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Sorry if I am dumb but...I was wondering if this in practice would theoretically be able to convert or render directly old games and graphics (provided the starting point is compatible) in such a "remastered" way.

In any case I am at the third read and I think I understood enough to say "wow, looks and feels great. Would play TES Arena like that."

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No, at least not in the "automatic" way the Nvidia RTX Remix does. You would not only need to generate the displacement maps for textures, but the most importantly port the game to this new rendering engine. It's an extremely complicated task if done by reverse engineering and hacking the executable, without ability to read and recompile the source code.

Perfectly clear. Who knows, maybe in the future this could be a step for a mechanism that does so; anyway, impressive results in itself! Kudos!

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