See Ghost of Tsushima running in 8K and Ray Tracing

Ghost of Tsushima arrived on the PC gaming scene last week and as expected, it was a huge success. The game reached the position of Sony’s second biggest release on Steam.

It is quite common that, when a renowned title is ported to the PC, the community develops various modifications (the famous mods). This time, Sony’s acclaimed game was honored with the implementation of Ray Tracinga technology that significantly improves graphic quality.

Graphical improvements in Ghost of Tsushima

The mod was presented through a detailed video published by the Beyond Dreams channel on YouTube. Their work was meticulous not only in changing the technical aspects of the game, but also in demonstrating it through a video with very high definition images.

Thus, we have the opportunity to visualize an exceptional gameplay experience running on one of the most robust video cards on the current market, the GeForce RTX 4090 and NVIDIAin a stunning 8K resolution, further benefited by the use of a program developed by the talented NiceGuy.

The result of this modification is the insertion of surprising visual elements. Among them are improved global illumination that offers a more immersive atmosphere to the game; the volumetric fog that adds depth to scenes; judicious adjustments to the color palette and more realistic and convincing shadows.

Settings of the computer that ran the mod

To highlight the impact of these improvements, the approximately 12-minute video offers us a side-by-side comparison, the famous before and after, allowing us to clearly observe the distinctions and improvements made. The result is truly impressive. Check out the video below to appreciate the transformation that took place. Ghost of Tsushima suffered with this mod:

The computer used to run the game in this configuration has at its heart an NVIDIA video card — the aforementioned RTX 4090 —, accompanied by a processor Intel i7-14700K and a generous 32GB of RAM. But that’s not all: the system also had a SSD Samsung 870 evo ultra-fast and a motherboard of excellent quality and performance, the ASUS Prime Z 790.

It is always worth remembering that, for those who wish to embark on the epic journey provided by the PC version of Ghost of Tsushimaas minimum specifications required They are an Intel Core i3-7100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 processor, 8GB of RAM and a 4GB GTX 960 graphics card or an AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT.

Source: Wccftech