Half Life 2 RTX looks quite nice!

Real time pathtracing on everything looks jolly pleasant in the quite good game of Half Life 2, one of the games of all time. RTX Remix has a release date of January 22nd, Half Life 2 RTX does not.
See the latest blog post here: www.nvidia.com...

[@Skazzy3YT]

I'm so excited to play this 20 year old game once again

[@ohne_speed]

No way it's 20 already! Damn i'm old... :D Feels like played it first time yesterday.

[@crocking9969]

highway 17 :c

[@Indy921]

​@@ohne_speedIt's 19, but it turns 20 this November.

[@npenplz]

half life 2 is NOT 20 dont say that

[@geeman_tv]

its actually even older when u consider the leaked version@@npenplz

[@KommanderKarl]

I actually just joined the team developing this, Orbifold Studios💪 I’m gonna be using my 3D skills to help remake assets. Super excited, HL2 is my all time favorite and getting to work on it is peak awesome! Love your content btw man, always have!

[@yummybuchty2582]

oh hey, didn't expect to see you here

[@RaginYajun020]

lemme guess, you're the one in charge of the revamped weapon and model animations!

[@Gamers-of-the-Abyss]

Didn't expect you to see here neither, Welcome.

[@FooMaster15]

I love these summary videos of tech/game news. Your passion shines through.

[@heyitscaiit9696]

"Shines" through, nice RTX joke :^)

[@qudruplem8570]

This is absolutely true!

[@crookedgamer7183]

@@heyitscaiit9696 GayTX

[@DVDfeverGames]

Looks more like he's just copying someone else's content.

[@qudruplem8570]

@@DVDfeverGames what are you talking about man? Do you have any evidence to substantiate such a needlessly hurtful comment or do you just have no qualms about saying nasty things about people? Im sure youre better than that.

[@KalkuehlGaming]

You said it. This is not how valve would do the game today. This is like a alternative timeline of graphic evolution. I love this.

[@lukabrasi001]

valve would optimize everything and make sure the game would run fine on a piece of sliced bacon. they push innovation in ways that are achievable to a larger audience than just people with VERY high end gear

[@checker297]

@@lukabrasi001 i think thats the nice part about valve, they will push boundaries everywhere, but also make sure the average person can still enjoy their titles

[@self-proclaimedanimator]

​@@lukabrasi001Cs fans with actual slice of beacon Pc Arrhhh Cs2 don't run on my Dell computer 1996

[@dabigbadwolf5081]

​@@lukabrasi001even half life alyx runs great on 2060 level gpu's. And it's still the best VR Game ever made.

[@niks660097]

@@self-proclaimedanimator it still runs on my intel hd graphics from 2010 at > 40fps with fsr performance, which shocked me, cause csgo was a stuttering mess cause of 2.2 GHZ clock speeds on my core 2 duo and only single core usage.

[@keatonwastaken]

I really like that they didn't just slap on some RTX lighting and say done, they are redoing animations, sprites and models along with it. Quite excited to see how it's gonna end up.

[@Sarrg]

That generally seems to be unfavored by Nvidia since RTX Remix is much more capable. All projects so far I have seen do make use of custom assets and high resolution textures. I also think HL2 with RTX shading was already possible, atleast via loading maps within Source2.

[@keatonwastaken]

@@Sarrg I wouldn't say it's unfavoured, their project is sponsored by NVidia, plus RTX Remix is not only a lighting changer, it's also got texture upscale/remake tools and they are also providing plenty of pre-made free assets for people to use in their modding projects.

[@ethanbear360]

@@Sarrg Source 2 doesn't support RTX? (I think it's only available as a lighting previewer for the hammer editor.)

[@rudrasingh6354]

​@@ethanbear360i think if and when half life 3 (or portal 3) comes out, it will have RTX. Valve used to be at the forefront of graphics tech. Counter Strike 2 and Half life Alux have a slightly cartoony feel to them because of lower fidelity textures and effects because eSports and VR games both need as much performance as one can squeeze out of them and a stylized look fits better with those constraints.

[@GrapeJuice3000]

I just hope they optimize this better than the Portal RTX on graphics cards besides the 40 series. I really want to run the game over 10 FPS on and RTX 3070 😂

[@UncleBurrito15]

By the way, hl2 rtx does not use any ai textures. It is a feature, but orbifold is using hand made textures. And the rest of the games listed are all community projects with only technical support from the remix devs.

[@jeffdunhamvevo953]

Now this is something I massively appreciate. I and many, many other people have personal qualms against ai *generated* textures. So to see them use AI to specifically enhance the game, not add to it, is just extremely nice. I'd like to think these uses of AI technology to be the most common usage, instead of actually generating new things to simply save money.

[@aartemiswhite]

​@@jeffdunhamvevo953 Very naive thinking. AI is the future, like it or not.

[@brit_no]

@@aartemiswhite Wouldnt mind it if it wasnt mostly just art theft & if it wasn't being used to strip artists of their jobs. Shit should have just been a reference generating tool from the start.

[@aartemiswhite]

@@brit_no I think we would disagree about what we consider theft, but iv always been strongly against copyright anyway. People loosing jobs to a new technology is nothing new and not a good reason to dismiss such technology. Artists are not an exception.

[@GeometricPidgeon]

​​​@@brit_noAI texture generators don't work on the same datasets and parameters that other generative image programs are based on. These ai generators could be trained by a single person with PBR texturing knowledge and going around taking photo's of various surface types in real life. I understand where you're coming from and generally I'd agree with you but that is when the AI applications are trained on massive datasets of copyrighted work that are being scraped indiscriminately without consent. That isn't what is happening here. AI PBR texturing has been around for years at this point. No one will care about a 256x256 tile texture being converted to a 4096x4096 texture with additional PBR maps for modern rendering pipelines. This isn't an instance of massive art theft, these applications don't need LAION 5b. Source: gamedev who's worked with AI assisted workflows for years. AI as we know now is vastly different than software such as Quixel Mixer or RizomUV (AI assisted tools for 3D workflows).

[@edh615]

Half life 2 lighting still looks spectacular and has a better presentation than many games today. In 2004-2005 the source engine had already incorporated "Radiosity Normal Mapping" which is the encoding of light maps in a novel basis which allows them to express directionality of incoming radiance, not just the total cosine weighted incident radiance, which is where most light mapping techniques stop. The specular lighting was done through a set of manually placed HDR cubemaps. But the most significant component of Half-Life 2 character and model lighting is the inclusion of a directional ambient term from directional irradiance samples precomputed throughout the environments and stored in an irradiance volume (yes, like we see on Blender's EEVEE), the directional irradiance samples or ambient cube sample points are stored in a 3D spatial data structure, when any model that moves in the environment, only the nearest sample point to the model’s centroid is selected from the irradiance volume, this can result in hard transitions in the directional ambient component of illumination as the character or object moves throughout the environment, but they choose to time-average the ambient and local lighting information to limit the effect of lighting discontinuities. Further read at: www.realtimerendering.com/advances/s2006/Chapter7-Shading_in_Valve's_Source_Engine.pdf

[@NimbleSnek]

Interesting! I always wondered how normal maps worked with lightmaps

[@CanularRadio]

The hard transitions wow you described something I was wondering or maybe I confuse it with the cube map switching

[@Max-se9fb]

yap yap yap

[@windowsxseven]

meaningless word salad

[@edh615]

Skill issue ​@@windowsxseven

[@LambdaGeneration]

Excited to see this project getting more coverage! We love you Philip 🧡

[@KalkuehlGaming]

4:17 Wow. Unbelievable that this is the same texture. I never realised that the original texture was meant to represent multiple iron plates. Now being in 3d, it totally changes the way it looks and feels. I love it.

[@mschulmeister6519]

It's not literally the same texture, it was remade but looks the same on purpose

[@gtfafm1036]

That's because it's not the same texture

[@Wobble2007]

HL-2 has a distinctive art style that is pretty different to just using as many polygons as possible, it's like the gent said in this video, a kind of cartoony look but not quite, it's important to maintain the OG art style if you ask me, but that said, I'm sure people wile like the new shiny textures, most people don't really care about the artistic merits of a game anyway I'm sure, I'm in the minority there I reckon, which is why I think super scaling is a much better method of getting higher fidelity textures, it retains and uses the OG look.

[@bee6035]

Goofy comment

[@KalkuehlGaming]

@@mschulmeister6519 Dude, It is the SAME texture, just upscaled with AI. Everything is the same, the count of the "barrels", the dirt stains, the amount of bolts. Everything is identical except of the quality.

[@SmileytheSmile]

*4:20* OK, I wasn't sold until the corrugated iron wall. Even the cobblestone road wasn't enough. But when I saw that corrugated iron wall, I thought "Damn. That's a corrugated iron wall right there. I'm sold."

[@mnomadvfx]

The thing about the "overhauled" 4k textures on many props is that they seem to all be static now. The older low res textures on props often had animation where appropriate, like brinking lights on the rack electronics seen at 5:20 I get that it's nice to see a big upgrade in resolution - but losing any degree of animation just makes the whole thing look more and more like a static simulation rather than a dynamic world, no matter how high res the textures are or how good the lighting is.

[@nolifenoble1864]

imagine this being your first introduction to the half-life games. im trying to say that they should make a black mesa with rtx

[@cellardoor9882]

it will be to me

[@PainWrld]

same, playing black mesa rn@@cellardoor9882

[@wio1]

I wouldn't want it to be. Nothing beats the classic look for me. RTX still looks incredible, though

[@aircraftmen_]

imagine half life 2 vr with rtx

[@lampionmancz]

A NASA computer would probably not handle that lmao.

[@PlaisiTWO]

I fucking wish. Maybe the HL2VR team is considering it talking with Nvidia to get this supported? Who knows.

[@dwkluka511]

​@@PlaisiTWO That would be cool as fuck

[@niamhleeson3522]

Not gonna happen with the number of rays you can do right now. It would look like a bad acid trip

[@misterk7_-]

They answered this question in their qna and unfortunately it will just be incompatbile because of how rtx rendering works

[@tonton9598]

if I remember correctly, HL2 was one of the first games to utilize normal mapping which still looks impressive today, but I just love seeing that it's getting the overhaul it deserves today.

[@MapSpawn]

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, would like to have a word with you.

[@CanularRadio]

​​@@MapSpawn Hahaha, it's nice !

[@CanularRadio]

Think I saw your gm works ..catapult tutorial

[@zombine7103]

The 3D details are the height map, the metal panel texture, the rocky ground texture. I have made similar textures from zero, no ai tools whatever. I know the random slightly rotated placement of each rock and how to do it. If you carry those height map details too far, as you mentioned in some blind spots or edges it becomes weird which most games dont event care and do anyway, which i suppose will happen to hl2 rtx as well, they wont care. If you played trepang2 what you will notice is that in underground rocky+human constructed places the rocky surfaces geometry is very straight and simple. All the details, rockiness and stuff are the height map details which gets very crazy when you take a careful look but the actual surface is just straight and very primitive. I suppose they didnt do displacements for optimization. In areas they did displacements they did it very wrong and fcked up, in terms of placing it. You could literaly in some surfaces see the empty no face behind of the displacement surface.

[@UncleBurrito15]

You could go ahead and fix them yourself. Orbifold studios is hiring right now, and if you're good enough, they will let you in.

[@zombine7103]

@@UncleBurrito15 i wish i could but unfortunately many things going downhill in my life.

[@graybonesau]

@@zombine7103 Best of luck.

[@CanularRadio]

​@@zombine7103I hope you will be OK

[@tristangianelli]

Thank you for the video Phillip! Looking forward to another year of great content

[@mil260zs]

Id love to see Philip do deep analysis on hl2 rtx when it comes out, These old hl2 videos hit hard not gonna lie

[@maxemore]

This is amazing. Our childhood reimagined

[@sulphurous2656]

They still need to adjust some of the textures and materials, the headcrabs looks like they are made out of clay, the grass looks like it's been freshly mowed, and the image suffers from overbright in a bunch of places. I hope this will stay more true to the game's art style than Portal with RTX did, and run a bit better.

[@HiCZoK]

One thing that's interesting after my recent hl2 replay was... the reflections. Every water surface got perfect reflecitons and it;s not cube maps since the items and objects are also perfectly reflected. These are best reflections ever

[@TKsh1]

This will be Half-Life 2 graphics in 2013.

[@BrightPage174]

3:18 This is the only thing I'm worried about tbh. That dilapidated brick wall isn't supposed to be a stone with brick imprints. Same with the tile flooring. The AI doesn't really know what its trying to make and ends up making some skyrim cave wall looking texture. Though I believe the team will get those issues sorted by release. Its still looking great

[@jagerwolf5821]

I believe that the are just not sticking up AI and call it a day, as you can see in another textures there are details that an AI couldn't guess like broken slabs, also the wood planks texture is not exactly a 1:1 upscale, it was manually redone or at least is what it seems

[@crckrbrrs]

they aren't going to be using the ai textures

[@SkyJax]

do you have plans to cover The Talos Principle 2? your video on the original was so well written that it actually convinced me to buy the game. would love to see you share your thoughts on the sequel

[@OwenWithAHammer]

I agree, hope he talks about it eventually.

[@QOTSAPT]

One thing some forget is, often the shadows and lighting was made to look a certain way but when you use other techniques in order to generate lighting and shadows things stop looking like how they were intended, sometimes it breaks sections of games, not to mention all the side effects of these techniques.

[@aegyobot1923]

Overthinking things plus it has human oversight

[@bshap495]

3:22 I really hope those materials aren't final. The brick texture looks so bland compared to the original. And the tile floor looks more like a microscopic image of reptile scales or something. Still, I'd say it's looking pretty solid so far. The parallax occlusion mapping definitely adds some much-needed depth to the otherwise simple, blocky geometry.

[@darkblade4104]

Neither of these were made by Orbifold Studios, nor are they being used in hl2 RTX. philip got confused with nvidia's showcase of their ai tools using hl2 textures

[@thealandude9146]

Now that you mentioned the revamped sounds that makes a lot more sense when I was wondering if the MP7 sounds different in the trailer

[@mrnobody043]

HL2 is also just great storytelling, it had a great atmosphere. Playing the game made me really feel a part of the story instead of being just another shooter .

[@DoctorZombo]

Environment artist here. About Parallax Occlusion Mapping(POM) breaking down on the edges of things; It is driven by a heightmap, which is a greyscale texture, and modern engine shaders can mask out that heightmap by blending in a neutral value (i.e., zero height) on specific areas of an asset, so you can set the edges to have zero POM and thus looking correct(You can still retain a feeling of volume since you're usually also applying a normal map). However in my experience masking POM is often deemed too expensive to implement just for that slight increase of control of the final look (Which annoys me greatly as an artist; There's tons of polishing techniques that are often overlooked because it's deemed "not worth it")

[@inesis]

I will finally be able to play Half-Life 2 with less than 30 FPS thanks to the RTX option! I can't wait to stutter through Ravenholm!

[@onsh]

Buy a 4090.

[@alangeorge5592]

​@@onshgive the money then!

[@ltsYuri]

I'm so hyped to see Garry's Mod with the RTX support from what they mentioned in the blog... Imagine playing your favourite maps revamped with raytracing in VR!

[@old_liquid]

If your hardware allow it

[@filipkohout4704]

ray tracing and VR in the same sentence is just asking for struggling fps and heavy motion sickness💀💀

[@zombiespersonalchanal479]

ok I love this this is not only a texture upgrade its a faithful one . I am so tired to texture upgrades that randomly change colors of things or completely change the look except for that one tile texture.

[@graybonesau]

Agreed, 100%.

[@Wobble2007]

I'm not into the plastic textures, not my thing, I love the art style of HL-2, but I do love the RTX lighting, and VTMB getting the RTX treatment would be awsome, that game has a very particular atmosphere that needs to be maintained, the dark contrast backstreets and all that RTX could really bring that aspect out more, It already looks amazing with 8 times 4K (16K) super-scaling and MSAA, and 32K super-sampling makes VTMB look like it has 2020 graphics, this combined with RTX would be crazy, I'd love to see what that looks like.

[@gangsterwangsterman8417]

sounds like perfect anti aliasing, but i feel like it would still just look like a 2004 game

[@Y0URGRANDMA]

I don't remember where i heard it maybe the narration mode it was said but the devs were originally even against adding bump maps so that's why they didn't have parallax at the time. I think the antlion texture artist convinced them to add bump maps.

[@stevethepocket]

Being against a new technology that makes games look nicer is such a Valve move.

[@jannovak6987]

some of the aspects of the game look better but the overhaul of the graphics doesn't scale up uniformly so it creates visually unbalanced areas and it doesn't follow the original art direction. Basically it's a different looking game with some parts looking better, creating a visual dissonance. The game where this was most obvious was the recent awful overhaul of Quake 2 under the mantle of RTX, where hi-res textures were wrapped around low-poly models and the lighting started to cast detailed shadows, resulting in a fun tech-demo with blasphemious, oxymoronic artstyle. I'm glad people are still playing with HL2, I finished the game about 18 times and it's remarkable. Don't forget though that a good-looking game has to scale up details proportionately though - that's the key to a cohesive remake. Thx for coming to my tedtalk.

[@tibby7709]

I trust the fans more than i trust Nvidia employees

[@coced]

This with the Unrecord style color grading would be mind blowing

[@Lulzalex]

Bro casually introduced Half Life Tuesday and thought we wouldn't notice?? LMAO 5:06

[@spartan117ak]

i remember playing around with an addon parallax shader in gmod back in the day. The Combine Elites looked so gorgeous, also had phong pre orangebox.

[@olnnn]

This makes me wonder how it would look if HL2 was ported to Source 2 and updated to use these models and textures giving most of the graphical quality just without real time RTX but with waaaay better performance.

[@stevethepocket]

If only Valve would actually release a standalone Source 2 build people could use. Like they said they would do over a decade ago.

[@olnnn]

@@stevethepocket Yeah I wish they would do that soon - at least we'll have the gmod successor at some point

[@lukabrasi001]

Hey, a helping hand on the initial VTMB (and Freedom Fighters 2001 (AND Silent Hill 2)) project here, had a huge deal with debugging VTMB with REMIX in it's early days and it's nice to see how nVidia kept updating and fixing REMIX to support the games better since no two games are the same. the thing it seems to be missing from source games are the 3D skyboxes since they're a secondary render target obviously, so it gets omited from the bigger picture, but otherwise i think with omniverse, the people working on the project could integrate the 3D skybox into the level itself without no fuss with today's processing power. posing help to the (maybe official) project is a good feeling man. maybe i might get back into it and ask if the team behind it needs the help hand tuning the visuals for them to ensure proper VTMB feel. i'd be the happiest man alive if we could get a remaster in any form... so a real big shame we never got a source code or reverse engineering (or an actual sequel instead of vampire fallout 4), or anything from Troika to help maintain this piece of history the way it deserves to be

[@guitaristkuro8898]

RTX Remix runtime has been out for a while now, they named very specific games because the community has been modding those a lot already. You can use it right now.

[@thatmadman6870]

One of them is CSS, but I think that's more of 3kliks' wheelhouse.

[@aquaticpears3183]

This looks fantastic. I'm excited for the tools to be released and breathe some new life into some of my favourites

[@theninjamaster67]

The tools have already been out for awhile now RTX remix was released like months ago and there's actually tons of projects in the works already like a modding team remastering one of the PS2 era Need for Speed games also there's a few modding teams working to remaster GTA San Andreas the only issue is the tool only works for DirectX 9 games so only for relatively old games from the PS2 and PS3 era and not every DX9 game either there's some games with major instability issues some that don't launch at all some that only open in the editor and many more issues. It's a damn cool tool don't get me wrong but it's relatively limited in it's capabilities when it comes to which games it can be used with.

[@craftman_yt]

@@theninjamaster67 The proper editing tools are not out yet. Only the runtime.

[@aquaticpears3183]

@@theninjamaster67 Thanks for the info. I saw Call of Duty 2 on there which is cool as I loved playing that game, and recently bought it again on Steam.

[@theninjamaster67]

@@craftman_yt Oh I didn't know that I've just been seeing people do some crazy shit with it so I assumed it was fully out lol.

[@craftman_yt]

@@theninjamaster67Yeah, that's an understandable mistake.

[@MARK2580]

The only ones who really do something here are Remade Assets, the rest is just lighting, which most often makes things worse, for example why in a barn with zombies an ordinary wooden floor suddenly becomes shiny like tiles

[@TheG_Boy]

Bioshock RTX is gonna be insane i cannot wait for RTX Remix

[@SaulVector]

I would love to see this kind of project with ray tracing in Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

[@eternalmiasma5586]

Remix is such a cool tool, I can’t wait to see what other games get this treatment. Fingers crossed for a fallout 3 remix

[@Tee_B]

Idk if Fo3 will get an official remix since there's a remaster coming.

[@jaakkouusitalo1094]

The background song you use in someone of the videos gives me chills every time I hear it.

[@Cats-TM]

3:45 Yeah, that is bathroom tiles, not rock. I really hope they release a version with just update models and better lighting for those who's machines can not do pathtracing. Like, somehow using the higher quality pathtracing to improve the baked in lighting and making the realtime shadows higher quality.

[@SteamPlayLEET]

I thinks this is not possible as models in rtx remix mod will be using rt enchanced materials which wouldn't work with baked lighting.

[@Cats-TM]

@@2kliksphilip Okay...I know you definetly get this a lot but, unfortunately, no one is immune to my pedantry. You do not need the "of" in "I think of AI generated images-". But, yeah, you are probably correct.

[@marlonrondinelli903]

Hey Philip just wanna say I appreciate your content. Seems like you always bring interesting things to my attention and the somewhat inconsistent uploads make it a pleasant surprise every time!

[@Oscar-rs1sl]

I can't wait to play it at 20fps

[@tetros5265]

"During Half Life 2's day" probably unintentional but i like that it sounds like "tuesday"

[@lineriderrulz]

I'll be interested to see how feasible it is to back-port some of these textures and models from PBR form to use in plain old Source maps. This does undoubtedly look better than static lightmaps in a lot of places, but I don't understand some of the changes like the wood floor texture, looks completely different. I think the $parallax existed even in HL2, but it might have been added with Lost Coast or ep1. There's also a parallax mapping gmod addon now, but that works completely differently and is based on an implementation for a source mod iirc. Either way it looks impressive in this HL2 RTX, hopefully they do something to make it line up right with perpendicular adjacent surfaces as you pointed out.

[@andresbravo2003]

20 years later, they finally added RTX to this game thanks to RTX Remix.

[@Perissoto]

The sounds and music in your videos are the best, so immersive!

[@acantime]

Can't wait for the HL2 RTX remix! It would be so incredible to get all HL1 expansions/titles to experience again with modern graphics, as we remembered it looked like as we were younger!

[@metacob]

Back when it came out, I remember one guy at university just having this game sit on his desk during lectures. Back when games came in boxes.

[@BKLJ]

Just wanted to chime in to say the music you chose for the vid fits really well and I really enjoyed the video :))!

[@Juusopuuso707]

It is exciting how good these old games can be made to look. Might get my nephew to try out my favourites if they look this shiny.

[@amanjoo]

I love Source games getting RTX treatment :) I wanted VTMB remake or sequel for years

[@ChoriDesnudo]

i think the footage uses frame generation, just speculation from the jumping headcrab to the camera

[@CaptJackSwallows]

Man this will be the day now playing half life with ray tracing and having you're machine struggling to run 60fps AHH those where the days 🤣

[@kevinbeteta1737]

So many 2kliks uploads. This has always been my favorite channel in your network, so I’m very excited by this development in empire 2024

[@gregory-of-tours]

It's strange that people think it's the lighting that's making things look better here when 99% of the improvement is the better textures and models.

[@RyanTsou-t4v]

If you understand even the tiniest bit of computer graphics and rendering, you would know how idiotic your claim is

[@josedorsaith5261]

​@user-mj5ce9fr9e Show him how his claim is wrong, then. Unless you're not capable, either

[@SimonVaIe]

To me, the comparisons where the lighting barely changed look very similar even though new textures and models are used. The comparisons where the lighting did change however, show quite a significant uplift. I'll therefore disagree with you on this.

[@RyanTsou-t4v]

@@josedorsaith5261 that's not how it works. For example, you can easily explain to someone who knows math that 1+1=2 But if someone insists 1+1=3, you need to refer to the formal proof by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead in their work "Principia Mathematica". They used set theory and logic to establish fundamental mathematical truths, and the proof is long and complex. So no, I won't waste time with someone who lacks the fundamental understanding of the topics and firmly believes they are correct

[@the_viper115]

doesn't this means you can technically import all the rtx shader materials into gmod since they both run in same engine with same texture folders and what such?

[@11679MRT]

I remember Half-Life 2 blowing my mind graphically when it came out. Then we got the Lost Coast installment with HDRR and I couldn't imagine more realistic lighting 😂

[@agresywnypaczek]

As a AMD Radeon user i am obligated to try and run HL2 RTX for more than 15 seconds when it comes out

[@ludokrus3564]

use geforce now for it, similar experience for wayy less money

[@dwkluka511]

A high end Radeon card will probably be able to play it at a somewhat playable framerate at 1080p

[@GamingMedCasper]

i'm thinking how will people look in the game? Will it be a model or the same?

[@Alezyy]

So do we know when this'll be accessible? and will it be free?

[@BearFOXThirty]

Nice video philip, thanks for exploring this HL2 RTX showcase in detail. I wouldn't have seen it without you.

[@delsi26]

This just made me realise how insane half life 2 looks

[@Gigizhvania]

What would be the coolest is if the devs allowed the community more access to developing the game by letting members submit their ideas of textures, props, and effects by votes on the Steam forums or something like that.

[@imnotshub]

not sure if you know this but this is a project by the community! it's all volunteer developers and artists, with an official blessing from both Valve and Nvidia

[@cosmoinstant]

Might be set to release for Half Life 2's 20th anniversary

[@FilipNone]

what are the music you use in your videos? if anyone knows write me please

[@Hideurmonkeyhides]

will it include the 2 episodes though?.. Because otherwise it'd be like playing half a game or at least a game to the last good few hours!?.

[@Splarkszter]

The flaw with these "remixes" is that just with musical remixes it just completely shatters the original authors intention, this can be seen in one of the zombie scenes, in the original you can make up the zombie comming though the door, and in the other it's just pitch black. Just recompiling the maps with a higher quality light-map would be the only thing that is needed to make the game look better.

[@pyroxene4768]

Agreed. These sorts of remasters are cool as a thing to play with to see new technology, but they can never replace the originals as the real/definitive version of the game.

[@kipchickensout]

I liked the portal one already but this has way more different environments and interesting things to look at, do you think you'll make a video on it in detail when it comes out? At least it seems like you had fun making this one :)

[@Maske4]

You forgot the "you'll need a 4080 to run it at 30 fps"

[@bioshock6935]

This looks reaaly stunning for a remaster from the ground up i played half-life 1 and 2 back when they first came out and was a wonderful game to play and if i ever have a new pc to play this all maxed out with ray tracing all in 4k this will be one of them without a shadow of a doubt a proper first person remaster. For me just seeing it looking like this to how i remember it once looked back at the day to seeing it to this would be a joy of delight to play and see all the new upgrade.

[@lynackhilou4865]

This reminds me of a game called " industria " which was inspired by half life and had some cool RT features as well , i'd recommend playing as it's decent and costs like 20 bucks

[@SpringySpring04]

It's nice to see that they're doing to Half-Life 2 as Black Mesa did to Half-Life 1, I'm quite excited to see the release of this project! So is there an expected release date for specifically the Half-Life 2 RTX remix?

[@shammishafi09]

@2kliksphilip, When this game will be released?

[@SwebHat]

I don’t understand how it makes the textures look so much better from just lighting

[@N3Selina]

it looks nice. i am kinda bummed out how my 3060 is already outdated a year later. if my card can take it i will do a one-time playthrough, otherwise i will just play MMoD or use ReShade for the base game. props to the devs and modding scene overall. still alive and kicking 25 years later

[@marlon.8051]

the 3060 isnt outdated wdym, the 4060 is just a worse version of the 3060 with a new name slapped on it it literally has worse performance with bigger pricing just to scam dumbasses

[@norestfortheliving]

I'm still rocking a 1060, lol. While I'm excited for the revamped models and textures, the RTX stuff alienates me, unfortunately.

[@henrik1743]

Super excited about the new assets. Hope they take note of your thoughts since I thought that was tiles too

[@ultrapwnd]

There’s an official discord for rtx remix with a section on remix projects that includes some of the listed games (vampire, need for speed, etc) I imagine that could be why it was mentioned

[@ouroesa]

Textures (esp large, flat ones like walls and floors) seem to get really blurry with distance in some of their examples. Wonder if it is a case of devs disabeling AA again, seen this in so many titles, especially console releases. Never know why anybody would have it below 8x, for minimal performance impact

[@randomcatdude]

probably mipmaps or temporal anti-aliasing, or possibly upscaling without adequate mipmap biasing? msaa would have no effect on this btw

[@randomcrap7682]

I REALLY want to see a Return to Castle Wolfenstein RTX

[@Jusu]

This game is as old as my little brother, but he is not very little anymore

[@Jusu]

@@2kliksphilip jokes on you, my brother has been raytraced since 2004

[@HankBaxter]

RTX off: flat polygons from early 2000s RTX on: entirely new models. Wow, this RTX mode really does wonders...

[@memeymeme3645]

Fun fact: January 22nd is my birthday, and i am so happy for this coincidence!(the public release of RTX Remix)

[@javaPhysician]

THIS is what AI should be for: a tool for creators to streamline their work so they can do the finer human adjustments easily. Excited for the HL2 RTX release.

[@ashdang23]

@javaPhysician yea a tool and a creator. won’t be long till it’s gonna wipe out Hollywood which I can’t wait for. at this stage AI is mainly used as a tool, couple of years it’ll then be a creator for most of things which I can’t wait for

[@DeevDaRabbit]

@@ashdang23 Shut up

[@javaPhysician]

You are aware that AI doesn't really create anything? AI is taught by analyzing previously existing works. So if you think that Hollywood churns out the same crap all the time AI will only exacerbate the problem. Why do you want Hollywood to be wiped out, by the way? @@ashdang23

[@michuXYZ]

So, is it a good way to play HL2 in 2024? Or just an experiment worth to take a look?

[@or6060]

4:17 that's just a regular steel warehouse. commercial builders don't make them out of random scraps of corrugate like the remaster makes it out to be. go to any industrial park and you'll see tons of these buildings, the old texture was much better. it's all one continuous sheet in appearance, not a bunch of ill-fitted jagged edges.

[@roamn4979]

Go look at the original Texture, it isn't a continuous sheet, it is exactly what is shown in the remaster but without the 3D effect.

[@awgmax]

How would this run on a 7800xt? or rather can you run it on amd cards?

[@Kim-fm2vo]

The titles listed by Nvidia stem from the games that have been tested & developed on the RTX Remix discord server

[@gman248]

I would love to experience Half Life 2 the way I saw the game for the first time back in the day. This would be a great way to do so. To be fair, I would love all of the older games to be remastered like this. The games have so much soul already, that the light will bring it out even more.

[@TheBloodyMatey]

MatPat announced he's quitting GT on the same day as this 😥

[@micahtron5000]

I was just playing hl2 in vr. It's just such an incredible game and feels very modern and polished compared to new titles.

[@utiuandy99]

Can’t wait for the vampire the masquerade bloodlines rework. I actually can’t believe it was even announced. Thought everyone forgot about it

[@Duspende]

If only RTX cards weren't so damn expensive :(