Cyberpunk 2077 will add a Ray Tracing Overdrive Mode with a free update

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NVIDIA and CD Projekt RED have revealed that a brand-new free update for Cyberpunk 2077 will include support for Overdrive Mode, a new Ray Tracing mode. Furthermore, the upcoming patch will include support for the next version of DLSS, DLSS 3.

Here are the main features of Cyberpunk 2077's Ray Tracing Overdrive Mode.

• NVIDIA RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) gives each neon sign, streetlamp, car headlight, LED billboard and TV accurate ray-traced lighting and shadows, bathing objects, walls, passing cars and pedestrians in accurate colored lighting.
• Ray-traced indirect lighting and reflections now bounce multiple times, compared to the previous solution’s single bounce. The result is even more accurate, realistic and immersive global illumination, reflections, and self-reflections.
• Ray-traced reflections are now rendered at full resolution, further improving their quality
• Improved, more physically based lighting removes the need for any other occlusion techniques.

There is no estimated release date for the Ray Tracing patch at this time. I'd venture a guess that it might arrive in November 2022. That, however, is just a hunch and nothing more.

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