Half-Life 2 RTX Demo with Ray Tracing Coming March 18

Company NVIDIA announced, ht demo version Half Life 2 RTX will be available already March 18. Players will be able to spend time in the updated world two hours, appreciating the reworked graphics and new technologies added by the team Orbifold Studios.

Half-Life 2 RTX is being created with the participation of four leading modding teams that have significantly improved the visuals of the game. The update includes full ray tracing, support DLSS-4, NVIDIA SLR, RTX Volumetrics и Neural Radiance CacheThese technologies will allow for more realistic lighting, detailed shadows and dynamic reflections.

The developers have completely redesigned it Materials using Physically Based Rendering (PBR), increased the detail of the models in 20 times and increased the texture resolution in 8 times. The demo version will offer two levels - Ravenholm and presumably, Nova Prospekt.