Half-Life 2 RTX is struggling on Steam, as players face performance woes
The free Half-Life 2 RTX demo overhauls the classic FPS from Deadlock and Portal 2 creator Valve, but Steam players are ...
Major Half-Life 2 Visual Update Makes The Game Feel Brand New
The demo version of Half-Life 2 RTX has been made available today, bringing tons of visual improvements to this iconic ...
The Half-Life 2 RTX demo is out now and well worth a go… if your graphics card can take it
Head over to the Half-Life 2 RTX steam page and it's available to download. Once in, you can play through Ravenholm, and if ...
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Half-Life 2 RTX is very impressive, but that’s just how I remember the game looking
Back when Valve released Half-Life 2 in 2004, it was probably the best-looking game I’d ever seen. The game’s pre-baked ...
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The Half-Life 2 RTX demo proposes a nice visual upgrade and not much else
The demo for RTX gives aglimpse at the mod's comprehensive visual overhaul, though don't expect it to evoke much besides ...
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Half-Life 2 RTX - Here's 40 Minutes of the Iconic FPS with Full Ray Tracing
The Half-Life 2 RTX demo is now available for GeForce RTX gamers, and thanks to NVIDIA we had the chance to check it out before its release.
The Half-Life 2 RTX demo takes five times more HDD space than Half-Life 2 itself
The Half-Life 2 RTX demo is finally here, but you'll need over 40 GB of PC space if you want to play the enhancement of Valve's FPS.
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Nvidia releasing playable Half-Life 2 RTX demo with "cutting-edge ray tracing"
Half-Life 2 is getting a "cutting-edge ray tracing" overhaul courtesy of Nvidia's RTX Remix modding tools, and there's a playable demo coming on 18th March ahead of a full release. As Nvidia ...
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Half-Life 2 RTX Demo Release March 18
NVIDIA has set a March 18 launch date for the Half-Life 2 RTX Demo, which will be available as a free mod on Steam for all Half-Life 2 owners. This demo, created with the RTX Remix toolkit by ...
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Remembering Viktor Antonov, Beloved Artist Behind
It was his unmistakable style that defined Half-Life 2's City 17 and Dishonored’s Dunwall, two of the most distinctive and unforgettable locations in game history. We spoke to people who knew ...
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Half-Life 2 running with just 8MB of VRAM is a beautiful wireframe mess
A YouTuber has successfully run Half-Life 2 on the 3D Phantom XP 2800 with just 8MB of memory, sacrificing most if not all textures, lighting, shadows, and other effects.
Getting Half-Life 2 to work on 8 MB of VRAM means turning it into an eerily befitting voidscape: 'there were absolutely no effects left'
To put the whole 8 MB thing in context, one GPU from the HL2 period was the ATI (now AMD) Radeon 9700 which launched in 2002 and had 128 MB of VRAM. And as the YouTuber points out, a lot of cards back ...