Half-Life 2

[regal sphinx]

you dont have any kind of niche hardware or anything? lol

[sweet radish]

the only niche thing i can think of is my gpu itself

its a tiny 2080 ti blower variant

[regal sphinx]

what about CPU? some source games dont like high thread counts or NUMA nodes

[sweet radish]

7500f 6/12

[regal sphinx]

ye should be fine

i really doubt its the 2080 ti itself lol

unless it fails 3Dmark stress tests or something

[sweet radish]

yea id be floored if my gpu is ded

its like impossible to find a gpu small enough to fit my needs

[regal sphinx]

im holding out for the 5090

[sweet radish]

i dont think a 30% improvement over 4090 is gonna be worth 2k

😭

[regal sphinx]

it will be like a 300% improvement over my 2080

i do a lot of ML so i kinda need it

[sweet radish]

fair

i was planning on getting my card modded for 22gb vram

[regal sphinx]

lol yea i saw that post

[sweet radish]

its got a super fast mem bus

compared to any other future option

you can shadily get a 2080ti w 22gb chips for about $350

[regal sphinx]

i imagine there isnt many performance differences in-game except where vram limited

[sweet radish]

yea not really

itd be a godsent for vr though

[regal sphinx]

omg yes

[sweet radish]

next closest option is a 3090 which,, doesnt really exist in dual slot form

[regal sphinx]

google earth vr leaks so badly i cant play more than a hour

google pls dont abandon it 😭

[sweet radish]

theres a 4090d dual slot

but its a bit too long to fit in my case, also $3k

[regal sphinx]

rip wallet

[sweet radish]

theres also a 7900xtx dual slot but again its too long

look at this thing 😭

[regal sphinx]

no cuda

[sweet radish]

zluda

[regal sphinx]

yea but nvidia keeps killing it

[sweet radish]

maybe one day

okay prelude boots

i run it a 2nd time

doesnt boot

[regal sphinx]

you got a modded vbios by any chance?

[sweet radish]

nope

i am so confused

this makes ZERO sense

womp womp

[regal sphinx]

is there nothing in the exename_d3d9 log files in the game directory?

[sweet radish]

there is

wow i fixed it

i deleted rtx remix and it works

[regal sphinx]

yep nothing odd there

[sweet radish]

mhm

[regal sphinx]

remix is loading normally

[sweet radish]

its just cursed

[regal sphinx]

its gotta be crashing in the driver then

[sweet radish]

how am i supposed to catch that

do i try running the game w a debugger or what

[regal sphinx]

lets try running gmod with remix first

[sweet radish]

uuh right

[regal sphinx]

it uses a much newer remix and bridge version

[sweet radish]

do i grab an artifact or

[regal sphinx]

follow this

https://youtu.be/JeMrlemVSl8

[sweet radish]

hope it doesnt start downloading 327489023 addons as i open the game

yea im already done

[regal sphinx]

dont use this version of the bridge though, https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/bridge-remix/tree/6559f0d3ba82bd2eaefc0bf2898e3c9cf5af8cb7, it has input bugs

use an artifact that's slightly older

i would also save your current addons to a collection, then unsubscribe from all addons, and install the ones in the video

32-bit gmod and remix get really unstable with too many addons

[sweet radish]

what is it doinggggggggg

im just gonna run the exe

dumb

doesnt work..?

[sweet radish]

oh whoops

no workie

i see the menu but no rtx ingame

whaaagrsgwefygfdivhc

nvm im dumb i forgot some dlls >.>

..nope still no dice

i give up 😭

[sweet radish]

okay so this may or may not have been due to unstable ram

had the most bizarre unity crashes and everything got topped off with a mem management bsod

[modest bear]

Ahhh

My friend

When he had things like Medal open to record

Couldn’t use any remix games

[modest bear]

Yeah the anniversary update broke the RTX method, I’m trying to fix it rn, but my PCs broke at the moment so I’ll get back to you guys eventually, some people can get the game to run there’s just no tracing, and others get this error, I’m not exactly sure what causes any of them, but it could be a hardware thing, I’m not rlly sure tho

[unborn galleon]

i got it working but some chapters dont work

wont*

[modest bear]

Yeah it’s kinda broken

R u using my method or the gmod one

[unborn galleon]

and the garrys mod rtx gives me black screen

[unborn galleon]

gmod one

[modest bear]

Ah

[unborn galleon]

i cant get the garrys mod rtx

idk why i did everything right

[modest bear]

Well, do you get a remix bridge error when you launch?

[unborn galleon]

nope everything works alright but black screen

i feel when the rtx hl2 comes out we can easly get gmod rtx

[modest bear]

Try launching with nothing open in the background

[modest bear]

Probably, we got the portal method through mixing the files and we’ll, gmod and half life are even closer to similarity than half life and portal, (there essentially the same game)

[unborn galleon]

yeah

[unborn galleon]

i get 70-80 fps in portal rtx i dont think if im going to get 60+ in hl2

rtx

[modest bear]

So how exactly did you get past the client DLL issue?

[modest bear]

What res, and what GPU

[unborn galleon]

i used run as adminstrator

administrator*

[unborn galleon]

4060 ti , 1080p

[modest bear]

What DLSS?

Settings

[unborn galleon]

ultra

[modest bear]

You mean quality?

[unborn galleon]

quality was ultra

dlss was balanced

[modest bear]

Okay

Fg?

[unborn galleon]

nope

[modest bear]

Okay

Yeah I run hl2 RTX, I think because it runs through portal it has more stable and higher fps, I run it at 4k DLSS balanced+fg on my 4070, as other remix games don’t have as good DLSS and things like that because they haven’t rlly been developed fully yet, I run at 1440p DLSS quality+fg on my 4070 SUPER

So this really all comes down to how well Orbifold optimizes there mod and DLSS

[unborn galleon]

i dont like dlss idk why but i need to use it else i get 50 fps

[unborn galleon]

can i maybe call u and stream so u can help me with gmod rtx if u dont mind

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1138805619915247618/1311695805513728021/HALF-LIFE_2_-_Direct3D_9_11_28_2024_6_07_35_AM.png?ex=6749cb6a&is=674879ea&hm=804073b07e61699b3ac74afee749b3f793fbfb61d21debcbc3a162e1bef906a9&

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1138805619915247618/1311695791177338900/HALF-LIFE_2_-_Direct3D_9_11_28_2024_6_10_29_AM.png?ex=6749cb66&is=674879e6&hm=1482efb021acb367a8686036b0487eb99ab0b80a95c56f01072ed92744cd0297&

[modest bear]

I’m at my families thanks giving at the moment, the time it is for me, we ain’t rlly doing nothing and not everybody’s here, but soon I won’t be available and I’d have to cut you short which is something I don’t want to do, and as well, despite not being here, I’d barely be able to here you

[unborn galleon]

its okay alright understandable

[modest bear]

Yeah the whole game is rasturized

[modest bear]

There’s also at the MOST, ray tracing

But no path tracing

I don’t think

While rasterized, you can’t do things like captures, and are limited by various other things

The game would look noticeably better unrasterized

Here’s a shot with some changed textures, and path tracing from when the game was working

[unborn galleon]

idk i rlly want gmod rtx bc its sandbox and u could do alot of stuff there

when i use the dev branch

the game works but no rtx

aswell as chromium

[modest bear]

Yeah it also only works on the RTX supported maps

Btw here’s a shot you gave but unrasterized

Just so you can see the difference

[unborn galleon]

yeah mine doesnt look like this at all

[modest bear]

There are some obvious changed textures, because these are from when I first started remix

This is where I learned how it all works

But something that wasn’t changed, in the bottom right, you can’t see the pipe system, and on yours you can see the insane reflection, which is the rasterization

[unborn galleon]

in this pic everything has reflection

[modest bear]

Yeah I don’t got a shot of that though

[unborn galleon]

the water doesnt look right

[unborn galleon]

grass has reflection 😭

thats not grass but anything its not a reflective floor

[modest bear]

There is a fix for the water, see things like water were done via fixed function pipeline, and without it, remix can auto replace the water

You do know where to place remix mods right?

[unborn galleon]

bin

[modest bear]

No

[unborn galleon]

wait mods?

[modest bear]

Yes

[unborn galleon]

no

[modest bear]

Okay

So open the folder in the root directory (the folder with the games exe) and you’ll see a folder called RTX remix

[unborn galleon]

right

[modest bear]

You should see a folder, inside of it, called mod or mods

Correct

[modest bear]

You should just be able to make a folder and name it mod and it should work

[unborn galleon]

ok after that

[modest bear]

I’m trying to find if the folder is mod, or mods, cause it does matter

Yk what

It’s not hard to change one letter

[unborn galleon]

alr

[modest bear]

So I just need to find the mod that, atleast before the anniversary update fixes the water

Also, just to make sure, the mod folder you made is in the RTX-remix folder

[unborn galleon]

it is dw

[modest bear]

Here we go

Use that

And it is mods not mod

This should make the water look absolutely stunning

[unborn galleon]

alr

[shy gazelle]

It’s not rasterized

[modest bear]

Whatever the name for that reflective shit is then

[shy gazelle]

Path traced

[modest bear]

Then the shit is way too fucking path traced

You also, if I’m correct, can’t make captures on that shit

[shy gazelle]

You can

[modest bear]

Still?

Even since the anniversary update broke everything?

[modest bear]

Cause I be getting this error

Can’t rlly try it

[shy gazelle]

If remix is rendering you can take a capture

[unborn galleon]

run the game as admin

[modest bear]

Really? That’s all it takes, I’m suprised man

[shy gazelle]

ebi rewarch the gmod tutorial, make sure you place the right items in the bin folder

[unborn galleon]

mine works with that

[modest bear]

I’m tryna do portal not gmod so

[unborn galleon]

i did

idk why its not working tho

[modest bear]

I could do gmod now that I own it, just tryna fix the portal method

[unborn galleon]

i even did the portal shader files right

but yet not working

[modest bear]

That’s cause it’s broken

[unborn galleon]

what is broken?

[modest bear]

Did the the portal RTX method

Oh shit

[unborn galleon]

yeah

i used portal files for gmod too

it didnt work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeMrlemVSl8

this video

[modest bear]

Any way using portal RTX don’t rlly work now since the anniversary update

[unborn galleon]

@shy gazelle

[unborn galleon]

so we wait for hl2 rtx

[modest bear]

Nah Ima fix it eventually

I might just be driving through forever

[unborn galleon]

fix what

gmod rtx?

or hl2 rtx

[modest bear]

Hl2 RTX

I ain’t waiting for the full mod

[unborn galleon]

fix the gmod pls

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1311379738807369821/1311629778687885332/image.png?ex=67498dec&is=67483c6c&hm=8f28b599c1f7870f2315fe6b3d1eb78da45e97ea341b22733e369575f1934288&

these are the files for gmod

[modest bear]

I’m done adding textures and shit to it but I still would love figuring out the method to get steam workshop support on it

[unborn galleon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1311379738807369821/1311400474230128690/image.png?ex=6749611d&is=67480f9d&hm=38c2c41303fc53a1fdcb3d45fa39ab3c6ec97c5565b209d4ece5e17b67c2e328&

this is what happens

[modest bear]

You aren launching from the .bat file, correct

[unborn galleon]

yep

wait

i am

[modest bear]

And you did extract those 2 folders, right

[unborn galleon]

Nope

i didnt extract i dragged them

into gmod

i dragged the files only*

[modest bear]

They can’t be zipped

[unborn galleon]

no not the zip file

i dragged the files in the zip into gmod

[modest bear]

It’s better to extract the content of remix bridge into the bin, and then extract the dxvk into .trex

[unborn galleon]

okay imma try that

[unborn galleon]

i fixed the black screen

but now i cant click on anything in the game

[modest bear]

Send some short clips/screenshots of the problem in the gmod thread cause, I’m not exactly sure how to help you here

[unborn galleon]

FINALLY I GOT IT WORKING

but lights only work when im near them

nvm i needed to download niknaks

addon

[shy gazelle]

W gun addon 🤌

[outer oriole]

@regal sphinx

did you know about this

there used to be a 64 bit version of hl2

[regal sphinx]

ye

iirc valve pulled it because of some stability issues

[outer oriole]

have you tried to use remix with it?

[regal sphinx]

i used a cough, other 64-bit version of hl2, it works fine

perf is much better without the bridge

[outer oriole]

what does this mean

[regal sphinx]

[neat grove]

[shy gazelle]

Wonder what the hl2 rtx team did to remedy this 20th anniversary update and if it affected the project

[modest bear]

Considering there probably working with Valve, they may have a version of the game that Valve is letting them use, an old build we don’t have access to or a build we never had access to and only the team gets to use until release obviously

[grand comet]

I doubt it

[modest bear]

I do too

And that’s coming from me

I don’t doubt much

Wouldn’t be entirely away from they have the version before the 20th anniversary though

[grand comet]

I don't think valve is really putting anything into besides maybe a mod page, its an independent mod i really don't know how many times I can say allat

[modest bear]

Yeah, I mean, Valve owns all of the P1 RTX assets, so they could be doing more than just the mod page, maybe there doing the legal end of things

[grand comet]

I seriously don't think so, and what legal side

[modest bear]

Ownership of the assets, official release on steam, etc

[grand comet]

Its a mod, so the modders own the assets, and to release it on steam there isn't anything legal, just 100 usd

[modest bear]

Yeah I suppose it could be different, but I know portal RTX and I think most of pre-lude, as they are p1 RTX assets, are also owned by Valve

[grand comet]

But thoes weren't game mods in their respective parts

I seriously doubt it at all that valve has much in this

[modest bear]

I doubted that about P1 RTX, thought Nvidia owned everything thing there, but they don’t, I don’t think valve has much either but I’m not gonna rule it out, a possible answer, if they do have the rights, is they would use them for Half Life 3 now that it’s believed to be in the works, save them some time a resources

[grand comet]

Now that's just a jump

I'm not even gonna bother with that

[worldly heath]

They're not

[modest bear]

Yes, I really doubt that one

More than everything else I’ve ever said in this server

[grand comet]

So yeah, 8. Valve isn't doing anything at all with hl2 rtx

[modest bear]

I gave the message a thumbs up

[grand comet]

Congrats

[modest bear]

Thanks

[mellow blaze]

sdk 2013 mods (which HL2RTX is fundamentally built on top of) were not affected by this update at all

[rocky canopy]

hey guys does this still work even after the 25th anniversary update?

[grand comet]

Look up one message

[rocky canopy]

holy

uhm

https://tenor.com/view/homer-simpson-the-simpsons-bush-hide-gif-6118837

[grand comet]

[rocky canopy]

patching didn't work

[modest bear]

I was told running the game as an administrator fixes the problem

The one main thing that baffles me is that not everyone gets that error, even if they set it up the same way

[rocky canopy]

didn't work, it reaches main menu but crashes just before

[modest bear]

Hm

Weird

I haven’t had time to try myself but I’ll get back to everyone eventually

[rocky canopy]

man I still can't understand why

[modest bear]

Sometimes it’s just remix moment, I do got a few ideas, just gotta try em out when MSI gives me my PSU back

[rocky canopy]

I just think that the original procedure cannot be applied to the anniversary edition

1. Install Half Life 2 and PortalRTX. Make sure both are fully updated
2. Copy the contents of "common\PortalRTX\portal_rtx\cfg" to "common\Half-Life 2\hl2\cfg" overwriting existing files
3. Copy the contents of "common\PortalRTX\bin" to "common\Half-Life 2\bin" overwriting the existing files
4. Copy rtx.conf and dxvk.conf from "common\PortalRTX" to "common\Half-Life 2"
5. Extract the contents of the latest rtx-remix release to "common\Half-Life 2\bin" overwriting existing files
6. Launch from steam.

because now hl2 has two hl2 folders and since it's AIO with ep1 and ep2, it technically should be the one that is complete

I tried using hl2 and doesn't work

fresh installed both too

[regal sphinx]

wouldn't you still run into issues with the different engine branch client.dll hl2 20 anniversary uses?

[rocky canopy]

I just think itìs a matter of directories

[regal sphinx]

i can verify when I get home, im placing my bets on the different engine branch

i can download a older hl2 depot from steam and it will most likely work

[rocky canopy]

they have the same folders which can be irrelevant...

ill try the same procedure on hl2 complete

update: as I thought (process didn't feel correct but still tried) it doesn't work

[modest bear]

Nice man

[rocky canopy]

i copied and pasted the instructions that didn't work for me

[modest bear]

Oh

[modest bear]

Yeah those are my steps that are pre-20th anniversary and worked the best at the time

I will edit the message when we get a sure fire way that works as well as it used to

[rocky canopy]

im sure they did, but im afraid they do not work anymore

[modest bear]

Yeah

I’ll get it together when my PSU comes back

[regal sphinx]

i got about an hour before i get home, ill come up with a process

it's most likely going to involve downloading pre-20th anniversary depots from steam

they've made a lot of changes to the new engine and it would be easier to downgrade than try to figure out all of the hex patches for the new one

[rocky canopy]

i hope I can make it work because i wanted to stream it tomorrow since i did it with hl1 rtx, thats why im trying xD

[modest bear]

I think the hl2_complete folder is the 20th anniversary update stuff and the game is now made to overlay the 20th anniversary over the original, so that’s why tracing don’t work, it’s missing things that the client.dll is told to look for but isn’t there

[regal sphinx]

ofc 💀

much easier

[shy gazelle]

very skibidi

[regal sphinx]

works fine

i copied Half-Life 2/hl2 and Half-Life 2/platform to prelude's rtx's base dir without replacing anything

and ran it with -game hl2 -windowed

also works for normal portal rtx

same process

a bit buggier than prelude though, light and skybox culling is pretty broken

pre HL2 20th anniversary guide:

1. Open Properties for Half-Life 2 in Steam, go to Betas and select steam_legacy in Beta Participation
2. Let HL2 and its episodes update in steam
3. copy Half-Life 2/hl2 and Half-Life 2/platform folders to either the PortalRTX or Portal Prelude RTX base directory and do not replace anything
4. delete the mods folder inside PortalRTX\rtx-remix or Portal Prelude RTX\rtx-remix (or turn off the replacements in the runtime, it prevents missing materials for some replaced models)
5. go to the Properties of either game on Steam, and set -game hl2 -windowed as the launch parameters
6. profit

as for why Prelude RTX is an option; It provides a more stable experience with HL2.
Less light culling issues, npcs eyes work, no broken fonts, and you can run SDK 2013 mods with its engine

@last fog can you pin this?

oops forgot to leave this here for the tutorial

[shy gazelle]

Common CR w

what cat

[regal sphinx]

ok so maybe some additional steps are needed

try using blueamulets patcher on hl2's client.dll

[regal sphinx]

ty

ye patching works

its a bit difficult as blueamulets script tries to find other folders before hl2's, so i had to isolate the folders like this

[shy gazelle]

LOL that's so funny, I was just preparing that

muy skibidi, we have liftoff

[regal sphinx]

only real remaining issue is how many lights the engine can send to remix

its quite dark lol

also gonna try updating remix just to see if it breaks anything, the built in one is a year old

oh yeah newer remix seems to mess up light culling even more

skybox only lighting actually looks pretty good here lol

ignore my previous comment, my launch parameters broke something, newest remix works fine

on the other hand no launch params breaks other stuff

time to mess around

im hoping to make a python script that kinda automates all of this

something similar to the remix downloader

[regal sphinx]

uhhhhh

i wonder if this applies to gmod...

nope

probably some engine specific fuckery going on with prelude keeping the top part of the water rendered

[regal sphinx]

every copy of hl2 rtx is personalized

[neat grove]

this is so beautiful...

[tiny gust]

The sun is leaking....

[shy gazelle]

Yee I fixed it

[radiant phoenix]

half life 2 20th Anniversary update works for me with rtx remix

i just did it the old way with BlueAmulet fixes + the stdshader files+the cfg files from portal rtx and put them in half life 2 then used the .bat file from xenthio garry's Mod and ofc d3d9.shaderModel= 0

and it works

[radiant phoenix]

except for the water that needs to be fixed again, it works perfectly smooth

[radiant phoenix]

oh and the old fire fix

still works 😏

oh and you need to put this in the .bat file: hl2 -game hl2_complete

[regal sphinx]

how does switching to episodes work from the main menu? at least pre-anniverssry update i had issues running ep1 and ep2 from hl2 directly and had to run them via portal prelude rtx instead

[radiant phoenix]

works smoothly surprisingly

[fossil tiger]

This is going to be a permanent addition to half life fandom

[regal sphinx]

wow that perf drop switching to ep2

lack of culling on large maps really hurts perf

[fiery plume]

I think that's either the amount of static props or all the alpha testing going on because of the leaf textures

Because iirc that background map isn't big

[modest bear]

@rocky canopy @unborn galleon @sweet radish @cinder kernel @outer oriole

[regal sphinx]

the guide might be outdated if HL2 20th patched works better lol

@radiant phoenix how is light culling?

[rocky canopy]

Yo! Thank you for the new updated tutorial, I'm downgrading hl2. You saved my stream! now as soon as everything gets downloaded...and...when I try this it works...hopefully nothing else breaks....
do i need to do anything in game? or do I just move files and tada I get cool rtx experience?

[regal sphinx]

for the fancy water you need this
https://xenthio.github.io/stuff/RTXRemixWater-v1.zip

extract to rtx-remix/mods in your game dir

i dont think it works everywhere though, i only tested that one map

[rocky canopy]

what's portal prelude?

[rocky canopy]

so it's not gonna be that stable if I plan to play from beginning to end with RTX

[regal sphinx]

nah im just talking about the water replacement, iirc the game itself is stable but expect visual bugs, its far from a perfect experience

[regal sphinx]

a mod for portal, but also another source engine remix title

it's on steam

you're also gonna need a rtx.conf with most of the textures tagged, i've already done most of the work so ill share mine

[rocky canopy]

oh wow

[regal sphinx]

ok well nvm i cant reach my NAS from work so ill have to send it later

[regal sphinx]

yea the content of the mod itself isnt too good, but prelude rtx is preferrable because of the engine if u want to play hl2 or other source mods

i listed the reasons in the pinned message

[rocky canopy]

Alright, I really hope I'll be able to make it work

downloading rn

[regal sphinx]

garry's mod is also a good method to play through hl2, its a much more polished experience but it's more involved to set up

check the pinned message in the garrys mod project on this server if you're interested

[outer oriole]

i love you

[modest bear]

You’re welcome

[modest bear]

Do workshop mods work?

[regal sphinx]

no this downgrades the game to a version without support, you can try copying mods manually though

they should work just fine

as i said before, my guide might be invalid if i can write up and test a better method for the anniversary update

since someone got it working

[rocky canopy]

holy

no way I can F this up with even a tutorial

I used to build castles with lego as a child when did this downhill begin

[regal sphinx]

try this rtx.conf

its a bit old but i believe i have most textures correctly flagged and the skybox fixed

also try r_3dsky 0 in the console

[rocky canopy]

I will try later I'm about to start

ty for all your help btw, especially since you're also working. appreciate it

[half dove]

yall think wukong could be dragonborn in a fight

[modest bear]

No

[night quarry]

if you take into account that gman is wukong because he is a human who came from monkeys

so

easy boss

liddoly

didnt even make the alpha come out of skibidi

[regal sphinx]

did chatgpt invade this chat or something

[modest bear]

These are my friends irl

So

This probably covers

A lot

[half dove]

Wukong would win still

[sterile plume]

hi, anyone know why i cant launch a new game ?

[outer oriole]

anyone know why hl2's ui just wont work?

[regal sphinx]

wdym

[outer oriole]

everytime i try and install the lastest version of remix with hl2 or any hl2 mod

ui is just not working

[regal sphinx]

yea but what does "not working" mean, give some screenshots or explain a little

[outer oriole]

i cant click any of the ui

nor console

[regal sphinx]

oh, downgrade your bridge to
https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/bridge-remix/actions/runs/11489607160

[outer oriole]

aight

[regal sphinx]

newer versions broke input in source games

[outer oriole]

wait which version

bridge-remix-7b3d696-114-release?

[regal sphinx]

anything newer than the commit posted, so 0.6.0 is also affected

so dont use these

[outer oriole]

aight

[shy gazelle]

@devout current this is the latest rtx.conf for hl2, it helps fix the visuals

[devout current]

okay

ugh my downloads folder is so big now its crashing explorer

[grand comet]

If need be you can go to settings: storage and clear temporary files, where you can clean downloads

[devout current]

nice textures

i sure do love half life 2 rtx

im literally on the firsst chapter and im already seeing broken textures

[grand comet]

It looks like you set one of them as a decade texture and the other has some form of z fighting

[devout current]

howo fix

[grand comet]

Unmark the the decal texture and idk how to fix the other

[devout current]

i loaded into the next map and now i can just see through walls

[devout current]

help

@grand comet

[grand comet]

This isn't my game, I don't know what's causing this im afraid, sorry

[modest bear]

Try setting it up again

A fresh restart

If your open to that

Also

If you launch the game

From the remix app

I noticed

Some things become more stable

Sometimes

[shy gazelle]

Nah they've got it setup right, they probably just need to set sky to auto detect

[modest bear]

Your right

🤦‍♂️

For Space, if you don’t know, it’s under game set up tab, switch to the parameter tuning tab, then it’ll be under sky tuning, if I’m wrong on any of what I just said Skurty will prob correct me

[regal sphinx]

#1103495588374401115 message
@modest bear

oops wrong channel

meant for gmod

[modest bear]

Thanks

[snow obsidian]

How do you get Half life 2 RTX working anyway?

[regal sphinx]

^

[flint holly]

so there is no tutorial for doing your way with HL2 20th aniversary?

and by blueamulet fixes you mean what?

[radiant phoenix]

https://github.com/BlueAmulet/SourceRTXTweaks

[radiant phoenix]

the guide is what I wrote in the message

[flint holly]

so i need to apply the patch like in the xhentios video from gmod?

[radiant phoenix]

use the BlueAmulet patch, because it's for source games in general and not garry's mod specifically

you can use the xhentios bat file he made for garrys mod, thats what i did at least

[flint holly]

@radiant phoenix why the floor is reflecting everything? is there some fix?

literally every prop in the game

[dusky hound]

game setup>materials

[radiant phoenix]

change the roughness

[flint holly]

thanks

[dusky hound]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1096125116213108776/1110960219745423360/ezgif-1-45a9ac6755.gif

[flint holly]

eyes won't work anymore, weird, in gmod im using stdshader6.dll and 7 from portalrtx and it worked

[regal sphinx]

they work properly in portal prelude rtx

run hl2 that way

[regal sphinx]

also the "functioning" eyes in gmod are still broken, they are stretched to the dimensions of the eyeball and do not animate

[flint holly]

yeah but now, the eye, actually render

i also "fixed" the fire particles

[lyric bloom]

how do you fix that?

[solar kite]

does anybody know how to delete every rtx remix file in the half life folder?

I tried following the instructions from here but the game is just some purple texture, so I'm trying to bring the game back to its original state

[modest bear]

Just make a fresh install of the game

[solar kite]

how?

i tried using verify integrity of game files but rtx remix is still there

i also tried uninstalling but its still in the files

[modest bear]

Just delete the physical folder manually

Try that

[solar kite]

which one?

[modest bear]

The portal RTX one and half life 2

And then re install both

It’ll all work

[solar kite]

thanks its now fixed

[grand comet]

Yea

[flint holly]

well so i can play even the HL2 episodes...

amazing...

btw i need to find a way to fix the flashlight but outside of that i didn't had any issues and played like 2 hours with rtx on

before anyone ask yes, im using the HL2 aniversary .exe, i launched the game with some parameters trough steam and no issues...

[modest bear]

I have a fix that works sometimes

The flashlight just decides not to work on some areas

.

The file at the bottom of that message

Open up the root, go to hl2 folder, and then place it in the folder titled

Cfg

[grand comet]

Probably safe to assume the episodes weren't altered for the anniversary

[flint holly]

finishing HL2 EP1 with RTX, i was having a blast.

[modest bear]

I wonder if hl2 RTX will do the dlcs as well, or has that question already been answered?

[flint holly]

It has already been answered, sadly the episodes will not be available as a remaster content

maybe in a future? idk

[modest bear]

Might end up being something like pre-lude

Some other team will make it and release separately

[flint holly]

i hope so, the episode 1 at least, take place around c17, they need to create new materials and change some other things for ep2 but hope so

omg 25 fps in this spot right here, now imagine with new materials, pbr, props and textures updates

it looks geourgeous btw

[abstract glade]

I really hope a different team handles the episodes; it'd be a shame if this was left incomplete

[regal sphinx]

@flint holly

[last fog]

nah

this is with a ton of legacy assets, which hit performance much harder than a proper remaster would in Remix

all that foliage right there is tanking performance because they're textures with alphas to create transparency, rather than actual geometry

[flint holly]

but you have at least Frame Generation

[ebon hinge]

does anyone have

a rtx.conf

that works

🙏

ok volumetric doesnt work with vulkan

[regal sphinx]

i believe if you have a rdna2 gpu volumetrics are completely broken

[ebon hinge]

im on rdna3

wanted to do cool things

but i cant

😦

the app doesnt work

[worldly heath]

It was RDNA 3 but it was fixed in a Remix commit

Volumetrics works on all AMD cards as intended now

[worldly heath]

Download the latest Remix commit, that'll fix the volumetric lighting on RDNA 3

I also recommend using FSR 3.1

[ebon hinge]

i need to build all of them?

or its already built

[worldly heath]

Workflow actions

Like here's the DXVK

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/dxvk-remix/actions

Click the latest check mark one

And then you can download it

[ebon hinge]

oh ok

but also the tool kit

doesnt work

like it stuck on a black screen

\

[worldly heath]

Toolkit only works on NVIDIA unfortunately

[ebon hinge]

sad

hopes they add some sort of compatibility

with other cards

[worldly heath]

I mean, it's open sourced now, so technically, anyone can add support

[flint holly]

so after some tests and trial/error i followed your tut but i can't get rid of the culling issues and the water flickering, so maybe il stay with hl2 aniversary for now 😦

also patched .dll's using blueamulet patch but that didn't work as expected, also using the "autoexec.cfg" did nothing to my game

so my experience running hl2 ep2 with the prelude engine was somehow worse than in the aniversary for some reason

maybe you can tell me wich version of the runtime are running into prelude, i was using the latest 0.6.0 and the lastes build action for dxvk

[maiden pebble]

well i cant start a new game

[flint holly]

change your "sky autodetect" to by camera position

[vagrant whale]

HL2 vs official HL2 RTX

(i took from Twitter/X)

[flint holly]

where you got that?

[grand comet]

From twitter/x

[vagrant whale]

as i said

[flint holly]

why everyone 💀 me? lol

[grand comet]

He stated where he got it in hid original message

[flint holly]

i was not reading

srry

my bad

[grand comet]

All good we make mistakes sometimes

Its part of being human n stuff

[modest bear]

“It’s all just a symptom of being human”

[sinful frigate]

Somehow they took that with my grass disabled

[modest bear]

I only dream of achieving this skill in development

[drowsy sorrel]

Did y’all see the new materials for the headcrab?

[sinful frigate]

Waxy headcrab. Poor thing got hollowed for the showcase.
Super neat though. Can't wait to see ppl using that for characters and what not

[dusky hound]

Yes

[modest bear]

Technically, the hl2 RTX mod would work in gmod

[grand comet]

Not anymore

The hashes are different

[modest bear]

They are?

[grand comet]

Yea

[modest bear]

Is this cause of 64 bit

[grand comet]

Because they now use gmod exe instead of hl2.exe

[modest bear]

Weird, my mod still worked, either way it wouldn’t be hard to pick apart the mod and move it to gmod

[grand comet]

Yeah

[drowsy sorrel]

Well still though people could manually replace the assets to have them work instead of just dragging and dropping

[grand comet]

Yea

[fossil tiger]

Noticed that. I was like "why does this one spot look so Xbox 360?" Big whew.

[maiden pebble]

how do i fix the leaves

[regal sphinx]

@maiden pebble instead of using portal rtx, use portal prelude rtx

[maiden pebble]

ok

[regal sphinx]

prelude is closer to hl2's engine than portal rtx so it kinda "just works"

you can also patch hl2 directly but that's a more difficult route

[maiden pebble]

nice

so do i stick to the drag and drop thing with hl2 folder inside the hl2 game folder

[regal sphinx]

wdym

[maiden pebble]

copy Half-Life 2/hl2 and Half-Life 2/platform folders to either the PortalRTX or Portal Prelude RTX base directory and do not replace anything

[maiden pebble]

ima let it download so i have wait like 10 min bruhhhh

[regal sphinx]

ye

[maiden pebble]

uhhhh

[regal sphinx]

hold on

[maiden pebble]

fixed

[regal sphinx]

you probably gotta set the sky

[maiden pebble]

yea

[dusky hound]

VERY CAREFULLY

[maiden pebble]

i fixed em

[dusky hound]

good jorb

[maiden pebble]

these damn trains are making me mental

[flint holly]

if someone had any kind of issues, use my config file, this could fix some flickering textures in-game and some others things...

[maiden pebble]

will it fix trains

[flint holly]

dont know exactly, but you could try

btw im using the aniversary build

to play hl2 and episodes...

[maiden pebble]

bruh

well train now solid not flickering mess

[flint holly]

in any case i tried that rtx.config file inside Prelude engine and works fine

[regal sphinx]

i would send my prelude rtx.conf as well but i left the external drive unplugged at hone

[maiden pebble]

quick question how do i fix the big screen that breen is talking on

[flint holly]

take a screenshot

wdym

[flint holly]

weird, didn't had that issue, check if its marked as decal/particle maybe?

[maiden pebble]

the problem is that the rtx dev menu is looking kinda weird

[flint holly]

that's normal

[maiden pebble]

no through the normal portal rtx its categorized prob wrote that wrong

and i can see breen just very faintly

[regal sphinx]

update the remix runtime for prelude rtx

it will fix RT screens and 3d skyvox

[maiden pebble]

how

[regal sphinx]

the ususal way?

[maiden pebble]

idk i have never done it before

[regal sphinx]

oh

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/dxvk-remix/actions/runs/12382112519
download dxvk-remix-6801315-698-release (you will need a github account), open the zip file
extract everything into the GameFolder/bin/.trex folder, replace everything

[frail finch]

any idea how to fix the leaves (I'm playing through prelude)

[regal sphinx]

try this rtx.conf

also make sure you disabled/removed the portal prelude enhancements in the pinned guide

[frail finch]

hmmm, didn't seem to do much, I have my folders set like this

[regal sphinx]

weird

do they look normal in the actual map?

(not the background one)

[frail finch]

nope, still a blocky mess

[regal sphinx]

if you open your remix menu and go to alpha test/blending, do the settings match?

[frail finch]

yep

oh hold on

didn't do anything

[regal sphinx]

yea super weird, something is overriding the mesh/alpha

try disabling the enhanced assets

[frail finch]

its only some meshes as well

[flint holly]

try launch the game trough steam with this parameters: -allowdebug -condebug -dxlevel 90 +mat_disable_d3d9ex 1 -w 1920 -h 1080 -noborder -debug +sv_cheats 0 +r_3dsky 1 +r_WaterDrawReflection 0 +r_WaterDrawRefraction 0 +r_shadows 0 +r_frustumcullworld 0 +r_unloadlightmaps 1 +mat_specular 0

dont know if would help

and wich version of remix are u using?

[regal sphinx]

most likely the built in one

though the remix build shouldnt be causing this

[flint holly]

hmmm yea

[frail finch]

weird, this just made the background blurry

[regal sphinx]

what about disabling the enhanced assets?

[flint holly]

that's because of the r_3dsky 1

[frail finch]

nothing

only way i've gotten the mesh to normal messed everything else up

and that was by turning the leaves into ui mesh

[maiden pebble]

mark em as a cutout something it worked for me until i updated the rtx runtime

[frail finch]

its not just the leaves

[grand comet]

is alpha blending off?

[frail finch]

its on

[regal sphinx]

i swear i've only seen this happen when enhanced assets are enabled with the portal prelude assets still being around

but they said they deleted them

so im at a loss

[frail finch]

which folder would those assets be in?

its in mods right

[regal sphinx]

rtx-remix/mods

yea

[frail finch]

yeah i deleted that

[regal sphinx]

yea, unless steam redownloaded them, i really have no idea what's going on

[last fog]

is the toggle for enhanced assets grayed out for you?

[regal sphinx]

i believe they have other remix mods installed

which is fine, they shouldnt be causing it

i asked them to turn off enhanced assets earlier

[frail finch]

I do have portal 2 rtx mod installed

but thats it

[regal sphinx]

yeah but that wouldnt affect prelude rtx since those directories dont interact with each other

[frail finch]

also no

its not

[maiden pebble]

Same here the fences are driving me insane

[flint holly]

didn't know that, amazing

[maiden pebble]

how do i fix the flash light

[dusky hound]

Very carefully

[frail finch]

pretty sure you either have flickering lights ingame or no flickering lights and a buggy flashlight depending on if you got the fix for the flickering

[maiden pebble]

just im in ravenholm and blind af

[maiden pebble]

it does not excist for me

[maiden pebble]

Should I be worried remix has been stuck like this for idk 20 min and its still responding

nvm it crashed

[maiden pebble]

and also one thing the game runs better with studio drivers installed for some reason

[flint holly]

the flashlight at least in HL2 with remix its very unstable so in order to enter in darker areas you need to "add lights" within the remix menu and select your gravity gun, this way i played some levels of EP1 and EP2

[maiden pebble]

is there anyway to fix the fire particle

[neat grove]

oh, really?

[maiden pebble]

idk why but the game ran better for me i was confused

[neat grove]

gonna check this out

[outer oriole]

can confirm this!

[flint holly]

How

[maiden pebble]

Question can I replace the sky box texture any skybox texture with a hdri image

[maiden pebble]

Nvidia studio drivers

[regal sphinx]

you'd have to find a way to splice a .hdr/.exr into 6 different images while maintaining the dynamic range. I dont think a tool like that exists

not to mention being able to actually replace the skybox textures in the toolkit, i wasnt able to do that with source games which is why I made a skydome in blender

[maiden pebble]

Cant i like make a giant sphere withe the hdri and put it over the level in a editor or something like that

Dosent hl2 have a lvl editor for making levels

[regal sphinx]

it'd have to be inside remix

so you'd attach the sphere to a unique model in a capture

in gmod i made my own entity but im not sure what would be used in hl2

[maiden pebble]

help

[fossil tiger]

So excited for HL2 RTX. Just tried replaying the original and everything except the urban levels looks pretty sad.

Even then it's squares with flat textures. Ravenholm is so ugly:V

[heavy terrace]

do you have any alpha blending going on maybe?

[maiden pebble]

ive tried fiddeling with it

[dusky hound]

https://vxtwitter.com/hl2rtxofficial/status/1879589448754831534
https://vxtwitter.com/hl2rtxofficial/status/1879589454043848870

[dusky hound]

eh?

[sacred tide]

Twitter lmao but nice

[regal sphinx]

Twitter lmao but nice

[flint holly]

Twitter lmao but nice

[dusky hound]

Twitter lmao but nice

[outer oriole]

Twitter lmao but nice

[pine siren]

Twitter lmao but nice

[safe bridge]

Twitter lmao but nice

[dusky hound]

Mark my words. As soon as hl2 RTX comes out, I'm gonna make Versions of Alyx similar to those seen in the cinematic mod. In memory of fakefactory

Not that he's dead or anything

With the fully modeled anatomy of course

https://youtu.be/8cba5Bq0Zak

Good video by the way

hour long

But a good review

[fossil tiger]

Will they remaster the awful terrain as well? 😦

Nervous about the buggy maps

[tiny gust]

theyve changed the maps

[outer oriole]

i wonder how much hammer editing theyve done

[shy gazelle]

I hope it's nothing too drastic

I don't think it will be though

[flint holly]

we have Episode 3 Remixed before HL3

[maiden pebble]

how do i play on linux i just switched cus i got tired of slow ass windows

cus the game is whining about a corrupted cache

[bright scaffold]

why when i press capture scene it doesn't capture?

also i probably i installed it not properly, because when i try to change something i don't see any changes

[drowsy sorrel]

omg what?

[dusky hound]

yoooo

[drowsy sorrel]

i hope the updated dlss and ray reconstruction can fix a bit of the flickering on the gravity gun

[radiant phoenix]

yep, many things were leaked, but i think they don't want us to talk about it here on the server, so it's better to delete

[dusky hound]

Yeah

[drowsy sorrel]

ah ok sry

just thought since it was a community server and not an official one it was ok

[worldly heath]

I mean, I'm pretty sure it's still ran by NVIDIA, lol

[drowsy sorrel]

really? i swear i remember an announcement from an nvidia dev stating they want to keep this server's independence or smth?

ya this

nvm its fine i just hope the devs are doing well and the leak didn't affect them that much

just made me more excited for the mod

[worldly heath]

Well it seemed to be an old build in the video, so it probably doesn't represent the current state whatsoever

[last fog]

our server is not run by Nvidia, but we're partnered & respect their wishes

no leaks please. any discussion regarding leaks will be deleted, and repeated posts will lead to punishment

[solemn thistle]

Man, I'm looking forward for HL2 RTX to come out someday, so I can see how horribly it runs on my 7900 XTX.

Althrough 7900 XTX's RT handle just as good as my previous RTX 3080 12GB was in Linux enviroment. not sure on Windows.

[tiny gust]

would perform better than portal rtx

[bright scaffold]

how do i install rtx remix without using portal rtx files?
i tried just pasting remix runtime in bin folder, RTX HUD appears but does nothing expect blueish main menu, i can't even capture the scene

[modest bear]

This game is completely broken if you don’t use portal or gmod

[bright scaffold]

are there any gmod installation guides?

[modest bear]

There is, I believe, I am only familiar with the portal method https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1116089843479498782 someone might know here, it (could) be just the mod for gmod that adds all of hl2 maps to gmod, I’m not sure though

[devout current]

why i hl2 so buggy

[flint holly]

wdym

[devout current]

game randomly crashes
can ssee out of bounds randomly
etc

[flint holly]

you need to mark some textures as "decals" inside gui menu

[devout current]

well can i just run gmod with rtx and play hl2 inide of mod

[flint holly]

replace your rtx.conf inside hl2 main with this one

[static sedge]

So i know theres probaly a solution somewhere in the thousends of replys but when i try to add rtx remix to hl2 it just doesent have path/raytracing the remix menu still show up tho

[static sedge]

so i followed all steps but when the game loads after the valve start screen this error appears:

[regal sphinx]

did you downgrade hl2?

[static sedge]

Yes i downgraded to the pre aniversary build (sorry for the late respond)

[static sedge]

Ok i fixed it by not replacing the files

[flint holly]

my pistol looks badass path traced

[modest bear]

Gordon Freeman looks bad ass

[vagrant whale]

Tadpole surely would love to use RTX skin for his COD 2 Remixed project

[vagrant whale]

https://tenor.com/view/laugh-laughing-alejandro-call-of-duty-cod-gif-1637865648357560663

[snow obsidian]

How do you even get it working?

NVM

[oblique stream]

Gordon Freeman saved my life

[modest bear]

Yup

[flint holly]

wdym?

[modest bear]

he figured it out

[frozen lichen]

Without a single word.

[cinder edge]

Im getting this error message and yes I did download the legacy version

[cinder edge]

anyone?

[flint holly]

try to use blueamulet patches in order to avoid client.dll crashes

[cinder edge]

doesnt work

[cinder edge]

am I doing something wrong

I ran the script in the game directory

and copied over the folders in it to the main directory

OK

I wasnt doing it properly apparently

now it just says loading for a while then crashes

wihout error by the way

[modest bear]

Try to run as administrator

Also, by chance, do you have something like Medal open?

[cinder edge]

did that didnt work

[cinder edge]

wdym something like?

[modest bear]

Not something like ig, just Medal

Do you have that open

[cinder edge]

no

[modest bear]

Okay

[cinder edge]

I have msfs downloading

if that does anything

[modest bear]

You are putting the commands in for launch options on steam in, right?

[cinder edge]

yes -game hl2 -windowed

[modest bear]

Try without windowed

Ik it says it, but still try

[cinder edge]

ok

[cinder edge]

it wont launch anymore

[modest bear]

Send a shot of your root folder

[cinder edge]

root?

rtx prelude folder?

[modest bear]

Yeah

[cinder edge]

ok

[modest bear]

Open up hl2

Is there a gameinfo.txt?

[cinder edge]

not in the root

[modest bear]

The hl2 folder in this root, is there a gameinfo.txt

[cinder edge]

nope

[cinder edge]

I meant not in the hl 2 root

[modest bear]

Yeah I got that

In prelude, click on the folder named hl2, and look for a gameinfo.txt

[cinder edge]

yes

there is

[modest bear]

Good

So, you did put -windowed back in, right

[cinder edge]

no

but

[modest bear]

When you do

[cinder edge]

I acidentally clicked verify game integrity

and it got to lke 5 percent

before I stopped steam thru task manager

before it stopped launching

[modest bear]

Put it back in -windowed -game

[modest bear]

😬

[cinder edge]

please dont tell me I have to redwonload it

[modest bear]

You probably do, I’d recommend it

[cinder edge]

awww

ok fine

[cinder edge]

ok so

now

it doesnt crash

but

it wont load

it says loading

I can hear CP

but it wont load

and the rtx remix overlay is completely frozen

[cinder edge]

so I managed to get it working by using a diff config but now I have filckering textures and npcs are super shiny fsr

[modest bear]

yeah that's because you need the conf

try this one

wait this is the wrong one

this one

[cinder edge]

oh also

its really dark

[modest bear]

yeah the conf "should" fix all that

[cinder edge]

so

it fixed the flickering

[cinder edge]

and the shiny people

but not the darkness

[modest bear]

both

wait

the darkenss didn't fix?

[cinder edge]

nope

[modest bear]

send a shot of what your looking at/where you are, casue there are some areas that don't work

[cinder edge]

im in the train station

[modest bear]

Okay

Yeah

The train station is dark because there glass isn’t transparent

[cinder edge]

cant u fix that using hammer?

[modest bear]

You can fix that with the remix tool kit

[cinder edge]

oh

has anyone fixed it?

[modest bear]

Well, you see, what we give you is the ability to get path tracing working, tool kit is what makes the mod for textures and allat, which is something you’d put together

[cinder edge]

oh

[modest bear]

If your willing to learn the toolkit a bit, it’s really easy to make glass transparent

[cinder edge]

I am wiling

but where can I learn it

[modest bear]

Do you have the toolkit installed with the Nvidia app?

[cinder edge]

yes

[modest bear]

Great

So, you did delete the file in the RTX-remix and then the mod folder in the root directory right?

[cinder edge]

uhh

I only deleted the mod folder

[modest bear]

Okay

It should be fine

Yk what

Ik a video that can explain how to set up a mod to you

I’ll send it

It doesn’t show the transpernt stuff

But you watch that until you got the mod in the tool kit

[cinder edge]

ok

[modest bear]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yb9Rn0o4oho&si=9TpTpP52svX-chuz

Start at about 8 minutes

[cinder edge]

so question

there are 2 enable opacity checkmarks

[modest bear]

Can you send a shot?

[cinder edge]

ok well I checked the ont in the opacity tab

but also

How do I save this?

[modest bear]

when you close it should tell you to save

[cinder edge]

yeah

[modest bear]

if it doesn't

[cinder edge]

but where do I save it

[modest bear]

oh

just go with what it tells you

as it reccomends

[cinder edge]

what who tells me?

[modest bear]

when you click x

and close tool kit

it should all pop up on screen

and just keep clicking save and okay

and if doesn't tell you

it already saved for you and will be there

[cinder edge]

save or save as?

[modest bear]

save

when you click on the texture you want to make transparent, clikc on the 3 lines, and then click the option to make it translucent

[cinder edge]

oh,

ok

[modest bear]

then when your done, click on mod packaging

then click on package

then just follow what it says

[cinder edge]

ok

it doesnt work

[cinder edge]

I think package packages only to project directory

[modest bear]

No it works

Trust me

Try it out in game

[cinder edge]

I did

[cinder edge]

it doesnt

[modest bear]

Do you have enhancements on, you can check when you hit alt+x

[cinder edge]

righht

my bad

[cinder edge]

still doesnt ork

[modest bear]

Hm

Open up the RTX remix folder and send a shot of what’s in there

[modest bear]

Open up mods

Is you project folder in there?

[cinder edge]

yes

[modest bear]

Okay

Send me what’s in the folder

Project folder

[modest bear]

Okay

Is there anything in the package folder, it should just be the mod usda and maybe materials, and maybe the testing usda

[cinder edge]

yes

[modest bear]

What does the mod usda say?