Nvidia will remaster classic pc games to add ray tracing

Nvidia is "launching an exciting new game remastering program" with the intention of updating some PC classics from the past decades to add Ray Tracing effects and support the company's GeForce RTX graphics cards, in line with what it was the Quake 2 RTX.

Nvidia will remaster classic PC games to add Ray Tracing

According to a recently released job listing, Nvidia's Lightspeed Studios “picks out some of the best titles of the past few decades and brings them into the Ray Tracing era, providing them with next-gen visuals while still maintaining the gameplay that It has made them great."

Nvidia Lightspeed Studios was founded in 2015, and has been remastering PC games to support new features for Android devices, specifically the Nvidia Shield. Lightspeed Studios previously worked on the Android versions of Half-Life 2, Doom 3, and Portal, which could be indicative of the type of PC games they plan to update with Ray Tracing support. The studio also worked on Android versions of Wii games like Super Mario Galaxy and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Shield in China.

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Nvidia wants to keep the game they are working on a secret, but there is no doubt that it will be a classic game. From here, speculation begins as to what game it might be. Half Life? Deus Ex? Portal? We do not know.

Nvidia released Quake 2 RTX earlier this year as a free update to Quake 2. The RTX version of id Software's classic shooter added global lighting rendering, real-time reflections, time of day adjustments, improved textures, and much more. We will keep you informed.

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