Elden Ring's implementation of ray tracing might not be the finest example of the feature on the market, but it's still a neat visual upgrade for gamers with powerful PCs, and modders may soon have a way of making it viable on lower-end machines, too. In most cases, ray-traced lighting and shadows end up relying heavily on AI-based upsampling to keep these effects performant, which simply isn't available in FromSoftware's seminal RPG.