How to enable Path Tracing?

[Sul Haren]

The setting for enabling path tracing simply doesn't exist in the options menu for me. Is that a bug or do they just hide the setting on sub 12GB GPUs?

Found the solution: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1hbak60/indiana_jones_and_the_great_circle_path_tracing/

[TheCrazedEB]

Same on a 3080 10gb. If they hide thats ridiculous, even if it runs poorly we should have the option to be there. CDPR gave us PT and didn't do this bs.

[HazyChestNutz]

Right? I played PT fine with cyberpunk

[nikos]

Game is horribly optimized, especially with path tracing enabled, even with a 7800X3D and 4090. Very low system utilization resulting in horrible performance. Game Pass version.

[TheCrazedEB]

Originally posted by nikos:

Game is horribly optimized, especially with path tracing enabled, even with a 7800X3D and 4090. Very low system utilization resulting in horrible performance. Game Pass version.

without PT it still bad in terms of optimization? I know the LOD pop is my biggest wtf issue.

[gamegpu]

Patch tracing is only available for PTX video cards, and then 12 GB is the minimum entry threshold, but in fact you need a minimum of 16 GB

https://en.gamegpu.com/action-/-fps-/-tps/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-test-path-tracing

[Ren]

So you're telling me I can turn on path tracing with my 8GB VRAM card in cyberpunk but this game wont even give me the option for it?

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Ren:

So you're telling me I can turn on path tracing with my 8GB VRAM card in cyberpunk but this game wont even give me the option for it?

Well one is a half-decade old Xbox One game and the other is a brand new release.

It's mad how my GT 650 could play Morrowind but not Starfield, bad optimisation?

[TheCrazedEB]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Originally posted by Ren:

So you're telling me I can turn on path tracing with my 8GB VRAM card in cyberpunk but this game wont even give me the option for it?

Well one is a half-decade old Xbox One game and the other is a brand new release.

It's mad how my GT 650 could play Morrowind but not Starfield, bad optimisation?

PT is not that old for CP2077. Not like it launched with it and iirc came out years later in 2023. Its not a huge ask when CP2077 is more demanding to run than Indi. CDPR could've done the same bs MachineGames did and limit PT but they didn't. Even if PT makes performance 20fps, we should have the option. 8gb sure, but 10gb cmon. You can degrade the fidelity to 720p low settings and still not have the option. Not even hitting the Vram limit on my gpu and still not have the setting.

[tarmo888]

Well, maybe disabling would be better than hiding, but right now, even if you have 12GB GPU, you could easily put yourself in the state where the FPS drops to single digits and game can crash (even on next startup). Changing the settings at 4FPS isn't easy task.

[Captain Flappy]

Originally posted by tarmo888:

Well, maybe disabling would be better than hiding, but right now, even if you have 12GB GPU, you could easily put yourself in the state where the FPS drops to single digits and game can crash (even on next startup). Changing the settings at 4FPS isn't easy task.

I have to do it every single time I start the game due to a known bug... very annoying.

[Sardines]

i'm on a 12gb 3060 and i can turn it on. medium path tracing knocks fps down to about 40

[Randy Marsh]

Originally posted by gamegpu:

Patch tracing is only available for PTX video cards, and then 12 GB is the minimum entry threshold, but in fact you need a minimum of 16 GB

https://en.gamegpu.com/action-/-fps-/-tps/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-test-path-tracing

just turn it off then lol

[tarmo888]

Originally posted by gamegpu:

Patch tracing is only available for PTX video cards, and then 12 GB is the minimum entry threshold, but in fact you need a minimum of 16 GB

https://en.gamegpu.com/action-/-fps-/-tps/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-test-path-tracing

WTF is patch tracing? It's path tracing. The article also has 32 mentions of patch tracing. You also don't need to turn on FULL RT, on 12GB GPU, it makes sense to just use MEDIUM setting, which improves the shadows a lot.

[Sul Haren]

Originally posted by TheCrazedEB:

Same on a 3080 10gb. If they hide thats ridiculous, even if it runs poorly we should have the option to be there. CDPR gave us PT and didn't do this bs.

There is a solution now that worked for me:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1hbak60/indiana_jones_and_the_great_circle_path_tracing/

[Tr0w]

Should hide it for 12Gb GPUs as well seeing as the only way to use it on a 12Gb is at 1080p or 1440p with aggressive upscaling and low/med settings so your game will just look crap compared to regular RT with higher settings + HDR. PT in this game is for the 4090, and the 5080+5090 when those come out.