This week, just in time for the holidays, the critically acclaimed Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is now available with support for NVIDIA DLSS 3 with Frame Generation and Super Resolution, and Full Ray Tracing.
Step into the shoes of Indiana Jones and embark on a single-player, narrative-driven journey that spans the globe during the height of the legendary archaeologist’s career. From the hallowed halls of the Vatican and the sunken temples of Sukhothai to the pyramids of Egypt and the snowy peaks of the Himalayas. As part of a partnership with Bethesda Softworks and MachineGames, and in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on PC is further enhanced by the addition of NVIDIA DLSS 3 with Frame Generation and Super Resolution, and Full Ray Tracing.
NVIDIA DLSS is NVIDIA’s award-winning AI rendering technology that increases graphics performance in games and apps using dedicated Tensor Core AI processors on GeForce RTX GPUs. GeForce RTX users can enhance their experience with DLSS Super Resolution, which taps into the power of a deep learning neural network to boost frame rates and generate beautiful, sharp images. For faster frame rates, owners of GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards and laptops can accelerate performance by using NVIDIA DLSS 3 with Frame Generation.
To further upgrade Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on PC, players can turn on Full Ray Tracing, also known as Path Tracing. Full Ray Tracing is a demanding but highly accurate way to render light and its effect on a scene, used by visual effects artists to create film and TV graphics that are indistinguishable from reality.
By activating Full Ray Tracing, the following effects are enabled and gamers can see images here.
The Fully Ray-Traced Global Illumination is an advanced rendering technique that simulates realistic lighting by tracing the paths of light rays as they bounce around a scene. Unlike methods that consider only direct illumination, this approach accounts for both direct and indirect lighting, capturing how light reflects, refracts, and scatters off multiple surfaces which especially shows its strength in outdoor areas.
Fully Ray-Traced Subsurface Scattering on Foliage enhances the realism of vegetation by simulating how light penetrates and diffuses through leaves. By accurately modeling subsurface scattering which is the way light enters, scatters within, and exits semi-translucent materials, this technique captures the natural translucency and lighting effects of foliage, especially when backlit.
Fully Ray-Traced Indoor Reflections offer a leap forward in rendering realism by simulating the physical behavior of light as it reflects off surfaces. Utilizing advanced path tracing algorithms, rays are cast from the camera through each pixel and traced as they interact with the scene’s materials. Unlike traditional methods such as environment mapping or screen-space reflections, which may miss off-screen objects or produce visual artifacts, path tracing considers all potential light paths within the entire scene, offering an incredibly high level of immersion.
Fully Ray-Traced Sun Shadows is used to create realistic shadow effects by simulating how light behaves in the real world. Fully ray-traced sun shadows simulate highly realistic shadowing by calculating how light rays travel from the sun to surfaces within a scene, accurately handling occlusion and softening based on distance, angle, and time of day. Unlike traditional shadow mapping, which can be too sharp or blurry, full ray tracing enables a smooth transition between these extremes, based on the physical properties of the environment.
Installing NVIDIA’s latest Game Ready Driver will get the gamers’ system ready, delivering the definitive experience in this highly anticipated game. Alternatively, if away from home and GeForce RTX PC or laptop, or if players do not have the latest Game Ready hardware, they can stream the Steam and Microsoft Store versions of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle from the cloud with NVIDIA GeForce NOW. Members will also be able to enjoy the PC Game Pass version next week.
