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RTX bugs SERIOUS RISK to players with Epilepsy

I provided a detailed description of the bug I encountered below, but I have to address why this is an important bug first. It's important that this post DOES NOT GET MERGED with other posts as none of them mention the severity of these bugs to players with epilepsy.

 

.----- A NOTE ON EPILEPSY -----.

There are a plethora of different bugs regarding RTX, however, they have not been addressed at all. Most are harmless and can be fixed with a simple reload. However, there are a few that pose a severe risk to players with epilepsy.

 

Epilepsy is a disorder where people are at a significantly higher risk for seizures. Its either caused by genetics or some form of brain damage. A grand mal seizure is where a person loses consciousness followed by uncontrollable muscle convulsions. These types of seizures could potentially be life-threatening, (especially with hitting your head during a seizure). A typical person with epilepsy is at a much higher risk for these seizures and may have some sort of trigger, most commonly rapidly flickering lights.

 

I personally have epilepsy, and luckily I am not affected by flashing lights as much as others, but had I not been so lucky, especially since I live alone, playing Minecraft with RTX could have ended my life.

I wish I am exaggerating but I am not. It's very upsetting to see a bug this serious still in the game for YEARS without being fixed while it has been very well-documented, and the team definitely knows it exists. Some RTX bug reports have been marked as "works as intended" while it could send someone with epilepsy straight into a grand mal seizure.

 

.----- BUG DESCRIPTION-----.

RTX lighting and reflections/refractions completely broken, incorrect colors, game sometimes crashes, rapidly flickering lights.

 

.----- BUG REPRODUCTION -----.

If you have RTX turned off initially in the main menu settings, then load into an RTX-capable world (on an RTX-capable device), and then enable RTX, you WILL encounter an RTX bug of some kind. The bug you encounter varies massively in severity.

Usually, reloading the world while leaving RTX on fixes the bug, however, sometimes it requires a full reload of the game.

 

.----- BUG EXAMPLE -----.

I attached a recording of the bug that almost sent me into an epileptic seizure. (I had my friend record an example after the incident).

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