27-year-old GTA 2 gets full path tracing and 60 FPS frame generation via RTX Remix

What happened

Modder releases GTA2 RTX Remix, a mod that adds path tracing and a dynamic time of day to the 27-year-old Grand Theft Auto 2. Modder gebdag has unveiled GTA2 RTX Remix, a mod that harnesses Nvidia’s RTX Remix technology to add full path tracing and dynamic time-of-day cycles to the 27-year-old classic, Grand Theft Auto 2 .

Rubin in-depth The Stout Owl: The ultimate Noctua G2 PC Grand Theft Auto 2 , released in 1999, used older graphics APIs such as DirectDraw and an earlier version of Direct3D. The problem is that these legacy APIs create a technical barrier to modern technologies like RTX Remix.

Nvidia's platform lacks native support for DirectDraw and only plays well with Direct3D 9. It requires a wrapper to interface with previous versions of Direct3D, which is where the GTA2 RTX Remix comes in.

Key facts

• Rubin in-depth The Stout Owl: The ultimate Noctua G2 PC Grand Theft Auto 2 , — released: in 1999, used older graphics APIs such as DirectDraw and an earlier version of Direct3D