Announced last summer, the mod Half-Life: Ray Traced, which adds the ray tracing to Half life, is now available for download. It was made by the modder Sultim Tsyrendashiev, the same mod that added ray tracing to Serious Sam, Doom and Quake.
Tsyrendashiev himself tells what his mod does: “Half Life: Ray Traced integrates real-time path tracing into the original 1998 Half-Life. With hardware-accelerated ray tracing, you can calculate global illumination, reflections, refractions, soft shadows, and other visual effects at interactive frame rates.”
Let’s see a trailer that explains better than a thousand words what you will get by installing the mod:
Half-Life: Ray Traced is free to download from GitHub. To install it you need one original copy of Half-Life on Steam.
For install it you have to open the game installation folder. To get there quickly, right-click the game title from your Steam library, then select “Trash/Browse Local Files”. Unzip the “hl1-rt.zip” and “hl1-rt-resources.zip” files into the folder, replacing duplicates if present. Then run the “rt_bin/xash3d.exe file”. At this point you can press X during gameplay to swap renderers.
You can also add if you want Nvidia DLSSby downloading the library nvngx_dlss.dll and placing it inside the “rt_bin” folder. Then you have to download the file RayTracedGL1-Bundle-DLSS.zip and replace the “rt_bin/RayTracedGL1.dll” file with the “bin/RayTracedGL1.dll” one present in the archive.
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