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Overview

Computex 2023 in Taipei was the first public technical show for Honor of Kings: World. On May 31, 2023, NVIDIA used its GeForce announcements at the show to confirm that the game would support DLSS 3 (including frame generation on RTX 40-series cards) and ray tracing. The reveal included a fresh 4K gameplay trailer, and positioned Honor of Kings: World alongside other Eastern-market NVIDIA partner titles from the same announcement batch.

Key Details

Why it Mattered

Before Computex 2023, Honor of Kings: World had been publicly positioned primarily as a mobile-first project from Tencent's TiMi Studio Group. The Computex reveal was the moment the game was confirmed as a genuine PC release with high-end graphical commitments. DLSS 3 frame generation was at the time a new technology exclusive to GeForce RTX 40-series cards, and including Honor of Kings: World in NVIDIA's show signaled that TiMi was targeting current-generation PC performance, not only scaled-down mobile visuals.

• First confirmation of full ray tracing support

• First confirmation of DLSS 3 and frame generation support

• First public 4K gameplay trailer, as opposed to earlier cinematic teasers

• Established NVIDIA as a long-term technical partner for the Spring 2026 launch window

Relationship to Later Showings

The Computex 2023 reveal set the technical floor that every subsequent showing built on. When the PC Pioneer Test shipped in July 2025 with an RTX 2060 minimum GPU, it confirmed that TiMi was honoring the Computex commitment by extending ray tracing support down to older RTX hardware at reduced quality settings. The DLSS 3 commitment also informed the framing of the GDC 2025 show press demos, which ran on RTX 40-series PCs in 4K with the full feature set enabled.

Relationship to the NVIDIA Partnership

The Computex 2023 reveal is the origin point of Honor of Kings: World's NVIDIA Partnership. Every subsequent NVIDIA show involving the game has referenced DLSS 3 and ray tracing, and the partnership has not been publicly revised or downgraded in any of the public materials since. The partnership is the single longest-running technical commitment TiMi has made for the project.

Demo Content Shown

The Computex 2023 reveal showcased the early Unreal Engine 5 build of Honor of Kings: World with a brief gameplay vertical slice. The slice focused on the dual-Flow combat handoff and outdoor exploration, demonstrating the engine's handling of dense foliage, dynamic time-of-day shifts, and the long-range view distances around Jixia-style geography. The demo did not yet show the full Resonance roster that eventually shipped at S0 launch.

Hardware and Rendering Context

The Computex demonstration paired the build with high-end consumer GPU hardware available at the time, and the demo session highlighted DLSS-style upscaling and ray-traced lighting tied to the engine's then-current capabilities. These framing technologies are no longer demo-only; the shipping S0 build supports modern upscalers and ray-traced reflections as configurable client options.