One of the most typical memes on the internet is about Half-Life 3, a delivery that isn’t coming and it looks like it never will. Gabe Newell himself, the boss of Valve and therefore of Steam, joked many times with this third installment. Well now you can enjoy Half-Life with Ray Tracingthanks to a mod.
It should be noted that Ray Tracing has as many fans as detractors. This technology really brings interesting things to games, the big problem is the cost. Having the pleasure of using ray tracing is an extra cost that many users cannot or do not want to pay.
Half-Life with Ray Tracing, thanks to a mod
As part of the Ray Tracing promotion, NVIDIA released Quake RTX, a review of the mythical game with this technology. Despite the fact that they announced more classic games with the integration of ray tracing, this did not happen. The most “classic” game that has received it in recent years is Minecraft. Yes, there are other games that have received ray tracing, but via unofficial mods.
You can now enjoy the Ray Tracing in Half-Life thanks to a fashion developped by Sultim Tsyrendashive. He has one library on github with the mod to implement said technology in the game created by Valve in 1998. We can download the mod for free and use it for free.
Do not expect modern graphics, since the basis of the game is the same. Yes they have been lighting effects added which give another air to the game, they modernize it a lot. From the demos we’ve seen, the game gains quite a bit with this implementation. Something like this happened with Quake RTX, which although it continued with the original graphics, the lighting effects give it a new air.
You must be aware that to play it you need an NVIDIA RTX graphics card. We went from a game that could be run on a Raspberry Pi, to a game with very advanced needs.
There are many reviews from users who have tried it and say it is awesome. Some also stand out who led the game in r4K resolution with an NVIDIA RTX 4090. It must be said that when the game was released, the 4K resolution did not exist, just like the 1080p, they are added.
Do you want to try the game with these light effects?
To access this mod, you must download the Ray Tracing Mod from Sultim’s GitHub. This is at no cost to the user, plus you can even optimize the code for better performance if you want. Although what you need is to have purchased Half-Life on Steam.
Installing the mod is something very simple:
- We open Steam and we access our Librarylooking inside the Half-Life game
- We do right click on the game and a menu will appear
- We must continue Manage and among the options we must click on Show local files
- We uploaded the mod on our computer
- We proceed to unzip the files hl1-rt.zip and hl1-rt-resources.zip
- Lo copy to local folder dHalf-Life and we tell it to replace all necessary files
- NOW, we run the archive rt_bin/xash3d.exe
- Finally, we press the letter X on our keyboard to change the rendering
Let us know what you think of this mod for Half-Life, we want to know your opinion after running the game with Ray Tracing.
