The Windows 10 ray tracing update could drop October 9, delivering Nvidia RTX support
The latest Windows Insider Build, number 17763, has been out with the intrepid testing community for the last week, and it looks like it’s the update build which will bring real-time ray tracing to Windows 10 in early October. And if Microsoft follows its previous updating plans then we could see the Windows 10 October 2018 Update land on October 9.
The build, code-named Redstone 5, brings such wonders as a dark theme for File Explorer, new emojis, new Storage Sense control, the death of Snipping Tool, Edge updates, and SwiftKey support. But the most exciting thing for us gamers is that the October Update also brings with it one of the most significant updates to DirectX in a long while – DXR, or DirectX Raytracing.
This is the API update which will provide integration of Nvidia’s RTX technology and allow us to use the full feature set of the new Turing GPUs and their real-time ray tracing capabilities. That should also kickstart the patch for Shadow of the Tomb raider and mean that Battlefield 5 lands with ray tracing enabled on day one. pcgamesn.com |
