DICE Announces RTX Ray Tracing in Battlefield V Can Now Be Enabled

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#1 Nov 14, 2018

Will there be a hack to enable RT on regular cards?

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#2 Nov 14, 2018

No.

Take some time and read our review on the front page (RTX 2080/2080 Ti review). ;)

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#3 Nov 14, 2018

Will there be a hack to enable RT on regular cards?

RT requires an architecture change in the silicon of the GPU... if you want RT, buy an RTX card.

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#4 Nov 15, 2018

But wasn't it mentioned somewhere that ray tracing can technically work on anything, but at extreme performance penalty due to not having dedicated hardware?

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#5 Nov 15, 2018

As I understand it, the effect is done in software now, but it isn't nearly as accurate/looks good. This is real time ray tracing.

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#6 Nov 15, 2018

Wait, Taco is confirmed, so they used to have it hardware rendered, but now its software rendered and just accelerated by hardware, which makes it realtime feasible feature, but because its software rendered it doesn't.look as hood?

This is so confusing this tracing!

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#7 Nov 15, 2018

Basically without the hardware accelerated piece by the RTX cards (at this point, until AMD releases their own version that maybe BFV will support...) the performance (if it was even able to be enabled) would be so bad/inefficient on a non-RT card that it wouldn't be worth even trying. As I understand from the benchmarks I've seen it is a HUGE hit on a 2080/ti card to have it enabled in BFV (1080p 60fps)

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#8 Nov 15, 2018

I've been trying to get systems up to bench (wrong os, DL 44GB), and benched with a 2070. It depends on how much RT is going on. In the single player, there are 3 campaigns. The first two it ran 60 fps on ultra settings with RT enabled, doubled that+ without. The last one it was 30 fps and 41 fps.

Went to the 2080 and the game wont start now. The .exe kicks off, gathers around 216MB the origin window disappears then the bfv.exe quits and origin comes back up. Tried everything. Had MEH experience with EA chat (3x chats...and hour+) and my issue is escalated... it was a long frustrating day trying to get numbers for this article...

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#9 Nov 15, 2018

Wow, 60fps rt on ultra with 2070
Still would be pretty neat to see just a demonstration how bad it would actually run on regular non rtx card. I was hoping to download a demo or something, fire it up and have it play like a picture frame on big screen driven by gtx460. New frame every 5 seconds would be perfect! That's the interval I find most pleasing when I have my photos cycle.

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#10 Nov 15, 2018

Finally found out why my 2080 didn't work!!!

WHen using the 2070, I disabled an option named "GPU MEMORY RESTRICTION". This setting 'may use more PGU memory than what is available and could comprimmise the stability of the game'. When that option is disabled, I cannot swap cards out (tried 2080 Ti as well). If I disable that option, I can swap in whatever card I want.

Still would be pretty neat to see just a demonstration how bad it would actually run on regular non rtx card.

This isn't possible AFAIK. In order to run RT on this game, you need a compatible OS, the game updated fully, and a card with that ability. There are other ways to test this, like in rendering applications, but not with the game AFAIK.