If you’ve but to purchase an Nvidia RTX graphics card, there’s a brand new game bundle on the town. Previously, Nvidia have been gifting away free copies of Control and Wolfenstein: Youngblood if you purchased any qualifying RTX or RTX Super GPU, laptop computer or desktop, however now they’re going to be lobbing in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare with them as a substitute. As it’s possible you’ll keep in mind, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is yet one more of this 12 months’s huge blockbusters with confirmed ray tracing support, however you additionally might keep in mind from final month’s huge Gamescom trailer for it that that they had to attract great big green boxes round the ray tracing bits as a result of they have been all so darn refined.
At first look, this looks like a little bit of a bum deal in comparison with Nvidia’s earlier free game bundle, if solely as a result of that acquired you two free games as a substitute of 1. Admittedly, there’s nonetheless no phrase on when Wolfenstein is even getting its promised ray tracing help – the final I heard from Nvidia was that it was scheduled for an upcoming patch, however there’s nonetheless no precise date for it but – so maybe the drop from only a single free game isn’t actually that dangerous within the grand scheme of issues.
However, even when we low cost Wolfenstein for a minute, I nonetheless don’t assume Call of Duty presents fairly the identical ray tracing wow issue because the beautiful Control. As you might need seen from my Control RTX ray tracing guide, Remedy’s telekinetic shooter appears completely unbelievable with ray tracing switched on, and for me is arguably the most effective RTX showcase game but – much more so than Metro Exodus.
Call of Duty’s RTX results, however, have thus far did not make a lot of an impression. Yes, there’s solely been a single RTX trailer for the game thus far (the one above with the inexperienced bins), so it’s potential there could be extra spectacular-looking segments of it that we merely haven’t seen but. At the second, although, it solely appears like they’re going to be including ray traced shadows to Modern Warfare (a bit like they did with Shadow of the Tomb Raider), so I’m not precisely holding out a lot hope that it’s going to look practically as jaw-dropping as both Control or Metro.
There’s additionally the problem how the game’s efficiency goes to be affected by having ray tracing switched on as effectively. I’ll be taking a extra in-depth have a look at all this nearer to the game’s launch, in fact, though not less than on this case it ought to hopefully keep away from falling into the identical performance-related potholes as Battlefield V did due to the added bonus of getting Nvidia’s speed-boosting adaptive shading tech.
At time of writing, I’m nonetheless ready on precise particulars of when Nvidia’s new COD RTX bundle will really begin and end, however I’ll replace this text with correct timings as quickly as I get them.
