Half-Life 2 RTX Playable Demo Out Now, NVIDIA RTX Remix Officially Released With DLSS 4 & RTX Neural Shaders
Many classic PC games remain beloved for their unforgettable stories, characters, and gameplay. But as technology advances, their visuals struggle to keep up, making it harder for new generations to appreciate their original magic.
NVIDIA RTX Remix, a modding platform for RTX AI PCs, was built to change that. By reimagining the graphics of these timeless classics with cutting-edge ray tracing, RTX Remix is bridging the past and the future—allowing longtime fans to relive their favorite adventures in stunning detail, while introducing a new wave of players to the games that defined an era.
A year ago, NVIDIA RTX Remix was released in beta, empowering the modding community with a groundbreaking tool to modernize classic games, enhancing their visuals while preserving the core gameplay that makes them special. Since that initial RTX Remix release, over 30,000 modders have experimented with hundreds of classic titles, and over 1 million gamers have played RTX Remix mods.
Today, NVIDIA officially released RTX Remix, exiting beta with a host of new capabilities including DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, cutting edge RTX Neural Rendering technologies, AI-powered tools, and many community-requested changes that will enable modders to improve their remasters, increase image quality, and further accelerate performance.
NVIDIA RTX Remix | Remaster the Classics with DLSS 4 and Neural Rendering
To demonstrate RTX Remix’s capabilities, Half-Life 2 owners can now download a free Half-Life 2 RTX demo from Steam, showcasing Orbifold Studios’ work in Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt, ahead of the full game’s release at a later date.
Half-Life 2 RTX | Demo with Full Ray Tracing and DLSS 4 Announce
Remaster Classic Games With RTX Remix
RTX Remix differs from other modding tools in that it opens up a large catalog of hundreds of classic games to be graphically remastered.
As a modder plays through a classic game with RTX Remix hooked up, textures, models, lighting, effects, and more can all be captured, categorized, and reassembled into an editable scene. Through an easily mastered interface, the RTX Remix application lets modders drag and drop lights, move objects, copy-paste existing objects into a scene to increase clutter and grass coverage, convert lights to be fully ray-traced, AI enhance textures, and add DLSS to improve image quality and accelerate performance.
And because RTX Remix runs on the highly flexible OpenUSD file format, mod artists can use practically any digital content creation tool of their choosing, whether it be Blender, Adobe Substance 3D Painter, or Autodesk Maya to modify or rebuild original game assets.
When the modder exports their mod, it comes packaged with the RTX Remix Runtime. The player need only launch the original game, and the RTX Remix Runtime will replace the original renderer with a modern Vulkan one unencumbered by the limitations of the original game engine, replacing each original asset and light with the remastered version live at playback.
Half-Life 2 owners can now download a free Half-Life 2 RTX demo from Steam, showcasing Orbifold Studios’ work in Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt, ahead of the full game’s release at a later date. Built with RTX Remix, Half-Life 2 RTX is a community-made remaster of Valve’s classic game, made by Orbifold Studios that features full ray tracing, remastered assets, and DLSS 4. With a mission to remaster the entirety of Half-Life 2, Orbifold is updating every texture, model, and level, adding extra geometric detail to buildings and surfaces to interact with fully ray-traced lighting realistically. Even particles and animations are being revitalized in Half-Life 2 RTX to bring Half-Life 2 to modern graphical standards.
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