YouTube’s ‘Zetman’ has shared some videos, showing Alien Isolation, Bioshock Remastered, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Nier Automata and Dragon Age Origins with Pascal Gilcher’s Reshade that adds real-time ray tracing/path tracing effects via a post-processing solution to older games.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again; this ray tracing/path tracing solution is not as accurate as what can be achieved with DXR. Still, this is a great way to overhaul the visuals of really old games.
With this out of the way, let’s start with the first game we’ve featured in this article, Alien Isolation. Alien Isolation is set in a claustrophobic environment and benefits greatly from this Reshade. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; we really need to see Doom 3 with this Reshade. And if Alien Isolation is any indication, Doom 3 will most likely look incredible.
Bioshock Remastered also looks better with the newly introduced ray tracing/path tracing effects that this Reshade mod introduces. Unfortunately, Zetman may have used some incorrect settings here as there is a lot of noise when moving around. In pretty much all other videos we’ve featured based on this Reshade mod, there wasn’t any noise side-effects so there should be an option there that can de-noise the image.
Last but not least, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Nier Automata and Dragon Age Origins look noticeably better with this Reshade mod. Seriously, these ray tracing/path tracing effects can bring new life to older titles that have mediocre or an outdated lighting system.
Do note that Zetman was also using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX1060; a GPU that is not powerful enough for ray tracing/path tracing effects. More powerful GPUs can definitely play these games smoother.
Enjoy!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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