1/13/2023 0 Comments World of warcraft ray tracingIn any case, long story short/TLDR: Refresh installing Windows allowed it to update to but lost a lot of programs but no data in the process.The third episode of AMD's 'Radeon RX 600 Partner Showcase' is focused on World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, the eight expansion to the most popular MMORPG of all time. So now I just have to sort through a hundred or so shortcuts. Steam and GOG both got wiped, but after redowloading them I still had the same game library of at least 440 games, but some wouldn’t launch from the libraries, but those launched from the. All my utility programs/apps were reset to default, so the first thing I had to do is download Chrome to download the other necessary programs. In either case, Windows was new, but still Pro, a lot of my setting disappeared but a few didn’t like the wallpaper and lock screen and a couple other minor things. I had to “Refresh” Windows off of a USB Installation Media Drive (you can download the media creation tool from Microsoft) but I strongly suspect that Windows went for a backup image put by the manufacturer on its own HD partition. I’ve tried automatically and manually downloading 20H2 and gets stuck at 99% each time, then tells me my windows is out of service I’ve got all the hardware for this feature but not sure how to fix the windows issue without doing a fresh reinstall. I’d like to try it myself but my version of windows went out of service very recently (that’s preventing me from trying ray tracing because I need version 20H2). I HIGHLY recommend turning ray tracing on if your GPU has the feature it adds a complete polish to the already colorful and creative graphics. I was able to set ray tracing to medium with nary a performance hit, and I still get over 60 FPS at 4K with all settings maxed out on a lowly RTX-2080. What a world of difference - I don’t know why Blizzard calls the setting “ray-traced shadows” because almost all lighting, along with the shadows (which I care little about), are vastly improved, to the point it seems like a new graphical engine was installed (in a way, it was) glows, auras, light shafts, reflections, and a few other things were improved along with the lowly shadows. BINGO - at least 75% of my programs (and all of my data, but few of my settings) survived AND Windows was then able to update to build 20H2, which was good enough to fire up WoW’s ray tracing. Then after failing a fresh OS install on a neighbors Dell (I’m pretty sure she needed a startup disk from the manufacturer) I got it in my head that I should reinstall Windows 10 Pro on my machine and I went at it with a refresh install. That was a step I was not willing to take because I have over 550 programs, 440 of them games, and back when I had 350 or so I had to do a repair install (long story short - landlord came in while I was in the ICU and started yanking wires) and it took me over a month to download and install all the software Windows wiped out. I tried everything, except Microsoft’s final solution: uninstall all third party software. I was dismayed to find that utilizing ray tracing in WoW required the latest Windows build because my PC simply refused to update the core operating system past build 1909.
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