Since I expect more than a few Hackintosh and Mac Pro owners will pick up AMD’s new offerings, and that Blizz showed off WoW raytracing as part of AMD’s launch event for Big Navi, will we get raytracing turned on in WoW on the Mac?
I don’t understand why anyone would want it. It’s a resource hog like no other and will remain a resource hog. WoW is cartoony… raytracing is photo-realistic (attempts to be… it’s actually hyper-realistic). Unless the whole point is to get the most powerful GPU on the planet only to see how much load you can put on it before it implodes is what you are after, it really is a waste of resources.
Like, fix all the other issues with GPUs before adding new issues with raytracing.
Because I can.
If this is the way things are going to go in WoW, and with Blizz’s participation in the Big Navi reveal seems to indicate it is, we do not want to get left behind Windows in capabilities. Metal already has the API necessary for raytracing, and if we get sufficient hardware to support it it’d be nice to see it implemented.
Realistically recreating the manner in which light moves is not dependant on a specific art style. You could use the same argument against ambient occlusion.
What is it exactly that you think ray tracing does…?
Hopefully! If only to annoy the “ApPlE nEeDs To SuPpOrT nViDiA hArDwArE” crowd
I just want nvidia support so we have the best hardware available. Having to settle for second best sucks.
Maybe we should be more concerned about whether Blizzard supports WoW on macOS at all, starting sometime during the three years of conversion to Apple silicon.
We’ll see but AMD showed WoW raytracing at their announcement and Metal has raytracing support, so I don’t see why not. Obviously macOS needs to support those GPUs first, but I don’t see that being an issue with the Mac Pro being as new as it is. In fact I expect a couple Radeon 6xxx series MPX modules to be announced sometime in the near future.
Sadly I may be forced off my 1080 Ti onto AMD’s 6900 XT if it becomes supported, assuming critical things like https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/03/carbon-copy-cloner-alerts-its-users-about-macos-big-sur-compatibility-issues/ aren’t a problem by then.