A fraction of the most popular PC games over the past year use hardware-level ray tracing, which is far fewer than I'd predict just 24 months ago

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by James Bentley

February 13, 2026

$A fraction of the most popular PC games over the past year use hardware-level ray tracing, which is far fewer than I'd predict just 24 months ago$

That's five of the 21 most popular games.

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Originally published on PC Gamer on 2/13/2026