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Half-Life 2 RTX looks like it's coming along quite nicely, if you're a fan of everything being a bit shinier.

NVIDIA recently put up a blog post to celebrate Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary that's coming up — checking notes to see if it's real — tomorrow, oh wow, it's really that old? Anyway, NVIDIA put up a new video with fresh footage of Half-Life 2 RTX in a new anniversary tribute you can watch below:

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NVIDIA are also giving away a custom wrapped Half-Life 2 GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER graphics card. I must admit, it looks pretty sweet. Although you have to engage with NVIDIA across either X, TikTok, Facebook, or Instagram to actually enter to win it.

See more in the blog post.

It will be available as a "free DLC for all Half-Life 2 owners". You'll likely need Proton to play it on Linux.

Half-Life 2 RTX

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scaine about 13 hours ago
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Looks lovely! Still wouldn't buy an Nvidia card!
pb about 11 hours ago
A remake I didn't know I needed... but I have an AMD GPU...
Termy about 10 hours ago
Quoting: scaineLooks lovely! Still wouldn't buy an Nvidia card!

And wouldn't create an account on one of these cesspool-plattforms for the chance to win one either ;)

The "Remake" looks nice for sure - but 95% of the improvement is either in the assets/textures or could have been done almost as good with non-pathtraced lightning (but 3 times the FPS instead ;) ).
GOL_USER about 9 hours ago
Such a shame this is limited to nvidia only. Wish tech would be more open and improve things for everyone instead of keeping these silly technologies to themselves as a way to lock down their own brand.

HL is my favorite, be nice to have a better updated version that all can play instead of a limited upgraded version only green team can play.
const about 8 hours ago
Quoting: GOL_USERSuch a shame this is limited to nvidia only. Wish tech would be more open and improve things for everyone instead of keeping these silly technologies to themselves as a way to lock down their own brand.

HL is my favorite, be nice to have a better updated version that all can play instead of a limited upgraded version only green team can play.

No chance to run it without path-tracing to enjoy the updated models and textures on AMD?
chr about 3 hours ago
Quoting: GOL_USERSuch a shame this is limited to nvidia only. Wish tech would be more open and improve things for everyone instead of keeping these silly technologies to themselves as a way to lock down their own brand.

HL is my favorite, be nice to have a better updated version that all can play instead of a limited upgraded version only green team can play.

Capitalism would have to be changed radically or replaced for that to be possible. 😄
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