The Half-Life 2 RTX demo proposes a nice visual upgrade and not much else | Gaming

Half Life 2 RTX, the Nvidia-backed graphical overhaul mod for Valve’s seminal FPS, has a Steam demo out today. It covers both the Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt chapters, for an extended look at how much ray-slash-path tracing, RTX Remix asset remastering, and DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation is being packed into the decades-old shooter.

I’ve had a few plays of the Ravenholm section – my copy of the demo is bugged and won’t unlock Nova Prospekt, which is a problem Gordon Freeman and his bugs never had. It’s alright! If you’ve got a sufficiently muscular graphics card then it’s good for a spot of sightseeing, though I would say there’s also perhaps more of a straight tech demo vibe here than Portal with RTX had. The visual upgrades don’t hurt HL2’s…more

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