# Hardware Ray Tracing Settings

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/hardware-ray-tracing-settings/2566747>\
**Category:** Rendering\
**Tags:** hardware, unreal-engine, Ray-Tracing, question\
**Created:** [June 19, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/hardware-ray-tracing-settings/2566747 "2025-06-19T21:02:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![X-perto](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@X-perto](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/X-perto)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/hardware-ray-tracing-settings/2566747/1 "2025-06-19T21:02:37Z")

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Anyone familiar with these settings related to HW raytracing?  
If they supposedly increase performance then why are they not enabled by default?

 ![image](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/c/2/3/c233fc874c1095b899b590998ed9fbd931aeea92.png)

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**Author:** ![malik\_217](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@malik\_217](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/malik_217)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 7:07am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/hardware-ray-tracing-settings/2566747/2 "2025-06-20T07:07:02Z")

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Are you using the latest UE 5.6 ?  
Because i don’t see these in the UE 5.5.4

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**Author:** ![wind\_ness](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/wind_ness/32/1041263_2.png) [@wind\_ness](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/wind_ness)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/hardware-ray-tracing-settings/2566747/3 "2025-06-20T07:22:53Z")

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**I guess that’s an experimental feature.**

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**Author:** ![X-perto](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@X-perto](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/X-perto)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/hardware-ray-tracing-settings/2566747/4 "2025-06-20T10:02:30Z")

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yeah 5.6