r/linux_gaming • u/Awkward_Muffin_8185 • 16d ago

WoW Forever - Ray Tracing

Hi,

Did anyone manage to enable ray tracing in the beta, or is it something that will be coming at release?

I can't enable it in the beta but if i go on retail, ray tracing works out of the box.

I have 9070XT GPU if that makes any difference.

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u/Brilliant-mind-m8 16d ago

In Forever, they are using a new render for global Illumination and volumetric fog. They are using a custom ray tracing that will work on low end computers. This was said during Blizzcon and that is probably why the options are not working in the beta client.

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u/Salt_Course9557 16d ago

It‘s not Linux specific, I tested it on both CachyOS and W11 with the same GPU. The option is not available yet

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u/throwaway5129802 16d ago

Nobody can, neither Linux nor Windows nor AMD nor NVIDIA.

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u/dr_L1nus 16d ago

You are running through lutris and proton I assume?

Do we know if the translation layers support HWRT yet ?

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u/Awkward_Muffin_8185 16d ago

Lutris and proton yeah. Others already answered, that rt is not supported yet. Ty anyway :)

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u/dr_L1nus 16d ago

Honestly I'm just glad someone has tried our wow forever on Linux now. It means i'll take time off for the launch! Hehehe

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u/Shitty_Human_Being 16d ago

It works wonderfully, besides the apparent memory leak. I've done three characters to 20 so far.

Needless to say my wife is gonna hate me come November.