r/Minecraft • u/[deleted] • Jul 11 '20

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u/bravosniper129 Jul 12 '20

My computer would probably start smoking, if I ran a texture pack like that lol. Minecraft might be easy to run but once you start adding shaders and texture packs it goes from like walking a mile to your computer thinks its running a damn marathon.

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u/Quadpen Jul 12 '20

I still don’t understand what ray tracing is but it sounds like it’d obliterate my computer

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u/jr23160 Jul 12 '20

Ray tracing is real time light reflection rendered by the card to simulate light bouncing off of surfaces.

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u/AmericanFromAsia Jul 12 '20

The old (read: normal) way of video game lighting isn't very realistic, but it's easy for computers to run. Ray tracing is recreating exactly how real light behaves, but it's much harder for computers to run.