Half-Life 2 RTX Remix is an excellent showcase of Sampler Feedback Streaming, which can be used to significantly reduce VRAM usage.
The new Half-Life 2 RTX remaster is a technical masterpiece, but my brain sees the original this way anyway.
A playable demo for the RTX version of Half-Life 2 is now available, making it possible to do a comparison with the 2004 original.
This plus MMod = pure orgasm, especially for us gamers in our thirties when we played this timeless masterpiece when we were just the right age.
DigitalFoundry : Coming to all PC gamers on March 18th, we got early access to the Half-Life 2 RTX demo - and it's stunning. In an extended version of our Retro PC Time Capsule formula, John and Alex stack up the new RTX version of the classic game running on a 12900K/RTX 5090 up against the original 2004 release version of the game, operating on period-appropriate PC hardware. How far we've come in just over 20 years!
Xbox has the only hw solution for this. Shame it has not been utilised. Would have saved especially the XS
It does fry most systems though. Pretty demanding or unoptimised