PC game modding is colossal – over 10 billion game mods are downloaded each year. Mods enhance graphics as faster GPUs are released, extend a game’s lifespan with new content, and expand their audience with total gameplay conversions. With NVIDIA RTX Remix, we’re enabling modders to remaster their favorite classic games with full ray tracing (also known as path tracing), NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, modern physically-based rendering (PBR) assets, and generative AI texture tools. Starting now all modders can download the NVIDIA RTX Remix Open Beta, for free, from here.
RTX Remix has already delivered stunning remasters in NVIDIA’s own Portal with RTX, and the modder-made Portal: Prelude RTX. Now, Orbifold Studios is using RTX Remix to develop Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project, a community remaster of one of the highest-rated games of all time.
The NVIDIA RTX Remix Open Beta is available now! Built on NVIDIA Omniverse, RTX Remix allows modders to remaster the classics with full ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, modern physically-based rendering assets, and generative AI texture tools.
Check out their latest Half-Life 2 RTX gameplay trailer, showcasing their Remix updates for Ravenholm:
NVIDIA RTX Remix Open Beta Available Now
NVIDIA RTX Remix, built on NVIDIA Omniverse and part of the NVIDIA Studio suite of tools for creators, is a platform for remastering fixed function pipeline DirectX 8 and 9 games, such as Call of Duty 2, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Garry’s Mod, Freedom Fighters, Need for Speed Underground 2, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. Head to the ModDB’s Remix community resources to see the latest set of compatible games, and get technical info about compatibility in our Remix documentation.
A test scene from Bethesda Softworks’ The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, showcasing the capabilities of RTX Remix, and demonstrating how modders can apply an RTX upgrade to other classic games:
Remix consists of two components: an application for creating lights and adding remastered assets into a game scene, and a runtime for capturing classic game scenes and injecting the remastered assets back into the game at playback. With the release of the RTX Remix application in Open Beta, the full power of RTX Remix is now in the hands of experienced modders to make next level RTX mods.
A Starter Guide and Table of Contents can be found here.
