Dragon Age: The Veilguard will function selective ray tracing, a function that we’ve not seen brazenly listed on in-game settings earlier than. It might be large for avid gamers with lower-end GPUs trying to nonetheless get pleasure from some ray tracing enhancements with out bogging down efficiency all through the sport.

The Dragon Age: The Veilguard system necessities are already pleasant to older gaming PCs, however this new ray tracing function will carry improved lighting to low-end ray tracing-capable playing cards, equivalent to Nvidia RTX and AMD RX playing cards, with out turning into too resource-hungry.

We’ve already talked about how over 200,000 hours of testing have been performed on Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC with a purpose to be certain it’s prepared for its launch date. Nevertheless, it was a easy asterisk on the ray tracing settings within the newest weblog publish that caught my eye.

Within the detailed PC settings checklist that was despatched although, we will see that there are three ray tracing settings in Dragon Age: The Veilguard: ray traced reflections, ray traced ambient occlusion, and extremely ray tracing.

An asterisk subsequent to those settings is clarified on the finish of the textual content, stating that “ray tracing may be turned On or turned to Selective. Selective Mode permits ray tracing options in particular areas that may greatest make the most of the function”.

This appears to recommend that there are both pre-determined areas of the sport that can see ray tracing enabled when the selective setting is turned on or that the sport will be capable to dynamically monitor its body charge and switch ray tracing options on or off in accordance with how the sport is coping.

For the previous situation, my preliminary assumption is that selective ray tracing is probably to come back into play solely when navigating the open world, with graphical constancy decreased throughout fight, the place body charge issues most. From the above RTX trailer, it’s clear that the impression of ray tracing might be large, particularly in darkish, dank dungeons the place lighting shall be closely relied upon to set the tone. Nevertheless given how the magic fight can also be closely reliant on vibrant lighting, it could be nice to see this included within the selective setting too.

No matter precisely how is applied, in principle it’s all somewhat sensible, and I’m eager to see the way it works within the closing model of the sport. Furthermore, it’s one thing I’d like to see utilized in different future video games too.

I can’t wait to place this function to the take a look at. Together with the inclusion of body technology know-how with assist for DLSS 3, I’m anticipating the sport to run and look improbable. Higher nonetheless, the sport can even be Steam Deck Verified and gained’t require the EA App launcher to run.