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If you've ever wondered what Super Mario 64 with ray tracing would look like, we've got good news for you.At first thought, Super Mario 64's incredibly old texture designs might not pair so well with ray tracing, but there you'd be sadly mistaken. In the video just below, YouTuber Dario shows us what Super Mario 64 looks like with ray tracing enabled on a RTX 3090 graphics card, and it's surprisingly sharp.It turns out these ray tracing features for Super Mario 64 are part of a community modding effort to get the game running on PC. Last year, avid Super Mario fans were able to get the classic Nintendo game running on PC, like you can see in the video just below, effectively giving it a fresh coat of paint with an updated look through PC emulation.Ray tracing being implemented in the unofficial PC port of Super Mario 64 is just the latest in a long line of community efforts around the Italian plumber through emulation. It's a scene where a lot of crazy things have occurred over the … [Read more...] about Super Mario 64 gets a ray tracing makeover on PC

If you've ever wanted to play a 1996 game with 2021 visual effects, I've got good news for you. As picked up by Nintendo Life , the Super Mario 64 PC port that Nintendo tried to shut down last year is still going strong, and one modder is working on a version of the game with ray-traced reflections and lighting effects. The video is a couple months old, though it's still the most recent update on the ray-traced Mario 64 project. The modder is named Darío Samo , and the video shows Super Mario 64 running on an RTX 3090. As Darío points out in the video title, it's a $1500 GPU being used to run a 25-year-old game. While the YouTube video showcases Wet-Dry world in its shallow-water mode, with some lighting effects provided by electricity-covered Amps and fire-spewing Keronpa Balls, Darío has also shared videos of other levels on Twitter. The most recent update shows the red-and-blue fire lanterns of the castle's basement, while an earlier video shows some of the complex … [Read more...] about Even Super Mario 64 Has Ray Tracing Now

Metro Exodus developer 4A Games has announced a PC Enhanced Edition of its first-person shooter. As with the versions coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, this updated PC edition will be offered as a free upgrade. "We have built an all-new Fully Ray Traced Lighting Pipeline that brings a number of optimisations, upgrades, and new features to the Ray Traced Global Illumination and Emissive Lighting that we pioneered with the original release of Metro Exodus, as well as an upgraded implementation of our powerful Temporal Reconstruction technology to further boost resolution, visual detail and performance," 4A Games wrote in a blog post on the new versions. "And we've pushed these enhancements to the limit to take advantage of the latest Ray Tracing capable GPU hardware from Nvidia and AMD, to create the ultimate version for our PC enthusiast fans." On consoles, Metro Exodus will run with ray-tracing at 60FPS. It'll hit 4K on PS5 and Series X and "target" 1080p on Series … [Read more...] about Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition will be a separate product and free to existing owners

Getting a cheap gaming laptop deal is one of the best kinds of gaming deals we know. And the wintertime brings the best of them to us. We've seen plenty of big reductions to be had on these portable powerhouses, long after the sales-period madness, and with 30-series laptops on the horizon, that means everything that's slightly older is staring down the barrel of price cuts and discounts.  This means we all win, as there's going to be a continuous production line of cheap gaming laptop deals to choose from. Cheap gaming laptop retailers Best Buy | Dell | Amazon | Walmart | Newegg | B&H Photo | Adorama Amazon UK | Currys | Argos | Very | Overclockers UK | Laptopsdirect | Box Now is the chance to make your gaming more convenient or to upgrade your current laptop to something that can handle work and play. Whether you want entry-level or to invest in something that can handle games as well as a … [Read more...] about Cheap gaming laptop deals – get a portable powerhouse for less right now

Nvidia revealed a new video card, the GeForce RTX 2060, during its live press conference to kick off CES 2019 on Sunday evening. It joins the RTX 20-series family next week--its release date is set for January 15--and pricing for RTX 2060 cards will start at $350, though exact prices will vary depending on model and manufacturer. Many claims were made at CES about the performance of the RTX 2060, and it is said on par with or better than the GTX 1070 Ti (see our review of the 1070 Ti to get an idea of its performance). According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the GeForce RTX 2060 can handle Battlefield V at 1440p resolution with an average of 60 FPS. Several benchmarks and metrics were shown; compared to the GTX 1060, last generation's mid-range card, the RTX 2060 can perform between 1.4 to about 1.9 times better at 1440p with high settings (depending on the game). Nvidia's RTX line of video cards boasts the ability to efficiently perform real-time ray tracing, which … [Read more...] about CES 2019: Nvidia’s RTX 2060 Revealed With Release Date And Price