NVIDIA has released its RTX Remix 1.5 update, featuring improved compression techniques that result in significantly reduced install sizes. RTX Remix uses RTX IO, NVIDIA’s technology designed to reduce load times, CPU overhead, and install sizes by improving streaming of high-quality textures. Testing of Portal with RTX, Portal: Prelude RTX, and Half-Life 2 RTX has shown significantly smaller install sizes.
“Thanks to this update, file sizes have dropped significantly: Portal with RTX has been reduced from 25 GB to 17 GB, while Half-Life 2 RTX has shrunk from 80 GB to 50 GB.”
– NVIDIA
The RTX Remix 1.5 update now offers RTX IO compression presets ranging from 1 GB to 16 GB. With storage prices at sky-high levels, gamers are sure to appreciate reduced install sizes for games with high-quality textures that use ray tracing. RTX Remix 1.5 has also introduced “Smooth Normals”, a feature to automatically smooth out older geometry assets, making them look less blocky while using path tracing.
“Classic PC games are remembered for their incredible stories, characters and gameplay, but dated visuals can make them tough for modern players to enjoy. NVIDIA RTX Remix changes that.”
– NVIDIA
One other feature included in the new update is new and improved viewport controls. These help by making it easier to manage existing light manipulators through a unified viewports menu, which includes toggles for visibility and intensity settings.
NVIDIA is aware that the RTX Remix workflow process can be challenging for gamers to implement and is continuing to add training resources to the community. New RTX Remix Skills text-based instruction files have been provided, which include AI-specific coding agent details. These will presumably aid in a multitude of tasks, including helping folks with minimal coding experience, even though with zero C++ or Python experience, to manage their way through an RTX Remix project.
For those interested in ray tracing NVIDIAs RTX Remix project offers unique and exciting possibilities to either create their own games or modify older titles, thus bringing new life with modern technology. As with anything worthwhile, it can be hard work, but NVIDIA is working to develop more efficient workflows and improved results with RTX Remix.