CD Projekt Red has revealed plans to showcase its RT: Overdrive mode featuring path tracing for Cyberpunk 2077 during a GDC 2023 panel. Cyberpunk 2077 is already one of the video game market's most visually impressive releases. It launched in 2020 with full support for optional visual features including ray tracing, ray-traced reflections, ray-traced diffuse illumination, and more. But there are always opportunities to improve, and Cyberpunk 2077's RT Overdrive mode appears to be another step forward.Even with support for ray tracing available at Cyberpunk 2077's launch, CD Projekt Red has continued to make improvements to the game as its able. DLSS users on modern Nvidia GPUs just recently received an update to DLSS 3, with DLSS Super Resolution and DLSS Frame Generation technology. The addition led Nvidia to claim that PC gamers with RTX 40 series GPUs would be able to play Cyberpunk 2077 with every setting, including ray-tracing options, maxed out.RELATED: The Cheapest Cyberpunk 2077 Has Ever Been on SteamAs GPU performance and features enable PCs to allow for visual improvements, developers like CD Projekt Red continue to push boundaries. An example of what it's working on has been announced for GDC 2023 in a panel named Cyberpunk 2077 RT: Overdrive - Bringing Path Tracing into the Night City, in partnership with Nvidia. The panel will showcase a demo of what Cyberpunk 2077 looks like with RTX Path Tracing technology implemented.

RTX Path Tracing is an Nvidia software development kit combining real-time ray tracing with neural graphics development to create real-time path-traced tracers. Imagine the path a beam of light takes as it reflects through a window and off reflective surfaces. CD Projekt Red can use this technology in Cyberpunk 2077 to create more realistic and impressive lighting, as well as increasingly realistic reflections.

Showcasing RT: Overdrive for Cyberpunk 2077 at the Game Developers Conference 2023 will allow CD Projekt Red to share the potential of the technology, as well as help inform developers from other studios about what's possible and how to reach it. However, it should be made clear this is a developer-oriented panel behind closed doors. It's unlikely to be shared publicly, and wouldn't necessarily be something Cyberpunk 2077 fans would like anyway.

RT: Overdrive was first announced to be released alongside Cyberpunk 2077's DLSS 3 update, which arrived in January. Instead, it was split off to be its own release. Nvidia said at that time that RT: Overdrive would be delivered for Cyberpunk 2077 later this year. CD Projekt Red has yet to confirm those plans, but the GDC panel should inspire some hope of an upcoming release. A release date announcement may not be coming soon, but Cyberpunk 2077 fans have a lot to look forward to regardless.

Cyberpunk 2077 is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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