I have an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card,
a 456.71 Nvidia Graphics Driver, and the latest updated winversion 21H2 and Ray Traced Shadows is still disabled “unsupported for graphics related reasons” …so …any advice on how to get it enabled? Blizzard article 274979 says post here if still having problems.
You need an RTX card (or AMD RDNA2 card). On GTX cards there is no hardware acceleration for raytracing and WoW will now allow to turn it on.
It’s possible WoW doesn’t support ray tracing on gtx cards not all games do. You may also have the 3gb version and only the 1060 6gb version allows for any ray tracing at all.
You can execute the instructions on older GPUs but the performance is close to zero so there is no practical value in enabling that for them.
Ohh didn’t realize you could still run it on the 3gb model unofficially. But regardless of the model even a lot of rtx variants don’t run it partially well so yeah, I can’t imagine trying it on one of those!
The limitation for ray tracing has less to do with ram and more to do with the specialized cores for doing the ray tracing math. General rule of thumb though is that a card has to be of the 20XX or 30XX series of Nvidia cards, or AMD equivalents.
Nvidia did enable raytracing on older gtx cards for some reason. Only the 6gb version of the 1060 is officially supported, the OP didn’t stat if they had the 6gb or 3gb version of the 1060.
But yeah, whatever varient, using ray tracing on really any 10xx series card probably wouldn’t be a good experience in any game at all.
Huh, didn’t know that they allowed it on that card. God, that would be like 10x slower running it without RT cores. Definitely not worth using it in “software emulation” mode like that lol… Guess maybe the card had enough overhead to spare the resources for it though?
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