Portal 2 | Modded with ReShade & Ray Tracing

[@человечина-ц3е]

Aperture is an amazing company. After hundreds of years of being in a derelict state of the laboratory, the floors shine perfectly

[@vamperius]

Maintenance robots cleaning the same floors for hundreds of years will do that! 😁

[@d0cx]

It surprises me how good Portal 2 still looks today.

[@vamperius]

Same! The Source Engine has always been great.

[@Phantom11288]

@@vamperius ikr. the source engine still stands strong after many years.. for example hl2 still has decent graphics.. after all this time it actually dont look bad,

[@Maks7594]

Ive been waiting for this. Portal 2 with RTX.

[@TiredLowBrass8048]

Even though I prefer how cold the lighting is in the original, I think this is handled sooooo much better than the official valve portal rtx.

[@vamperius]

Thanks! Was going for a Half Life/Black Mesa vibe.

[@TiredLowBrass8048]

@@vamperius I agree, it definitely has that vibe to it, which suits the old aperture sections really well. Good job out doing valve.

[@vamperius]

@@TiredLowBrass8048 If you liked this check out the Black Mesa mod I did.

[@LaVaZ000]

Because Ray tracing is real lighting, it can't be faked unlike placed lighting sources older games use.

[@CaptainNomae]

It's not actually officially released by Valve. It was made by NVIDIA who asked permission but it's literally just a mod.

[@SamKatakouzinos]

Looks great!

[@duncancreamer8251]

this is so subtle yet so effective i love it

[@lugui]

looks better than the remake

[@Ver11111]

No

[@Sinister80s]

remake? huh?

[@Ver11111]

@@Sinister80s They're talking about the RTX Remix mod for portal 1, which isn't a remake.

[@Sinister80s]

@@Ver11111 Yeah, that's what I thought. Definitely don't see any remake coming anytime soon.

[@xelsg]

That looks so good 👍

[@vamperius]

Thank you!

[@portal2chambers]

like = potato comment = lemon

[@potatoenugget]

the only problems that I saw were that the reflexions were over the cracks and over the edges of the tiles(idk if p2 has paralax but if it does, the ray tracer should get a new feature) and that everywhere are reflexions, even on the really dirty floor

[@accountdisbanded]

the screenspace reflections effect from reshade does not rely on the material's metallic and smoothness effect, it only reflects things based on the depth buffer.

[@Psythik]

How do I get the shader without signing up for a subscription plan? I refuse to subscribe to software on moral grounds. Either make it free, or charge a one-time fee. Do you know of an alternative shader that doesn't rip people off?

[@vamperius]

Search the internet. It’s out there.

[@Psythik]

@@vamperius I already did and came up blank, hence why I posted this comment. I can't even find it from my usual sources for obtaining paid software for free. (hint hint, wink wink.) Since you seem to have the answer, I would really appreciate it if you would please reply to this comment with a link. Please and thank you.

[@merkedgg6322]

This looks better then portal rtx

[@jojolafrite90]

Only screen space effects here.

[@yixuan7043]

the new updates of reshade broke everything,you have to search up some of thouse effect and manualy install them again ReVeil_Top MXAO RTGlobalIllumination SSR ReVeil_Bottom SMAA FXAA FilmicAnamorphSharpen, AmbientLight Colourfulness Tint Levels Deband

[@CephalonBread]

when the fans put raytracing in portal 2 before they officially announce portal 1 RTX

[@vamperius]

I did do Portal 1 too!

[@SnrubSource]

this isn't real ray-tracing, it's screenspace.

[@vamperius]

​@@SnrubSource There are multiple types of Ray Tracing like Screen Space Ray Tracing and Global Illumination Ray Tracing.

[@XGames-94]

Some of the surfaces shouldn't be that reflective

[@MohamedAdel-hv9my]

Can u please confirm if this mod is working fine with RTGI v1.3.0.6 ?

[@zeroscxre]

Could you record a tutorial for installing reshade, because I have a problem during installation (reshade doesn't work at all, nothing happens when I start/press home)

[@vamperius]

🤔 I’ll see what I can do. I’m not sure why it wouldn’t be working for you.

[@zeroscxre]

@@vamperius thanks in advance

[@blueburger4]

@@vamperius 2nd'd I've installed RTGI and reshade in many games but portal 2 just straight up doesn't load. In the logfile for reshade in the folder it shows everything loading, then gives a "failed to create effect stencil resource" error and i can't do anything. I've tried running as admin, installing in the game root and BIN folder, and other various solutions i've seen.

[@reecejohnston01]

I love this I have tried your Reshade preset yet i dont get the reflections ?

[@vamperius]

Make sure you have the SSR effect installed and enabled inside reshade.

[@Rubicon_Void]

It's cool what you did and I like it a lot but out of respect I still love the classic version from the original game

[@Andy-Perry]

Can't wait for you and people like you to use Nvidia RTX Remix Modding tools to make amazing RTX games that would not be possible until now

[@vamperius]

I can’t wait for Remix! I would love to see Remix applied to Half Life 2.

[@Andy-Perry]

@@vamperius What hardware are you currently running for RTX?

[@vamperius]

​@@Andy-Perry 3070

[@Andy-Perry]

@@vamperius Nice! I manage to get a 3070 TI FE card at retail £540. What about CPU?

[@Xboxshutdown1864]

portal rtx is coming soon.

[@wheatsync8054]

i have tried the 0.23 of rtgi and the newest one the preset you have made doesnt make any difference with and without the rtgi thing

[@jesseweneedcook]

Portal 2 rtx

[@schpalrbo]

im using the preset but only the colors change and it becomes a lot laggy

[@vamperius]

Just in case you haven’t, the RTGI plug-in has to be downloaded separately. You’ll also want to make sure you have your Display Depth set up.

[@vamperius]

Also, it’s normal when using the RTGI plugin to take a huge performance hit even with older games.

[@schpalrbo]

@@vamperius ok

[@thisissupposedtobeanonymous]

@@vamperius How did you even get it to work? I installed Reshade in both the Portal.exe and the vsis or whatever, and also added the Aperture shaders (can't use RTX). Nothing is working, the menu isn't even showing up when I hit the key. In the ini file I set the shaders to be used as Aperture as well, but it isn't even working.

[@vamperius]

I can’t offer any advice on how to get someone’s else’s preset to work. As for ReShade there are several videos on YT to help with troubleshooting.

[@skapunker1986]

So i have been experimenting with this over a year now, and one thing important to keep in mind, that the drop on performance is quite significant. and that input latency will increase a bit. So these Standing Still images look great, because nothing is happening in them, and your not on the move. Im really interested in the performance differences you had between RTGI on and off. and do you have some actual Gameplay video's with your RTGI on? Its really a pity we can't apply DLSS to older games yet. Portal RTX should actually be called Portal DLSS, as without DLSS the RTX is almost unplayable. RTGI is great to make old games look great again. I highly recommend using it on the original Deus Ex

[@vamperius]

I remember that RTGI always cut my FPS in half but thankfully everything still ran 60+. The only game play I have is from when I streamed Portal 2 here on yt. I'm adjusting my reshade profile throughout the stream. Speaking of DLSS, a mod recently dropped adding DLSS and AMD FSR to Skyrim so maybe they will for other games here soon.

[@michaelblue4619]

looks better than portal rtx

[@bonnie-ms7nd]

what ones did you enable?

[@vamperius]

Description has a link to the preset if you wish to use it!

[@bonnie-ms7nd]

@@vamperius i have the mod, just what settings did you enable to make it look like that?

[@vamperius]

The preset.ini file contains all settings for all effects used. Open the ini file in Notepad to see the raw numbers.

[@bonnie-ms7nd]

@@vamperius can you just tell me the names of the settings u enabled

[@vamperius]

The preset ini file will show all settings that are enabled when opened or imported into ReShade.

[@UncleMarty]

I'm so stunned how colorless and bland the original was. I never got why people think games and movies should look blank, colorless and lifeless when they can bring things alive with color and light and actually make things look realistic.

[@UncleMarty]

@@IAmUnderscore but they still have lights and eyeballs.

[@UncleMarty]

@@IAmUnderscore Aaaaaaand nobody said anything about being full of "bright lights". Drama queen alert. In short, colorless, bland and dull isnt what my eyes see, this isn't like real life nor does it look good when it looks fake.

[@drkam3564]

it's because the atmosphere in portal 2 is supposed to be cold, but i do see what you mean. besides, there are points in the game where the colours and lightning really pick up.