Dataminer and modder Lance McDonald reportedwhich was able to activate ray tracing in an open world fantasy RPG Ring of the Elden from FromSoftware studio.
The fact that ray tracing will appear in Elden Ring, promised before releasehowever, the next mention of the technology (it appeared in the game files) had to wait until recently September update 1.07.
As Macdonald discovered, Fr. “little spot” for the Elden Ring executable, you can turn on the ray tracing feature now, but at this point it appears to be “completely broken”.
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Instead of realistic light and shadow, Elden Ring with ray tracing enabled paints objects in the effect area with black. McDonald suggests this is due to the lack of shaders.
At the same time, at this stage it is possible to make a couple of observations on the implementation of the technology in Elden Ring:
- ray tracing in the open worldends»At a certain distance from the player;
- even with ray tracing enabled uses reflections in the screen space. McDonald’s hopes this will change for a full version.
In the recent Elden Ring patch files, words McDonald, cites the combination of ray tracing with “performance mode”. In addition to PC, console ray tracing is also announced.
Elden Ring debuted February 25 on PC (Steam), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S. In addition to mentioning ray tracing, 1.07 includes big balance changes and two unknown locations.
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