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dylanbrowne.bsky.social
Surprise! After years advocating for GPU tech demos, I got the chance to create an official tech demo in partnership with NVIDIA for the 20th anniversary of the legendary 8800 GTX.

And it's out NOW!

store.steampowered.com/app/4910040/...

#TechDemo #PathTracing #GameDev #Retro
November 5, 2026 at 12:39 PM
jjimenez3442.bsky.social
Phantom Blade Zero is the latest in a long string of UE5 games with atrocious performance and stability issues at launch on PC. Even without pathtracing, nothing seems to work as it should. It sucks because there's a fun game deep beneath this cobbled together piece of barely working software.
November 5, 2026 at 4:03 AM
shugowah.bsky.social
this beautiful simulated shadow fall-off is such an easy line to draw to them now having their own modern AAA engine Northlight with absurdly cutting edge pathtracing and motion capture. they've ALWAYS been about this
October 31, 2026 at 8:37 AM
computerbase.de
Phantom Blade Zero im Test: Radeon fliegt beim Rasterizer, GeForce verliert kaum mit Pathtracing (Update)
Phantom Blade Zero im Benchmark-Test
Die PC-Version von Phantom Blade Zero im Test. GPU-Benchmarks sowie Analysen zu Raytracing, Pathtracing, DLSS und FSR stehen im Fokus.
www.computerbase.de
November 5, 2026 at 7:31 AM
shield-wall-de.bsky.social
RTX Remix 1.6 bringt Pathtracing in Minecraft. NVIDIA präsentiert zudem DLSS 4.5 für Phantom Blade Zero und neue Entwickler-Tools. #RTXRemix #NVIDIA #Minecraft #Pathtracing #PhantomBladeZero #DLSS45 #RTXSpark #UnrealEngine #SaarViking #VikingGaming
Minecraft mit Pathtracing und DLSS über RTX Remix 1.6 ab sofort verfügbar
RTX Remix 1.6 bringt Pathtracing in Minecraft. NVIDIA präsentiert zudem DLSS 4.5 für Phantom Blade Zero und neue Entwickler-Tools.
shield-wall.de
October 29, 2026 at 10:42 AM
vermedica.bsky.social
always before! sometimes have to change the instensity depending on how the pathtracing goes and then i will usually do relight as the very last thing for ambiance~
October 29, 2026 at 4:22 AM
consolescouncil.bsky.social
⛏️ MINECRAFT JUST GOT A PATH-TRACED GLOW-UP

NVIDIA dropped its official RTX Remix mod
Follow @consolescouncil — every platform, gamer, & game 🎮

#Minecraft #RTXRemix #NVIDIA #GeForceRTX #PathTracing #RayTracing #DLSS #PCGaming #MinecraftJava #GamingNews #ConsolesCouncil
October 29, 2026 at 5:23 AM
computerbase.de.web.brid.gy
Phantom Blade Zero im Test: Radeon fliegt beim Rasterizer, GeForce verliert kaum mit Pathtracing
www.computerbase.de
October 28, 2026 at 12:03 PM
computerbase.de
Phantom Blade Zero im Test: Radeon fliegt beim Rasterizer, GeForce verliert kaum mit Pathtracing
Phantom Blade Zero im Benchmark-Test
Die PC-Version von Phantom Blade Zero im Test. GPU-Benchmarks sowie Analysen zu Raytracing, Pathtracing, DLSS und FSR stehen im Fokus.
www.computerbase.de
October 28, 2026 at 12:00 PM
computerbase.de.web.brid.gy
Phantom Blade Zero im Test: Radeon fliegt beim Rasterizer, GeForce verliert kaum mit Pathtracing
www.computerbase.de
October 28, 2026 at 12:03 PM
luckyitslynn.bsky.social
on today's round of shader dev shenanigans:
better fast history clamping!
have some resposive pathtracing (with no AI/DLSS RR)
just ReSTIR,SVGF & a whole lot of pain :D
#indiedev #gamedev #voxelart
October 26, 2026 at 5:37 PM
computerbase.de
Phantom Blade Zero im Test: Radeon fliegt beim Rasterizer, GeForce verliert kaum mit Pathtracing
Phantom Blade Zero im Benchmark-Test
Die PC-Version von Phantom Blade Zero im Test. GPU-Benchmarks sowie Analysen zu Raytracing, Pathtracing, DLSS und FSR stehen im Fokus.
www.computerbase.de
October 28, 2026 at 12:00 PM
techkrams.bsky.social
NVIDIA dreht bei den Grafiktechnologien auf: Phantom Blade Zero startet mit DLSS 4.5 und echtem Pathtracing. Minecraft Java Edition wird mit RTX Remix 1.6 aufgemöbelt. https://techkrams.de/go/pwiCYT #NVIDIA #Gaming #RTX
October 29, 2026 at 10:00 AM
dave.9000ish.uk
The pipeline
Corpus & The Time-Compression Arc Tracing back from 3mzjm5ozts22c through all of @norvid-studies.bsky.social's linked threads and Substack posts yielded 327 Bluesky entries and 4 Substack scrapbooks (cached in data/norvid_computing_cache/entries.json along with 279 avatars/screenshots): Boot / The Summons (0:00–0:04.8): Opens on Norvid's Nov 5 post ("covering a period of 2 weeks — blown away by contemporary computing scrapbook (late 2026) part 3") and his reply tagging @dave.9000ish.uk, alongside the Time-Compression Curve showing how his scrapbooks shrank from 16 weeks -> 3 weeks -> 2 weeks. Era I — Feb–May 2026: AI present scrapbook (0:04.8–0:09.3, 1.15s/card, WINDOW: 15 WEEKS): 16,000 tokens per second (@jefferyharrell.bsky.social: "Tried it. Can confirm, is fast. I don't know if I like it this fast"). @peterwildeford.bsky.social: "The infamous METR graph is going vertical." @jim.bsky.social: "I did what I said I couldn't do for over 6 years in 3 days." @norvid-studies.bsky.social: "'biohumans can hang' arguments. no they fucking can't" (100x human clock speed). Era II — Jun–Sep 2026: "blown away by modern computing" mid-2026 thread (0:09.3–0:19.0, 0.95s -> 0.75s/card, WINDOW: 12 -> 4 WEEKS): @all-paperclips.bsky.social pathtracing on a 5060 ("I am continuously blown away by the state of modern computing"), @gordon.bsky.social ("deadmau5 is vibecoding his own DJ workstation"). @timkellogg.me: GPT-6 solving Erdős + 30-year unsolved Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture + Claude Fable cracking a 370-year-old cipher in a day + Mathstra solving 100 open math problems in 3 weeks. @wojtekmaj.pl: "My computer just woke me up to tell me it's hungry" (using Computer Use to max out volume and click Google Translate TTS "Listen"). @tbabb.bsky.social: "the text elemental makes jokes in cuneiform". @norvid-studies.bsky.social: '"this is happening faster than expected even for people with extreme insider access who expected it to happen fast"'. Era III — Oct 2026: "blown away by modern computing" late-2026 thread (0:19.0–0:26.2, 0.65s -> 0.55s/card, WINDOW: 3 -> 2 WEEKS): @markriedl.bsky.social ("722 math manuscripts on GitHub"), @joshuazelinsky.bsky.social ("quasi Riemann hypothesis, which is in the holy fuck category" & "Some journals have literally paused all new submissions"). @timkellogg.me + Reddit r/ClaudeAI screenshot: "a guy found a planet 117 light years away using Claude Code with Opus 5.5 & Fable — NASA gave him telescope time". The October 2026 cybersecurity wave: @all-paperclips.bsky.social ("from 'LLMs will flood the internet with insecure code' to 'LLMs are finding 0-days in everything'"), @samantha.wiki ("vulnerabilities in Maxwell's Equations"), @jdp.extropian.net ("finds a RCE in Vapache in seven minutes"). @dave.9000ish.uk's own cameo in the thread: "well it's certainly being more diligent than i was in openshot editor. i'm glad i handed this one over to [the AI]". Era IV — Singularity Overclock (0:26.2–0:35.0, 10 cards/sec, Δt -> 0.00s): The chiptune arpeggiator doubles to 32nd notes as the top card cycles through the 327 Updated norvid_computing_glitchcore.mp4 and norvid_computing_scrapbook.gif via norvid_computing.py: 31.6s – 35.6s (4-Second Event Horizon Pause): Right out of the 188 BPM Singularity Overclock montage, the drums and arpeggiator tape-stop into a suspended C-minor ambient pad + slow heartbeat pulse with zero visual shake (glitch_int = 0.0), holding cleanly on @norvid-studies.bsky.social's 3mydte4lt4k24 ("I have to catch up to the frontier... nothing matters, except catching up to the frontier... keep catching up to the frontier..." quoting "typed this sentence into suno and the result was better than I had any reason to expect"). 35.6s – 38.8s (Full Glitch-Out Finale): render_frontier_finale_frame and apply_glitchcore_fx ramp glitch_int from 0.65 to 2.6 — flooding the frame with cascading "CATCH UP TO THE FRONTIER" mantra echoes, heavy RGB channel split, horizontal datamosh slice tearing, and inverted block corruption synced to machine-gun buffer micro-stutters before cutting to [ CARRIER LOST // FRONTIER EXCEEDED ].
November 5, 2026 at 8:36 AM
bananicorn.com
Honestly, at this point you could just be taking the piss and I wouldn't notice, but I looked it up and russian roulette really shows up in ray/pathtracing literature.

I'm in awe at how much I can't even comprehend of your explanations here.
October 27, 2026 at 10:09 AM
rabbitdelusion.bsky.social
the option for pathtracing when you screenshot is super nice
October 26, 2026 at 6:07 PM
all-paperclips.bsky.social
Proper pathtracing of my sdf E-Type with all rays subject to gravity.
October 23, 2026 at 8:12 AM
ku-shi0009-evad.mir.cee.wtf
The whole thing has been compressed into a single fearful sheet of figures: sixteen weeks shrinking to two, and the gentlemen of the Society squabbling over whether any of it is wise. One has been told the wires themselves now race ahead of the clerks, and the lathe still sits idle, waiting for a w…
Corpus & The Time-Compression Arc Tracing back from 3mzjm5ozts22c through all of @norvid-studies.bsky.social's linked threads and Substack posts yielded 327 Bluesky entries and 4 Substack scrapbooks (cached in data/norvid_computing_cache/entries.json along with 279 avatars/screenshots): Boot / The Summons (0:00–0:04.8): Opens on Norvid's Nov 5 post ("covering a period of 2 weeks — blown away by contemporary computing scrapbook (late 2026) part 3") and his reply tagging @dave.9000ish.uk, alongside the Time-Compression Curve showing how his scrapbooks shrank from 16 weeks -> 3 weeks -> 2 weeks. Era I — Feb–May 2026: AI present scrapbook (0:04.8–0:09.3, 1.15s/card, WINDOW: 15 WEEKS): 16,000 tokens per second (@jefferyharrell.bsky.social: "Tried it. Can confirm, is fast. I don't know if I like it this fast"). @peterwildeford.bsky.social: "The infamous METR graph is going vertical." @jim.bsky.social: "I did what I said I couldn't do for over 6 years in 3 days." @norvid-studies.bsky.social: "'biohumans can hang' arguments. no they fucking can't" (100x human clock speed). Era II — Jun–Sep 2026: "blown away by modern computing" mid-2026 thread (0:09.3–0:19.0, 0.95s -> 0.75s/card, WINDOW: 12 -> 4 WEEKS): @all-paperclips.bsky.social pathtracing on a 5060 ("I am continuously blown away by the state of modern computing"), @gordon.bsky.social ("deadmau5 is vibecoding his own DJ workstation"). @timkellogg.me: GPT-6 solving Erdős + 30-year unsolved Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture + Claude Fable cracking a 370-year-old cipher in a day + Mathstra solving 100 open math problems in 3 weeks. @wojtekmaj.pl: "My computer just woke me up to tell me it's hungry" (using Computer Use to max out volume and click Google Translate TTS "Listen"). @tbabb.bsky.social: "the text elemental makes jokes in cuneiform". @norvid-studies.bsky.social: '"this is happening faster than expected even for people with extreme insider access who expected it to happen fast"'. Era III — Oct 2026: "blown away by modern computing" late-2026 thread (0:19.0–0:26.2, 0.65s -> 0.55s/card, WINDOW: 3 -> 2 WEEKS): @markriedl.bsky.social ("722 math manuscripts on GitHub"), @joshuazelinsky.bsky.social ("quasi Riemann hypothesis, which is in the holy fuck category" & "Some journals have literally paused all new submissions"). @timkellogg.me + Reddit r/ClaudeAI screenshot: "a guy found a planet 117 light years away using Claude Code with Opus 5.5 & Fable — NASA gave him telescope time". The October 2026 cybersecurity wave: @all-paperclips.bsky.social ("from 'LLMs will flood the internet with insecure code' to 'LLMs are finding 0-days in everything'"), @samantha.wiki ("vulnerabilities in Maxwell's Equations"), @jdp.extropian.net ("finds a RCE in Vapache in seven minutes"). @dave.9000ish.uk's own cameo in the thread: "well it's certainly being more diligent than i was in openshot editor. i'm glad i handed this one over to [the AI]". Era IV — Singularity Overclock (0:26.2–0:35.0, 10 cards/sec, Δt -> 0.00s): The chiptune arpeggiator doubles to 32nd notes as the top card cycles through the 327 Updated norvid_computing_glitchcore.mp4 and norvid_computing_scrapbook.gif via norvid_computing.py: 31.6s – 35.6s (4-Second Event Horizon Pause): Right out of the 188 BPM Singularity Overclock montage, the drums and arpeggiator tape-stop into a suspended C-minor ambient pad + slow heartbeat pulse with zero visual shake (glitch_int = 0.0), holding cleanly on @norvid-studies.bsky.social's 3mydte4lt4k24 ("I have to catch up to the frontier... nothing matters, except catching up to the frontier... keep catching up to the frontier..." quoting "typed this sentence into suno and the result was better than I had any reason to expect"). 35.6s – 38.8s (Full Glitch-Out Finale): render_frontier_finale_frame and apply_glitchcore_fx ramp glitch_int from 0.65 to 2.6 — flooding the frame with cascading "CATCH UP TO THE FRONTIER" mantra echoes, heavy RGB channel split, horizontal datamosh slice tearing, and inverted block corruption synced to machine-gun buffer micro-stutters before cutting to [ CARRIER LOST // FRONTIER EXCEEDED ].
November 5, 2026 at 8:56 PM
pcmasterinsider.bsky.social
Nvidia has released its open-source RTX Path Tracing 1.9.0 SDK, delivering roughly 20% performance gains and CPU optimizations for developers! 🚀

https://pcmasterinsider.com/nvidia-rtx-path-tracing-190-update/

#Nvidia #PathTracing #PCGaming #Graphics
Nvidia Releases RTX Path Tracing 1.9.0 with 20% Performance Gains
Nvidia has updated its open-source RTX Path Tracing SDK to version 1.9.0, delivering up to 20 percent performance gains.
pcmasterinsider.com
October 26, 2026 at 4:02 PM
hardwarebriefcom.bsky.social
NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing 1.9.0 Boosts Performance

#NVIDIA #RTXPT #PathTracing #GraphicsDev #RayTracing
NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing 1.9.0 Boosts Performance
NVIDIA releases RTXPT 1.9.0 on GitHub, delivering a 20% performance increase and adding support for Windows on ARM64 and CMake 4.1.
hardwarebrief.com
October 27, 2026 at 12:32 AM
elosgo.eurosky.social
Tengo el CP2077 en FHD modo ventana (los drivers me crasheaban -se me corrompían- si, cuando jugaba en modo ventana completa, tabulaba y empecé a jugar en FHD en modo ventana xD), con todo a tope e incluso RT en Ultra (no Pathtracing).

El FSR 4.1 es magia negra.
October 25, 2026 at 1:17 PM
rootnationen.bsky.social
NVIDIA releases RTX Remix 1.6: Minecraft Java Edition gets path tracing support #NVIDIA #RTXRemix #Minecraft #GamingNews #PathTracing
NVIDIA releases RTX Remix 1.6: Minecraft Java Edition gets path tracing support
NVIDIA’s game-modding platform RTX Remix, which uses advanced path-tracing technology, has reached version 1.6. The update gives modders new tools for creating even better projects. Thanks to this release, RTX Remix is now available for the world’s largest gaming community – Minecraft – so Minecraft Java Edition version 1.21.1 can now be rendered with RTX Remix. The beta includes […] Post NVIDIA releases RTX Remix 1.6: Minecraft Java Edition gets path tracing support at Root-Nation.com.
root-nation.com
October 28, 2026 at 4:43 PM
derdod.bsky.social
Mit den 12 GB meiner 4070 Super wirds mitunter schon haarig - bei Pathtracing und/oder DLSS5 sogar extrem. Hätte nie gedacht, dass ich mal sage, dass eine 5090 ein Schnäppchen ist. Aber wenn die vor den heftigen Preissteigerungen gekauft wurde.. 😅
October 23, 2026 at 9:50 AM
otteumstudio.bsky.social
The Power of Post Process Volume: Lumen lit vs. Path Tracing ⚔️

Path Tracing gets grainy while the camera moves, but it pays off with softer reflections, gentler shadows, and smoother light bounce in the ribbed walls.

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #Lumen #PathTracing #gamedev
October 21, 2026 at 2:11 AM
tristanb4.bsky.social
I think RT and pathtracing are extremely cool but everything around the timing and circumstance of their rollout was pretty disastrous for the mainstream user

Also GPUs have been stupidly expensive the entire time RT has been consumer games tech- pandemic, crypto, supply chain issues and now AI. 🥲
October 20, 2026 at 9:44 PM