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[KyoZz]

Thanks to a detective work from a Reddit user, we have some salt to add to the recent Nvidia leak:

All 3 games are being tested internally by 2K as found on SteamDB.

But first, the famous Nvidia list:
Here we see there are two games listed for Bioshock. One is Bioshock 2022 and the other is Bioshock RTX Remaster (Might want to ctrl + f and look for Bioshock as the list is big)

Here are the 3 depots being worked on for each game:
Bioshock Remastered: updated yesterday
Bioshock Remastered 2: also updated yesterday
Bioshock Infinite: updated 10 days ago

As you can see the testing has been going on quite recently which leads me to believe that there is some sort of update that is coming and coupled with the Nvidia leak for the RTX Remaster I'm taking an educated guess that it's the RTX Remaster that is in the works.

Though GAFFER?

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[Chiggs]

Totally down for a Bioshock RTX remaster, provided the price is right...or it's free. The lighting in that game would be simply incredible to behold with ray-tracing. Let's hope this is true!

 

[KyoZz]

That Nvidia * NO NO IT'S JUST FOR INTERN TESTING* list

 

[lmimmfn]

Totally down for a Bioshock RTX remaster, provided the price is right...or it's free. The lighting in that game would be simply incredible to behold with ray-tracing. Let's hope this is true!

We already had a remaster on PC.

 

[Chiggs]

We already had a remaster on PC.

We're talking about RTX, though?

 

[Kokoloko85]

Didnt the nvidia leak show Mario games too? Cant say I can take much of it seriously

 

[Mister Wolf]

RT Lighting and Reflections would definitely help Bioshock.

 

[Hugare]

Updating the remaster versions by Blind Squirrel would be like trying to polish a turd

Those versions are beyond redemption

I was hoping for an entirely new port by Nvidia

 

[Killer8]

Nvidia leak is legit in my eyes. No one could have predicted ActRaiser was getting a remake, and yet it was first known through the leaked list and then got announced properly a few days later.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Actraiser remake proved to me beyond a shadow of doubt that list is real. That seemed like the most far fetched thing on there.

 

[Fahdis]

EA Coming back to Geforce Now just happened this Thursday. The list is real.

 

[THE DUCK]

Funny I just fired up the remaster fir both bioshock 1 and 2, was remarking on how good they look. Rt would be fantastic for this particular game.

 

[Kilau]

The list had everything so of course some of it is real and some is likely to be placeholder and nothing more.

 

[lmimmfn]

We're talking about RTX, though?

Of course, but would you seriously pay for just that?
The remasters were already missing lighting effects, dont know if they were ever fixed.

 

[Butch_0451]

If we’re gonna go through a remake phase this gen then I still don’t know what’s taking 2K so long to give this one it’s turn. Shouldn’t be only an RTX update but a complete remake.

 

[Chiggs]

Of course, but would you seriously pay for just that?
The remasters were already missing lighting effects, dont know if they were ever fixed.

$9.99 is my price. Anything higher, nope.

 

[RadioactiveLobster]

I'm not 100% sure if they also show up in SteamDB depot updates but keep in mind things like redistributables get updated at times and you can see an older game download an update but it was just a .NET redis update or something.

That said, I'd be up for an RTX version of Bioshock, ala Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition.

 

[LaughingStock]

Add RTX and what was old, is new again.

 

[Ryu Kaiba]

Didnt the nvidia leak show Mario games too? Cant say I can take much of it seriously

Nintendo and Nvidia are partners right now. Nintendo's even been releasing their games on The Shield hardware in China.

 

[DrSerigala]

Didnt the nvidia leak show Mario games too? Cant say I can take much of it seriously

You can play mario on geforce now on China only

 

[Starhowl]

No way - Bioshock is a repeating trauma with every sequel. Totally not gonna play again.

Would play a sequel to the series though..

 

[mansoor1980]

No way - Bioshock is a repeating trauma with every sequel. Totally not gonna play again.

Would play a sequel to the series though..

 

[Amey]

Here's what it looks like ReShade RTGI

 

[01011001]

glad to see Infinite there, because that's the only one I would ever replay...

 

[Ryu Kaiba]

Here's what it looks like ReShade RTGI

I can see that it looks "better" the lighting looks more natural, but it's not a difference most people will notice while moving through a game.
It's weird the emphasis put on !!Reflections!! in water or in windows but I never notice they're missing unless I'm looking for them in rtx comparison videos.

 

[01011001]

I can see that it looks "better" the lighting looks more natural, but it's not a difference most people will notice while moving through a game.
It's weird the emphasis put on !!Reflections!! in water or in windows but I never notice they're missing unless I'm looking for them in rtx comparison videos.

the reflections here are not raytraced, they simply use SSR... which sucks... SSR is terrible

 

[rofif]

Oh wow i want to replay infinite

 

[Fahdis]

Here's what it looks like ReShade RTGI

Holy shit its a different game!

 

[vkbest]

Here's what it looks like ReShade RTGI

So SSR is RT now? Or RT is only used to lighting?

 

[skit_data]

One of the games that woyld benefit greatly from it. Gimme fluid simulation as well.

 

[Cryio]

So SSR is RT now? Or RT is only used to lighting?

SSR is not RT, it's in the name: "screen space". SSR is also part of normal ReShade, it's not part of Pascal Glitcher's RTGI.

Only the GI and Ambient Occlusion is path traced in the paid mod for ReShade.

 

[Rikkori]

RT Lighting and Reflections would definitely help Bioshock.

Not really. In fact these types of dark games are the worst for RT "remastering" because so much is obscured, so the benefits are more limited & then in linear games like this you can also more easily use pre-baked lighting for a lot of things; not to mention you want to retain the same atmosphere so you can't just add RT and let it do its thing else you lose the charm (like what happened with Metro Exodus EE to a certain extent, where the new full RTGI overbrightened a lot of scenes even compared to the previous RTGI). Plus for RT to shine (heh) you really need an overhaul of materials, and then for it to look high res you need to re-do the assets etc. which is not gonna happen because that's very expensive to do. Short of a remake with expanded levels and everything it's not going to be that big of a deal IMO.

 

[JackSparr0w]

I played Bioshock 2 with fake reshade RT and that was incredible enough. Can't even imagine how good the real thing would be with some 4k textures. The gameplay on the other hand felt quite oudated.

 

[winjer]

Bioshock could benefit a lot from RT illumination and shadows, for all those dark gloomy levels.
And with all that water, RT reflections would be a great show case too.
Infinite would not benefit as much from this. But global illumination could do wonders with all those colorful levels.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Actraiser remake proved to me beyond a shadow of doubt that list is real. That seemed like the most far fetched thing on there.

I don't recall ever seeing the whole list, where is it?