01/21/2023 at 11:38 am by Thilo Bayer – Last week Hogwarts Legacy surprised with quite high system requirements. This should also be due to the now confirmed ray tracing options.
Does Hogwarts Legacy also use modern ray tracing effects? That wasn’t really clear until now, but the system requirements for Hogwarts Legacy released last week raised questions.
High demands, but for what?
With Hogwarts Legacy (buy now) we no longer need to talk about the categories for Minimum and Recommended. Ultra and Ultra 4K are more exciting. The developers stated that they are targeting 1440p or 2160p with 60 fps and ultra graphics, but nothing was said about ray tracing. The fact that Hogwarts Legacy could support ray tracing was already to be expected when DLSS 3 of the RTX 40 series was announced, because that’s where the game appears among the upcoming titles with the technology. While there are no further details as of now, it could happen any day.
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After all, it has now been confirmed in a subordinate clause on Twitter that ray tracing is very well used. So gives the publisher support account on Twitter an interesting answer to the questionwhich effects you can turn on in the game. “We can confirm that there will be ray tracing options for shadows, reflections, ambient occlusion and quality presets”. So there is no global RT lighting, but at least three effects for shadows, reflections and self-shadowing. It is incomprehensible that the developer and publisher has kept this information more or less secret so far. Until the release on 10.02. the modern PC technologies used could still be presented, but to date this has hardly played a role. DLSS3 as a turbo for the ray tracing effects seems to be secured, nothing is known about FSR so far.
Minimum/Low SpecsRecommended/High SpecsUltra SpecsUltra 4K Specs 720p / 30 fps, Low Quality1080p / 60 fps, High Quality1440p / 60fps, Ultra Quality2160p / 60fps, Ultra QualityCPUCore i5-6600 / Ryzen 5 1400i7-8700 / Ryzen 5 3600Core i7-10700K / Ryzen 7 5800XCore i7-10700K / Ryzen 7 5800XRAM16 GiB16 GiB32 GiB32 GiBGPUGTX 960 4GB / RX 470 4GBGTX 1080 Ti / RX 5700 XT / Arc A770RTX 2080 Ti / RX 6800 XTRTX 3090 Ti / RX 7900 XTSpeicherplatz85 GB (HDD)85 GB (SSD)85 GB (SSD)85 GB (SSD)
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