Portal with RTX updates the game with ray tracing

PortalNvidia’s fall release will allow fans to view the Aperture Sciences test chambers from a new perspective. Portal using RTXThis is an updated version the iconic first-person platformer.

Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO) announced this during the Nvidia GTC keynote. Portal using RTX “reimagines the classic game’s graphics with full ray tracing and entirely new art evocative of the original,” Nvidia said in a blog post. In terms of what exactly “full ray tracing” means, Nvidia said that the game will use ray tracing for every light and the shadows it casts, as well as for indirect lighting and global illumination; light scattering through volumetric effects such as fog and smoke; and reflections based on materials like metal surfaces. You can find more details in this blog post.

Portal using RTXFor those who own the original, they will have access to the free download content PortalNvidia made the announcement. Presumably this refers only to those who have a copy on Steam; Nvidia’s blog post links to a Steam listing for Portal using RTX. Nvidia is referring to it as a mod for the original game; it’s unclear if it will be possible to buy Portal using RTXYou can also purchase a separate copy Portal. It’s worth noting that while the add-on’s name has “RTX” in it — a term that Nvidia uses to market its ray tracing-capable graphics cards and associated technologies — the Steam page says that Portal using RTX will be “compatible with all ray-tracing capable GPUs.”

Nvidia claimed that Lightspeed Studios, its own in-house studio, made the following statements Portal using RTXIt has a wealth of experience and can add raytracing to its repertoire. Quake 2. Minecraft. But Lightspeed developed Portal using RTXNvidia has released a brand new tool called Nvidia’s RTX Remix. Nvidia described RTX Remix as a “modding platform” that “can add ray tracing with just a few clicks, and gives modders the tools to make ambitious remasters, even for games that were previously unmoddable.”

Lightspeed performed extensive research to redesign the system. PortalWith ray tracing you can add texture to walls, so light interacts more with them. “As for surfaces, if they’re flat, as most were in games back in 2007, light won’t react realistically,” said Nvidia. “In the process of remaking each of Portal’s surface materials, we’ve introduced detail, such as bumps, divots and rivets, allowing light to fall across them accurately, bouncing light, creating new shadows, and generating accurate reflections.”

Portal using RTXIt is partly designed to showcase the GeForce-RTX 40 series graphics cards, which Nvidia announced on Tuesday. As such, it will launch with support for DLSS 3, the latest version of Nvidia’s proprietary image reconstruction technology, which requires the aforementioned GPUs to function. Portal using RTX is scheduled to be released in November — 15 years after the original game debuted, and the same month as the RTX 4080 is set to launch.

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