A new Dragon's Dogma 2 mod published earlier this week on Nexus Mods by EXXXcellent allows users to activate path tracing and/or tweak ray tracing in various ways.
The mod can be installed either manually or through Fluffy Mod Manager, as most other Dragon's Dogma 2 mods. However, the RE Framework is required for the mod to work at all since its options appear in the RE Framework UI. Related Story Capcom Announces Upward Revision For Earnings Forecast Following Favorable Dragon’s Dogma 2 SalesAs mentioned above, the 'Graphics Suite' adds actual path tracing, which significantly improves the game's visuals.
However, the downside is that denoisers don't seem to work much, making the graphics very grainy. Perhaps a fix will be found at some point.
The Dragon's Dogma 2 mod also offers additional options, including a performance boost for ray tracing with a slight visual penalty and the ability to turn off spotlights, which comes in handy when you use path tracing.
Here's the official overview posted by the mod's creator: Path Tracing: Raytracing Mode in "RT Options". Setting this to other modes changes the RT implementation from RTGI to Path Tracing.