Mister Wolf
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Cyberpunk 2077 Will Only Offer Ray-Tracing on Nvidia Hardware At Launch
Console owners will have to wait, too.
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Cyberpunk 2077 Will Only Support Raytracing On Nvidia Gpus At Launch
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Krappadizzle
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Seeing as they've had the RTX tech to use for a lot longer I'm not surprised in the slightest. Didn't think anyone thought otherwise?!
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AquaticSquirrel
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It is because it is an Nvidia sponsored title most likely and this was probably part of the promotional deal.
Either that or they have only optimized for Nvidia so far and are waiting for RDNA2 cards to actually release to be able to optimise against for best performance.
But most likely the first one, money talks.
Either that or they have only optimized for Nvidia so far and are waiting for RDNA2 cards to actually release to be able to optimise against for best performance.
But most likely the first one, money talks.
MiguelItUp
Member
I'm not surprised by this. Grateful to have an RTX card, let's go!
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Won't be surprised if Control, Metro Exodus or any of the other games dont work as well.
Night.Ninja
Banned
Nvidia money hatting RT
regawdless
Banned
You want to play the best version of Cyberpunk?
Just walk into a store and buy an RTX 30xx card.
Just walk into a store and buy an RTX 30xx card.
Monkeygourmet
Banned
Can’t wait to see the next gen “upgrade” actually perform worse in a few months
00_Zer0
Member
Wouldn't doubt it. It doesn't take Nvidia RT cards to run ray tracing through windows. As long as cards support ray tracing and Windows 10 there would be very little a programmer would have to do to get it up and running on AMD or Intel cards that have ray tracing.
Piku_Ringo
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CrustyBritches
Gold Member
If this is accurate...ouch. I'm wanting to play this with RT effects, so I'll continue to focus on getting an Ampere card. If I wanted to play without RT I'd just play on consoles.
kuncol02
Banned
For now raytracing works only on Nvidia cards anyway. We are still waiting for RDNA2 cards which are supposed to be compatible with DirectX Raytracing.
Night.Ninja
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mansoor1980
Gold Member
this sounds like nvidia gameworks
johntown
Banned
If?? Ray tracing is already mainstream. Ray tracing is not NIVDIA only tech either so don't worry about that. They probably just have not had the time to program and optimize ray tracing for other hardware.
00_Zer0
Member
You're probably right, but It wouldn't surprise me if Nvidia attempted such a thing giving devs money or giving them special support to keep ray tracing Nvidia exclusive for a period of time. That's all I'm saying.
johntown
Banned
Ah yeah I agree with that.
AquaticSquirrel
Member
Yeah seems due to a sponsorship/RT Support/free engineering deal from Nvidia is the cause.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/cyberpunk-2077-nvidia-partnership-ray-tracing/
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/cyberpunk-2077-nvidia-partnership-ray-tracing/
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KevinHelpUs
Neo Member
Yeah, can't say I'm surprised. I have an RTX card, so I'm not out myself, but this seems like the kind of game Nvidia would pay for exclusivity on.
Krappadizzle
Member
I'm not surprised at all they took the free tech assistance from Nvidia. Especially with their history with tech in general. They took a ton of tech assistance from Bioware waayyy back in the day too. I have no doubts they'll be upfront about AMD RT when it's a thing. Right now we are all waiting until Oct. 28th.
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Mister Wolf
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Its going to end up running like shit on those AMD GPUs. Now you know and knowing is half the battle.