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.
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.
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.
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.
Probably choppy as heck, but I'll report back when I get a chance to play using my 2070 Super. I expect it's not going to be great, but I play "old" games usually anyway (not that Portal is exactly new).
I've got a 7-year-old i7-5820K @4.3 GHz/32GB/RTX 3070 Ti rig and at 2560x1440 rez with default RTX Remix settings, I'm getting 30-35 fps in general, but have seen over 40 and chugged down to the 20s momentarily. Oddly, the RTX settings list DLSS3 as being on despite that supposedly being reserved for 40xx series GPUs. It's quite playable and not the slideshow haters are claiming it to be.
Ironically, the GeForce Experience Performance Overlay (i.e. FPS counter) can't show frame rates, but the Steam FPS meter does show. Screenshots with Bandicam only came out as black screens, so not sure what's up with that. Tried taking a shot with the in-game utility and it froze and crashed to a black screen and I had to Alt-Tab out and kill the hl2.exe process in Task Manager.
I downloaded the Ray Tracing version yesterday. My 3060 Ti at 4K was getting about 17fps with nearly all settings maxed. Dropped to 1440P and I'm getting 35fps. The graphics look slightly better but the slow jerky fps kills it. I'll see if dropping to 1080p gets me above 60fps. Probably won't lose much detail considering this game was built to run on 720P back in 2007.
Starting this up without tuning any settings - my 3080ti was getting about (a choppy) 40 fps on 3440x1440. Everything looked beautiful but moving around at all kinda ruined that.
But if you hit Alt + X at the menu screen, toggle DLSS over to custom and set it to Performance mode, it was running flawlessly and still looked great. Yes I know, it's "faking" it, but I loved it anyway.
Ironically, the GeForce Experience Performance Overlay (i.e. FPS counter) can't show frame rates, but the Steam FPS meter does show. Screenshots with Bandicam only came out as black screens, so not sure what's up with that. Tried taking a shot with the in-game utility and it froze and crashed to a black screen and I had to Alt-Tab out and kill the hl2.exe process in Task Manager.
Not sure if it's related, but the Portal game itself (and I think anything that runs on top of Source really) runs a bit... odd. If you open up Task Manager, you'll see that Steam is actually running Portal through a hl2.exe... and my Discord shows I'm playing Garry's Mod lol My understanding is that you are not actually running Portal.exe in the traditional sense, but rather a sort of "modded" version of the game's Source engine. So I think that some overlays / integrations don't pick up on this pipeline and can't measure certain metrics.
I downloaded the Ray Tracing version yesterday. My 3060 Ti at 4K was getting about 17fps with nearly all settings maxed. Dropped to 1440P and I'm getting 35fps. The graphics look slightly better but the slow jerky fps kills it. I'll see if dropping to 1080p gets me above 60fps. Probably won't lose much detail considering this game was built to run on 720P back in 2007.
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can't wait to create a steam backlog that i'll never play!!!!
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Next November, I'll be thinking in portals.
Ironically, the GeForce Experience Performance Overlay (i.e. FPS counter) can't show frame rates, but the Steam FPS meter does show. Screenshots with Bandicam only came out as black screens, so not sure what's up with that. Tried taking a shot with the in-game utility and it froze and crashed to a black screen and I had to Alt-Tab out and kill the hl2.exe process in Task Manager.
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But if you hit Alt + X at the menu screen, toggle DLSS over to custom and set it to Performance mode, it was running flawlessly and still looked great. Yes I know, it's "faking" it, but I loved it anyway.
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