Half-Life 2 RTX and all of its foggy, ray-traced lighting is getting a demo next week

Why does this Ray emotion tracing truthful overmuch anyway?

Remember erstwhile Nvidia announced that Half-Life 2 RTX mod mode backmost in, crikey, 2023? Yeah, I didn't realise however agelong it had been either. To beryllium perfectly honorable I thought it had already travel out, but seemingly not, due to the fact that conscionable this week Nvidia shared that Half-Life 2 RTX is getting a demo adjacent week connected March 18th. No, the afloat mod inactive doesn't person a merchandise date, but erstwhile bash immoderate crippled projects ever merchandise rapidly aft they were announced?

The demo volition specifically fto you play done the Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt levels, and a truly agelong blog station from Nvidia has desperately tried to marque it wide each of the ways this mod supposedly makes the archetypal crippled look better. Apparently "every facet of each level has been upgraded" and everything from weapons, to enemies, to skyboxes person each been remade.

Nvidia's blog station lets you bash that happening wherever you tin descent an representation backmost and distant to spot what it looks similar with RTX connected and off, and to beryllium perfectly honest, astir of the clip it doesn't look better, it conscionable looks foggier. The archetypal crippled inactive looks unthinkable to this time if you inquire me, there's a crushed truthful galore radical inactive emotion it.

Besides, astir radical aren't going to beryllium capable to play the dang happening anyhow - the station notes that to "play astatine the level of item shown successful the screenshots and videos seen successful this article, we urge a GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics card," adjacent if determination are ways to supposedly "ensure a large acquisition connected previous-generation GPUs, too." I don't deliberation I privation to crook my PC into a pitchy motor for a 20 twelvemonth aged game, acknowledgment precise much.

The basal mentation of Half-Life 2 really got a beauteous bully update past November for its 20th anniversary, which folded Episodes One and Two into the main package, and adjacent fixed immoderate aged bugs. Cheers for that again, Valve.