NVIDIA's Lightspeed Studios Aim to Remaster Games With RTX Effects

[Raevenlord]

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.

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

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[dj-electric]

UT99.
Do it, I dare you.

 

[bug]

Thief series comes to mind.

 

[Dimi]

Any of the Splinter Cell series please. I'm buying an RTX card next year so i wanna look forward to that.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Is quake Rtx the new pubg, no.
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.

 

[Titanium_Carbide]

DooM III would be great

 

[Grog6]

The think I like best about Q2 is that is will run on anything these days, from the lowest laptop to the best system out there.

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.

 

[bug]

Any of the Splinter Cell series please. I'm buying an RTX card next year so i wanna look forward to that.

Why? Do you think sneaking around with no less than three lights on your head is not an invitation for headshots with RTX?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

UT99.
Do it, I dare you.

UT99 alone deserves some sort of HD remaster - RTX on top would just be an added bonus. But the sad thing is if they made it, it wouldnt be on steam.

 

[64K]

I think that ray-tracing is here to stay, at least for now. PS5 will have hardware that can handle some ray-tracing. Nvidia has there Studio working on adding ray-tracing to old classics. Some new games are coming with ray-tracing effects. It may fizzle out but for now it looks like it's gaining traction. I would like to see Lightspeed Studios do remasters with ray-tracing effects:

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.

 

[neatfeatguy]

I'd like to see it on:

Riddick - Escape from Butcher Bay

 

[bug]

I'd like to see it on:

Riddick - Escape from Butcher Bay

EFBB was remade with the engine of the second game. It didn't turn out well.
One of the most underrated titles of all time imho...

 

[shinitaru]

Give us a Half-Life RTX

 

[neatfeatguy]

EFBB was remade with the engine of the second game. It didn't turn out well.
One of the most underrated titles of all time imho...

I have the game from the original release - love it. I'd like to see RTRT added to this one.

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.

 

[Totally]

Finally attacking the crux of the RTX problem.

 

[64K]

I have the game from the original release - love it. I'd like to see RTRT added to this one.

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.

I've got the same remade version. For some reason it got pulled from Steam and GOG. The only way to get it now is to buy it on DVD. That's too bad. Escape From Butcher Bay was a really good game

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Alien: Isolation, hop to it boys and girls.

 

[Omwe]

@Raevenlord

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:

NVIDIA GameWorks and NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios Redefine Android Gaming

The time-tested truth "content is king" is easy to say, but hard to deliver. With NVIDIA GameWorks and NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios, we’re using a great processor as the foundation on which to build...

shield.nvidia.com

 

[BakerMan1971]

Is quake Rtx the new pubg, no.
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.

Actually there are many multiplayer games from years gone by that I would like to see re-done, because they can't just fix the graphics, they will have to fix the rest too, compatibility with windows10, multiplayer servers and the like, many of those games still had lots of life left in them when the servers went dark.

 

[Mistral]

Do Daikatana next!..

Come on, you all know you want to!

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

UT99.
Do it, I dare you.

Can we just get a remaster of that game? Would be fantastic.

 

[ZeppMan217]

So the RTX adoption rate is so bad they're gonna dig up some oldies to give people that spent nigh a grand on their RTX cards something to use the cards with?

 

[xkm1948]

Duke Nukem 3D RTX!

 

[Tomorrow]

Alien: Isolation, hop to it boys and girls.

This gets my vote. Digital Foundry even mentions this game in their latest Metro Exodus RTX patch video.
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.

 

[Totally]

With this and their Gsync affiliate program they're nudging themselves further into my sin bin.

This is my by large my biggest grievance with Nvidia, every monitor that has the specs I want and want to purchase but can't justify it at checkout because of Gsync. Nothing about these monitors require Gsync as the underlying panel is used by several other manufacturers and there and some non-Gsync versions. I don't have a Nvidia card atm as I don't see the value in them since they are at a marked premium for content that so far has yet to materialize (inb4 "there are all these games with RTX", First, I don't play those titles so that's effectively the same as them not being there. Second, I don't let hardware dictate what I want to play, if I wanted that I'd game on a console.) for me. I'm willing to buy those monitors and just take gsync as a loss/feature don't care about except that that bullet point on the side of the box precludes me or anyone buying a gsync monitor from utilizing any other form of adaptive sync. I feel that is anti-consumer.

So the RTX adoption rate is so bad they're gonna dig up some oldies to give people that spent nigh a grand on their RTX cards something to use the cards with?

You'd be insane to buy a graphics card without RTX -- Jen-Hsun Huang paraphrased