YOU’LL NEED THIS
NVIDIA RTX 3060TI GRAPHICS CARD or better RTX Remix software Retro game library A lot of patience
WE’VE SEEN PLENTY of remastered or modded games recently that have updated the textures and even patched ray tracing into older titles. The RTX versions of Quake II and Portal are some of the best examples, as they were created by professional studios that know what they’re doing.
If you don’t know what you’re doing, or just want to have a go because taking games apart to see how they work is interesting, Nvidia has released a beta version of RTX Remix that can do just that. It’s time-consuming, fiddly, and there’s no guarantee that you’ll actually get results. However, in so many ways, it’s the perfect pastime for PC gaming enthusiasts.
This being an Nvidia application, you’ll need a graphics card from the green team. It’ll need to be a fairly recent one, with RTX capabilities—the more powerful, the better. Apologies to AMD GPU users and those who bought Intel Arc cards—this will sadly not work for you.
It’s also worth pointing out that this is largely going to be a story of failure. The first two games we tried didn’t run, and the third had significant issues. Getting into modding with RTX Remix looks like being a long-term project with a steep learning curve.