Cant turn on ray tracing

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I cant turn on Ray Tracing. I have the latest windows update and also the latest graphics card drivers. But the option is grayed out. It says “unsupported for graphical related reasons”. I have a GTX 1660 super. Is anyone else having this issue? Help would be appreciated.

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There was a thread about this a week or so back.

Apparently Bliz decided only to permit raytracing on actual RTX cards due to the performance hit non-RTX cards will take.

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Oh! Okay that explains it! Im a noob when it comes to graphics card so I would not know. I have the Nvidia Geforce GTX 1660 super. Sorry for another question but is RTX another model of GPUs? hehe

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Oddly enough, I’ve got an RTX2070 Super and it still won’t let me turn it on.

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Have you upgraded Windows 10 to the very latest 2004 version? I believe that is required.

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Windows up to date, drivers up to date and it still wont let me.’

Strange!

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What card are you using? It must have native hardware support for raytracing, not software.

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Hi all.

Same problem here: RTX2070 and updated to the latest driver, DX12 + full windows update.

Ray tracing shadows option in advanced gives me: “Unsupported for graphics related reasons.”

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Same here guys,
using a 2070, everything is up to date, but the option still appears grey with this message “Unsupported for graphics related reasons.”

anything i google, is either update or people tell you to double check if your gpu supports ray tracing. Im well aware what i bought during the launch of the 2070 lineup :stuck_out_tongue:

Hope we find a solution for this guys!

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Same. I don’t know whats going on bu the feature was available on my old pc. I just build a new one on Sunday ryzen 5 3600, rtx 2070s, dx 12 on, windows 10 up to date, latest nvidia driver still can’t activate it. "unsupported for graphics related ". Driv

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HI , yes my pc runs raytracing on every game that has it, except WOW ! Fix please, RTX2080

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Are you running Windows 10 version 2004 or newer?

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i can not get ray-tracing either and my rtx 2080 ti drivers is up to date. the problem here is that they require a windows build where they removed ray-tracing. i once updated to the latest build and no games worked so, i went back to an old build. guess that until they choose to support earlier windows builds, ray-tracing will not work. i am also not going to play world of warcraft without ray-tracing, not a chance.

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Thanks for the laugh.

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ray-tracing is more important to me than playing world of warcraft, that is how it is. i do not want to play a game that supports ray-tracing, without it.

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But its only the shadows that are ray-traced in WoW. None of the other 3D assets are.

So you’re quitting WoW over… A shadow. Too funny!

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i have not been paying for many years and i will not do so either until my character library is on level 20. i will not play at all without ray-tracing however.

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Hi all has the ray-tracing been sorted out yet. i mean is there a fix as yet from any 1 or blizzard?

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What fix you mean?

Ray Tracing in WoW have the following requirements:

  • GPU with DirectX Raytracing Tier 1.1 support.
  • Windows 10 with 2004 version or newer, like the 20H2.
  • World of Warcraft set with DirectX12 API.
  • Updated drivers

Also if you enable, for example, a Windows 8 compatibility mode, it won’t work too.

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u can’t activate because your windows 10 version is not 2004 or superior so i recomendo u to go to this webpage support microsoft and then download the Windows 10 Update Assistant and then u will get the update that u need and then u can activate the RAY TRACed shadows
this have work for me so I hope work for u guys