Nvidia is planning a presentation at GDC 2023 in which it will reveal to the event’s audience the Ray Tracing Overdrive mode of Cyberpunk 2077, which would introduce path tracing to Night City.
Nvidia will offer a “full demonstration of the advantages brought by existing Ray Tracing algorithms and how much the new approach with Path Tracing transforms the way we think about next-gen rendering utilized in AAA open-world games” on March 22 between 21:30 and 22:00 Italian time.
Ray Tracing: Overdrive mode, announced in September, attempts to make light sources and the way they cast light and shadows on objects in the game environment more realistic.
Pawel Kozlowski, senior developer technology engineer at Nvidia, and Jakub Knapik, global art director at CD Projekt Red, will lead the presentation. This event is primarily for developers and ray tracing professionals, but it is conceivable that new details or gameplay sequences from Cyberpunk 2077’s RT Overdrive mode will not be available for the occasion.