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Mark your calendars, the Minecraft with RTX Beta for Windows 10 launches in just two days, on April 16th, 2020! Minecraft with RTX brings fully path-traced rendering, physically-based materials, and NVIDIA DLSS 2.0 to Minecraft, delivering bleeding-edge visual fidelity and realism that can be experienced on all GeForce RTX GPUs.

This beta will launch with 6 RTX Creator Worlds, downloadable for free from the in-game Minecraft Marketplace, that demonstrate the full capabilities of Minecraft with RTX's new technology.

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Learn how to download and install the Minecraft with RTX beta, and the 6 curated Creator Worlds that demonstrate the capabilities of path-traced Minecraft. Also, get our newest Game Ready Driver, see the latest ray-traced trailer and RTX ON-OFF comparisons, and discover how you can win prizes...

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[cormack12]

So is RTX less demanding because minecraft graphics are simple geometrically? Or does it have the same cost whatever.

 

[Grinchy]

I am really excited about this, but damn that trailer is just so gaudy. If I didn't already understand how amazing this is going to look and be, I'm not sure that this trailer would have sold me on it.

 

[ZywyPL]

So is RTX less demanding because minecraft graphics are simple geometrically? Or does it have the same cost whatever.

It is, the geometry is as simple as it only can get. But DLSS 2.0 will make the RT performance a non-issue.

 

[RespawnX]

So is RTX less demanding because minecraft graphics are simple geometrically? Or does it have the same cost whatever.

As far as I know, the visuals are 100% path traced and very demanding. If I recall correctly, Xbox Series X runs the raytraced version of Minecraft für 1080p 30fps. I could be wrong at this point or the game might be better optimized by now.

 

[Leonidas]

DLSS 2.0 support is huge. With DLSS 2.0 even RTX 2060 should have some great results in this game, looking forward to the benchmarks.

I've never played Minecraft but this will be the thing that finally gets me to do so.

 

[KyoZz]

As far as I know, the visuals are 100% path traced and very demanding. If I recall correctly, Xbox Series X runs the raytraced version of Minecraft für 1080p 30fps. I could be wrong at this point or the game might be better optimized by now.

PC has a big advantage over the console, and it's called DLSS 2.0

 

[CrustyBritches]

Hell yeah! RT and DLSS 2.0 support, so it's gonna look amazing and play great. Another cool little nugget from the announcement:

In addition to the 6 world's available from the Minecraft Marketplace, we've worked with Razzleberries to also create a texture showcase that'll be available from the Minecraft Wiki. See almost every single block, entity and biome in Minecraft, all laid out in exciting dioramas, and marvel at how ray tracing affects them. And should you make your own textures, after following the steps in our PBR Texturing Guide, you can drop into the map to instantly see your textures in action.

Cool!

 

[RespawnX]

PC has a big advantage over the console, and it's called DLSS 2.0

Of course, we are going to see nice performance boost as with Control. I'm a bit surprissed Microsoft ist sticking with DLSS 2.0 and RTX while they recently revealed comparable systems and interfaces with DirectX. But maybe they are not ready yet and waiting for RDNA 2.0 GPUs.

 

[M1chl]

Just adding this for people, who don't know about DLSS 2.0.

DLSS (60 FPS, VSYNC > 70% GPU utilisation )

NATIVE (cca 40FPS)

2080Ti

Of course, we are going to see nice performance boost as with Control. I'm a bit surprissed Microsoft ist sticking with DLSS 2.0 and RTX while they recently revealed comparable systems and interfaces with DirectX. But maybe they are not ready yet and waiting for RDNA 2.0 GPUs.

nVidia DLSS 2.0 is part of the DX12 Ultimate, so they don't have to use their own resources.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

Hell, yes. My RTX 2060 gaming laptop is ready (I hope).

 

[Leonidas]

First performance numbers.

DLSS 2.0 performance boost is insane, should look comparable to native too.

 

[ZywyPL]

DLSS 2.0 support is huge.

I wouldn't call what, 5 (?) games as "huge"... But NV made some serious improvements so DLSS 2.0 can be added to any game out there just like that, without the need to do all the machine learning on server farms before it actually gets implemented into the games, so hopefully it will spread like crazy from now on.

 

[RedVIper]

First performance numbers.

DLSS 2.0 performance boost is insane, should look comparable to native too.

Bit confused.

It's being upscaled from what resolution?

 

[jackets with pockets]

First performance numbers.

DLSS 2.0 performance boost is insane, should look comparable to native too.

Render distance only 8 chunks...

 

[M1chl]

I wouldn't call what, 5 (?) games as "huge"... But NV made some serious improvements so DLSS 2.0 can be added to any game out there just like that, without the need to do all the machine learning on server farms before it actually gets implemented into the games, so hopefully it will spread like crazy from now on.

"Huge" as in that "dlss 2.0 is a huge thing" : )

 

[DoctaThompson]

First performance numbers.

DLSS 2.0 performance boost is insane, should look comparable to native too.

The RTX version looked miles better in performance than the Xbox series X version. That's not even debatable.

 

[rofif]

I like that it's just ray traced lighting without added those stupid super shiny super hd textures

 

[DoctaThompson]

I like that it's just ray traced lighting without added those stupid super shiny super hd textures

Just you wait till someone mods the forests to be shiny EVERYWHERE. Even the bark on trees will glow.

 

[ZywyPL]

"Huge" as in that "dlss 2.0 is a huge thing" : )

Oh I see

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

Holy moly. It's happening this soon?

I'm sitting here with my pleb 1080 so I won't be able to experience this just yet. Enjoy it for me bretheren.

Paging N Nvidia . I need a taste of this DLSS 2.0+RTX goodness so please hurry the heck up with those new freaking GPU's!!!!!!

 

[rofif]

Holy moly. It's happening this soon?

I'm sitting here with my pleb 1080 so I won't be able to experience this just yet. Enjoy it for me bretheren.

Paging N Nvidia . I need a taste of this DLSS 2.0+RTX goodness so please hurry the heck up with those new freaking GPU's!!!!!!

Don't worry. I am sitting here with rtx 2070 for over a year and I get just the same experience as You with 1080 in most games

 

[-Arcadia-]

Enjoy, PC gamers. You have no idea how jelly I am right now (and happy for you).

I'm really hoping we see this Day 1 on Series X/PS5.

 

[KyoZz]

Of course, we are going to see nice performance boost as with Control. I'm a bit surprissed Microsoft ist sticking with DLSS 2.0 and RTX while they recently revealed comparable systems and interfaces with DirectX. But maybe they are not ready yet and waiting for RDNA 2.0 GPUs.

This is probably right, and I'm curious to see if their version is good enough to compete with DLSS 2.0, especially with the fidelity of the image

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

Don't worry. I am sitting here with rtx 2070 for over a year and I get just the same experience as You with 1080 in most games

Yeah I know. But DLSS 2.0 is looking like it's going to become something that is either easy for devs to implement or a gpu feature that you can toggle so it's going to make your card last a whole heck of a lot longer than mine in the long run. Plus it finally makes RTX, and being able to enable more RTX features, feasible in terms of playable fps.

 

[Vawn]

Minecraft with raytracing. That's about as exciting as Pong in 8K, 240 FPS.

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

Minecraft with raytracing. That's about as exciting as Pong in 8K, 240 FPS.

Paging Vawn 's mom. Please come get your kid. He's wondered off into the adults section. We're trying to have a conversation here. Also, you might want to check his pants. I think there's been an accident.

 

[Nikana]

Will this come to Minecraft on gamepass?

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

Will this come to Minecraft on gamepass?

This specific demo is just on PC. Though, because all versions are supposed to be unified, I'd guess that eventually all versions will have RTX enabled on platforms that support it. I think this will be a toggle and not separate versions. I don't know if console and PC will have the exact same RTX features or depth in the end. But consoles definitely won't have RTSS 2.0 which makes turning RTX on with more RTX features far less of a hit on the framerate. But I would hope that consoles RTX implementation will be optimized to hit at least 30fps. If they aim for 60fps I just don't see how they could be using many RTX features at all. Even in minecraft.

EDIT: Oh, snap, you where probably talking about PC gamepass lol. I don't know why I always think console when I hear it. Prob because I'm not used to PC gamepass as it sounds to good to be true. lol.

And yes, I'd think it would. All first party gamepass games have the full version of all MS first party games as far as I'm aware don't they? Or am I thinking EA?

EDIT 2: Ok so I looked it up. This is why I was confused, some games do include all the dlc, like gears and state of decay. But some don't. Apparently it's on a dev basis if they want to add it. But still, I'd guess that it would come to the gamepass version. Would be stupid not to and I'd be calling them out for that for sure unless they give a logical reason...

 

[01011001]

this will melt GPUs

 

[Tomeru]

Why the fuck is a graphic feature have a beta?

 

[iconmaster]

It's odd that the Super Duper Graphics Pack "proved too technically demanding" back in August but full, realtime raytracing? Sure, we'll have that for you in April.

I'm not complaining, though. The videos I've seen so far look amazing.

 

[CrustyBritches]

I don't think Game Pass PC has Minecraft included. I just checked the Game Pass PC app and only Minecraft Dungeons is available. I checked the Minecraft Windows 10 marketplace and it doesn't look like any of the worlds are live at this point(naturally, since they said April 16th, but I figured I'd try anyway ). I already bought the full Windows 10 version, but iirc, they offer a 30-day trial. I don't know how that would function with the RTX beta, but it's worth a shot and I'll even take a look at the trial on a different PC/account on the 16th and see if it works.

P.S.- I wished DF could have been more specific about the Minecraft path tracing demo they saw for XSX. They only said that once enabled, the XSX saw between 30-60fps at 1080p. I don't think Dark10x mentioned any sort of AI image upscaling like DLSS, so I'm assuming that's native 1080p. 30-60fps doesn't really tell us much, unfortunately. I was hoping to get an idea of how performant the XSX is at RT.

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

I don't think Game Pass PC has Minecraft included. I just checked the Game Pass PC app and only Minecraft Dungeons is available. I checked the Minecraft Windows 10 marketplace and it doesn't look like any of the worlds are live at this point(naturally, since they said April 16th, but I figured I'd try anyway ). I already bought the full Windows 10 version, but iirc, they offer a 30-day trial. I don't know how that would function with the RTX beta, but it's worth a shot and I'll even take a look at the trial on a different PC/account on the 16th and see if it works.

Holy freaking crap you are right... I just checked and Minecraft isn't on gamepass... Like what on earth? I never even checked because I have the windows 10 version so I just use that... Why isn't Minecraft on gamepass when all other first party MS titles are?! That makes no sense...

 

[CrustyBritches]

Why isn't Minecraft on gamepass when all other first party MS titles are?! That makes no sense...

Spoiler

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

Spoiler

Right, but with as much as kids love to play minecraft, I'd think that a subscription model would actually be better than a one time buy in. My kids alone would absolutely be playing longer than 3 months.

 

[nikolino840]

Holy freaking crap you are right... I just checked and Minecraft isn't on gamepass... Like what on earth? I never even checked because I have the windows 10 version so I just use that... Why isn't Minecraft on gamepass when all other first party MS titles are?! That makes no sense...

Is on gamepass for console

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

Is on gamepass for console

Ooh, ok. Still don't know why it's not on PC though.

 

[01011001]

Why the fuck is a graphic feature have a beta?

this is not a "graphics feature", this is a completely different way of rendering the game and it uses completely re-made assets specifically made to take advantage of the new path-traced renderer.

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

The fact that they have to use games like Quake and Minecraft to 'showcase' this stuff shows just how comically evil the RTX series prices are.

 

[MeatSafeMurderer]

Meh...I've been using ray tracing in Minecraft for well over a year at this point...and in the superior Java edition to boot.

 

[nikolino840]

This specific demo is just on PC. Though, because all versions are supposed to be unified, I'd guess that eventually all versions will have RTX enabled on platforms that support it. I think this will be a toggle and not separate versions. I don't know if console and PC will have the exact same RTX features or depth in the end. But consoles definitely won't have RTSS 2.0 which makes turning RTX on with more RTX features far less of a hit on the framerate. But I would hope that consoles RTX implementation will be optimized to hit at least 30fps. If they aim for 60fps I just don't see how they could be using many RTX features at all. Even in minecraft.

EDIT: Oh, snap, you where probably talking about PC gamepass lol. I don't know why I always think console when I hear it. Prob because I'm not used to PC gamepass as it sounds to good to be true. lol.

And yes, I'd think it would. All first party gamepass games have the full version of all MS first party games as far as I'm aware don't they? Or am I thinking EA?

EDIT 2: Ok so I looked it up. This is why I was confused, some games do include all the dlc, like gears and state of decay. But some don't. Apparently it's on a dev basis if they want to add it. But still, I'd guess that it would come to the gamepass version. Would be stupid not to and I'd be calling them out for that for sure unless they give a logical reason...

On series X there's AI machine learning like dlss but of course Is not dlss becouse Is Nvidia and console Is AMD

 

[Diddy X]

The fact that they have to use games like Quake and Minecraft to 'showcase' this stuff shows just how comically evil the RTX series prices are.

I guess worse looking games are both easier to raytrace but also the visual jump is way more noticeable.

 

[Nikana]

This specific demo is just on PC. Though, because all versions are supposed to be unified, I'd guess that eventually all versions will have RTX enabled on platforms that support it. I think this will be a toggle and not separate versions. I don't know if console and PC will have the exact same RTX features or depth in the end. But consoles definitely won't have RTSS 2.0 which makes turning RTX on with more RTX features far less of a hit on the framerate. But I would hope that consoles RTX implementation will be optimized to hit at least 30fps. If they aim for 60fps I just don't see how they could be using many RTX features at all. Even in minecraft.

EDIT: Oh, snap, you where probably talking about PC gamepass lol. I don't know why I always think console when I hear it. Prob because I'm not used to PC gamepass as it sounds to good to be true. lol.

And yes, I'd think it would. All first party gamepass games have the full version of all MS first party games as far as I'm aware don't they? Or am I thinking EA?

EDIT 2: Ok so I looked it up. This is why I was confused, some games do include all the dlc, like gears and state of decay. But some don't. Apparently it's on a dev basis if they want to add it. But still, I'd guess that it would come to the gamepass version. Would be stupid not to and I'd be calling them out for that for sure unless they give a logical reason...

I just assumed in was on both GP services. (I have ultimate) so dumb on me for that.

 

[Woo-Fu]

Meh...I've been using ray tracing in Minecraft for well over a year at this point...and in the superior Java edition to boot.

IKR.

 

[CrustyBritches]

Meh...I've been using ray tracing in Minecraft for well over a year at this point...and in the superior Java edition to boot.

SEUS PTGI is great, but the nice thing about this RTX version is that there's no setup process and you get DLSS 2.0 support.

For people with the Minecraft Java Edition or without a RTX card, it's a nice option. I think it's still $10 Patreon donation, but worth the price(assuming you mean SEUS PTGI in the first place, it's the only one I'm familiar with).

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

On series X there's AI machine learning like dlss but of course Is not dlss becouse Is Nvidia and console Is AMD

If I'm not mistaken, from what I can tell, the reason that DLSS 2.0 is such a big deal here is because of the tensor cores and the new Nvidia AI DL techniques which run DLSS 2.0 quite a bit differently than 1.0. The tensor cores are what have made way for the extra performance and the resulting image quality since they alleviate load on the CUDA cores. Lots of hardware on Nvidia gpu's in the form of those tensor cores specifically for this task. I don't know if MS has anything like that but if they don't then they'll have to sacrifice some of the GPU's resources to do this. So logically it wouldn't be as much of a performance boost, though it would absolutely still be worth it IMO if they can pull it off like Nvidia did here considering the outcome in image quality and AA and any extra headroom is always welcome.

 

[Stitch]

Our newest GeForce Game Ready driver brings you day-one support for the Minecraft with RTX Beta on Windows 10, which begins April 16, as well as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered, Saints Row: The Third Remastered, and SnowRunner.

Minecraft with RTX Game Ready Driver Released

Optimize your experience in the Minecraft with RTX Beta, as well as in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered, Saints Row: The Third Remastered, and SnowRunner. And get support for new G-SYNC Compatible gaming monitors.

www.nvidia.com

 

[nikolino840]

 

[IbizaPocholo]