we've been waiting over 20 years for halflife 3 and almost 2 years for
halflife 2 RTX with no release date in sight which has been a pain point for
several Gamers considering how much money some of them have spent on ra
tracing cards with uh very little to show for it on two now oh my God David
is that halflife 2 RTX it's
here yeah what's the big deal I don't get it
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a few things to stand out as one of the best games of all time it continued the
immersive storytelling of halflife 1 no scene transition loading screens and no
cut scenes the AI was super impressive and when coupled with the voice lines
from the combine as they do actions like throw frags or try to flank you it felt
like they were really hunting you down and last but not least it had a ton of
physics based combat and puzzles I get how it was revolutionary for the games
industry as a whole but why would I go back and play this old game when I could
play something new like halflife Alex that's where remix comes in we'll dive
in a bit deeper later but Invidia created tools that let modders take an
old game and breathe new life into it Ray tracing upscale textur remastered 3D
assets all the tools you need to make it look modern try for
yourself okay I mean immediately yes it does look better right it it looks
pretty great I was going to say something very inappropriate the white stains on the like graffiti graffiti I
couldn't tell it's graffiti that doesn't look like anything what it looks like graffiti oh look at that detail okay
that is actually quite a big difference I'm kind of Blown Away it's almost like
there's like 23 years of difference there's a modding team that actually has
been working on this and that's why it's taken so long is because they're fully
overhauling essentially the entire game I don't know if it's because we're in
pre-release there is a bit of stuttering and frame tearing I've noticed we've
also got frame gen turned on right now to hit the like 250 plus FPS that we're
getting got it okay and within remix itself you can change a ton of settings
like I don't know if you played portal RTX but you can turn on like full path
tracing uh you can turn on just base RTX
maybe turn frame gen off and just keep normal dlss yeah let's start with that
yeah we could start with dlss off and just go full native 4K I don't know
about that my 1% lows hit six there for a second um I wonder if it like was just
a maybe it was just loading yeah cuz now it's back down to my 1% lows are like my
average of 86 87 look at the texture on
this freaking wall man that's wild okay this is pretty cool that's all I that's
all I got to say oh my game's better no they've updated the story this guy
Almost Got Away Almost got away and then he got burnt alive grass is like Sprites
mine's M mine's definitely a model of something some sort let's go into light
and dark because you can kind of see there's like a stark transition where the game knows I'm going into darkness
and it just immediately adjusts it yeah
and slowly yeah look at that the original did have baked in Shadows and
there have also been some lighting updates over the years like that's why
the lighting already looks pretty solid for such an old game and to be clear
we're playing on a 5090 right now um at 4K so your mileage may vary we'll talk a
bit more about minimum specs and stuff never played this game I didn't yeah
let's both look at our oh yeah look at the models way better oh look at that
swinging into the light oh it's so good and then back out wait even look at the
glow wild that's so good and even just
the uh the effect on the gravity gun itself the orange laser or whatever Las
looks way better oo that okay yeah okay
oh my God it's not even that's so much better I actually did notice there's a
hard I have a hard line here with my lighting uh stay there turn off dlss cuz
I don't even know if the regular oh my goodness 33 FPS 7 6% 6 and 1% lows still
a ton of R tracing noise though even it might even be worse yeah yeah it's
actually wow it's a Transformer it is set to Transformer okay yeah it does
support the new Transformer model which is great uh typically better than CNN
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
around the Windows there let's return it to default settings then change it back
turn dlss back on according to NVIDIA they published some numbers recently
that said 90% of Gamers use dlss so
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
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
are using dlss it's 90% of Gamers have used dlss maybe yeah since our frame
rate is so high with dlss turning on frame gen probably doesn't feel that
awful actually oh yeah the next the best part
that's when you really get to try with the gravity gun and you start murdering
things with the saw blades how do I get oh you figure it
puzzles halflife was the best game when
it comes to like giving you a mechanic and then teaching you how to use it so
you'd get a gravity gun and it was like oh I can't go through here what do I do
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
okay the best game I'm learning now how much better your scene looks than right
click right click the canister I get it right click the canister right click it
no speak nicely to me please right click the canister okay all right now throw
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
room first get get into the same position as him with the canister look at how much it's glowing W off of the
canister with the soft shadow on the wall too even like the blood splatter
looks so much better it really does
actually I wonder yeah it looks like it's like look at this go go up to the
wall and just right click it I wouldn't be surprised if it does emit some light
in the old one nope it doesn't wow this is a RTX on baby only possible the gun
itself has glow like there is a bit of glow around the gun but it doesn't look
like it's on the wall look at those saws like your saws look more dangerous than
my saws they look like saws they do these still look like saws they just
don't look as sharp where's the microtransactions there aren't any
where's the where's the uhoh uhoh uhoh
uh-oh yeah yours just like catch fire that does that's not emitting any light
oh no no my God what you're doing it wrong you've got a gravity gun you've
got free ammunition oh oh
boom that's pretty cool oh dude it's like right there can
hear him so uh you can pick up those blades yeah you can pick up the saw yeah
you can rip the saw blades out of the wall and then Chuck them at people let fortnite has this mechanics like wow
fortnite they finally caught up to halflife 2 yeah let's uh press F oh [ __ ]
just like that's just like Source engine flashlight yeah but like yours looks so
much better than does mine have like a fade on does your it looks like your is
actually properly disperses the Shadow and the lighting whereas David is just
kind of a solid Circle Chuck the barrels out Chuck the barrel the barrel I have
my n mil oh my god dude I'm going to crank 90s oh my God you're wasting your
ammo this is how you oh what was that what was that oh my
God this is showing a lot of the limitations of the modern extra framess
like the way that the oh yeah the Shadow from Shadow is looking really bad and if
you look up you can see all the tearing in the
blade we lock at 60 FPS for capture so that might be exacerbating the issue but
it certainly does not look good and look at the Shadows on those cobblestones
this was actually shown off in 2021 but it's the first neural Shader to come out
I don't know a ton about it or how it works exactly but it looks like it adds
some more detail and contrast when lighting is involved with supposedly
better performance ah that looks so sick it
looks so much better it did look really good I can't wait to play through half 2
for like the 10th time don't do that oh that worked don't okay don't tell me how
to game the point of gaming is to the gunfire cast light too it does why are
you so close when you explode things we can go we can go to the next spot do you
need me to play it for you Elijah no I can do this man is this what's going to
get me to buy a 90 yeah you cancelled your order right I
didn't cancel it lonus gets to buy it when it gets here Fri lius I'm keeping
it as much as I like this I feel like it's a little overdone and I actually
kind of prefer the orangey flames on that one I was going to say it's the hot
spots on this are so hot I like the way
it casts the light but I don't like the fire itself especially cuz it's still like that half frame rate uh animation
oh you're right yeah it is a weird especially in the top corner here you
can see it the character does not look good and the ghosting around him looks
really bad that is horrible oh Jesus God
damn they heard you talking yeah as much
as we were enjoying the visuals and everything in this game we are on a maxed out computer this is a 5090 what's
the recommended for this the minimum spec is all that's up on the steam page
so far and it's an i58600 for the CPU which is pretty old
and an RTX 3060
TI that's probably targeting you know like 1080p 30 maybe 60 I don't know
frame gen whatever but let's try it let's see just how well a 3060 I can
actually run this game turns out not good just the menu default
settings looks horrible yeah there's some weirdness like this the stuff in
front actually looks okay but as soon as you start looking at this shimmery with
the trees and everything it looks like old dlss over here it's the low preset
so zero minimum light bounces and two maximum light bounces uh I'm ultra with
one and four yeah of course it's going to look better I don't have any post
effects on oh yeah I have all of them I
don't want to turn them on but I must do
it 1% low of zero yo I've never seen
that before in my life time I've ever seen that 11 FPS look at your
blur I wonder if there's motion blur on
remember kids if you have a 3060 TI you too can enjoy zero
FPS just don't try to play it at 4K I'm
sure if we were let's let's try changing resolution down to like 1080P and just
see how it performs oh and it's on auto for dlss mode Let's try Ultra
performance first before maybe that's enough that's upscaling from 1286 by 736
it's like a PS3 game hell yeah oh that does not look good at least our frame
rate's a lot better 1% lows are like 19 to 20 it's still in the unplayable Zone
like 22 frames for a first person shooter is not a good time I will say
though looks better than the original and so it's like a debatable which one
is better than the other like there's obviously things about this that are better but and I think if you're at like
a static image just looking still yes it looks a lot better right in motion the
moment you move it is immediately like I would just play the original I'm going to go back to the default settings okay
it's so interesting that they're willing to call this the minimum I this is
unplayable in my just opinion just seeing it right like try native
1080p on like low I want to see what what it's like without dlss I actually
don't know if I have that option window we might have to do it in Windows and
then change the ual resolution of the Monitor and then launch it w w I'm just
having fun shooting these pants that's why the original game was so good you
just find random physics stuff to interact with like it's actually a huge
part of modern gaming that I really don't like is the lack of like physics
interactions it's a big part of why morrowwind Oblivion and Skyrim are
actually so fun is because they have real interactable stuff with physics
it's said vsync as well okay um let's do c so we can oh CNN Transformer yo
Transformer let's do quality which will give us the what we were at
before is like just gone yeah every time
I up even with the birds like the trails behind the birds there look at that it's
trying real hard would you rather play
at 4K with high frame rates in the original visuals or these frame rates in
R traced if it was these frame rate like
1080p this frame rate but like quality settings turned up a little bit I would
choose that I think that's not your option you're getting this performance
36 frames with drops to like 10 or just
playing I could know I'd rather play the original as much as it's beautiful like
it's definitely a big big bummer I love the RTX remix stuff but the fact that it
has such big performance overhead makes it so inaccessible to so many people I
know such a bummer well the 4060 right just became the most common GPU I think
on Steam Hardware surveys oh it just crashed it just crashed okay again we're
actually pre-release so yeah any bugs we encounter could whatever they gave us
access like a whole weekend early mhm but if we're looking at like kind of
near the bottom end of the RTX capable cards as the recommended or minimum
specs it is minimum it is minimum like
the most common card being that 4060 I don't know like it's going to be
inaccessible to a lot of people this is definitely something that if you want to
make your old games look way better you're going to have to pay for better
Hardware to run it and uh that's just kind of the UN forunate reality of it
well hopefully as more and more generations of this technology comes out
we we start to see it work on mid-tier Hardware 100% but as it is now it's
definitely uh an elite thing which is a huge bummer it looks sick but how does
any of this work according to NVIDIA remix is a modding platform for
remastering a catalog of fixed function directex 8 and n games it works by
analyzing everything in real time with the bridge the bridge sends this info to
the EnV remix Bridge which converts 32-bit to 64-bit giving them access to
more memory the bridge then sends info and instructions to the remix renderer
which is what's really driving all of what you're seeing right now path
tracing and asset swapping NVIDIA's got a thorough explainer and a guide to
diying this stuff if you want to try it out for yourself and we'll have it
linked below but what I want to point out is that as super cool as this is
it's not a simple one button solution to
magically make your older games look awesome to get something to this level
it's still takes a bunch of work to capture the original game and then add
remastered or upscaled assets Riley and Luke tried out a few remix titles on an
episode of gamelink a while back and the results are impressive but not as
mind-blowing as what orbifold Studios has managed to do here thanks to
dedication and hard work all right Elijah what do you think this has been
the most I've been compelled to go back and play halflife ah cuz everyone's told
me you should go back and play it it's revolutionary it is and I've always
looked at it like nah this looks incredible I don't have a
590 but I would be compelled to go back and playing it if it looked like this if
all this does is allow you know a few thousand younger Gamers to go back and
enjoy halflife 2 as much as we did back in the day maybe it was all worth it
shout out to the community for making all of this happen yeah NVIDIA has
created a super cool tool but if it wasn't for the modding teams actually
using it we wouldn't get cool experiences like we're playing today I
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