NEWS · GAMES
PUBLISHEDNovember 3, 2019
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NVIDIA: Red Dead Redemption 2 won't have ray tracing
NVIDIA has debunked claims of RTX ray tracing in Red Dead Redemption 2's PC version. Promotional screenshots with the logo caused confusion, but ray tracing won't be supported.
On October 31, NVIDIA's Twitter account posted screenshots from Red Dead Redemption 2 that featured an RTX logo in the bottom-right corner. This led many tech publications — including us — to speculate that Rockstar's new game might support NVIDIA's popular ray tracing technology.
Turns out, that wasn't the case at all.
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NVIDIA employees quickly took to Twitter again to clarify the situation and calm the public, explaining that the logo simply promotes RTX-family graphics cards. Red Dead Redemption 2's PC version won't actually support RTX technology.
This is a pretty interesting situation, as NVIDIA itself has previously used the RTX logo to indicate which images featured ray tracing and which didn't.
Whether this was an oversight by the company or a clever, pre-planned PR stunt remains unknown. Either way, the rollout certainly didn't go smoothly.
