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Low-polygon fashions, blurry textures, and low-resolution results are changed with shiny new improve in Portal with RTX.
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The identical shot within the unique unmodified recreation.
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Valve’s first-person puzzle-platformer Portal was a real phenomenon when it was launched again in 2007, and its core gameplay mechanics—fixing puzzles and thwarting enemies by taking pictures interconnected portals onto varied surfaces—nonetheless maintain up at present. However the recreation’s visuals have not aged as nicely, notably its low-resolution textures; it was constructed utilizing the identical recreation engine and a number of the identical property as 2004’s Half-Life 2, and there is solely a lot {that a} fashionable GPU can do to spruce it up.
Enter Portal with RTX, a remastering of the sport with ray-tracing results and different enhancements that Nvidia says might be out there without cost to all Portal house owners beginning on December 8. The replace was initially introduced in September alongside the RTX 4000-series GPUs. Developed by Lightspeed Studios, Portal with RTX does not simply add fancy lighting results to the unique but additionally consists of “hand-crafted hi-res physically-based textures” and “enhanced high-poly fashions” that considerably overhaul the getting older recreation’s visuals for the fashionable period.
As a DirectX 9 recreation from early within the Xbox 360 lifespan, the unique Portal runs nicely on absolutely anything, together with previous Intel-integrated GPUs. However Portal RTX‘s system necessities are a lot larger; Nvidia lists the RTX 3060 because the minimal really useful GPU and says it will possibly obtain “playable” 30 FPS body charges at 1080p with DLSS enabled. Leaping to 60 FPS at 1080p requires an RTX 3080 with DLSS enabled, whereas hitting 60 FPS at 4K would require a minimum of an RTX 4080 with DLSS 3 enabled. The CPU and RAM necessities additionally climb together with the GPU necessities (verify the Nvidia-provided system necessities desk beneath).
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That mentioned, the sport can run on “all ray-tracing suitable GPUs,” together with the older RTX 2000-series, AMD’s RX 6000 and RX 7000 collection, and Intel’s just lately launched Arc A-series GPUs. However the usually excessive necessities and the reliance on proprietary DLSS upscaling to realize playable framerates might make it tough to run on something apart from a contemporary GeForce GPU.
For anybody who can fulfill the {hardware} necessities, although, the revamped lighting and textures are an important excuse to revisit (or uncover!) the bizarre world of Portal with out additionally needing to revisit 15-year-old textures, character fashions, and lighting results. The Nvidia RTX Remix modding platform used to remaster Portal will even be launched to most people sooner or later, making it simpler to create up to date variations of previous DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 video games with AI-upscaled textures and fashionable lighting results.
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