Welcome to the Orange-Box Fan Club Hey their welcome to the Orange-Box Group or OBFC we are anything and everything Valve related from PC to consoles, and indie titles that use the Source engine. Since we are a Valve fan art community and we take any style of any art imaginable (not porn). We will also find you content from the Mod community, Valve fan community and Valve themselves for your enjoyment so welcome.
We are normally an open group to all artist for the OBFC but I saw someone that had an agenda and joined the group recently I removed them because it goes against OBFC ground rules. Please keep it to yourself do not put any "agenda's" in our group you will get permanently banned.
*Everyone knocking on my room door in the Aperture Science Extended Relaxation Center*
WHAT I'M RETIRED!!!
*Everyone give me this*
...I'll make this an exception.
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In my final post I stated "If something major happens I'll post it"...Well this is one of them so it's officially happening the very first Valve title to get full Raytracing support the original 2007 dam I'm old Portal.
Nvidia and Valve have teamed up to remaster the original Portal with Nvidia Reflex, DLSS 3 and next gen Raytracing technology for the RTX 40 series. Before you ask "Portal with RTX" will work with all Nvidia RTX 20 series to current card that includes most of the drivers so I'll be trying it out :D
Yes I know what your asking their have been RTXsk mods already like Reshade, yes that is true but Nvidia has created a new system which Portal with RTX is utilizing called "RTX Remix"
RTX Remix is able to capture the textures, geometry, lighting, and cameras thanks to an innovative, custom D3D9 Runtime called the RTX Remix Runtime. Classic games like Morrowind use the D3D9 runtime to send draw calls (rendering instructions) to the GPU. RTX Remix Runtime intercepts those draw calls, interprets them into distinct assets, and reassembles those assets into an identical scene. From there, RTX Remix converts the assets and scene into the widely adopted Universal Scene Description (USD) open 3D framework, which is the foundation of the NVIDIA Omniverse platform for building and operating custom 3D pipelines."
Now keep in mind DirectX 8 and 9 why? What you see in your video>advance setting in a any game including Valve you will see hardware/software select and DX will be there. Well all games back in the day that were using DirectX 8 and or 9 will be able to remaster their games with Nvidia Remix technology. I did look up Valve's list and it's pretty much all of them on the wiki page it doesn't show all Valve's game but I went on the Steam pages and pretty much all Valve games are compatible.
To boot Nvidia is giving the modding scene a leg up with sign ups to trying out the software with these requirements.
(continue from Nvidia blog)
"NVIDIA RTX Remix requires a GeForce RTX GPU to create RTX Mods, while mods built using Remix should be compatible with any hardware that can run Vulkan ray-traced games. GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, with up to 2X ray tracing performance and DLSS 3 are sure to provide the ultimate experience for RTX Mods."
Again from what I'm reading that to get the best experience is an RTX 40 series but others will work just not a full power.
Portal with RTX will be dropping this November and will be free for all Portal owners via Steam only.
I know I know I'm retired from news duties but I did stated "If something major happens I'll post it". This is one of them Entropy : Zero 2 version 1.0 has dropped via Steam and Moddb and I'm one of the closed beta tester that helped out on the project and I'm very grateful and hope to do more projects with them in the future.