Portal with RTX is now available for Windows
on Steam,
offering the promised graphical update for Valve's classic first-person puzzle
game. If you already own the game, this is a free update. The cake may or may
not be a lie, but the visual improvements from the addition of ray tracing and
other advanced effect is the truth, and it can be seen in
this video. The new version supports any ray tracing-capable GPU, but we've
seen
concerns that AMD cards will struggle due to lack of DLSS support. Here's a
bit on the Portal port:
Portal with RTX is a free DLC for all Portal
owners developed by NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios. Experience the critically
acclaimed and award-winning Portal™ reimagined with ray tracing. Every frame of
gameplay is upgraded with stunning full ray tracing, new, hand-crafted hi-res
physically based textures, and new, enhanced high-poly models evocative of the
originals, all in stunning 4K. In Portal with RTX, full ray tracing transforms
each level, enabling light to bounce and be affected by the scene’s geometry and
materials. Every light is ray-traced and casts shadows, global illumination
indirect lighting naturally illuminates and darkens rooms, volumetric ray-traced
lighting scatters through fog and smoke, and shadows are pixel perfect. Portal
with RTX is compatible with all ray-tracing capable
GPUs.