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Nvidia’s cross-game modding tools RTX Remix now in open betaInject new lighting and AI-‘enhanced’ textures into everything from Deus Ex to Garry’s Mod
Inject new lighting and AI-‘enhanced’ textures into everything from Deus Ex to Garry’s Mod
Image credit:Nvidia
Image credit:Nvidia
RTX Remix - Remaster the Classics with RTXNvidia’s brief overview of RTX RemixWatch on YouTube
RTX Remix - Remaster the Classics with RTX
RTX Remix mods can’t actually change how a game works, only its looks, though you can of course combine it with classic manual modding in games which support that. Theupcoming Half-Life 2 RTX projectthat Nvidia keep highlighting combines RTX fanciness with new models, textures, and good old-fashioned level editing in Hammer.
Nvidia note that RTX Remix “works best with DirectX 8 and 9 games with fixed function pipelines”, and you can see a full list of currently supported gameson Mod DB.
In Nvidia’s generative AI texture samples, this original looks like filthy old ceramic tiles the auto-fancified version looks like cracked and pitted stone paving. The floral pattern of blue tiles is misinterpreted and buried beneath noise too. I cannot deny the AI version is high-res and high-detail but it does a bad job of updating the source material. |Image credit:Nvidia
While I must caveat that I am the sort of hoary purist who playsQuakewithout texture filtering and thinks most ‘HD texture pack’ mods are downgrades (aside from a few standouts, such as theRE4 HD Project), I do not like the look of RTX Remix’s auto-upscaling textures. Most ofNvidia’s exampleslook distinctly worse and outright change what some surfaces are. They no longer look like the object or material they’re intended to suggest, and instead look very precisely like something else. My desk might look blurry if I take off my glasses, but the woodgrain doesn’t deepen into gouges and grit when I put them on.
You can download RTX Remixover here. SeeNvidia’s open beta blog postfor more info.
