While NVIDIA charges a premium for DLSS and RTX implementation, the modding community has democratized the tech. The most popular method involves using ReShade , a post-processing injector, combined with specific RTGI shader files.
: NVIDIA offers a free version of RTGI shaders through NVIDIA Freestyle for owners of Turing architecture cards (RTX 20-series) and newer.
: RTShade is a free, public ray tracing shader available on GitHub that mimics some of these effects. Step-by-Step Installation Guide