Since publishing our first story

Since publishing our first story, YouTuber and Reddit consumer'KokushiGG' has posted a brand new video showing off Ray Traced Shadows in the Wow gold classic new zones at the expansion. You'll find the video down below. Like yesterday's screenshots, we may see the gap in Shadows is quite minimal with all 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 within World of Warcraft Shadowlands have been enabled on the game's Beta/PTR, and the very first comparison shots have now surfaced online.

Back in April of the year, Blizzard additional Ray Traced Shadow alternatives to the game's Alpha. Unfortunately, real Ray Traced Shadows weren't enabled just yet and those from the Alpha were only able to view the new options. According to the alternative's description, it"improves shadow quality with ray tracing, which produces shadows with much more natural softness, greatly improved precision, and out of additional light sources."

Players in the alpha were able to select among the next Ray Traced Shadows options:

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

According to Blizzard, the newest option 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 included the shared comparison screenshots down under. As may be seen in those shots, and as may have been anticipated, the ramifications of Ray Traced Shadows aren't that clear but do seem to be more powerful in darker regions with low light.

Blizzard has updated their minimum necessary spec to add 100GB storage space for the two SSDs and hard drives. However, they warn players that performance of your hard disk might influence Shadowland's gaming experience.

In a surprising turn of events, Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft Shadowlands currently needs a 100GB SSD as a minimum requirement, but does that mean that you can't run the game using a regular spinning hard drive? A few Shadowlands beta testers have reported that cheap classic gold running the game in an HDD hasn't affected their gameplay or performance in any substantial way. However, as this expansion is still in beta, this can be subject to change.