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Half-Life 2 RTX

Zorachus said:
Release date?
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From the link in the OP:

"Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project is early in development and is a community effort looking to galvanize talented modders and artists everywhere. If you are interested in joining the project, and have significant experience with creating mods or 3D art, we encourage you to apply via the Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project website."

So I would say it's going to be a while.

Project website referenced in quote: https://www.hl2rtx.com/
 
Furious_Styles said:
Don't think they care to. Most people would rather they work on making HL3.
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I don't think they care to do that either. Too busy figuring out where to put the new pile of Steam money in their mansion already made of Steam money. All they do besides that is try to invent some new 'As Seen on TV' type crap just to get you to buy more Steam games.

Let's go Left 4 Dead RTX remix 🤞
 
Could be cherry-picking a scene, but seem to have a lot of work going in it if the tech did not evolve.

Often those project look different, but because they change what you are supposed to see or not see it is not obvious if it is for the better, seem to have kept the original intention in place with the "natural" lighting
 
staknhalo said:
I don't think they care to do that either. Too busy figuring out where to put the new pile of Steam money in their mansion already made of Steam money. All they do besides that is try to invent some new 'As Seen on TV' type crap just to get you to buy more Steam games.

Let's go Left 4 Dead RTX remix 🤞
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Yeah if they don't have any motivation there's no point. Last thing we need is another mediocre game.
 
Furious_Styles said:
Yeah if they don't have any motivation there's no point. Last thing we need is another mediocre game.
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This is my favorite thing about valve. If they don't think it's top tier they don't bother.
Steam box and controller aside. But those were projects designed to insulate them from Microsoft
 
Furious_Styles said:
Don't think they care to. Most people would rather they work on making HL3.
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And mostly lack of ROI is the issue. Valve displacing development horsepower on existing projects to merely help Nvidia push RTX on an old title the whole Steam userbase already owns would be lighting money on fire. Proliferation of RTX also has no direct benefit to them.

Nvidia understanding this gap is the reason RTX Remix was created. Shifting retrofitting work to the enthusiast community, with a tool designed for user friendliness (meaning doesn't require low level game dev knowledge nor years of experience). Crowdsourcing free labor basically.

I don't see a downside though: free visual upgrades for owners of old games, enthusiasts get whatever satisfaction that motivates them and maybe material for the resume', and Nvidia grows incentive for sales of their hardware - which they need right now because they have almost no marketshare.
 
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DPI said:
Valve displacing development horsepower on existing projects to merely help Nvidia push RTX on an old title the whole Steam userbase already owns would be lighting money on fire. Proliferation of RTX also has no direct benefit to them
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what are those developers currently working on?...updating Steam?
 
polonyc2 said:
what are those Valve developers currently working on?...updating Steam?
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Maybe they'll make a TV dinner tray that you can buy and play Steam games from
 
mullet said:
That looks amazing, may have to go team green.
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The few games that do full path tracing are amazingly transformational visually. Like it is a whole different experience with how cool lighting and shadows can be. The issue is, of course, the performance needs. At the moment, high end nVidia only. Like 4080 or 4090 for decent performance. But it is REALLY COOL. Not sure if it is worth getting a card just for it since so few games support it, but I do enjoy it. Portal RTX was amazing, Cyberpunk 2077 is amazing, and Alan Wake 2 is just stunning.
 
Can't wait for this one. Hope my 4070 Super can handle this :). I need to go back and mess with Portal RTX.
 
Same. But I think finally in 2025? They were probably waiting for the 20 year release to make sure all works with it.
 
added to wish list, HL2 was one of the first games I played with a dedicated GPU. I guess I can play this while I anxiously await HL3.
 
As part of its GDC 2025 news, NVIDIA announced that a free Half-Life 2 RTX demo will be released on March 18th...fans will have the opportunity to sample around two hours of gameplay of the work that Orbifold Studios has already completed, checking out the full ray traced graphics, remade assets, particles, and animations in the Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt levels...

Half-Life 2 RTX | Demo with Full Ray Tracing and DLSS 4 Announce


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31ISEd8xRM
 
I would describe these path traced remakes in the same way I heard the "HD 2D" Squaresoft games described: They look like the game does in our memories. Any time I go and play an early 3D game, the graphics are never as amazing as I remembered them being. Graphics always seem cooler the first time you see them and the march of time leads to rose colored glasses about the past.

Which is what makes these so fun, they really do just seem like the "as I remember them" type of version.
 
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