Reshade — Rtgi 0.36.1

Available on Marty McFly’s Patreon (Public release expected in Q3 2024). *Author’s Note: This feature assumes the reader has basic knowledge of ReShade installation. Always back up your dxgi.dll files before installing. *

Here is why version 0.36.1 is the current gold standard for path-traced lighting on a budget. For the uninitiated, RTGI is not a texture pack. It is a depth-based shader that runs inside the ReShade post-processing pipeline. Unlike native ray tracing (which requires game engine hooks and specific BVH structures), RTGI 0.36.1 works via screen-space ray marching .

In the arms race of PC graphics, few tools have blurred the line between nostalgia and next-gen fidelity quite like Pascal "Marty McFly" Gilcher’s ReShade RTGI (Ray Traced Global Illumination) . With the release of version 0.36.1 , the community isn’t just seeing a bug-fix patch; they are witnessing a maturation of "fake" lighting that often looks more realistic than native implementations.

If you have a backlog of games from 2010–2018, install this shader. You aren’t just replaying them; you are seeing them for the first time.

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