Assassin’s Creed Shadows Delivers a PC Features Trailer as Ubisoft Confirms Spatial Audio Support, Software-Based Raytracing Solution for Pre-RTX...

[Tsing]

If your GPU does not support hardware raytracing, such as pre-RTX GPUs, we have developed our own solution to allow competent, yet older, GPUs to run Assassin's Creed Shadows. The game will use a proprietary software-based raytracing approach developed specifically for that. This was made to ensure Assassin's Creed Shadows remains accessible to as many players as possible.

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[Grimlakin]

If your GPU does not support hardware raytracing, such as pre-RTX GPUs, we have developed our own solution to allow competent, yet older, GPUs to run Assassin's Creed Shadows. The game will use a proprietary software-based raytracing approach developed specifically for that. This was made to ensure Assassin's Creed Shadows remains accessible to as many players as possible.

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Oh wait.... so now raytracing is going the route of PhysX? LOL. sorry... Nvidia might just be ok with this since they 'don't care about gamer cards' any more.

 

[Brent_Justice]

Avatar already did that, Unreal Engine also has a software ray tracer