It’s Not Half-Life 3, but You Can Soon Replay Half-Life 2’s Best Levels With Beautiful New Graphics

If you’re like me, you still hear the squeaking noise from the Half-Life 2 pheropods in your sleep. The game’s famed Nova Prospekt level, involving you conducting the best prison break of all time, is returning and will look better than ever. Next week, PC gamers can grab and play a demo of the RTX Remix version of levels from Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt with all-new textures, lighting, and ray tracing support. In a blog post, Nvidia said the demo should be available on March 18, and anybody who owns Half-Life 2 should be able to download and play it immediately. You can nab the demo on Steam. The mod should allow players to use more of the capabilities of Nvidia’s most recent GPUs, including multi-frame gen that uses AI to insert multiple frames between generated frames. At 4x frame gen, you may get over 200 fps with ray tracing on. The video implies you could go from 30 to 260 fps, but don’t let that fool you. Nvidia has said time and time again that you need at least around 60 fps ... Read full article.