# Q&A: How Capcom Brought Path Tracing to RE ENGINE Across PRAGMATA and Resident Evil Requiem

DevFeed: [Q&A: How Capcom Brought Path Tracing to RE ENGINE Across PRAGMATA and Resident Evil Requiem](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/q-a-how-capcom-brought-path-tracing-to-re-engine-across-pragmata-and-resident-evil-requiem-6923.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/qa-how-capcom-brought-path-tracing-to-re-engine-across-pragmata-and-resident-evil-requiem/>)

Author: Michelle Horton

Published: 2026-07-16T22:59:09Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [NVIDIA Developer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nvidia-developer.md>), [NVIDIA Technical Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nvidia-technical-blog.md>)

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## AI overview

Capcom's RE ENGINE team developed and integrated a real-time path tracer for PRAGMATA and Resident Evil Requiem. Built on the NVIDIA RTX Kit and optimized for DLSS, the renderer replaces shadow-map direct lighting, improves continuity between gameplay and cutscenes, and enables more cohesive indirect lighting, reflections, and strand-hair light transmission.

## Source excerpt

Capcom's RE ENGINE team set out to bring path tracing into two shipping titles at once, Resident Evil Requiem and PRAGMATA, each with a different visual...