BeyondDreams has released a custom reshade preset that adds support for Ray Tracing Ambient Occlusion and Ray Tracing Global Illumination to The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered. This mod aims to significantly improve the graphics of the game, so make sure to check it out.

Going into more details, this mod is based on Complete RT and eLITE RT. And, to be more precise, it will improve the in-game sky lighting, global illumination and ambient occlusion. All these improvements are also thanks to Reshade’s Ray Tracing. And, since the game did not support RT, it’s a pleasant welcome.

Complete RT is one of the best Ray Tracing Reshades. This mod has one of the most advanced screen-space Ray Tracing Shaders, letting you add GI, AO, Matte, and Glossy Reflections to your games. It also offers Color Grading, dynamic Depth of Field, and an immersive Camera Mod.

As I’ve said, Ray Tracing via Reshade is not as good as native RT. Reshade Ray Tracing is using depth information available in screen space in order to provide its “ray tracing” effects. As such, these Ray Tracing effects are not as accurate as the native RT effects that most modern-day games support. With that said, this is still a form of RT. Plus, it can improve a game’s visuals.

To showcase the mod, BeyondDreams shared the following video. At the beginning, we get to see some comparison scenes. These will give you a pretty good idea of all the visual improvements I described above.

To capture the gameplay footage, BeyondDreams used an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 with an Intel Core i7 14700K. The game was maxed out, and its resolution was set to 8K. To achieve playable framerates, BeyondDreams also used DLSS.

You can go ahead and download the mod from this link.

Yesterday, Nixxes released a new patch for the PC version of TLOU Part 2. That patch improved performance for those that have enabled Resizable BAR. On our PC gaming system, we saw a 7% performance boost. It’s not THAT big of a deal. Still, this is free performance. So, I can’t really complain about it. Plus, we can now use Resizable BAR with it.

Enjoy and stay tuned for more!

John Papadopoulos

John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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