no RTX

I'm going to assume you mean raytracing here, as RTX is just a brand name for an architecture feature. (covering the 2xxx line and 3xxx line of cards)

First, google is your friend; https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/battlefield-2042-nvidia-dlss-reflex/

That answers a few of your questions, though not the raytracing bit, hence why i figure that's what you're trying to ask.

And on that note, i'm going to *guess* here, and say that if they're not implementing it it's because of what a trainwreck it was in BF5.

With the increase in players from 64 to 128, you'd probably end up with framerates tanking randomly much like it did when the 2080 was brand new when BF5 launched.

As someone who owned a 2080 back then, i can tell you raytracing got turned off *real* quick by most people as the implementation was barely noticeable visually while you were busy shooting, and it just came with a massive performance hit.

(granted, i was playing at 3440x1440 at the time, it's possible you could get playable frames by dropping to 1080p or something, i wasn't giving up the overall fidelity to find out though)

Though i'm sure the 3070+ cards could probably handle 64 players with RT on today with solid frames, i suspect they'd hit the same wall with the player cap being raised to 128, so maybe they just decided to either not implement it, or just not try to sell it as the hot feature even if you can enable it, because of the minor PR oopsie with the 2xxx series cards.

And in fairness, reflex and dlss is going to be infinitely more useful in a FPS vs ray tracing as a selling point.

Again, speculation on my part as all i could find when looking for confirmation of ray tracing not being implemented were a few speculative reddit threads, which might be where you got your "info" from.

Anything not ray tracing related is in the link from Nvidia above.

@Fringerunner"NWell, it looks like you haven't launched BFV for a long time, since I am now playing it with the same resolution - 3440x1440 on ultra settings and inclusive RTX on RTX 2070, and with a frequency of 75 frames! And at the start, I can assume that it was poorly implemented, since the technology is new and this is the first game where it was implemented ...

As for the article on the NVIDIA website, I wrote this question, just at the end of this article! And it is clear from it that the game will not implement non-global illumination with ray tracing, no illumination of reflections, and Generating Ray-Traced Caustic Effects will also not be and this is very frustrating, since I would like to see it from such professionals as DICE!

At no point in that article does it say they are *not* implementing ray tracing, they are simply confirming two features that *will* be implemented.

Two features as i pointed out, that will generally benefit FPS players a lot more than ray tracing ever will, so they're getting that word out first unlike 5, where they *did* put ray tracing as the big draw, and people rightfully questioned the usefulness of it right up to launch, where it turned out, "yea, you're better off not using that really".

Things have changed with the newest gen cards from both vendors, so i get that you might want ray tracing just for bragging rights (not knocking you there, i'm  just personally still witching it off just like i did in cyberpunk) but to clarify again, there's no actual statement i can find where they say "we're not implementing it", in fact, i'd be surprised if they didn't seeing that, DLSS, and reflex seem to be the RTX feature set these days.

I'd suggest patience/waiting until the beta to see what's there, but that's about all the advice i can give you short of "wait and see what features they actually confirm once the PR machine ramps up".

At this stage, non-confirmation is not the same as "not going to happen", either in gameplay or engine features.

(and again, it's already integrated in frostbite, why would they remove the option now unless it quite literally breaks the game, which i doubt it would? Slideshow though, quite possibly, but from experience that hasn't stopped them from implementing it before)

@PVN047I'd wager it's because the vast majority of players still won't have cards that can do Ray tracing (according to steam hardware survey) so it's not a priority. Simple as that. And most people who play competitively on PC turn the graphics to potato mode anyway for extra frames. So again what's the point implementing a feature that only 2% of the user base will actually use.
Just my thoughts.

@PVN047I won't even pretend I know stuff, but is dlss not more hardware based than software, thus the developers have to do very little if anything to implement that?

Hey there, unofficial sherpa infantrypeasant here.

As far as I know, there has been NO confirmation that raytracing won't be implemented. There is simply no statement made about it. 

There's lots of technical aspects which have not been confirmed yet by EA/Dice (E.G. official system requirements are still to be confirmed). It might be better to wait for further information to be released before pushing the panic button.