NVIDIA and Valve will allow all owners of the original Portal to re-experience it with high resolution and ray tracing technologies – assuming they have the appropriate up-to-date hardware to do so
Portal is a legendary and revolutionary physical puzzle game, and if somehow you haven’t played it since 2007 until today, you want to do it right now, because probably like 98 percent percent of the 97,000 users who have rated it to date will not regret it. If you’ve already played it, in a few days you’ll have a pretty good reason to consider returning for another round in the strange world of Aperture Science – with the Portal with RTX version that will take your video card to morning exercise thanks to the advanced ray tracing technology that’s integrated into it.
The famous creation from Valve, whose origins are in an indie creation by several students under the name Narbacular Drop, is not the first from the past to receive a new paint layer with modern ray tracing capabilities – but judging by the list of official hardware requirements that define the GeForce RTX 3060 (including active DLSS2 technology), 16GB of dynamic memory and a Core i7-6700 or Ryzen 5 3600 processor as the minimum to run at a rate of 30 frames per second under a modest 1080p resolution, it seems that Portal with RTX will be a tough test of capabilities for a large part of computers , more than a large number of popular titles that launched for the first time during the past year.
The recommended intermediate settings for running the game under high general graphics settings, with active ray tracing of course, under 1080p resolution and a display rate of at least 60 frames per second consist of a GeForce RTX 3080 card including active DLSS2 technology and a Core i7-9700K processor or a Ryzen 5 3600 processor – while the settings -Ultra to run the game in 4K with a display rate of at least 60 frames per second and under the most advanced graphics settings require the use of a GeForce RTX 4080 with DLSS3, no less and no more, alongside 32GB of dynamic memory and a Core i7-12700K or Ryzen 9 processor 5900. Is this a wild exaggeration just to add the various RTX capabilities to a 15 year old game? We will probably find out soon.
The launch of the updated Portal is not only a boost for the new RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 hardware, the only ones that officially support the impressive DLSS3 technology, but also for NVIDIA’s revolutionary RTX Remix tool, which promises to help modding enthusiasts easily incorporate ray tracing techniques, Techniques to improve resolution based on artificial intelligence of textures and other modern lighting techniques in existing and old games. Portal with RTX is a product of the Remix platform, and another video from NVIDIA also shows the use of the tool for the even older The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind – so with the launch of the title at the same time as giving users access to RTX Remix we’re crossing our fingers that we’ll get many more Impressive nostalgic surprises in the near future.
Portal with RTX will be available from December 8th for free to all those who own the original Portal on the Steam platform – so if you haven’t purchased it, it is highly recommended to do so now, especially as part of the double package that also includes the equally amazing Portal 2 (for now without a mod own RTX, unfortunately) for NIS 55.42. Enjoy!
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