Even on “yesterday’s” games, the ray tracing can bring them to their knees graphics cards the most powerful, the proof with Max Payne RTX Remix.
In parallel with the launch of the GeForce RTX 40 series, NVIDIA began communication around RTX Remix, a platform intended to take advantage of the best of technology on relatively old games.
Very quickly, demos illustrated the interest of the platform with video game monuments such as Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Half-Life 2 Or World of Warcraft Classicbut sometimes it’s not easy.
Visual renewal of old glories of video games…
Just a few days ago, NVIDIA launched the RTX Remix open beta. The platform then became accessible to all developers and the list of current projects grew considerably.
An RTX Remix mod for Max Payne first of the name has thus seen the light of day and although the project is still largely in development, it is already available for download via the ModDB site.
The visual impact of the mod on a game that is more than 23 years old is undeniable. Of course, the models remain very geometric, but the quality of the textures is impressive and the multiple effects rather flattering.
…but large impact on performance
Problem, which is true with today’s productions, is also true on older titles and the drop in performance observed with the activation of these numerous effects is quite remarkable.
Talking about a drop is even very much below the truth since on a GeForce RTX 4080, we go from something like 900 to 1400 images per second to more or less 65 fps! We can easily divide the number of images per second by 20!
This is not the only bad news since, still on this GeForce RTX 4080, the power consumption is soaring. The card was limited to 120 to 180 watts on the “normal” version of the game, rising to over 300 watts when the mod is installed/activated.
Perhaps progress can be hoped for in future versions of the mod, but one thing is not everything: ray tracing is greedy!
Source : VideoCardz
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