About Ray Tracing

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Hello.

So, I read that Nvidia recently released drivers to support Ray Tracing feature for GTX cards, even though Ray Tracing is not initially supported by the GTX cards.

Because of that, Ray Tracing feature is disabled in WoW for those who don’t have the RTX cards since it would cause performance issues. Will there be option to enable it in future, maybe when the Shadowlands releases? I would like to test it myself if it would cause issues and decide whether to use it or not, or should I forget about it unless I upgrade my graphics card? I’m currently using a GTX 970 Extreme Overclocked version. I would appreciate a reply.

Thanks.

2

No chance, sorry. Not even on 1xxx series.

3

Ah, well. I hope the option would be made available at SL release or something. Thank you for your reply anyway.

4

It will NEVER work on non RTX / non Navi 21 cards. It need silicon level support for hardware accelerated ray tracing.

And it’s just ray traced shadows, for the most part it’s very hard to see the difference while in games implementing ray traced reflections, illumination and ambient occlusion the difference is huge.