Gaming News Portal: The great classic has the right to a second youth! Stunning images on the program
During an event organized by Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, the timeless portal was talked about: the great Valve classic will be given a second life thanks to NVIDIA technology.
Portal, more beautiful than ever with ray tracing
Portal, the game from Valve, is more than fifteen years old, and yet the title still stuck in the minds of gamers. It must be said that he arrived with a less original concept that allowed portals to be created and puzzles to be solved, and this in an exemplary fluidity. Though still pleasing to the eye, Portal is taking advantage of the NVIDIA event that just aired to offer a second youth.
Portal actually has the right to a re-release thanks to the launch of a new version called Portal with RTX. As his name suggests This proposal takes advantage of the latest NVIDIA technologies and in particular RTX or ray tracing to examine a brand new image. To prove it to us, the manufacturer offers a trailer (available above) as well as several comparison images.
As you can see, the difference between the two versions is more than glaring. The game has gained resolution, the textures are now more elaborate, of better quality and above all, with the RTX option, Valve’s work offers a more striking atmosphere than ever before.
In Portal on RTX, full ray tracing transforms each layer, allowing light to bounce around and be affected by the scene’s geometry and materials. Each light is ray-traced and casts shadows, indirect lighting via Global Illumination naturally brightens and darkens spaces, volumetric ray-traced lighting diffuses through fog and smoke, and the shadows are pixel-perfect. (…) The end result is incredible, it improves Portal and puts it on par with the best current games. And with gameplay that’s as good today as it was in 2007, Portal with RTX offers the ultimate experience for anyone new to Portal or returning for a new game. Nvidia
A feature that will soon be available for all older games
To achieve such a result, we learn that NVIDIA was inspired by the work on Quake II and Minecraft, but also that the RTX tool has gained thickness. A free modding platform called RTX Remix is also in production. The latter promises to bring the technology to as many people as possible so that all legacy video game productions can take advantage of the ray tracing feature.
This sophisticated modding platform, dubbed NVIDIA RTX Remix, allows adding ray tracing with just a few clicks, giving modders the tools to create ambitious remasters, even for games that couldn’t be modified before. Nvidia
The RTX Remix platform will be available shortly and, good news, it will support many productions, starting with games running on DirectX 8 and DirectX 9.
On his side, Portal with RTX will be released in November. All owners of a PC version of the game are offered everything for free.
