ray tracing in elden ring is finally here but prepare to be underwhelmedyesterday march 23 fromsoftware released elden ring patch 109 which along with some balance changes and bug fixes added the longawaited ray tracing capabilities on newgen consoles as well as pc sadly it seems that the wait has not been worth itas reported by playerauctions the latest update enables ray tracing for ambient occlusion and shadows but no ray traced reflections as such youll see better shadowing on foliage and added depth to some textures but sadly its far from the striking visual upgrade that players were hoping formodder lance mcdonald noted on twitter that indoor shadows see basically no improvement and that it mostly adds vegetation shadows in the overworld the modder shared images of the game running on their geforce rtx 2070 super both with and without ray tracing and as you can see below the difference is negligible first image ray tracing off second image ray tracing on third image demonstrates how rtao eliminates the glow around the cliffrock edge in close areas but not far ones basically its a very minimal difference pictwittercomcz7te1yjydmarch 23 2023see moreto make matters worse the update doesnt offer upscaling support such as nvidia dlss or amd fsr and lance as well as others have noted that performance takes a severe hit when ray tracing is enabled in the patch notes fromsoftware warns players that performance such as frame rate and resolution may be impacted while playing with ray tracing on and advises pc players to keep the resolution at 1080p when using the feature youll find the minimum and recommended pc specs for ray tracing as well as a full rundown of all the changes that patch 109 brings on bandai namcos official websitefromsoftware is set to release elden ring shadow of the erdtree and armored core 6 fires of rubicon later this year and thats seemingly not all its working on according to a staff members linkedin profile an unannounced project has been in development at the studio since january 2022take a look at our elden ring dlc wishlist for everything wed like to see from shadow of the erdtree