Strangely enough, the PC version of The Ascent currently lacks ray tracing (broken) and NVIDIA DLSS (missing) if you get it from Game Pass.<\/b>
\nWe recently interviewed Neon Giant’s Co-founder and Creative Director Tor Frick to talk about the main tech features of The Ascent, such as ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS, both available on the PC version via Steam. Frick told us: The Ascent New Comparison Video Highlights Ray Tracing Features, Surprising Xbox One Version Visual Quality However, it seems like neither ray tracing nor NVIDIA DLSS are available if you’re playing The Ascent through your Game Pass subscription on PC. To be more precise, NVIDIA DLSS is completely missing, while ray tracing can be enabled but doesn’t make any visual or performance difference. Some Reddit users actually tried to inject NVIDIA DLSS files into the game, but the packaged nature of Game Pass games makes it nearly impossible to tinker as you would with any regular PC game (which is also why modding on Game Pass is still lagging behind). Let’s hope the developers of The Ascent fix the broken ray tracing and add NVIDIA DLSS to this version of the game, but more importantly, Microsoft needs to improve both the accessibility to Game Pass files, so that PC gamers may freely tweak the files as they would with a regular Steam title, and the ensure that the feature set remains the same across all PC versions. Otherwise, as good as a deal Game Pass currently is, it might not be enough for the hardcore PC gamer with missing features like these.<\/p>\n