Meticulously developed by Half-Life community member Filip Victor, Half-Life 2: Update offers both long-time fans and first time players the most visually advanced, stable, and fully-featured version of Half-Life 2 to date in one free mod download. You can join the discussion on Half-Life Ray Traced's launch on the OC3D Forums.2004's Half-Life 2 was a landmark for PC gaming and the First Person Shooter, setting the standard for immersion, animation, and physics-based play for years. Don't expect Half-Life to suddenly look better than its modern rake Black Mesa, but expect the games lighting and shadows to look a lot better than before. Half-Life: RAY TRACED features the same assets and textures as the game's original 1998 version, which means that while the game will feature ray traced lighting and other new graphical features, the game will still maintain much of its original appearance. Let's hope that FSR 2 support is planned for users of Non-RTX GPUs.

Gamers can also add Nvidia's DLSS technology to Half-Life Ray Traced as an optional add-on, which is something that we would recommend if you own an Nvidia RTX graphics card. The code for tis ray tracing mod for Half-Life is now available to download on GitHub, allowing owners of Half-Life on Steam to easily update their game with a fully path traced renderer.

This mod follows on from the success of the developer's path tracing mods for DOOM, Serious Sam, and Quake, and it is probable that future ray tracing game mods are planned in the future.Īs you can see in the video below, Half-Life looks incredible with ray tracing enabled, with sultim-t's fully path traced version offering gamers ray traced global illumination, reflections, refractions, soft shadows and other visual effects.

Half-Life's full path traced mod has been releasedĪ software engineer called 'sultim-t' has today released Half-Life Ray Traced, a fully path traced version of Valve's original Half-Life.

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