Valve, NVIDIA, and developer Orbifold Studios announced Half-Life 2 RTX, free DLC for all Half-Life 2 owners on PC via Steam. The DLC is powered by the latest version of RTX Remix, which leverages full ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS 3.5, and many more features found on NVIDIA RTX 40 series graphics cards.
Half-Life 2 RTX also features new hand-crafted textures, enhanced high-polygon models, and updated lighting. Such an upgrade also includes native 4K support, allowing Half-Life 2 to be playable on gaming monitors and TVs in crisp new detail.
A release date for the free DLC has not been announced, but fans can wishlist the DLC now by heading to the official Steam listing. In the meantime, Half-Life fans can also watch a new 20th anniversary tribute video for Half-Life 2 from NVIDIA.
Here’s an overview of the DLC, along with the tribute video:
The fight for freedom begins anew. 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, new hand-crafted, physically based textures, enhanced high-poly models, and updated lighting, all in stunning 4k.
Half-Life 2 RTX is a free DLC for all Half-Life 2 owners developed by Orbifold Studios, a collective of passionate, community-assembled developers behind Half-Life 2: VR, Half-Life 2: Remade Assets, Project 17, and Raising the Bar: Redux.
Half-Life 2 RTX is using the latest version of RTX Remix leveraging NVIDIA technologies including full ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 with ray reconstruction, and Reflex to bring one of the greatest video games of all time to life in a whole new light.
