Does Ace Combat 8 require ray tracing hardware?
Yes. Steam explicitly requires a hardware ray-tracing-capable graphics card.
Confirmed explanation
The named minimum cards are RTX 2060 6GB and RX 6600 XT 8GB, alongside DirectX 12 and Shader Model 6.6. This is listed as a baseline requirement, not merely an optional visual preset.
What is not confirmed yet
A non-ray-tracing fallback and recommended GPU are not confirmed.