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RADV Driver Now Emulates Ray-Tracing By Default For Older AMD GPUs For A Newer Game


Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' is now exposing its emulated ray-tracing support by default for older AMD Radeon GPUs even without any form of hardware-accelerated ray-tracing in order to run the new Indiana Jones game

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