Nvidia RTX reflections? How to enable/when to expect?

[polyneutron]

Hey y'all, just a quick question here. I've heard (and saw a live demo on YouTube) that RTX reflections should be available in ACC, but I can't find anything RTX related in the game, sadly. Am I missing an option somewhere in the menus? Or should I edit some config file?
Or maybe the feature just didn't make it into the public release yet?

Note: tho I own a GTX 1070 video card, Nvidia released updated drivers that allow Pascal GPUs to enable RTX, too. So I don't think that's the issue here since I've already installed the latest driver.
And yes, I tried playing ACC on both Win7 and Win10 to no luck.

[Elio]

Hi !

Did you tried by GeForce Experience ?
Did you downloaded the latest drivers and nVidia software ?
Are you sure a 1070 is able to ?

Cheers ! ;-)

[Chrisi Schmidt]

Hi,
I have a 2070 RTX
but I have not found any settings in the optimizations of nvidia for RTX reflections
maybe I missed something too?
or it is set too low by the optimizations of nvidia that I can not see it
then my CPU is too slow

[Damien]

Katharine Castle
Hardware Editor
30th May 2019 / 12:30PM
Featured post

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/05/30/nvidia-rtx-ray-tracing-dlss-games-confirmed/?utm_source=mormont&utm_medium=inline_image&utm_campaign=mormont_v1&utm_content=automatic_recommendations

"The main thing holding back the number of confirmed RTX ray tracing and DLSS games right now is the fact that each game needs to add in specific support for each feature, and that takes time. At time of writing, only Anthem, Battlefield V, Final Fantasy XV, Metro Exodus and Shadow of the Tomb Raider have managed to implement their ray tracing / DLSS support in the final game, which is a pretty piddly selection compared to the number of games that actually on the list."

So it's a thing on the driver side, just requires implementing and that can take will take time. I don't know what their priority is and how much effort it requires. Maybe christmas, maybe next spring? What I have noticed is that they keep updating their games for a long time, so I'm looking the ride to get better in the next 1-2 years.

[Chrisi Schmidt]

@Damien
Thanks for the information!

[polyneutron]

Originally posted by Elio:

Hi !

Did you tried by GeForce Experience ?
Did you downloaded the latest drivers and nVidia software ?
Are you sure a 1070 is able to ?

Cheers ! ;-)

-Yes, but I'm not seeing where GFE can possibly help in enabling ray traced reflections in the game
-Yes
-Yes

Originally posted by Damien:

Katharine Castle
Hardware Editor
30th May 2019 / 12:30PM
Featured post

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/05/30/nvidia-rtx-ray-tracing-dlss-games-confirmed/?utm_source=mormont&utm_medium=inline_image&utm_campaign=mormont_v1&utm_content=automatic_recommendations

"The main thing holding back the number of confirmed RTX ray tracing and DLSS games right now is the fact that each game needs to add in specific support for each feature, and that takes time. At time of writing, only Anthem, Battlefield V, Final Fantasy XV, Metro Exodus and Shadow of the Tomb Raider have managed to implement their ray tracing / DLSS support in the final game, which is a pretty piddly selection compared to the number of games that actually on the list."

So it's a thing on the driver side, just requires implementing and that can take will take time. I don't know what their priority is and how much effort it requires. Maybe christmas, maybe next spring? What I have noticed is that they keep updating their games for a long time, so I'm looking the ride to get better in the next 1-2 years.

Now that's unfortunate. But thank you for sharing this anyway!

[pauldalton]

Try the new Quake 2 RTX demo with your GTX 1070. I tried it with my 1070 and get 4-6 FPS. With RTX off I get about 1000 FPS.

[Frost]

2070 quake 2 rtx ~60fps
2070 quake 2 opengl ~1000fps

[pauldalton]

Originally posted by Frost:

2070 quake 2 rtx ~60fps
2070 quake 2 opengl ~1000fps

Nice to know a 2070 can hit 60 FPS with RTX enabled. Was gameplay smooth?

[Frost]

Originally posted by pauldalton:

Originally posted by Frost:

2070 quake 2 rtx ~60fps
2070 quake 2 opengl ~1000fps

Nice to know a 2070 can hit 60 FPS with RTX enabled. Was gameplay smooth?

Yes, comfortable

[polyneutron]

Originally posted by pauldalton:

Try the new Quake 2 RTX demo with your GTX 1070.

Will try it later.

Yesterday I spent all day trying to get GFE (Nvidia Share particularly) to work with Forza Horizon 4 (like it used to work in, say, last November) to no luck, yet in process of doing so it seems that I messed things up so much, that neither of Win10 apps are working now.

Tried numerous ways to fix it, cmd lines, auto-repairs, sfc /scannow and DISM' HealthRestore, Windows' System Restore, editing folder ownership properties and stuff, all of that didn't help, sadly.

So I guess I'll get some rest first, and then get back to trying to fix apps, and then I'll look up for Q2 (which I somehow overlooked in the first place, haha. Like, it should've been my very 1st thing to check if my GPU can run RTX there, or not, but, alas, I totally forgot about it.

[pauldalton]

I have to lower my resolution to 960 x 720 to get Smooth gameplay with RTX enabled in Quake II with my 1070.
Good luck getting your issues worked out.

[polyneutron]

Originally posted by pauldalton:

I have to lower my resolution to 960 x 720 to get Smooth gameplay with RTX enabled in Quake II with my 1070.
Good luck getting your issues worked out.

Thanks, for now it seems that I got some things sorted out (at least everything is working as expected now, although my HDDs (both Win7 & Win10) greeted me today with CHKDSK prompts for no apparent reason other than 'Well, you got your OS reinstalled, have a check then!'
I managed to play Q2 RTX last night a bit. And yup, it definitely works: real-time ray-traced (or were those path-traced, I don't remember exactly) shadows, reflections and GI, everything in its RTX glory.

Surely it wasn't even a stable 30 fps gameplay in 1080p, but I wouldn't mind that since I'll use RTX there only for screenshots (most likely). Plus, I noticed there a lot of flexible settings and values, like Resolution Scale, to test & play with.

So, yeah, in short: my 1070 definitely is ready for RTX in ACC.

[Maccas]

Hi, i have a 3060 but no Nvida rtx or reflections have been shown.

[Protonv5]

The game does not support RTX and the devs made clear that it will not be implemented. RTX is a massive resource hog. If enabled, the game performance would be terrible. Further, there would be a lot of work to do on the devs part and they made clear they are not interested in doing it, for various reasons.