{"id":741983,"date":"2026-06-17T08:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741983\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:46:12","slug":"nvidia-rtx-remix-1-5-update-cuts-file-size-and-brings-smooth-normals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741983\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA RTX Remix 1.5 Update Cuts File Size and Brings Smooth Normals"},"content":{"rendered":"

NVIDIA has published its latest update for the RTX Remix framework, with version 1.5 bringing impressive improvements. As some may recall, NVIDIA’s RTX Remix is a tool for remastering older games to enable the game engine to support modern visual enhancements like full ray tracing, neural rendering with DLSS 4, and multi-frame generation. It also automatically enhances materials with generative AI. NVIDIA has been updating classic games like Half-Life 2 and Portal. According to the company blog post, RTX Remix 1.5 now includes new visual enhancements and a more efficient storage system that can reduce file sizes by roughly one-third, depending on the specific game.<\/p>\n

The first major feature update is Smooth Normals. This feature, highly requested by the RTX Remix modding community, adds automatic smooth-normal generation to the legacy geometry in the game. This prevents older in-game assets from appearing blocky or faceted when path-tracing lighting is applied. Interestingly, NVIDIA has prepared a demonstration in a concrete tunnel within the game, which now looks like a uniform piece instead of the multi-piece rendering it once was. The company also added lighting control from various viewpoints, meaning that remixes and modding community will get to play with more lighting controls.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/<\/a> \"\"\/<\/a> Last but not least, NVIDIA has updated its RTX IO storage technology with new algorithms and improved compression. Initially, RTX IO was developed as a high-performance storage technology to offload tasks from the CPU to the GPU, improving performance, speeding up game loads, and reducing CPU overhead. In-game textures now stream much faster, allowing gamers to notice a significant difference. One of the RTX IO updates is the file compression algorithm, which has been updated to support Portal with RTX, Portal: Prelude RTX, and the Half-Life 2 RTX games. In Portal with RTX, the installation size has decreased from 25 GB to 17 GB, while Half-Life 2 RTX has been cut from 80 GB to 50 GB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NVIDIA has published its latest update for the RTX Remix framework, with version 1.5 bringing impressive improvements. As…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-741983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}