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Path tracing? In Dragon’s Dogma 2? The game shipped with ray-traced global illumination but a path tracer sits within Capcom’s code – exposed thanks to a new mod for the PC version of the game. Graphics Suite Alpha, made by developer EXXXCellent, is available on Nexus Mods<\/a> and includes path-traced lighting, shadows and reflections, all running in real-time. So, how does it look, how well does it run – and why exactly is it there in the first place?<\/p>\n

To install the mod, you’ll also need the most recent REFramework tool from Github<\/a>, extract that into the Dragon’s Dogma 2 install directory, then add in the mod’s Lua script to the autorun folder. Go in-game, and you should have access to a bunch of additional options at the bottom of the REFramework overlay related to RT and path tracing. <\/p>\n

With PT enabled, you’ll see significantly more material and lighting detail versus the standard ray-traced global illumination (RTGI) with the option to use a per-pixel or four-samples-per-pixel level of granularity – each with a corresponding performance cost, of course. The standard RTGI has significantly less information to work with – one sample for every four pixels, so it has a lot more compromises compared to the ‘ground truth’ of path tracing. <\/p>\n

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Path tracing? In Dragon’s Dogma 2? The game shipped with ray-traced global illumination but a path tracer sits within Capcom’s code – exposed thanks to a new mod for the PC version of the game. Graphics Suite Alpha, made by developer EXXXCellent, is available on Nexus Mods and includes path-traced lighting, shadows and reflections, all running in real-time. So, how does it look, how well does it run – and why exactly is it there in the first place? To install the mod, you’ll also need the most recent REFramework tool from Github, extract that into the Dragon’s Dogma 2 install directory, then add in the mod’s Lua script to the autorun folder. Go in-game, and you should have access to a bunch of additional…<\/p>\n

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