Nvidia is hitting the gas on a new "remastering program" that'll bring modern visuals to classic PC games.

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DSOGaming spotted that Nvidia has begun hiring for a producer to lead the project, and according to the job listing the team is "cherry-picking some of the greatest titles from the past decades and bringing them into the ray tracing age, giving them state-of-the-art visuals while keeping the gameplay that made them great."To get a sense of the effect, watch the video above to see Minecraft's blocky objects with super realistic lighting.The studio behind the listing, LightSpeed, specialises in PC ports. It brought Half-Life 2, Doom 3, and Portal to the Nvidia Shield, but most recently it made Quake 2 RTX - a ray traced remake of the 1997 first-person shooter.Ray Tracing is a rendering technique that makes light in games look realistic by simulating how it bounces off objects. It uses in-game physics to create lifelike shadows, reflections and sun by tracing the path of individual rays in a particular scene. The technique tracks how light interacts with different objects from the camera's perspective, and follows it back to the light source before simulating the whole effect. To learn more, check out our ray tracing explainer It's become a key talking point recently because both Sony and Microsoft have promised ray tracing support on their next-gen consoles, which means they're trying to compete with PC quality graphics. While Nvidia hasn't announced exactly which titles will be remastered with ray tracing technology, it's tapping into another hot trend in gaming: nostalgia. Many 90s games have either been remastered or remade in the last two years, with Resident Evil, Pokémon, and Spyro being among some of the most high profile.

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