- Remaster by four of Half-Life 2's top mod teams, now known as Orbifold Studios-
- Full Ray Tracing, DLSS 3, RTX IO and modernized assets
- Development has just begun, inviting modders to join the effort at nvidia.com/HalfLife2RTX
good stuff. if they'll market this better than the previous games, it might get some fresh blood to get their hands on a computer and play. This never existing on consoles fills my heart with joy
The last time I replayed the game using the Update version with HD textures on and faux RTGI for ambient occlusion/global illumination it already looked substantially better than the original, but proper ray tracing + brand new models is definitely going to bring it to a whole new level of sexiness. Hopefully the MMod will be compatible with the new version, it's an essential improvement that makes it hard to go back to the vanilla gunplay.
RTX can completely recreate all the assets, models and textures as well?
but yeah it looks awesome.
No, just as with Portal RTX, you could just add the same textures and effects without ray tracing and it would be a vastly different experience from the original.
Of course adding ray tracing effects on top makes it even better.
Its still a good marketing move, because people equal Ray tracing to RTX.
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Yeah, i mean, this has nothing to do with Valve. No reason to be angry. This is nvidia getting a bunch of modders and making a single team in order to specifically make a path traced HL2. Valve could be secretely making HL Alyx 2 or not, but it has nothing to do with this project
Would be nice as a HL3 preorder bonus or something, but I guess no one is interested in making new original games anymore.
Nowadays Valve is making money with much more easier effort than making extra carzy good games. HL2 was a special game back in the day. Hopefully they will make third one at some point.
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Well, we're talking about adding RTX to a 20-year old game. It kinds Is a gimmick. HL2 was a good game so it's nice but RTX isn't as impactful on modern games. DLSS is more important in that case.
RTX is great IF your hardware can handle it. More ofthen than not, it can't. That's why it is still rarely used though no game looks worse with RTX than without it. It's a great piece of technology but we are just not there yet. It will take years with AI what-not to make it possible without lowering the FPS to sub 30.
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by that logic everything is a gimmick. u can fake many things in todays games sure but with games like cyberpunk or alan wake 2 it showed that it does make a difference. rtx is the next big thing and people should realize by now, just cuz it cripples performance suddenly its a gimmick cuz with it off it looks good too...but yeah with each new gpu generation performance will improve to the point there will only be rtx games. they are already pushing for this for games like spiderman 2 or ratched and clank ps5 where its only rtx on ps5
RTX is great IF your hardware can handle it. More ofthen than not, it can't. That's why it is still rarely used though no game looks worse with RTX than without it. It's a great piece of technology but we are just not there yet. It will take years with AI what-not to make it possible without lowering the FPS to sub 30.
But it can. Every game on the market with RT is made around what the hardware can do at the time. Usually simpler reflections + shadows when Turing came out, in 2018. Heavier features when Ampere came out. Heavier still with Lovelace. Every single RT game, without exception can be played at 60+ frames. Naturally, its never going to be a high refreshrate affair, and of course you have to use upscalling and other AI stuff that we now have and that are becoming integrated in development from the start, they're never going away. But they're all playable and always were. Since ray tracing is super heavy, dont ever expect for gpus to run games with it at 300 frames/second for the latest games, that would mean not utilising the available power. Each paltry performance increase we'll get on gpus will get eaten by a more robust RT implementation.
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Software:
World Of Tanks (Shadows)
Crysis 1 Remastered (Reflections)
Gears 5 (Screen Space Global Illumination)
Days Gone (Screen Space Global Illumination)
The Outer Worlds (Screen Space Global Illumination)
Teardown (Path Tracing)
Ambient Occlusion:
Battlefield 2042
Saints Row 2022
Dead Space Remake
Madden NFL 24
Shadows:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Call Of Duty Warzone Caldera
Shadow of Tomb Raider
Dirt 5
Godfall
The Riftbreaker
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Mortal Shell
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered.
Jurassic World Evolution 2
Poker Club
Life is Strange True Colors
Mercs Fully Loaded
World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands
World Of Warcraft: Dragon Flight
Halo Infinite
Kakudo
Endless Dungeon
Shadows + Ambient Occlusion:
Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War
Deathloop
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Forspoken
Elden Ring
Reflections:
Battlefield V
Wolfenstein Youngblood
Watch Dogs Legion
Ghostwire Tokyo
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed
Observer System Redux
Doom Eternal
Arcadegeddon
Myst
Crysis 1 Remastered
Crysis 2 Remastered
Crysis 3 Remastered
Marvel's Guardian Of The Galaxy
Forza Horizon 5
Chorus
Paradise Killer
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 3
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 7
Loopmancer
Martha is Dead
Fritz Chess 17
Fritz Chess 18
King Of Fighters 15
Steelrising
Q.U.B.E. 10th Anniversary
Blind Fate Edo no Yami
Gotham Knights
Tower of Fantasy
Batora: Lost Haven
Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel
Myth of Empires
Gungrave G.O.R.E.
The Cycle Frontier
Domino Simulator
Soulmate
The Outlast Trials
Layers of Fear
Armored Core VI
Q.U.B.E 2
Ripout
Reflections + Ambient Occlusion:
The Medium
Marvel’s Midnight Suns
Hell Pie
Forza Motorsport 2023
Dark Picture Anthology: Man Of Medan
Dark Picture Anthology: Little Hope
Dark Picture Anthology: House Of Ashes
Dark Picture Anthology: The Devil in Me
Reflections + Limited Global Illumination:
Resident Evil 8 Village
Reflections + Shadows:
MechWarrior V
Deliver Us The Moon
Deliver Us Mars
Bright Memory
Ghostrunner
Ghostrunner 2
F1 2021
Redout: Space Assault
The Orville
Far Cry 6
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
The Callisto Protocol
Hellblade
Little Nightmares II
Amid Evil
Hitman 1
Hitman 2
Hitman 3
The Diofield Chronicle
Dolmen
Returnal
Perish
Turbo Sloths
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
Orbit.industries
The Idolmaster: Starlit Season
Reflections + Shadows + Ambient Occlusion:
Wrench
The Ascent
Industria
Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Five Nights At Freddy's Security Breach
Trail Out
Exit From
Titan Station
Beyond Evolution
F1 2022
Sackboy A Big Adventure
Hogwarts Legacy
Day Dream Forgotten Sorrow
Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart
Fishing North Atlantic
Daydream Forgotten Sorrow
Gripper
The Eternal Cylinder
Time Breaker
To Hell With It
Reflections + Shadows + Water Caustics:
Sword and Fairy 7
Justice
Reflections + Limited Global Illumination + Water Caustics:
Chernobylite
Reflections + Shadows + Indirect Lighting:
Control
Global Illumination:
Metro Exodus Standard Edition
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
Ring Of Elysium
Icarus
Rune 2
Moonlight Blade
The Finals
Global Illumination + Reflections:
Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition
Fortnite
F.I.S.T. Forged In Shadow Torch
Ant Ausventure
Warhammer 40K: Darktide
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
The Fabled Woods
Warhaven
Raze 2070
Global Illumination + Reflections + Shadows:
Bright Memory Infinite
LEGO Builder's Journey
The Persistence
Escape From Naraka
Cyberpunk 2077
Dying Light 2
Pumpkin Jack
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
The Witcher 3 Definitive Edition
Hello Neighbor 2
Stay In The Light
F1 2023
Exoprimal
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Path Tracing:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty Warzone
Cyberpunk 2077 Overdrive
DESORDRE
Alan Wake 2
Minecraft RTX
Quake 2 RTX
Portal RTX
Portal Prelude RTX
Brickadia
Doom 1 (mod)
Quake 1 (mod)
Half Life 1 (mod)
Serious Sam First Encounter (mod)
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