Half-Life 2 RTX Demo Released [Mar 18, 2025, 11:00 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A Half-Life 2 RTX demo is now available for Windows on Steam, kicking off this free modification for Half-Life 2, Valve's classic first-person shooter sequel (which is required). Despite not being listed as a demo, that's what last week's announcement called it, and the description also says it is the "Ravenholm and Nova Proskpekt demo." This project from community-based developer Orbifold Studios leverages NVIDIA's RTX Remix software to enhance the graphics of this 2004 release with all sorts of modern goodness for owners of NVIDIA RTX graphics cards. Here's the recent Announce Trailer along with more details:
The fight for freedom begins anew. Experience the award-winning game that has captivated millions of players worldwide with its immersive story, thrilling combat, and mind-bending physics, fully overhauled with full ray tracing, new hand-crafted, physically based textures, enhanced high-poly models, and updated lighting, all in stunning 4K.
Half-Life 2 RTX is a free DLC for all Half-Life 2 owners developed by Orbifold Studios, a collective of passionate, community-assembled developers behind Half-Life 2: VR, Half-Life 2: Remade Assets, Project 17, and Raising the Bar: Redux.
Half-Life 2 RTX uses the latest version of RTX Remix leveraging new RTX Neural Rendering technologies, cutting-edge full ray tracing, accelerated by NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and NVIDIA Reflex to bring one of the greatest video games of all time to life in a whole new light.
vrok wrote on Mar 19, 2025, 11:35:RogueSix wrote on Mar 18, 2025, 21:23:The consensus is that the implementation is lazy and could've been done better if they had bothered to adjust the amount of lighting for each scene to be more in line with the originals artistic vision. That's it. Why are you making excuses trying to invalidate negative feedback? Why do you think there's a demo in the first place? Feedback is useful for improvement. For reference I own a 5090 and am currently playing Cyberpunk with full path tracing, so the nvidia hater card won't fly.
@Jivaro
Yeah, I quoted your post but my reply was generally directed towards the naysayers here. Don't take it personal. Your quote just fit the previously expressed sentiment pretty well where some people were pretending as if something here is taken away from them or being defiled by nVidia, the devil incarnate (... when this really isn't the case at all as the original version isn't going anywhere AND while this is just a Remix demo of two levels with unfinished tweaking/lighting/optimizations AND most/many of the naysayers haven't even downloaded or played the demo yet to see or compare for themselves).
So, pointing out that this is an unfinished DEMO is "making excuses"? Cool story, bro. I hope you hold all demos/alphas/betas of games to such high standards because we need more people with an actual sense for quality. Maybe then we can finally kill off the fucking scam that is called "Steam Early Access" that gets massively abused by devs like Larian et al.
Also, I'm sure you meant the "consensus among nVidia haters and AMD fanbois" is... a small oversight but you are forgiven...
This comment was edited on Mar 19, 2025, 17:56.
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