BONUS CONTENT: Half-Life 2 RTX

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Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Christian received 50-series GPUs from Nvidia to test out a brand-new demo of Half-Life 2 RTX, the update to the FPS classic utilizing DLSS 4, full path ray-tracing, updated textures, and so much more. The embargo is up, and the guys are excited to share their thoughts about the demo.

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0:00.0	Well,
0:07.0	Well, hello there.
0:25.7	Welcome to a very special edition of DLC.
0:30.4	Christian Spicer is joining me.
0:32.2	I'm Jeff Kinnata.
0:33.0	Hey, Christian.
0:33.5	How are you?
0:34.5	Hello, Jeff.
0:35.6	I'm very excited.
0:36.8	And I'm going to say something that's probably
0:38.0	going to annoy you or people later as we talk about this. So a regular episode then.
0:42.4	I'm ready to go to the mat for it. I'm ready to go for the mat. Ready to go to the map.
0:46.2	Okay. What are you going to say that's going to annoy me? I think this might be on my game of the
0:51.5	year list.
0:55.0	All right.
1:01.7	If you listen to this last week's episode of the main podcast, you heard Christian and I talk about our 50 series video cards that in video sent to us, the reason they
1:09.6	wanted us to have these is specifically so that we could check out the new
1:14.9	improvements into the upcoming release of Half Life 2 RtX, which is this revamp of a what,
1:26.8	almost 20-year-old game at this point that it has been looks like a real
1:33.2	labor of love for some modders a modding team that has painstakingly gone in and updated textures
1:39.4	and done a lot of things but more importantly for what we're talking about, has all the bells and whistles
1:47.1	that are available with these new 50 series cards showing off just what is possible, even with a very
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