Just like any other AAA release in recent years, Hogwarts Legacy features raytracing or RTX for compatible graphics cards. PC players can take advantage of this AI tech that significantly enhances the reflections, shadows, and lighting effects in the game’s environment to provide players with a more immersive gameplay experience. Although this setting improves the graphical fidelity of the game, it comes at the cost of reduced performance and is hence only suitable formid-high end GPUs.
How to enable or disable raytracing in Hogwarts Legacy
If you want to change your raytracing options for Hogwarts Legacy, you can do so in theSettingsmenu. While in-game, pressEscand click on thegreen tabin the bottom right corner of the pause screen to open thesettings. From there on, go toGraphics Options, which should be the third option and is marked by the yellow circle in the image above.
Now, scroll down to the very bottom of the list, where you’ll find the following raytracing-related settings:
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After modifying any of these options, you must click onApply Settingsandrestart the gamefor the changes to take effect. In our testing, we found that Ray Tracing Reflection and Ray Tracing Shadows make a huge difference in graphical improvements. However, the performance hit is also quite significant. For testing, use theRun Benchmarkoption right above the raytracing settings.
If you have a mid-tier GPU and really want to try out raytracing, we recommend tuning down theGlobal Quality Presetand other graphics settings. Furthermore, make sure to use an upscale such asNVIDIA DLSSorAMD FSR 2, depending on your GPU. This setting can be found inDisplay Options > Upscale Type.
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