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  • Portal (PC Digital Download) $0.99
    • Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
  • Portal w/ RTX DLC Free
    • Experience the critically acclaimed and award-winning Portal™ reimagined with ray tracing in this free DLC for Portal owners. Start thinking with portals, with RTX on.
    • The new free DLC, developed by NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios, reimagines Portal's graphics with full ray tracing, new hi-res textures, and new enhanced models. These enhancements improve immersion, graphical realism, and the overall gameplay experience. With the DLC installed, you'll be able to choose when you launch the game whether to play the original Portal or Portal with RTX.
    • If you aren't familiar with ray tracing, it's a method of graphics rendering that simulates the behavior of light. When playing a ray-tracing capable game on a compatible GPU, lighting, reflections, and optical effects appear much more realistic. With ray tracing, light can even pass through portals.

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  • Portal [steampowered.com] (PC Digital Download) $9.99 $0.99
    • Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
  • Free Portal w/ RTX DLC [steampowered.com] Free
    • Experience the critically acclaimed and award-winning Portal™ reimagined with ray tracing in this free DLC for Portal owners. Start thinking with portals, with RTX on.
    • The new free DLC, developed by NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios, reimagines Portal's graphics with full ray tracing, new hi-res textures, and new enhanced models. These enhancements improve immersion, graphical realism, and the overall gameplay experience. With the DLC installed, you'll be able to choose when you launch the game whether to play the original Portal or Portal with RTX.
    • If you aren't familiar with ray tracing, it's a method of graphics rendering that simulates the behavior of light. When playing a ray-tracing capable game on a compatible GPU, lighting, reflections, and optical effects appear much more realistic. With ray tracing, light can even pass through portals.
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wow. i've never played portal and JUST got a new computer yestereday that can actually play games.

can't wait to create a steam backlog that i'll never play!!!!
Didn't know about the RTX update. Thanks!
The misuse of the homophones is more of what is bring GPUs to their knees

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DamienD6936
12-08-2022 at 10:27 AM.
12-08-2022 at 10:27 AM.
Quote from JMBauer74 :
I remember when Steam was just a baby, Portal was your free gift for joining. It turns out, "The Cake is a Lie!"

Yeah, can be completed injust under 6 minutes [youtube.com]. Smilie

My steam account is 18 years old, portal wasn't free in 07 when it came out. If it was free at some point steam definitely wasn't a baby
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QFT
12-08-2022 at 10:30 AM.
12-08-2022 at 10:30 AM.
This is the most demanding game on the market, bring a 3060 or better GPU, 3080 or better if you want 60FPS.

It's basically a showcase for full ray tracing, which other games don't dare to enable due to the heavy tax on your system.

That being said, if you've never played Portal, it's worth the purchase even if you can't run the RTX upgrade yet.
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imreallythatpoor
12-08-2022 at 10:31 AM.
12-08-2022 at 10:31 AM.
i wonder how this would run if i have a 2060 RTX
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ShushiiT
12-08-2022 at 10:34 AM.
12-08-2022 at 10:34 AM.
Quote from DamienD6936 :
The rtx update is full path tracing, will bring most gpus too there needs at 1080p

The misuse of the homophones is more of what is bring GPUs to their knees
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12-08-2022 at 10:39 AM.
12-08-2022 at 10:39 AM.
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i wonder how this would run if i have a 2060 RTX

Not great
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DealSeekerJuly2022
12-08-2022 at 10:58 AM.
12-08-2022 at 10:58 AM.
I was gifted portal 2 long ago. Seeing the bundle for portal + portal 2 brings the price to .74 cents total. Guess I'll grab it thanks!
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12-08-2022 at 10:59 AM.
12-08-2022 at 10:59 AM.
Going to show this to my 8 year old rtx on ofcourse lol thanks op
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12-08-2022 at 10:59 AM.
12-08-2022 at 10:59 AM.
Lol is this really that demanding? Like a 3070 at 4k won't reach 60fps?
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12-08-2022 at 11:26 AM.
12-08-2022 at 11:26 AM.
Must have game, but for the love of god, do not play it with RTX unless you want to play it at slideshow framerates
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nikoli707
12-08-2022 at 11:30 AM.
12-08-2022 at 11:30 AM.
Looks like it's free if you already have portal in your library.
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Mr_Dude_Bro
12-08-2022 at 11:31 AM.
12-08-2022 at 11:31 AM.
I bought the Valve Complete Pack for $6 a couple weeks ago. Still haven't played any of them but it made my library look a lot bigger.
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12-08-2022 at 11:38 AM.
12-08-2022 at 11:38 AM.
Quote from CoralCabbage4815 :
Lol is this really that demanding? Like a 3070 at 4k won't reach 60fps?

You won't even be able to dream of that from a 3070...
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skylerdprahl
12-08-2022 at 11:49 AM.
12-08-2022 at 11:49 AM.
Quote from ShushiiT :
The misuse of the homophones is more of what is bring GPUs to their knees

I almost think this was intentional? could they really use the wrong there/their too/to and say needs instead of knees? maybe text to speech did it... though it would have to be a terrible one. I just tried it on Google and SwiftKey keyboards and both got it perfect lol.
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12-08-2022 at 12:03 PM.
12-08-2022 at 12:03 PM.
Quote from mrtramplefoot :
You won't even be able to dream of that from a 3070...
I've got a 3070, and I'm game for a total of 79 cents. Will report back when I get a chance to play it lol.
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denshigomi
12-08-2022 at 12:10 PM.
12-08-2022 at 12:10 PM.
I'm not complaining about the RTX DLC. It looks amazing. But the visual upgrade isn't due to RTX alone, as they want you to believe in those "RTX off/on" transitions. MOST of the visual upgrade seems to be from completely redoing the textures and adding light sources, which has nothing to do with RTX. If they really just turned RTX off/on, the difference would be greatly subdued.
In other words, this feels like a dishonest marketing attempt to make people want to buy RTX capable cards by crediting RTX with visual upgrades it is not responsible for.

EDIT: Downvoting doesn't change the truth. RTX is the smallest part of the graphical improvements showcased in the product trailer.
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