WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.520 we've been waiting over 20 years for halflife 3 and almost 2 years for 00:00:04.680 --> 00:00:11.240 halflife 2 RTX with no release date in sight which has been a pain point for 00:00:09.440 --> 00:00:14.879 several Gamers considering how much money some of them have spent on ra 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:23.240 tracing cards with uh very little to show for it on two now oh my God David 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:23.240 is that halflife 2 RTX it's 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:31.080 here yeah what's the big deal I don't get it 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:37.160 Elijah it's only one the best games ever made and now it looks incredible so sit 00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:39.760 down and get educated about our sponsor 00:00:37.160 --> 00:00:43.600 Forum check out their Rings watches and necklaces made from unique materials 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:48.199 like gibian meteorite and ethically sourced antlers click our Link in the 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:53.039 video description and use code LT to get 20% off when halflife 2 came out it did 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:57.680 a few things to stand out as one of the best games of all time it continued the 00:00:55.359 --> 00:01:01.600 immersive storytelling of halflife 1 no scene transition loading screens and no 00:00:59.519 --> 00:01:04.760 cut scenes the AI was super impressive and when coupled with the voice lines 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:09.280 from the combine as they do actions like throw frags or try to flank you it felt 00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:13.799 like they were really hunting you down and last but not least it had a ton of 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:17.080 physics based combat and puzzles I get how it was revolutionary for the games 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:21.079 industry as a whole but why would I go back and play this old game when I could 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:24.280 play something new like halflife Alex that's where remix comes in we'll dive 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:28.119 in a bit deeper later but Invidia created tools that let modders take an 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:32.720 old game and breathe new life into it Ray tracing upscale textur remastered 3D 00:01:31.119 --> 00:01:37.439 assets all the tools you need to make it look modern try for 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:40.560 yourself okay I mean immediately yes it does look better right it it looks 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:46.399 pretty great I was going to say something very inappropriate the white stains on the like graffiti graffiti I 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:53.000 couldn't tell it's graffiti that doesn't look like anything what it looks like graffiti oh look at that detail okay 00:01:50.600 --> 00:01:56.119 that is actually quite a big difference I'm kind of Blown Away it's almost like 00:01:54.360 --> 00:01:59.399 there's like 23 years of difference there's a modding team that actually has 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:03.759 been working on this and that's why it's taken so long is because they're fully 00:02:01.320 --> 00:02:07.399 overhauling essentially the entire game I don't know if it's because we're in 00:02:04.960 --> 00:02:11.879 pre-release there is a bit of stuttering and frame tearing I've noticed we've 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:17.120 also got frame gen turned on right now to hit the like 250 plus FPS that we're 00:02:15.040 --> 00:02:19.599 getting got it okay and within remix itself you can change a ton of settings 00:02:18.640 --> 00:02:24.760 like I don't know if you played portal RTX but you can turn on like full path 00:02:21.760 --> 00:02:26.440 tracing uh you can turn on just base RTX 00:02:24.760 --> 00:02:30.200 maybe turn frame gen off and just keep normal dlss yeah let's start with that 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:35.040 yeah we could start with dlss off and just go full native 4K I don't know 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:40.280 about that my 1% lows hit six there for a second um I wonder if it like was just 00:02:37.519 --> 00:02:46.319 a maybe it was just loading yeah cuz now it's back down to my 1% lows are like my 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:48.720 average of 86 87 look at the texture on 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:52.599 this freaking wall man that's wild okay this is pretty cool that's all I that's 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:55.400 all I got to say oh my game's better no they've updated the story this guy 00:02:53.720 --> 00:02:59.640 Almost Got Away Almost got away and then he got burnt alive grass is like Sprites 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:03.920 mine's M mine's definitely a model of something some sort let's go into light 00:03:02.239 --> 00:03:10.239 and dark because you can kind of see there's like a stark transition where the game knows I'm going into darkness 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:12.480 and it just immediately adjusts it yeah 00:03:10.239 --> 00:03:15.959 and slowly yeah look at that the original did have baked in Shadows and 00:03:14.519 --> 00:03:19.799 there have also been some lighting updates over the years like that's why 00:03:17.519 --> 00:03:24.760 the lighting already looks pretty solid for such an old game and to be clear 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:30.040 we're playing on a 5090 right now um at 4K so your mileage may vary we'll talk a 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:33.640 bit more about minimum specs and stuff never played this game I didn't yeah 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:38.159 let's both look at our oh yeah look at the models way better oh look at that 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:43.080 swinging into the light oh it's so good and then back out wait even look at the 00:03:39.959 --> 00:03:45.159 glow wild that's so good and even just 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:51.680 the uh the effect on the gravity gun itself the orange laser or whatever Las 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:54.200 looks way better oo that okay yeah okay 00:03:51.680 --> 00:04:00.000 oh my God it's not even that's so much better I actually did notice there's a 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:04.959 hard I have a hard line here with my lighting uh stay there turn off dlss cuz 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:11.680 I don't even know if the regular oh my goodness 33 FPS 7 6% 6 and 1% lows still 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:15.799 a ton of R tracing noise though even it might even be worse yeah yeah it's 00:04:13.480 --> 00:04:18.680 actually wow it's a Transformer it is set to Transformer okay yeah it does 00:04:17.320 --> 00:04:22.560 support the new Transformer model which is great uh typically better than CNN 00:04:21.239 --> 00:04:28.000 and some was the middle left yeah it's got none applied right now so let's try like 8X oh wow that's way worse oh yeah 00:04:26.440 --> 00:04:32.759 around the Windows there let's return it to default settings then change it back 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:37.400 turn dlss back on according to NVIDIA they published some numbers recently 00:04:34.080 --> 00:04:39.160 that said 90% of Gamers use dlss so 00:04:37.400 --> 00:04:42.840 maybe this is a game that's just like everyone's going to turn it on so we might as well make it better with it I I 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:48.880 don't know I feel like those numbers are probably a little misleading I don't imagine that it's Gamers 90% of the time 00:04:46.320 --> 00:04:53.960 are using dlss it's 90% of Gamers have used dlss maybe yeah since our frame 00:04:51.479 --> 00:04:57.720 rate is so high with dlss turning on frame gen probably doesn't feel that 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:01.600 awful actually oh yeah the next the best part 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:05.400 that's when you really get to try with the gravity gun and you start murdering 00:05:03.479 --> 00:05:09.919 things with the saw blades how do I get oh you figure it 00:05:06.880 --> 00:05:12.039 puzzles halflife was the best game when 00:05:09.919 --> 00:05:15.520 it comes to like giving you a mechanic and then teaching you how to use it so 00:05:13.520 --> 00:05:18.919 you'd get a gravity gun and it was like oh I can't go through here what do I do 00:05:17.280 --> 00:05:24.080 oh you move it with the physics based gravity gun it's a good game you can just end it at a good game I get it it's 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:28.280 okay the best game I'm learning now how much better your scene looks than right 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:33.280 click right click the canister I get it right click the canister right click it 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:38.120 no speak nicely to me please right click the canister okay all right now throw 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:42.960 the canister at wall wait wait don't do it yet I want to take like a look at this room and enjoy the lighting of this 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:47.960 room first get get into the same position as him with the canister look at how much it's glowing W off of the 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:53.039 canister with the soft shadow on the wall too even like the blood splatter 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:54.520 looks so much better it really does 00:05:53.039 --> 00:05:58.800 actually I wonder yeah it looks like it's like look at this go go up to the 00:05:56.880 --> 00:06:03.319 wall and just right click it I wouldn't be surprised if it does emit some light 00:06:00.919 --> 00:06:08.960 in the old one nope it doesn't wow this is a RTX on baby only possible the gun 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:12.880 itself has glow like there is a bit of glow around the gun but it doesn't look 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:17.280 like it's on the wall look at those saws like your saws look more dangerous than 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:20.039 my saws they look like saws they do these still look like saws they just 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:24.880 don't look as sharp where's the microtransactions there aren't any 00:06:21.880 --> 00:06:26.800 where's the where's the uhoh uhoh uhoh 00:06:24.880 --> 00:06:31.000 uh-oh yeah yours just like catch fire that does that's not emitting any light 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:37.400 oh no no my God what you're doing it wrong you've got a gravity gun you've 00:06:33.400 --> 00:06:39.880 got free ammunition oh oh 00:06:37.400 --> 00:06:46.160 boom that's pretty cool oh dude it's like right there can 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:48.880 hear him so uh you can pick up those blades yeah you can pick up the saw yeah 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:55.680 you can rip the saw blades out of the wall and then Chuck them at people let fortnite has this mechanics like wow 00:06:53.479 --> 00:07:01.599 fortnite they finally caught up to halflife 2 yeah let's uh press F oh [ __ ] 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:05.199 just like that's just like Source engine flashlight yeah but like yours looks so 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:09.240 much better than does mine have like a fade on does your it looks like your is 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:13.680 actually properly disperses the Shadow and the lighting whereas David is just 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:17.000 kind of a solid Circle Chuck the barrels out Chuck the barrel the barrel I have 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:21.479 my n mil oh my god dude I'm going to crank 90s oh my God you're wasting your 00:07:19.400 --> 00:07:26.120 ammo this is how you oh what was that what was that oh my 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:30.919 God this is showing a lot of the limitations of the modern extra framess 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:34.319 like the way that the oh yeah the Shadow from Shadow is looking really bad and if 00:07:33.280 --> 00:07:38.680 you look up you can see all the tearing in the 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:41.680 blade we lock at 60 FPS for capture so that might be exacerbating the issue but 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:45.400 it certainly does not look good and look at the Shadows on those cobblestones 00:07:43.400 --> 00:07:48.800 this was actually shown off in 2021 but it's the first neural Shader to come out 00:07:47.400 --> 00:07:51.960 I don't know a ton about it or how it works exactly but it looks like it adds 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:55.080 some more detail and contrast when lighting is involved with supposedly 00:07:54.120 --> 00:08:00.240 better performance ah that looks so sick it 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:04.520 looks so much better it did look really good I can't wait to play through half 2 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:08.680 for like the 10th time don't do that oh that worked don't okay don't tell me how 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:13.919 to game the point of gaming is to the gunfire cast light too it does why are 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:17.199 you so close when you explode things we can go we can go to the next spot do you 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:21.960 need me to play it for you Elijah no I can do this man is this what's going to 00:08:19.520 --> 00:08:25.759 get me to buy a 90 yeah you cancelled your order right I 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:30.479 didn't cancel it lonus gets to buy it when it gets here Fri lius I'm keeping 00:08:28.599 --> 00:08:33.880 it as much as I like this I feel like it's a little overdone and I actually 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:38.880 kind of prefer the orangey flames on that one I was going to say it's the hot 00:08:35.800 --> 00:08:40.240 spots on this are so hot I like the way 00:08:38.880 --> 00:08:46.279 it casts the light but I don't like the fire itself especially cuz it's still like that half frame rate uh animation 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:50.200 oh you're right yeah it is a weird especially in the top corner here you 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:56.240 can see it the character does not look good and the ghosting around him looks 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:59.839 really bad that is horrible oh Jesus God 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:01.000 damn they heard you talking yeah as much 00:08:59.839 --> 00:09:07.399 as we were enjoying the visuals and everything in this game we are on a maxed out computer this is a 5090 what's 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:11.600 the recommended for this the minimum spec is all that's up on the steam page 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:18.240 so far and it's an i58600 for the CPU which is pretty old 00:09:15.160 --> 00:09:20.760 and an RTX 3060 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:26.360 TI that's probably targeting you know like 1080p 30 maybe 60 I don't know 00:09:23.760 --> 00:09:31.480 frame gen whatever but let's try it let's see just how well a 3060 I can 00:09:29.640 --> 00:09:37.240 actually run this game turns out not good just the menu default 00:09:34.640 --> 00:09:40.519 settings looks horrible yeah there's some weirdness like this the stuff in 00:09:38.880 --> 00:09:44.160 front actually looks okay but as soon as you start looking at this shimmery with 00:09:42.560 --> 00:09:49.240 the trees and everything it looks like old dlss over here it's the low preset 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:53.920 so zero minimum light bounces and two maximum light bounces uh I'm ultra with 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:59.480 one and four yeah of course it's going to look better I don't have any post 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:02.519 effects on oh yeah I have all of them I 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:06.320 don't want to turn them on but I must do 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:08.240 it 1% low of zero yo I've never seen 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:16.440 that before in my life time I've ever seen that 11 FPS look at your 00:10:12.040 --> 00:10:18.600 blur I wonder if there's motion blur on 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:26.000 remember kids if you have a 3060 TI you too can enjoy zero 00:10:20.959 --> 00:10:28.320 FPS just don't try to play it at 4K I'm 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:32.959 sure if we were let's let's try changing resolution down to like 1080P and just 00:10:30.640 --> 00:10:36.839 see how it performs oh and it's on auto for dlss mode Let's try Ultra 00:10:34.760 --> 00:10:43.440 performance first before maybe that's enough that's upscaling from 1286 by 736 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:46.839 it's like a PS3 game hell yeah oh that does not look good at least our frame 00:10:44.800 --> 00:10:50.680 rate's a lot better 1% lows are like 19 to 20 it's still in the unplayable Zone 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:54.880 like 22 frames for a first person shooter is not a good time I will say 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:57.920 though looks better than the original and so it's like a debatable which one 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:03.240 is better than the other like there's obviously things about this that are better but and I think if you're at like 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:06.959 a static image just looking still yes it looks a lot better right in motion the 00:11:05.160 --> 00:11:11.279 moment you move it is immediately like I would just play the original I'm going to go back to the default settings okay 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:16.040 it's so interesting that they're willing to call this the minimum I this is 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:21.639 unplayable in my just opinion just seeing it right like try native 00:11:18.880 --> 00:11:26.480 1080p on like low I want to see what what it's like without dlss I actually 00:11:23.680 --> 00:11:30.240 don't know if I have that option window we might have to do it in Windows and 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:35.720 then change the ual resolution of the Monitor and then launch it w w I'm just 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:38.760 having fun shooting these pants that's why the original game was so good you 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:42.399 just find random physics stuff to interact with like it's actually a huge 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:45.600 part of modern gaming that I really don't like is the lack of like physics 00:11:44.079 --> 00:11:49.360 interactions it's a big part of why morrowwind Oblivion and Skyrim are 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:54.600 actually so fun is because they have real interactable stuff with physics 00:11:51.680 --> 00:11:59.800 it's said vsync as well okay um let's do c so we can oh CNN Transformer yo 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:06.160 Transformer let's do quality which will give us the what we were at 00:12:02.560 --> 00:12:08.600 before is like just gone yeah every time 00:12:06.160 --> 00:12:14.360 I up even with the birds like the trails behind the birds there look at that it's 00:12:10.800 --> 00:12:16.920 trying real hard would you rather play 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:20.560 at 4K with high frame rates in the original visuals or these frame rates in 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:26.880 R traced if it was these frame rate like 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:30.440 1080p this frame rate but like quality settings turned up a little bit I would 00:12:28.800 --> 00:12:35.959 choose that I think that's not your option you're getting this performance 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:37.440 36 frames with drops to like 10 or just 00:12:35.959 --> 00:12:41.920 playing I could know I'd rather play the original as much as it's beautiful like 00:12:39.839 --> 00:12:46.320 it's definitely a big big bummer I love the RTX remix stuff but the fact that it 00:12:43.880 --> 00:12:51.000 has such big performance overhead makes it so inaccessible to so many people I 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:54.800 know such a bummer well the 4060 right just became the most common GPU I think 00:12:52.839 --> 00:12:59.959 on Steam Hardware surveys oh it just crashed it just crashed okay again we're 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:04.199 actually pre-release so yeah any bugs we encounter could whatever they gave us 00:13:02.079 --> 00:13:07.320 access like a whole weekend early mhm but if we're looking at like kind of 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:12.560 near the bottom end of the RTX capable cards as the recommended or minimum 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:14.560 specs it is minimum it is minimum like 00:13:12.560 --> 00:13:18.880 the most common card being that 4060 I don't know like it's going to be 00:13:16.959 --> 00:13:23.880 inaccessible to a lot of people this is definitely something that if you want to 00:13:20.959 --> 00:13:27.680 make your old games look way better you're going to have to pay for better 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:31.959 Hardware to run it and uh that's just kind of the UN forunate reality of it 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:36.120 well hopefully as more and more generations of this technology comes out 00:13:33.959 --> 00:13:41.440 we we start to see it work on mid-tier Hardware 100% but as it is now it's 00:13:38.560 --> 00:13:46.440 definitely uh an elite thing which is a huge bummer it looks sick but how does 00:13:44.040 --> 00:13:50.839 any of this work according to NVIDIA remix is a modding platform for 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:55.040 remastering a catalog of fixed function directex 8 and n games it works by 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:59.160 analyzing everything in real time with the bridge the bridge sends this info to 00:13:57.079 --> 00:14:03.920 the EnV remix Bridge which converts 32-bit to 64-bit giving them access to 00:14:01.800 --> 00:14:07.880 more memory the bridge then sends info and instructions to the remix renderer 00:14:06.079 --> 00:14:11.759 which is what's really driving all of what you're seeing right now path 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:15.560 tracing and asset swapping NVIDIA's got a thorough explainer and a guide to 00:14:13.800 --> 00:14:18.680 diying this stuff if you want to try it out for yourself and we'll have it 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:24.160 linked below but what I want to point out is that as super cool as this is 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:26.240 it's not a simple one button solution to 00:14:24.160 --> 00:14:30.680 magically make your older games look awesome to get something to this level 00:14:28.800 --> 00:14:35.480 it's still takes a bunch of work to capture the original game and then add 00:14:32.680 --> 00:14:39.199 remastered or upscaled assets Riley and Luke tried out a few remix titles on an 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:43.360 episode of gamelink a while back and the results are impressive but not as 00:14:41.040 --> 00:14:47.199 mind-blowing as what orbifold Studios has managed to do here thanks to 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:51.880 dedication and hard work all right Elijah what do you think this has been 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:55.920 the most I've been compelled to go back and play halflife ah cuz everyone's told 00:14:53.880 --> 00:15:00.079 me you should go back and play it it's revolutionary it is and I've always 00:14:57.959 --> 00:15:05.560 looked at it like nah this looks incredible I don't have a 00:15:03.040 --> 00:15:09.199 590 but I would be compelled to go back and playing it if it looked like this if 00:15:06.880 --> 00:15:13.199 all this does is allow you know a few thousand younger Gamers to go back and 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:16.680 enjoy halflife 2 as much as we did back in the day maybe it was all worth it 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:21.199 shout out to the community for making all of this happen yeah NVIDIA has 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:24.519 created a super cool tool but if it wasn't for the modding teams actually 00:15:22.800 --> 00:15:28.480 using it we wouldn't get cool experiences like we're playing today I 00:15:26.680 --> 00:15:33.000 can't wait to see what the future has in store for older games and I can't wait 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:36.000 to tell you about our sponsor thorum whether you need to pick up a gift for 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:40.920 someone special or just want to treat yourself to something nice rings are 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:45.120 always a great bet and well thorum has some of the most unique options out 00:15:42.560 --> 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