NVIDIA RTX Remix released, plus Half-Life 2 RTX demo arrives March 18 – looking way too bright

NVIDIA have released NVIDIA RTX Remix, their modding platform that allows developers to enhance games with full ray tracing. Additionally, Half-Life 2 RTX is getting a demo on March 18th.

After a year or so in Beta, the release of NVIDIA RTX Remix brings with it DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation support. NVIDIA said that “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”. It’s open source and uses DXVK (part of Valve’s Proton), under the MIT license, but only available for Windows via the NVIDIA app.

Additionally, Half-Life 2 RTX that takes Valve’s classic game and shoves ray tracing into it will get a demo on March 18th. They’ve shown off some more footage of it, and I’m thoroughly torn on it. I love the idea of enhancing games, and the newer textures look like a big improvement while keeping the style but overall this looks far too bright and shiny and just seems like it’s lost part of what made it special. Still, as another sort-of tech demo of what the possibilities are with such upgrades, it’s still quite interesting.

Article Originally On GamingOnLinux.com.