TT Show Episode 47 - Full Ray Tracing in Black Myth Wukong and Doom 2

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Black Myth: Wukong is out in a few days, and to the developer's surprise, dropping a PC Benchmark Tool for the game, Jak and Kosta take a look at how it runs in 4K on a GeForce RTX 4090 and what the game's full ray tracing visuals (or path tracing) look like running on a GeForce RTX 4090.

Surprisingly, Black Myth: Wukong is not the only impressive piece of ray-tracing and PC graphics this week as a new mod for id Software's iconic shooter from 1994 has left the TT Show duo speechless. Doom II: Ray Traced is a remarkable version of the game that runs on the GZDOOM version, adding full path-traced lighting to deliver an incredible reimagining of one of the very first, first-person shooter games.

This week's episode also examines the latest controversies in the CPU world, from Intel finally releasing its new microcode update and fix to its partners that it says stops 13th and 14th Gen CPUs from crashing and getting damaged and a new vulnerability that is affecting hundreds of millions of AMD Ryzen and server CPUs.

In the world of GPUs, AMD could be ready to announce next-gen Radeon and RDNA 4 thanks to new details confirming that its partners are actively working on cards. Also, the company is set to hold some sort of event at Gamescom next week.

It could be bad news for those banking on Nintendo releasing the long-awaited Switch 2 in the first half of 2025, as new reports indicate that the announcement won't be happening until mid-2025 at the earliest. And keeping things in the world of Nintendo, Jak, and Kosta talk about images of a rare Nintendo Dolphin prototype that have surfaced - the project name for what ended up becoming the Nintendo GameCube.

All of this, and more, is in the latest episode of The TT Show.

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All the topics discussed in this week's episode of The TT Show

• Read more: Black Myth: Wukong Benchmark Tool is here for PC gamers - here's our 4K performance results
• Read more: Doom II: Ray Traced is an incredible Path Tracing mod that transforms the 1994 original
• Read more: Radeon 890M 'RDNA 3.5' iGPU bests GeForce GTX 1650 in gaming benchmarks
• Read more: AMD's Radeon partners are all 'focused' on creating RDNA 4 graphics cards
• Read more: AMD is hosting a mysterious Gamescom Event on August 23, is a new Radeon announcement coming?
• Read more: Valve's next game hasn't even been announced, and it already has over 18,000 concurrent players
• Read more: Major Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 leak traced back to jailbroken PS4s
• Read more: ASUS rolling out BIOS updates for Intel boards with new 'microcode', over 200 updated so far
• Read more: Intel microcode fix for 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core CPUs now available for select motherboards
• Read more: Intel's next-generation Arrow Lake desktop CPUs will draw 'at least' 100W less power
• Read more: AMD won't be fixing a major security flaw on these older Ryzen CPUs
• Read more: New 'Sinkclose' vulnerability in AMD CPUs, only way to remove it is to 'throw your PC away'
• Read more: Nintendo reveals Switch 2 release window to developers
• Read more: Photo of extremely rare 'Nintendo Dolphin' console surfaces online
• Read more: Scientists discover a place on Mars that should be sustaining Martian life