The Half-Life 2 RTX Demo is now available for download.
Experience the award-winning game that has captivated millions of players worldwide with its immersive story, thrilling combat, and mind-bending physics, fully overhauled with full ray tracing (also known as path tracing), new hand-crafted, physically based textures, enhanced high-poly models, and updated lighting, powered by NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, all in stunning 4K.
Orbifold is updating every texture, model, and level, adding extra geometric detail to buildings and surfaces to realistically interact with fully ray-traced lighting. Even particles and animations are being revitalized to bring Half-Life 2 to modern graphical standards.
Before you play, please ensure you have the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver installed. The minimum recommended GPU for the demo is a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, enabling a range of system configs to play:
Press Alt+X in-game to open the RTX Remix settings menu, where you can quickly switch between a number of graphics and DLSS presets, creating a good experience on RTX GPUs dating back to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.
To help you get the best experience on your system, check out the charts below for our settings recommendations and adjust in-game via Alt+X.
If you’d like to know more about NVIDIA RTX Remix and our new Half-Life 2 RTX demo, you should check out the GeForce.com article. We’re listening and would love your feedback to help improve the full release of Half-Life 2 RTX - please share it here on Steam, and please be sure to Wishlist the full release to receive Steam news updates and to be notified when it’s released.