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NVIDIA has created a gaming studio to remaster classic PC games with Ray Tracing effects


It appears that Quake 2 RTX will not be the only remaster for which NVIDIA will be adding real-time ray tracing effects. According to a job listing, the green team has created a studio that will specialize on adding Ray Tracing effects to remasters of even more classic PC games.

As the description for this job listing reads, NVIDIA has kicked 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. Thus, we’ll be 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 should note that NVIDIA created this job listing 17 days ago. In other words, this is after the release of Quake 2 RTX. So yeah, that title that we all “know and love” is not Quake 2.

Two games that could really benefit from Ray Tracing effects are Unreal and Doom 3. Doom 3 had cutting edge technology with stencil shadows and fully dynamic lighting, so it could possibly look amazing with Ray Tracing. On the other hand, Unreal was one of the first games that pushed the envelope of FPS visuals, so it would be cool to see it with some RT effects.

Unfortunately, though, we don’t have any additional details about these upcoming remasters of the classic PC games that will have Ray Tracing. Here is hoping that NVIDIA will reveal more details about its next gaming RT remaster project sooner rather than later.