Atomic Heart has launched without ray tracing on PC despite featuring in multiple Nvidia tech demos

[John Elden Ring]

Atomic Heart, ray tracing poster child, won’t support ray tracing for PC on launch

Atomic Heart will not include its highly promo'd ray tracing features in the PC version at launch. RT effects will instead come in a later patch.

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Atomic Heart has launched without ray tracing despite featuring in multiple Nvidia tech demos

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As spotted by RPS(opens in new tab), it seems that Atomic Heart developer Mundfish has yanked out ray tracing support from the game in the last stretch of its development. That's a bit of a surprise, given all the aforementioned Nvidia demos and that Mundfish doesn't seem to have ever announced that Atomic Heart's rays wouldn't be traced in the run-up to its release. But no matter how deep you go into the graphics options, you won't be able to turn on ray tracing mode in the game's current build.

Mundfish seems to be suggesting this is a temporary situation. When PC Gamer reached out to the studio, it told us that "Ray tracing won’t be available at release," but that it would "revisit the needs of [its] gamers" in the post-launch period. Mundfish also told RPS that it would be "looking into implementing [ray tracing] post-launch".

 

[Deleted member 417]

This Marx a low point in bullshot trailers. I hope someone is working hard on Putin ray tracing back in this game.

 

[Old Gamer]

This Marx a low point in bullshot trailers. I hope someone is working hard on Putin ray tracing back in this game.