The popular mod now supports beam of light trace , DLSS , and Frame Generation .
There are clearly somePortalfans over at Nvidia , because more ray tracing content just arrive for Valve ’s classic in the manakin of a popular mod bonk asPortal : Prelude RTX . It serves as an excellent compliment to thePortal RTXreleasethat Nvidia showcased with the launch of the RTX 40 Series last year .
Portal : Preludereleased way of life back in 2008 and serves as a prequel to the events which take place in the originalPortal . The mod offers what ’s essentially an entirely new game with more difficult level , full spokesperson acting , and the story to go along with it . It was later remastered with high quality assets , and now benefit from the full RTX ray tracing treatment via Nvidia ’s RTX Remix chopine and toolset .
Credit goes to Nicolas ‘ NykO18 ’ Grevet and David ‘ Kralich ’ Driver - Gomm alongside contributions from Nvidia ’s squad for incorporating the new applied science .
MakePortal: Prelude RTXsmooth and shiny
In addition to the shaft of light tracing kindling upgrades , DLSS 3 livelihood is also included for RTX 40 Series GPU owners to improve gameplay smoothness with Frame Generation technical school . Portalitself is a salutary nominee for Frame Generation since it does n’t need low latency to have a great experience . However , Portal : Preludeis all about a higher science limen and require more actor engagement than the base secret plan .
Even so , DLSS 3 Frame Generation is a welcome gameplay advance to go alongside these call for RTX lighting upgrades and should make for a great experience for returningPortalplayers . We recommend check outour DLSS 3 review coveragefor more position on how it improves the experience in games such as these and what limitations the technology inherently yields , too .
RTX IO goes live
Nvidia also used this opportunity to admit a raw engineering it ’s been working on called RTX IO , which sounds like a similar result toMicrosoft ’s Direct Storage . You ’ll want an SSD to apply RTX IO in connective with the GPU for speedy asset decompressing that take to faster load times and modest download file cabinet sizes .
Nvidia states:“NVIDIA RTX IO also lowers Portal : Prelude RTX ’s texture package install size by 44 % , enable gamers to revel nearly 32 GB of 4 K texture load with lossless detail , while only taking up 18 GB of storage space . ”
Keep in mind that PCIe 4.0 drives are the current performance - to - affordability sweet spot , but any SSD should provide a loading carrying out melioration . RTX IO will also feature inRatchet & Clank : Rift aside , launching July 26th on PC .
You just need to ownPortalon Steam to dally thePortal : Prelude RTXmodfor free . Portalcurrently costs $ 9.99 USD , but often go on sales event for just a few dollar . As one of the smashing PC games of all time , it ’s certainly worth keeping an heart on to check out the RTX ray tracing , RTX IO , and DLSS 3 Frame Generation upgrades .
You ’ll ask an Nvidia graphics card in this face to playPortal : Prelude RTX , with the minimum requirement being an RTX 2060 and the good word being an RTX 3080 GPU . Some user already report performance issues , but feedback is mixed at this clip of writing .
Check outNvidia ’s official web log postcovering the Portal : Prelude RTX release , including a guide for optimize preferences .
