

There is still no way to enable RTX on computers with graphics cards that don’t support it, even if you would have been fine with lower framerates.

Now that the Bedrock platform is moving to the new Render Dragon, third party Bedrock shaders are no longer possible – so RTX is now your only hope of using shaders on Bedrock. However, if you’re on Bedrock, then that’s a different story.

If you’re a user of Java, then this guide isn’t necessary – there are plenty of great shaders created by the community which don’t need specific graphics cards to run. Not to worry – we’re here to show you exactly how in this tutorial. 2 years on, however, and it’s still frustratingly difficult to actually use these new features – even if you have the right graphics card. In late 2020, to much fanfare, Minecraft released the official RTX (ray tracing) update to the Bedrock platform – giving newfound graphical capabilities to users with RTX-capable graphics cards.
