NVIDIA launches RTX Remix, a revolutionary modding platform that remasters classic DirectX 8 and 9 games with path tracing, NVIDIA DLSS, AI-enhanced textures, and user-created assets. We told you about it when this technology was announced, which allowed the creation of Portal's RTX patch.
Part of the NVIDIA Studio suite of applications, RTX Remix consists of two key components that work together to allow modders to remaster very old PC games: the RTX Remix authoring toolset and a custom RTX Remix runtime .
The RTX Remix creation toolset, built on NVIDIA Omniverse, allows modders to assign new assets and lights into their remastered scene, and use AI tools to reconstruct the look of any any asset. The RTX Remix runtime captures a game scene and replaces assets on playback while injecting RTX technology, such as path tracing, DLSS 3, and Reflex into the game.
The release today on nVidia's Github of version 0.1 allows you to take your first steps, get to grips with the tool and understand its basic operation. The zip file of this first public release is simply to be extracted in the directory of the game to be modified, where the executable is. All that remains is to launch the game and press the Alt+X keys (by default) to launch the Remix interface. Rather simple, but the tool is already showing its first limits.
Indeed, after a few tests here, confirmed by the first feedback from the community, the tool is still only at the beginning of its development and suffers from instability. Also, you will have to be patient and try on several games. And not just any. For example, you can already give up on Farming Simulator, because early versions of the game from Giants Software already used shaders and not a fixed function pipeline that Remix relies on. Ideally, nVidia recommends testing on games dating from before 2006.
On the discord RTX Remix, we can see great successes on Black Mesa (2012 version below), Deux Ex or even the first Max Payne. It's a safe bet that the first RTX Remix patches will land in the coming weeks. All the difficulty for the players remains to find the old boxes of CD… and a reader to install these games of another time.