RTX Remix Open Beta to Launch on January 22, NVIDIA Confirms
During the CES 2024 Special Address livestream, NVIDIA announced the release date of the long-anticipated RTX Remix Creator Kit Open Beta.
RTX Remix was originally unveiled in September 2022 alongside the GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards. NVIDIA promised modders an AI-assisted modding platform geared towards 'remastering' older games with cutting-edge features like AI texture upscaling, Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 3, Reflex, RTX IO, path tracing, and more.
RTX Remix works by intercepting the original game's draw calls with a bridge, converting it from DirectX8 or 9 (it doesn't currently support the most recent DX releases since it was designed to work on fixed function pipeline games) to a Vulkan rendering pipeline, which allows the RTX Renderer to add the aforementioned features to these classic PC games. Assets are captured and converted to the Universal Scene Description (USD) open framework so they can then be tweaked in NVIDIA's Omniverse software.
NVIDIA showed Portal RTX, which was remastered by their own Lightspeed Studios team using RTX Remix, and a demo of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. That was more than enough to make modders hooked, as testified by my interview with Skyblivion lead developer Rebelzize.
As soon as Portal RTX dropped in December 2022, modders began 'hacking' the RTX Remix framework into various games, such as Morrowind itself, Half-Life 2, World of Warcraft, Battlefield 1942, Torchlight, Mount and Blade, Need for Speed Underground 2, and more.
In April 2203, NVIDIA released the software's runtime via an open source license. However, it still wasn't the full creator kit, which was only provided to select modding teams in early access so they could start working on big projects like
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