Black Myth: Wukong Launches August 20th With Full Ray Tracing & DLSS 3 - Get The Definitive Experience With GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs

Embark on a thrilling journey through Chinese mythology in Black Myth: Wukong, the long-awaited, much-anticipated action role-playing game from Game Science. As the Destined One, explore a vast and enchanting world filled with challenges and jaw-dropping wonders. Discover hidden truths behind ancient legends and unveil secrets of a glorious past, enhanced by full ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS 3; use the power of the GeForce RTX 40 Series for an unparalleled PC experience. 

NVIDIA has helped elevate Black Myth: Wukong’s graphics and technology to the highest levels. Lighting, effects and immersion are at their very best through the inclusion of realistic full ray tracing, otherwise referred to as Path Tracing. And the performance to enjoy and experience Black Myth: Wukong at the highest detail levels is delivered by the AI-powered DLSS 3.

Combined with the raw power of GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, and their AI Tensor Cores and Ray Tracing Cores, PC gamers can marvel at Black Myth: Wukong’s immersive visuals, and tackle its challenging enemies at fast, responsive frame rates. With GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, you can enjoy a zero-compromise experience in Black Myth: Wukong.

Full Ray Tracing In Black Myth: Wukong 

Black Myth: Wukong runs on Unreal Engine 5 and leverages the latest RTX technologies. On PC, Black Myth: Wukong is enhanced with full ray tracing, making it one of the most immersive and technologically advanced titles released to date.

Full ray tracing is a demanding but highly accurate way to render light and its effect on a scene. Also known as Path Tracing, this advanced ray tracing technique is used by visual effects artists to create film and TV graphics that are indistinguishable from reality, but until the arrival of GeForce RTX GPUs with RT Cores, and the AI-powered acceleration of NVIDIA DLSS, full ray tracing in real-time video games was impossible.

In Black Myth: Wukong, full ray tracing increases the fidelity and quality of lighting, reflections and shadows. Reflections on water reflect all surrounding detail. Water caustics add further realism, accurately rendering the refraction and reflection of light. Particles are reflected, making battles more dynamic and exciting. Fully ray-traced lighting ensures lighting indoors and outdoors is pixel perfect, darkening areas where light is occluded or doesn’t reach, and realistically illuminating the world by bouncing light. And in concert with the lighting system, contact hardening and softening fully ray-traced shadows are cast everywhere, rendering the smallest of shadows from leaves and pebbles, and those from geometry-rich buildings, the main character, and the gigantic bosses that must be overcome.

Full Resolution Multi-Bounce Ray-Traced Indirect Lighting 

With multi-bounce ray-traced indirect lighting, natural colored lighting bounces up to two times throughout the world of Black Myth: Wukong, creating more realistic indirect lighting and occlusion. Rendering techniques including Screen Space Reflections, Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, and the existing GI solutions were replaced by a single, unified algorithm that delivers more accurate lighting of scenes and objects, making each scene as immersive as possible.

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Full Resolution Ray-Traced Reflections

Through the power of ray tracing, reflections more near-perfectly mirror their surroundings, incorporate bounced detail, and are rendered at full resolution, accentuating the world and further heightening immersion. As seen in the comparison below, still puddles offer a mirror like surface of the surrounding area with stunning detail.

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Ray-Traced Particle Reflections

Rendering reflections of particle effects from attacks, explosions and fire in a ray-traced game is particularly challenging. Most are semi-transparent, which may cause sorting issues, and particles often also have unique characteristics, making their reflection even more difficult.

To improve quality and immersion, effects often contain large numbers of individual particles, putting immense pressure on performance when using traditional ray tracing methods. But Black Myth: Wukong uses a new technique to render order-independent transparencies for large sprite sets using two-level ray tracing, which efficiently renders the game's particle system in real-time reflections.

This world-first integration dramatically enhances realism, immersion and image quality, and makes combat even more spectacular and exciting, giving GeForce RTX gamers an unprecedented visual experience.

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Ray-Traced Caustics

Caustics simulate the real-life effect whereby light rays are reflected and refracted by water, curved surfaces and objects, creating unique patterns of light on nearby surfaces, such as river beds. With ray tracing, the effect can be accurately and realistically recreated, subtly enhancing the realism and immersion of Black Myth: Wukong.

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Ray-Traced Shadows 

Shadows are a critical visual cue, and ray tracing lends a pleasant richness to the environment with contiguous silhouettes, contact hardening and softening, self-shadowing, and higher levels of detail, free of aliasing. Nearby objects project whole and grounded shadows, while even fine details of distant structures and nestled structures can be resolved, for a much more realistic image. The following image shows softer, more realistic shadows cast by distant overhead objects.

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To enhance your gameplay with all of these effects, activate the “Full Ray Tracing” setting in-game, then select “Full Ray Tracing Level” Very High.

If you’re struggling to find a combination of settings that deliver the experience you desire, be sure to load the NVIDIA app, which will include Optimal Playable Settings for Black Myth: Wukong from August 20th, enabling you to attain a smooth 60 FPS with a single click.

Black Myth: Wukong Is Accelerated By DLSS 3 

NVIDIA DLSS is our award-winning AI rendering technology that increases graphics performance in games and apps using dedicated Tensor Core AI processors on GeForce RTX GPUs. In the hundreds of released games and apps listed here, all 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 even faster frame rates, owners of GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards and laptops can accelerate performance using NVIDIA DLSS 3 with Frame Generation. 

In Black Myth: Wukong, DLSS 3 multiplies performance with full ray tracing enabled and every setting maxed out. That allows owners of the GeForce RTX 4090, the world’s fastest gaming GPU, to hit nearly 100 frames per second in Black Myth: Wukong’s benchmark. Additionally, owners of the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER and GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER can join in on the 4K fun, running at 74 and 66 frames per second, respectively. If you own one of these GPUs, prepare your eyes for a dazzling display of the very best graphics and gameplay.

At 2560x1440, acceleration of frame rates enables even more configurations to experience Black Myth: Wukong with full ray tracing and maxed out visuals. The GeForce 4090 surpasses 120 FPS, the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER runs at over 90 FPS, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER exceeds 80 FPS, and the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER passes 70 FPS. And the popular GeForce RTX 4070 pops past 60 FPS, giving its many owners a fast, smooth experience in Black Myth: Wukong.

At 1920x1080, which steadfastly remains the most popular gaming resolution, virtually all GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs can surpass 60 FPS with full ray tracing enabled and all other options cranked up, thanks to a DLSS 3 boost. As for the massively popular GeForce RTX 4060, it can get 60 FPS with a few settings tweaks, or with the use of NVIDIA app’s one-click Optimal Settings.

Black Myth: Wukong Game Ready Driver Next Week

Get your PC or laptop ready for the release of Black Myth: Wukong by heading to the Drivers tab of the NVIDIA app beta, GeForce Experience or GeForce.com next week to download and install our next Game Ready Driver.

GeForce Game Ready Drivers deliver the best experience for your favorite PC games. They’re finely tuned in collaboration with developers and extensively tested across thousands of hardware configurations for maximum performance and reliability. Game Ready Drivers also allow you to optimize game settings in GeForce Experience with a single click, and empower you with the latest NVIDIA technologies.

Last Chance! Black Myth: Wukong GeForce RTX 40 Series Bundle Available Until August 20th

If you don’t already own a PC capable of playing Black Myth: Wukong at its very best, now’s the perfect time to upgrade thanks to our new Black Myth: Wukong GeForce RTX 40 Series bundle. Upgrade today so you don’t miss out on this immersive, eagerly anticipated action RPG, or the bundle itself, which ends soon.

Buyers of eligible products from select retailers and etailers, including GeForce RTX 4090, 4080 SUPER, 4080, 4070 Ti SUPER, 4070 Ti, 4070 SUPER and 4070 graphics cards and desktop PCs, and laptops with a GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU, RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, or RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, will receive a Steam copy of the game to play when released on August 20th.

You’ll find eligible GPUs, desktops and laptops at numerous system builders and retailers worldwide. For a complete list of participating partners in your country, head to the Black Myth: Wukong bundle homepage.

Once you’ve bought any qualifying product, you’ll receive email instructions on how to redeem your bundle, and just a few clicks later you’ll add Black Myth: Wukong to your Steam account.

Additionally, bundle buyers will also receive the Trailblazer’s Scarlet Gourd, a unique visual customization for your healing flask, which you’ll receive at the Keeper’s Shrine respawn point during the early stages of the game.

Stream Black Myth: Wukong On Any Device With GeForce NOW

If you’re away from home, your PC isn’t up to the task of rendering high fidelity games at high frame rates, or you simply don’t own a modern PC or laptop, you can still enjoy Black Myth: Wukong with RTX technologies on GeForce NOW. Stream games you own from supported platforms, and with GeForce NOW Ultimate you can play Black Myth: Wukong with the same technologies present when gaming on GeForce RTX 40 Series PCs or laptops, including DLSS 3 and full ray tracing.

Stream GeForce NOW on iPhone, iPad, Android devices, web browsers, select LG and Samsung smart TVs, SHIELD TV, Macs, Chromebooks, and many other commonly owned gadgets, with controllers and PC accessories.

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Black Myth: Wukong Available On August 20th: Get The Ultimate Experience With The GeForce RTX 40 Series

Black Myth: Wukong is the latest game to get even better through the addition of new RTX technologies. And yet another that delivers the definitive experience on GeForce RTX 40 Series PCs or laptops, thanks to our leading AI features, and their raw power.

Over 500 games and apps feature game and experience-enhancing RTX technologies, and barely a week goes by without new integrations of the tech that makes your favorite games better.

To discover which new games have been enhanced, return regularly to GeForce.com to learn about the newest integrations of DLSS and RTX, and to hear about new Game Ready Drivers, innovations, apps and features.