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Portal: Prelude’s fan-made prequel gets a fancy RTX remaster, and it costs nothing (except a powerful graphics card)Good luck running this on a potato

Good luck running this on a potato

Image credit:Nicolas ‘NykO18’ Grevet, David ‘Kralich’ Driver-Gomm

Image credit:Nicolas ‘NykO18’ Grevet, David ‘Kralich’ Driver-Gomm

The player aims the portal gun between a companion cube and portals in Portal: Prelude RTX

After zhuzhing upPortalwith ashiny RTX version last year, Nvidia is at it again. This time, it’s ray-traced the cube-shaped edges ofPortal: Prelude, the fan-made mod that serves as a full-length prequel to Valve’s beloved puzzler. You can go and download Portal: Prelude RTX for free now, as long as you’ve got the hardware to run it.

Like Portal RTX, Portal: Prelude RTX was remastered using Nvidia’s RTX Remix tech, which up-rezzed the popular 2008 mod’s textures while adding support for ray-traced lighting and reflections.

Portal: Prelude RTX | A Stunning Fully Ray-Traced Remaster of the Iconic Portal ModWatch on YouTube

Portal: Prelude RTX | A Stunning Fully Ray-Traced Remaster of the Iconic Portal Mod

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Image credit:Nicolas ‘NykO18’ Grevet, David ‘Kralich’ Driver-Gomm

Turrets aim their lasers through a circular door in Portal: Prelude RTX

Like the RTX overhaul for Portal, Portal: Prelude RTX will require you to have agraphics cardable to handle all that ray-tracing goodness, with the mod’s specs listing a RTX 2060 as the baseline and recommending an RTX 3080 - lower than the original Portal’s 3060 minimum.

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