Half-Life 2 RTX Demo Coming March 18th
Today, we’ve announced a free Half-Life 2 RTX demo is coming March 18th. Owners of Half-Life 2 can soon experience Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt remade and remastered with full ray-tracing, remastered assets, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, NVIDIA Reflex, RTX Neural Radiance Cache, RTX Skin and RTX Volumetrics - click the button below to wishlist!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2477290/HalfLife_2_RTX/
Learn more about the Half-Life 2 RTX Demo: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-remix-half-life-2-rtx-demo-launching-march-18/
Learn more about Half-Life 2 RTX: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/campaigns/half-life-2-rtx/
Half-Life 2 RTX is a community-made remaster of Valve’s classic game by Orbifold Studios. With a mission to remaster the entirety of Half-Life 2, we’re updating every texture, model, and level, adding extra geometric detail to buildings and surfaces to realistically interact with fully ray-traced lighting. Even particles and animations are being revitalized to bring Half-Life 2 to modern graphical standards.
To ensure the tone and feel of Half-Life 2 is retained, while enabling remastered assets to look realistic in fully ray-traced environments, the entire game has also been relit, replacing twenty-year old tech with today’s cutting edge lighting through RTX Remix. Essentially, we’re remaking the entirety of Half-Life 2 graphics, while leaving its beloved gameplay untouched.
Half-Life 2 RTX
Original, unmodded Half-Life 2
Textures are remade by our artists with height maps and physically-based materials, models are remade from scratch, levels are upgraded in the Hammer editor, and everything’s imported back into RTX Remix to be lit, enhanced by NVIDIA RTX technology, and packaged as a standalone game that will be available for free on Steam for owners of Half-Life 2.
The demo’s levels have been fully upgraded, though the work isn’t final, and further tweaks and tech upgrades are planned for launch. Weapons, enemies, and skyboxes have all been remade, atmospheric effects added, visual effects enhanced, and audio updated.
Half-Life 2 RTX
Original, unmodded Half-Life 2
NVIDIA’s DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation multiplies frame rates by up to 10X at 4K. DLSS Super Resolution and DLSS Ray Reconstruction look even better thanks to their new transformer AI model. NVIDIA’s Neural Radiance Cache technology further accelerates ray-traced lighting. NVIDIA RTX Skin enhances Father Grigori, headcrabs, and zombies. NVIDIA RTX Volumetrics add realistic smoke effects and fog. And everything interplays and interacts with the fully ray-traced lighting.
Before you play March 18th, please ensure you have the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver installed.
NVIDIA RTX Remix enables modders to remaster classic games, upgrading every aspect, relighting them with full ray tracing, and accelerating performance with NVIDIA’s suite of DLSS technologies. Here at Orbifold Studios, we’re leveraging RTX Remix’s capabilities to fully remaster the entirety of Half-Life 2.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2477290/HalfLife_2_RTX/
Learn more about the Half-Life 2 RTX Demo: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-remix-half-life-2-rtx-demo-launching-march-18/
Learn more about Half-Life 2 RTX: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/campaigns/half-life-2-rtx/
Half-Life 2 RTX is a community-made remaster of Valve’s classic game by Orbifold Studios. With a mission to remaster the entirety of Half-Life 2, we’re updating every texture, model, and level, adding extra geometric detail to buildings and surfaces to realistically interact with fully ray-traced lighting. Even particles and animations are being revitalized to bring Half-Life 2 to modern graphical standards.
To ensure the tone and feel of Half-Life 2 is retained, while enabling remastered assets to look realistic in fully ray-traced environments, the entire game has also been relit, replacing twenty-year old tech with today’s cutting edge lighting through RTX Remix. Essentially, we’re remaking the entirety of Half-Life 2 graphics, while leaving its beloved gameplay untouched.
Half-Life 2 RTX
Original, unmodded Half-Life 2Textures are remade by our artists with height maps and physically-based materials, models are remade from scratch, levels are upgraded in the Hammer editor, and everything’s imported back into RTX Remix to be lit, enhanced by NVIDIA RTX technology, and packaged as a standalone game that will be available for free on Steam for owners of Half-Life 2.
The demo’s levels have been fully upgraded, though the work isn’t final, and further tweaks and tech upgrades are planned for launch. Weapons, enemies, and skyboxes have all been remade, atmospheric effects added, visual effects enhanced, and audio updated.
Half-Life 2 RTX
Original, unmodded Half-Life 2NVIDIA’s DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation multiplies frame rates by up to 10X at 4K. DLSS Super Resolution and DLSS Ray Reconstruction look even better thanks to their new transformer AI model. NVIDIA’s Neural Radiance Cache technology further accelerates ray-traced lighting. NVIDIA RTX Skin enhances Father Grigori, headcrabs, and zombies. NVIDIA RTX Volumetrics add realistic smoke effects and fog. And everything interplays and interacts with the fully ray-traced lighting.
Before you play March 18th, please ensure you have the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver installed.
NVIDIA RTX Remix enables modders to remaster classic games, upgrading every aspect, relighting them with full ray tracing, and accelerating performance with NVIDIA’s suite of DLSS technologies. Here at Orbifold Studios, we’re leveraging RTX Remix’s capabilities to fully remaster the entirety of Half-Life 2.