIDIA aims to bring Quake 2 RTX-like improvements to other games. A job posting from the company dated from the end of September seems to make it clear that the company is looking to increase the number of games with RTX support in this way. Read on after the break for the description in the job listing.
Sources:
NVIDIA, via Guru3D
The new Lightspeed Studios from NVIDIA aims to bring Quake 2 RTX-like improvements to other games. A job posting from the company dated from the end of September seems to make it clear that the company is looking to increase the number of games with RTX support in this way. Read on after the break for the description in the job listing.
NVIDIA is kicking off an exciting new game remastering program. We're cherry-picking some of the greatest titles from the past decades and bringing them into the ray tracing age, giving them state-of-the-art visuals while keeping the gameplay that made them great. The NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios team is picking up the challenge starting with a title that you know and love but we can't talk about here! We're building a team of talented, dedicated game developers who are ready to get going quickly.
We are looking for an experienced Producer to join the NVIDIA Studios team.
What you'll be doing:
- Lead the production on an RTX remaster project, including scope, schedule, resourcing and risk management
- Work with partner teams to track status and optimize collaboration
- Maintain and disseminate project status information through multiple internal and external teams and departments
- Develop and maintain processes and tools needed to support partnership projects and technical collaboration
47 Comments on NVIDIA's Lightspeed Studios Aim to Remaster Games With RTX Effects
Do it, I dare you.
Pointless IMHO ,im here for new adventures not rehashed ones that are identical in all but graphics at a rereleased higher price.
Clearly their Dev outreach for RTX is not doing well, they do say if you want a job doing do it yourself but a hardware company rehashing games is a step too far.
With this and their Gsync affiliate program they're nudging themselves further into my sin bin.
We still play; it has no lag, and billions of maps, at this point.
Although, we tend to play the same ~10 maps over and over, lol.
Research hanger and The Longest Three Feet are probably the ones we play the most, lol.
20 years old and will still make me break a sweat, lol.
Unreal 1
Half Life 1
System Shock 2
Deus Ex 1
Max Payne 1
There are many more but that's my wish list for now.
Riddick - Escape from Butcher Bay
One of the most underrated titles of all time imho...
I also have the remade version of Butcher Bay that was included with Assault on Dark Athena (which wasn't that good when compared to Butcher Bay) and it didn't look as good.
Every news post about this erroneously claims LightSpeed Studios is a new thing but the truth is that the studio has been around since 2015:
shield.nvidia.com/blog/lightspeed-studios-redefine-android-gaming
Come on, you all know you want to!
All in all it's a right step. One that i've been hoping they do. Since those older games run in excess of 200fps on modern hardware it should be possible to fully enable all RT based effect and still get smooth 60fps even at 1440p or 4K.
Makes so much more sense than implementing it in new games that already struggle to hit those fps numbers with raster while offering very convincing pre-baked effects.
Rather it's a niche for a niche that's going to take major man hours if quake is indicative.
If Nvidias paying i have no major issues with this, just I won't be partaking, I'll be playing new games on new tech.
I genuinely hope this pleases some since the games Rtx support is not good enough and I think those early beta testers out there deserve this and more.
FOR FREE, no further charges , no repurchase ,since the premium on those RTx cards is not insubstantial.