AI is Transforming the Gaming Experience
Neural Shading Support Coming to DirectX in April
At GDC 2025, NVIDIA is building upon its suite of neural rendering technologies, expanding NVIDIA ACE, and showcasing how generative AI amplifies the capabilities of game developers, helping to create bigger, more amazing worlds for gamers to enjoy.
NVIDIA RTX Kit Updates
NVIDIA RTX Kit, a suite of neural rendering technologies, has added a new RTX Texture Streaming SDK and improvements to RTX Texture Filtering.
- RTX Texture Streaming divides textures into smaller tiles and efficiently manages and loads them based on need, minimizing memory overhead while ensuring that high-resolution textures are delivered exactly when and where they’re needed.
- RTX Texture Filtering has expanded its DLSS support and added a new rasterization mode with deferred lighting.
- The RTX Path Tracing code sample has been updated with full DLSS 4 integration and a transformer model for dramatic improvements to image quality in real-time, path-traced sample scenes.
Unreal Engine 5 and NVIDIA RTX
For Unreal Engine 5 developers, RTX Mega Geometry is now available in the NVIDIA RTX Experimental Branch of Unreal Engine 5 (NvRTX). RTX Mega Geometry is the NVIDIA technology for path-tracing massive worlds of dense geometry.
Zorah Demo
Many of these technologies can be seen in the NVIDIA neural rendering technology demo, Zorah, built using the NVIDIA RTX Branch of Unreal Engine. Zorah has been updated with new scenes to demonstrate the latest real-time path tracing capabilities.
DLSS 4 and Ray Tracing
NVIDIA DLSS 4 has become the gold standard for AI super resolution and frame generation, boosting frame rates by up to 8x over native rendering. DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation is now available in over 100 titles, including Marvel Rivals, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and FragPunk.
RTX Remix Officially Released
RTX Remix is an open-sourced platform that enables modders to create stunning NVIDIA RTX remasters of classic games. Since the beta in January 2024, over 30K modders have used Remix across hundreds of games with over a million gamers playing RTX Remix mods.
NVIDIA ACE Models
The future of games will be living worlds powered by AI. From non-playable characters (NPCs) that you can converse using natural language to AI assistants that can analyze your gameplay in real-time to help you improve, the number of gameplay-changing experiences is countless.
New NVIDIA ACE Models
NVIDIA ACE is a suite of AI-powered, digital human technologies including language, speech, animation, and vision models. The suite continues to grow, adding new language and perception AI models, upgrading facial animation with a new diffusion architecture, and updating ACE plugins for Maya and Unreal Engine (coming soon).
Conclusion
AI is transforming the gaming experience, unlocking new levels of visuals, performance, and gameplay possibilities with neural rendering and generative AI-powered characters. With game development becoming more complex, AI is also playing a role in helping artists and engineers realize their creative visions.
FAQs
Q: What is NVIDIA RTX Kit?
A: NVIDIA RTX Kit is a suite of neural rendering technologies that has added a new RTX Texture Streaming SDK and improvements to RTX Texture Filtering.
Q: What is RTX Mega Geometry?
A: RTX Mega Geometry is the NVIDIA technology for path-tracing massive worlds of dense geometry, available in the NVIDIA RTX Experimental Branch of Unreal Engine 5 (NvRTX).
Q: What is DLSS 4?
A: DLSS 4 is the gold standard for AI super resolution and frame generation, boosting frame rates by up to 8x over native rendering.
Q: What is RTX Remix?
A: RTX Remix is an open-sourced platform that enables modders to create stunning NVIDIA RTX remasters of classic games.
Q: What is NVIDIA ACE?
A: NVIDIA ACE is a suite of AI-powered, digital human technologies including language, speech, animation, and vision models.
