NVIDIA Announced (opens in new tab) Portal RTX will be available for free on December 8th of this year with steam (opens in new tab)This is a free DLC for those who own the original physics puzzle game released in 2007 and have a compatible graphics card. Portal RTX utilizes ray tracing and his Nvidia DLSS 3. (opens in new tab) Bring your game visuals up to date.
Following in the big metal footsteps of Quake 2’s RTX update, which is also free on Steam, Portal RTX has been developed by Nvidia’s Lightspeed Studios. Orange Box Bundle. The new version uses ray tracing for global illumination, volume scattering, and shadows, and the textures and models have been reworked at a higher resolution than the original.
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In the game, you play as Chell, a subject trapped in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. The Portal Gun creates portals linked by wormholes, allowing you and other objects to pass through. It’s the spiritual successor to Narbacular Drop, a game created by a team of students hired by Valve Software, and Portal repurposed art assets from Half-Life 2 to create a pared-back creation. Thanks to that, it occupies an obscure place in the world of Half-Life. test chamber.
A computer AI, GlaDOS, guides the player through a maze of rooms and offers a cake as a reward, but it soon becomes clear that everything is not as it seems. A short but engaging game that won Game of the Year and Best Game Design awards at the 2008 Game Developer’s Choice Awards, the concept was embodied in his 2011 Portal 2, which also added cooperative multiplayer. it was done. The film adaptation has allegedly been in development hell since 2013. The script has been written, but little else has progressed.
“Updating a beloved game requires a balance of staying true to the original spirit of the game while applying cutting-edge new technology. With the experience gained working on the RTX version of , Valve was able to entrust us with bringing the latest graphics technology to the legendary game. Lightspeed Studios Head of Lightspeed Studios John Spitzer said:
Upgraded game compatible with all ray tracing graphics cards (opens in new tab)Nvidia recommends its own RTX 30 series for playable framerates using DLSS 2, but 40 series owners will benefit from DLSS 3. (opens in new tab) and its frame generation technology. It is not yet known how the game will play on AMD or Intel (opens in new tab) GPUs, but the fact that the RTX 20-series GPUs are not mentioned suggests that the processing costs will be considerably higher. The game’s Steam page’s system requirements state that the GPU must support his Vulkan or DirectX 12, as well as ray tracing on those APIs. This game is not compatible with Steam Decks.
If you somehow missed the original, or if it’s been 15 years since you last played the game, now’s the perfect time to revisit the world of Aperture Science (like the cake meme).
