Portal: Prelude, the fan-made mod for Portal what gained popularity more than a decade ago, is dropping on Steam as Portal: Prelude RTX. Courtesy of NVIDIA, the official release of this game will bring in some new features that weren’t available in the fan mod.
The biggest of those new feature additions is the ray tracing capabilities. But that isn’t all NVIDIA added. There’s also support for DLSS 3, NVIDIA Reflex, and NVIDIA RTX 10. For the DLSS 3 support of course, you’ll need to have a GeForce RTX 40-series GPU installed in your PC. But you will at least get ray tracing if you have an RTX card.
Portal: Prelude RTX was created using the NVIDIA RTX Remix creator toolkit. And was created entirely by a community of modders in collaboration with NVIDIA. RTX Remix, which is an upcoming modding platform, will be available from NVIDIA for free. NVIDIA announced it back in September of 2022, and has worked with people in the mod community on a handful of projects with it. With this new Portal game being the latest project.
Portal: Prelude RTX is free
For those wanting to dive into this new version of the game, you’ll be able to do so soon. While the game is now listed on Steam, it’s not yet available to download or play. It simply says “coming soon.” It will however be a free game once it arrives. The good news is that NVIDIA says it’ll be releasing today, July 18 at 12pm PST. So you only have a few hours to wait until you can play it.
NVIDIA has released a new GeForce Ready driver for the game too. So you can at least prepare for it by installing that. You can update this using the GeForce Experience app on your PC. Portal: Prelude RTX took about eight months to develop and adds all kinds of new details like high-res physically-based textures, and enhanced high-poly models.
2023-07-19 15:08:04