You can now download the half-life 2 RTX demo made by the community

After years of development, the Orbifold Studios people have the first demo for Half -life 2 RTX -A remake of Valves, a critically celebrated 2004 first-person shooter.

Half-Life 2 RTX was first announced by Nvidia at Gamescom 2023 as a shop window of the RTX Remix Creators Toolkit of the company. This is essentially possible with better remaster games by implementing new lighting effects and implementing ray tracing, increasing the image rates and improvement of models and textures.

It is created by a team of enthusiasts from the entire half-value fan community. Some of his members have previously worked on projects such as Half -life 2: VRPresent Half-life 2: Remad assets valuesPresent Project 17And Increase in the bar: Redux.

The demo is available free of charge from Steam, but must be an existing copy of Half -life 2. It only covers two locations from the main game (Ravenholm and Nova prospectus) and takes about two hours to beat Ravenholm before you can tackle the Nova prospectus chapter.

As can be expected, these two levels benefit from several improvements, with the creators find that the game “New RTX-Neural Rendering technologies that innovate top tracking, accelerates from NVIDIA DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation and Nvidia-Reflex to bring one of the biggest video games of a completely new light.”

If you want to try it, you need a graphics card that can handle these improvements, whereby the Orbifold studios name the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti on the list of minimum requirements.

A publication date for the rest of the game still has to be announced. The demo can be downloaded here.