Portal Prelude: RTX Is Out Today and We’ve Got the Scoop on RTX IO, RTX Remix, and Much More from NVIDIA
Today, NVIDIA has readied a big surprise called Portal: Prelude RTX for PC gamers. Designed as the latest showcase title for RTX Remix, Portal: Prelude RTX will be available on Steam starting at 12 PM PT as a free download to all owners of the original game.
It is a community remaster of Portal: Prelude, the fan-favorite award-winning mod for Valve's game. It's the first game made by modders who had early access to the RTX Remix creator toolkit, and it was designed to leverage all of NVIDIA's cutting-edge technologies: path tracing, NVIDIA DLSS 2 and 3 (which boost performance by 5X at 4K and max settings, according to NVIDIA, allowing 80+FPS on RTX 4080 and 4090 GPUs), NVIDIA Reflex, and NVIDIA RTX IO. The long-awaited suite of GPU-based loading and decompression technologies debuts here, delivering 5X faster texture load times in Portal: Prelude RTX and reducing occupied disk space by 44%.
On top of that, the remaster packs a challenging 8-10 hour campaign composed of 19 new test chambers, new advanced gameplay mechanics, and a fully voiced story with NPCs.
Wccftech has the scoop on Portal: Prelude RTX and all its features, thanks to a chat with Nyle Usmani, Product Manager for RTX Remix at NVIDIA. As a side note, there's a new Game Ready driver available for download today, optimized for this RTX remaster.
What was involved in adding RTX to Portal: Prelude RTX?
We developed RTX Remix to make it easy to turn RTX On in classic games. Using RTX Remix, all of the geometry, textures, and lights from Portal Prelude were converted to USD (the universal scene descriptor file format) and then imported into the application to be further modified. Every asset in the game was either ported into Portal: Prelude RTX from Portal With
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