For a while now ray tracing hasn’t been working on my AMD 9700 XT. I’ve updated the drivers, ran /console cvar_default/reset, repaired the game, disabled addons, etc. but nothing things to work. The CVar changes when I toggle the setting, but there are no changes to shadow details whatsoever. It works on my laptop with a NVIDIA RTX 4060 Mobile.
Is anyone else having issues with AMD cards?
AMD 9700 XT
DX12
Windows 11 (latest build, 24H2(?))
Updated drivers (factory reset)
Disabled addons
Ran /console cvar_default/reset
Battle.net app, or WoW running in compatibility mode
There’s a new CVar they added ClientSetting_Ray_Tracing or something similar that resets at login to default value of like… BUILD,0x7fffffff,0x0,0x0.
There are actually tons of these new CVars all undocumented, tried changing the values but no luck, something got broken when these new CVars were added, or when Intel XeSS was added.
I have a laptop with a NVIDIA card and it works, but now that I think of it, I’ll check if the values are different. IT DOESN’T WORK ON HERE EITHER, ALTHOUGH IT DID AT SOME POINT.
EDIT:
In the logs it says my card supports RT… it says I can enable it, but nothing happens when I do enable it.
6/30 18:23:43.303 [0] Adapter 0: “NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU” family:Ada type:Discrete location:1 driver_date:14-Mar-2025 driver_ver:32.0.15.7283 vendor:0x10de device:0x28e0 dx11:true dx12:true
6/30 18:23:43.303 [0] Monitor 0 “Generic PnP Monitor” Size(1920x1200) Pos(0, 0) Refresh Rate(165Hz)
6/30 18:23:43.303 [0] NVIDIA Driver Version: 572.83
6/30 18:23:43.303 [0] AutoDetect: hwDetect = 1
6/30 18:23:43.303 [0] Choosing gpu with monitor attached: “NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU”
6/30 18:23:43.303 [0] Disabled Settings: None
6/30 18:23:43.303 [0] GpuInfo: sm:dx_6_0, rt:DXR 1.1, vrs:2, bary:1, mesh:1 pull:1
EDIT2: This works in classic, and the ClientSetting_* CVars are all empty.