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  1. Minecraft (Bedrock codebase)
  2. MCPE-172040

Minecraft Raytracing is not available on the win32 release of Minecraft Education Edition.

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    • 1.20.0
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    • Windows

      Description:

      Minecraft Ray tracing/RTX Is not available on the win32 release of Minecraft Education edition, Even though there are files such as nvngx_dlss.dll (For NVIDIA's DLSS) and RTXStub.material.bin distributed within the package and this release uses Direct3D12.

      Steps to reproduce:

      1. Get a copy of Minecraft, Education Edition for win32 distributions at education.minecraft.net.
      2. Logging in isn't required, Click (Try out demo version)
      3. Go into Settings->Video And scroll down.
      4. You'll encounter "Ray tracing is not available on this device" Even on RT Capable GPUs.
      5. If you own Minecraft, Education Edition, Using PBR Resource packs results in a warning that Ray tracing is not available on this device.

      Expected results:

      Ray tracing being available on this release of Minecraft.

      Actual results:

      Ray tracing isn't available on this release of Minecraft.

      Why should we fix this bug?

      Fixing this bug introduces RTX / Ray tracing for users in a wider variety of platforms such as Linux.

      Machines tested:

      Machine #1:

      Operating system: Windows 10
      GPU: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

      Machine #2:

      Operating system: Arch Linux Rolling
      GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT (With VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11)

      Extra notes:

      Fixing this bug wouldn't introduce Ray tracing on platforms such as Windows 7 and Windows 8.

      Methods to fix this bug:

      1. Adding support for DXR within this release of Minecraft.

      2. OR Removing files related to Ray tracing within this package.

       

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