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According to the user guide [0], it's as simple as dragging the provided DLL into the game folder. I'm going to try this out with one of my old favorites today, I doubt it'll be quite this easy.

[0] https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/wiki/runtime-us...

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I believe the DLL alone only makes the game moddable. Thereafter, there's still a lot of work to do to swap out low resolution and poly-count assets for more detailed ones.

The video seems to hint that some of the process of upgrading models can be done automatically with AI-assisted tooling.

Yeah, but not live at runtime. It's still a pre-process that needs to be applied per game. Maybe just dropping the DLL into the game folder will upgrade the lighting automatically, in the rare cases these older games used real-time lighting. But real-time lighting, as far as I remember, was a pretty rare technique, opting instead to bake lighting into textures during asset compilation.

The graphical tool shown for swapping out assets also isn't available yet, though it's supposed to be coming "soon".

That last bit will hopefully be AI automated soon.

The of the widescreen fixes for the Unreal games was the addition of a dll file in the game folder.

Would this work for counterstrike 1.6 or halflife?

I loaded up HL2 with this, it's the only game I've tested so far that actually loads the DLL correctly. I can toogle the overlay menu and I've gotten one of the menu screens to look somewhat OK. After loading into Route Canal or Sandtraps, it's pitch black, aside from the weapon and the buggy. Spent like half an hour messing with the settings but I couldn't get it to work well.

NFS:U2 and GTA:SA do not start at all with the DLL present.

It could work - but loading modded DLLs on CS is a great way to get VAC banned. It would be a very expensive tech demo!

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