
These include Battlefield V, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Metro Exodus with more titles slated to offer RTX/raytracing support in the coming months. Now, with the October 2018 Update, DXR is finally out of experimental mode and is a part of DirectX 12.Īs demoed by NVIDIA during their GeForce RTX launch, a handful of games will feature support for raytracing. and other developers could request an opt-in to DXR experimental mode. Microsoft, back then, was already working with partners such as EA, Unity, UL Benchmarks etc. One of the less talked about features in this update is the updated version of DirectX 12 that brings native raytracing abilities using the new DirectX Raytracing (DXR) API.ĭXR was first announced at GDC 2018 in March this year, which was shortly followed by NVIDIA showcasing raytracing capabilities on its Volta GPUs.

The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is now rolling out to PCs worldwide and it brings many improvements to the overall user experience, most of it under-the-hood.
