A visually-enhanced version of Half-Life 2 is in the works as a community project. Titled Half-Life 2 RTX, the project is being developed by four of Half-Life 2’s top mod teams, now known as Orbifold Studios. They are leveraging the latest version of NVIDIA's RTX Remix to bring visual enhancements to the game including full ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS 3, NVIDIA Reflex, and RTX IO. An announcement trailer was aired today that showcases these improvements:

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The project is said to be in early development stages and you can learn more about it in the source link below.

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[gudenau]

I can't wait to see how hard this slams my 4090 and how often it crashes!

 

[Kioku]

I hope this will be better than the Quake 2 RTX release... It was "fine" but some of these RTX aspects ruined the Quake 2 vibe..

 

[Ryab]

I can't wait to see how hard this slams my 4090 and how often it crashes!

If it's optimized even decently well it should be fine. Source on its own is a rather well optimized engine.

 

[gudenau]

If it's optimized even decently well it should be fine. Source on its own is a rather well optimized engine.

Yeah but Portal RTX crashes a lot and has much simpler scenes.

 

[Ryab]

Yeah but Portal RTX crashes a lot and has much simpler scenes.

That is just likely on the dev team I assume. Source is an extremely stable engine on its own. Runs rather well on even my old cheap laptops.

 

[gaga941021]

I can't wait to see how hard this slams my 4090 and how often it crashes!

It won't. It will never come out.

 

[codezer0]

As a self admitted half life fanboy, I really hope this gets the care it richly deserves.

 

[eyeliner]

I hope this will be better than the Quake 2 RTX release... It was "fine" but some of these RTX aspects ruined the Quake 2 vibe..

True that. The game is almost blinding, now. Way too bright everywhere.

 

[gudenau]

That is just likely on the dev team I assume. Source is an extremely stable engine on its own. Runs rather well on even my old cheap laptops.

Old laptops don't have RTX though.

 

[supergamer368]

i'd be down to play hl2 with those updated models that'll be in the rtx port, but i'll pass on the raytracing itself. i know for a fact this game won't run without dlss, and i have an amd card. plus i think ray tracing is way overhyped anyways, it's really not that special to me.

 

[Ryab]

Old laptops don't have RTX though.

I meant the original game.

 

[mrcroket]

RTX ON.... and all the models, textures, materials... updates. I mean, raytracing is an improvement obviously, but the big thing in the improvement in quality is everything else.

 

[brunocar]

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A visually-enhanced version of Half-Life 2 is in the works as a community project. Titled Half-Life 2 RTX, the project is being developed by four of Half-Life 2’s top mod teams, now known as Orbifold Studios. They are leveraging the latest version of NVIDIA's RTX Remix to bring visual enhancements to the game including full ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS 3, NVIDIA Reflex, and RTX IO. An announcement trailer was aired today that showcases these improvements:

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The project is said to be in early development stages and you can learn more about it in the source link below.

SOURCE

its great to know nvidia isnt making this themselves, quake 2 RTX looks like dogshit, what they did to the railgun should be considered a crime against good taste.

 

[xtrem3x]

Yeah but Portal RTX crashes a lot and has much simpler scenes.

Played through the whole of Portal RTX about a month ago and didn't have a single crash
Could be something wrong with your setup, you tried a clean install of your graphics drivers?

 

[gudenau]

Played through the whole of Portal RTX about a month ago and didn't have a single crash
Could be something wrong with your setup, you tried a clean install of your graphics drivers?

It ought to be fairly clean in the first place, not really sure how to make it cleaner. Not like I can run DDU.

 

[N10A]

Hopefully they take care to preserve the intentional lighting of scenes, oftentimes raytracing ruins the lighting design of older games.