How to use Steam Deck’s ray tracing feature
Doom Eternal now includes ray tracing thanks to a fresh Steam Deck update. How to utilise ray tracing in Steam Deck will be explained in detail.
The Steam Deck is home to an extremely potent APU, a hybrid computer processor and graphics processor. The modified chip, named “Van Gogh,” is based on RDNA 2 and gives most AAA games a startling amount of power.
Doom Eternal, the successor to DOOM 2016, is one such game that appears to be receiving preferential treatment. To better facilitate its ray tracing functionality on the device, the most recent Steam Deck update has included some supplementary aid.
How to use Steam Deck’s ray tracing feature
You’ll have to switch to the Beta channel of updates for Doom Eternal if you want to use the ray tracing features. As the name says, these revisions are currently under development. It might be beneficial to revert to Steam Deck if your system begins to exhibit symptoms of malfunction.
The procedure for making this little adjustment is as follows: Go to Steam Update Channel in System Settings. The beta update will be downloaded and installed automatically whenever you are requested to update.
Doom Eternal should then be launched, and the ray tracing settings should be accessed from the options menu.
Although this is obviously a work in progress, you should expect some hitches in gameplay. It may be case-by-case for other games that have ray tracing capabilities. Even though some users have figured out how to get it sort of functioning in Control, Cyberpunk 2077 consistently fails to launch for the rest of us.
What exactly is ray tracing?
All ray tracing does is simulate the way light behaves in the actual world, only in a computer-generated environment. The real-time depiction of light is a demanding task for computer technology, making it difficult for games to do this until recently.
While Ray tracing is a relatively new feature on Nvidia’s graphics cards, the technology has been around for quite some time. Back in the 1970s, demonstrations showed off the realistic representation of light on two spheres using this technique.
Despite the company’s best efforts, AMD’s newest GPUs from the 7000 series still can’t compete with Nvidia’s ray tracing hardware. However, ray tracing is now available on the Steam Card for experimentation.