heyy guys, ah, it seems like theres a problem with the raytracing on the mac, or at least on my mac, sorry if theres another topic with this question, i couldnt find one, but every time i switch on shaders, i get hit with this, anyone know what the cause is? or how to fix it?

That's just something with your hair, pretty sure it has nothing to do with raytracing nor shaders.

i dont have any hair on my character, even turned hair off in settings for good measure

Oh that's interesting, cause it looks like glitching hair.

Does it just happen for a second or does it stay like this?
And did it happen when switching shaders or raytracing (asking cause title says raytracing but OP says shaders)

well, unfortunately its always like that, and its raytracing, all other settings work flawlessly, except for the raytracing (sorry accadentally wrote shaders for some reason in op)
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it seems to be a skewed effect connected to tori's head, maybe this picture can show it better
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well, the image didnt show, so lets try that again .-.

I had a Mac and it did the same thing. The only way I was able to fix it was by turning the hair option off.