--- title: Godot RTX is HERE: NVIDIA's New Path-Traced Fork! description: NVIDIA has released a fork of the Godot game engine that adds path tracing and RTX support via Vulkan. The fork integrates NVIDIA Streamline, DLSS denoising,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/godot-rtx-is-here-nvidia-s-new-path-traced-fork--ddre1cecj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Godot RTX is HERE: NVIDIA's New Path-Traced Fork! | daily.dev og:description: NVIDIA has released a fork of the Godot game engine that adds path tracing and RTX support via Vulkan. The fork integrates NVIDIA Streamline, DLSS denoising,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/godot-rtx-is-here-nvidia-s-new-path-traced-fork--ddre1cecj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DDrE1CeCJ.png og:image:alt: Godot RTX is HERE: NVIDIA's New Path-Traced Fork! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Godot RTX is HERE: NVIDIA's New Path-Traced Fork! **[Gamefromscratch](https://daily.dev/sources/gamefromscratch)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NVIDIA has released a fork of the Godot game engine that adds path tracing and RTX support via Vulkan. The fork integrates NVIDIA Streamline, DLSS denoising, and a new ray tracing renderer toggle accessible through project settings and the world environment node. Visual comparisons show significantly improved shadows and reflections over standard Godot rendering, but the implementation currently suffers from heavy noise, visual artifacts, missing volumetric fog support, and some broken lighting scenarios. Performance cost is roughly 10–30% depending on scene complexity. The fork is MIT-licensed and available on GitHub, requires building from a specific branch, and needs Streamline SDK DLLs copied into the project. NVIDIA plans future improvements including radiance caching, opacity maps, Direct3D 12 support, and eventually an extension/add-on rather than a fork. Two upcoming Godot games (Road to Vostok and PVKK) are hinted as potential RTX-enabled titles. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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