RTX Bug Workaround

[jasonjgardner]

How to avoid crashing Minecraft with RTX ON

There are currently a lot of bugs plaguing Minecraft's ray tracing features. Mainly this one:

MCPE-162107 - Loading an RTX resource pack crashes the game

Step-by-step Instructions

Here's a quick fix when RTX goes awry:

1. Close Minecraft
2. Open %LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\games\com.mojang\minecraftpe\options.txt
3. Find gfx_raytracing:1 and replace it with gfx_raytracing:0
4. Open your world in Minecraft
5. Enable RTX in-game by pressing semicolon ;
6. Save and quit once RTX is enabled
7. 🤞🙏
8. Reopen the world

Automated Process

Sounds too tedious? That's why I've created a simple PowerShell script to automate the process. Download it or copy the code from its gist.

Navigate to the directory containing the script in PowerShell and enter:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
.\reset_rtx.ps1

This will automatically modify the options.txt file to disable ray tracing, clouds, and Vsync then will launch Minecraft. Add the "preview" argument if you'd like to launch Minecraft Preview instead:

.\reset_rtx.ps1 preview