Nvidia reveals Portal with RTX. It’s a free mod for this PC classic that is adding Ray Tracing effects and also support for DLSS 3.0 recently announced along with the new ‘Ada Lovelace’ graphics cards.
Portal with RTX: Nvidia develops a mod to add Ray Tracing and DLSS 3.0
Portal is a classic video game that was released in 2007 and is a kind of spin-off of Half Life. The game proposes different challenges of puzzles opening portals in a laboratory, where you have to use your wits to escape.
This classic will receive a mod, or DLC, free of Nvidia, which was developed by the studio Lightspeed Studios. This mode adds different effects of Ray Tracing that improve lighting, reflections, etc., giving it a very realistic look, which will surely force many players to revisit the facilities of Aperture Science once again. In addition to Ray Tracing effects, DLSS 3.0 is also added to improve performance.
Nvidia has updated Portal with some high-resolution textures based on physics and models with more polygons. The result is what we can see in the video presentation, where it looks like a ‘current’ game and not 15 years ago.
“Portal with RTX is a free DLC for all Portal owners developed by NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios. Experience the critically acclaimed, award-winning Portal reimagined with Ray Tracing. Every frame of the game is updated with stunning full Ray Tracing, new high-resolution physics-based handcrafted textures, and new enhanced high-poly models reminiscent of the originals, all in stunning 4K. In Portal with RTX, full ray tracing transforms each level, allowing light to bounce off and be affected by the geometry and materials in the scene. Every light is ray-traced and casts shadows, indirect lighting from global illumination naturally brightens and darkens rooms, volumetric ray-traced lighting scatters through fog and smoke, and shadows are pixel-perfect. Portal with RTX supports all GPUs with Ray Tracing capabilities.
You can check out more information about Portal with RTX on Steam. It will be released in November.