Ray tracing tickbox in game menu?

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I get that a project is either Ray Tracing ON or OFF but how does that work for the end-user who may or may not have hardware to support it? Does it detect that they can’t and adjust accordingly, or does a ray traced project require users have the hardware? Or can the ingame Graphics Options menu simply have a Ray Tracing tickbox?

Apologies if this is a dumb question, but I can’t find anything about it.

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Bump…

If a project uses ray tracing can it be a toggleable option for the user?

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Not directly. It requires a restart at the very least.
Download, install, and try out fortnite. Copy how they do it there.

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You can use Rama’s plugin to get the GPU name, then check to see if that GPU supports raytracing (following code only works for RTX):

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