Does Fortnite support ray tracing?

Yes. Fortnite supports ray tracing on PC and current-gen consoles.

PC

PC players with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU (RTX 2060 or better) and DirectX 12 can enable full hardware ray tracing, delivering:

• Reflections - real-time reflections on water, windows, mirrors, and weapons
• Shadows - accurate shadows that stretch and soften based on light distance
• Global Illumination - bounced light making shaded areas look more realistic
• Ambient Occlusion - contact shadows where objects meet surfaces

Not available in Performance Mode.

To enable: Settings → Video → set Rendering Mode to DirectX 12 → enable Ray Tracing → Apply.

Performance note: Ray tracing significantly reduces frame rates. For competitive play, keep it off. Enabling NVIDIA DLSS alongside ray tracing can recover much of the performance loss.

Console

Fortnite's Unreal Engine 5 upgrade brings Lumen-based global illumination and reflections to PS5 and Xbox Series X automatically - no setting required.

Xbox Series S receives a limited version: Lumen global illumination is included but ray-traced reflections are not supported.