Left 4 Dead 2 fans, here is something special for you today. Modder ‘xoxor4d’ released a mod that allows you to play this classic FPS game with RTX Remix Path Tracing.
Do note that this is a compatibility mod. As such, it just makes Left 4 Dead 2 compatible with RTX Remix. It does not add new high-quality assets. And despite that, the game already looks great with it.
But what can you expect from this RTX Remix Mod? Well, right now, most things are rendered using the fixed-function pipeline. And, like most RTX Remix Mods, it does allow you to enjoy the game with Path Tracing. Still, it’s not perfect. Right now, it does not have any PBR textures. Plus, you might encounter some small visual bugs.
You can download the mod from this link. At the end of the article, you can also find a video for it. Thus, I highly recommend watching it. After all, it can give you a pretty good idea of what it brings to the table.
In 2024, we shared a lot of RTX Remix Mods for various games. In January 2023, we shared several RTX Remix Mods that are in the works. As such, you can take a look at screenshots and videos for Tomb Raider 2, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Manhunt, and Garfield Kart RTX Remix. Then, in February 2024, we shared videos for Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Unreal, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 and Midnight Club 2. In March 2024, we also shared the first screenshots from the RTX Remix Mod for Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. Finally, you can check out some early RTX Remix videos and screenshots for Fallout: New Vegas, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, COD 2, and Half-Life.
Speaking of Path Tracing Mods for older titles, you might also want to check out the following ones. Modders released demos for their Path Tracing Mods for Deus Ex, Tomb Raider, and Call of Duty 4. Do note that the COD4 Mod is a “proof of concept” demo, and it does not look that great. Let’s also not forget the RTX Remix for COD: WoW. And then we have the RTX Remix Mods for Painkiller, NFS: Underground, Underground 2. Oh, and don’t forget to give a go at this RTX Remix for Unreal Tournament 2004. In September 2024, we also shared a new version of the RTX Remix Mod for Max Payne. Finally, you can download Path Tracing Mods for Doom, Doom 2, Quake, and Serious Sam.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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Yet another example of an RTX game tanking frame rate while making little to no positive difference in terms of visuals.
"Do note that this is a compatibility mod. As such, it just makes Left 4 Dead 2 compatible with RTX Remix. It does not add new high-quality assets."
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I both read it and watched the video, I'm purely referring to the lighting which is the main focus of RTX Remix in the first place.
I couldn't care less about any ugly texture/model swaps that some random amateur decides to slap on afterwards.
Left 4 dead uses baked lighting which is practically ray tracing, thats why there isn’t much difference
The main purpose of rtx remix is the ability to remaster a game, it does make a huge difference to the visuals
meh lol
Reminds me of this L4D2 Source 2 remake rumor:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/12e6e000d96fcac0e0d842064f9207467e9e14433289959ef23af4b67f7c8483.jpg
Sadly it was from 2014 so it was obviously fake.
(The "Source 2: Plantation Survival" in the L4D2 workshop is from 2022 and is unrelated to the screenshot that I posted above)
What a waste of FPS…
What would you rather waste FPS on?
I'd rather not waste FPS at all.
Enjoy your text mode only games :p
There's a ReShade shader for that…
Anyway, I can play all sorts of 3D games on my RTX 3070 Ti. I've been playing Cyberpunk 2077 daily here recently, at native 1440p, without raytraced FPS killer garbage.
Now we are getting to the real issue. Mid range card that’s now 2 gens old.
The last time I checked more gamers still have GTX 1060's than RTX 3070's. Games should be developed for the least common denominator in terms of hardware. That's why they have "Low" settings for lower end systems, and "High" settings for higher end systems. Raytracing doesn't even work on GTX cards, unless you do software raytracing, which runs like crap.
But even if I had an RTX 5090 in my system right now, I wouldn't care for raytracing at all. It's worthless tech that requires temporal frame accumulation and jittering in order to work, and generally requires upscaling in order to be playable even on latest high end hardware. I hate TAA and temporal upscalers, therefore I hate raytracing. It's not hard to understand the logic here. This isn't a matter of "I don't have the latest and greatest hardware", this is a matter of "the tech legitimately sucks and I don't want it".
Logic? Peasant gaming. Should have stuck to consoles.
I grew up as a PC gamer in the days of MSDOS. I have PC gaming in my blood. Consoles can go to Hell.
where the hell is doom3 rtx already? Screw making that for bfgedition also.
hmmm I see literally NO visual improvements.
A good old Reshade is good enough anyway.
And on a side note, that game has aged so well.
The Source engine was so perfect.
I never even felt the need to have better than that.🤣
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cdbd489831f7f4ecf87f7bbd481c3152ffa071fbc43bd00dfc23682587ca5011.png
i dont care about the remix mod but after watching this i remembered what a gem the source engine was, the interactivity, clarity while everything feels grounded at the same time. we really went backward qualitywise in video games.
LOOKS TERRIBLE!