Hey, everyone! Today we're releasing v1.5, featuring the below features, fixed issues, and improvements.
New Features:
- Added support for ray tracing using the
VK_KHR_ray_query
extension API.
_NOTE: This is an optional feature, and the two previously supported methods,VK_NV_ray_tracing
andVK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline
, are still supported. We recommend using NVIDIA Graphics Driver version 465 or newer, or AMD Radeon Software version 21.3.1 or newer._
Fixed issues:
- Fixed the crash that happened on some systems when the game is minimized: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/103
- Fixed the invalid Vulkan API usage that happened in the bloom pass: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/104
- Fixed the invalid barrier for an inter-queue resource transition: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/105
- Fixed the out-of-bounds addressing of the framebuffer array: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/107
Misc Improvements:
- Reduced the delay after resolution changes by avoiding re-initialization of the RT pipelines.
- Changed the memory type required for the UBO and transparency upload buffers to
(HOST_VISIBLE | HOST_COHERENT)
. - Improved logging around SLI initialization.
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