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Stray DirectX 12 ray tracing

A recommendation for these school holidays would be the highly anticipated game Stray. You play a cat in a futuristic landscape similar to Cyberpunk but with content fit for a general audience. The graphics were already a visual treat with DirectX 11 and a smooth experience even on a modest i5-8400 budget gaming PC with RX6600XT.

There is a hidden ray tracing mode which can be enabled by right clicking the game in Steam and typing -dx12 in the launch settings. Water reflections and neon lights really take your breath away. But with ray tracing the game does take a performance hit. The gameplay video below was captured using a Ryzen 7 5700X with RTX 3080. Check it out.