If you're a WoW subscriber, you can check all this out today by following these steps to get the Classic gold public test server. Otherwise, you can wait until the event inevitably launches sometime in the forthcoming months. But now that it's about the PTR, it'll likely be happening sooner rather than later

Since publishing our initial story, YouTuber and Reddit user'KokushiGG' has posted a new video displaying Ray Traced Shadows in the new zones at the expansion. You'll find down the video below. Like yesterday's screenshots, we can see the gap in Shadows is quite minimal with the newest feature enabled. Enabling Ray Traced Shadows, however, will appear to greatly affect operation with FPS falling from 120FPS to 60FPS in some instances.

Ray Traced Shadows in World of Warcraft Shadowlands have been enabled on the match's Beta/PTR, and also the very first comparison shots have now surfaced on the internet.

Back in April of the year, Blizzard added Ray Traced Shadow options to the game's Alpha. Unfortunately, real Ray Traced Shadows weren't enabled just yet and people from the Alpha were only able to observe the new choices. According to the option's description, it"improves shadow quality together with beam design, which produces shadows with much more natural softness, substantially increased precision, and from other light sources."

Players from the alpha were able to pick among the next Ray Traced Shadows options:

Fast forward four months and we can now finally see the way the new shadows seem in the forthcoming Shadowlands expansion. Earlier this week we reported the new NVIDIA Game Ready Driver additional support for the brand new feature in Shadowlands, and several Beta/PTR players have currently shared several screenshots comparing Shadowlands together and with no Ray Traced Shadows enabled.

As shared by Blizzard, the newest alternative within Shadowlands uses DirectX Ray Tracing 1.1 (DXR 1.1) and a DXR 1.1-capable driver is needed to use Ray Traced Shadows.We've contained the shared comparison screenshots down below. As can be observed in buy wow gold classic those shots, and as might have been anticipated, the effects of Ray Traced Shadows are not that clear but do seem to be more powerful in darker areas with low lighting.