r/nvidia • u/Nestledrink RTX 5090 Founders Edition • Mar 18 '25

News Half-Life 2 RTX Demo Recommended Specs + Optimal Settings

Recommended Specs

Optimal Settings

Press Alt+X in-game to open the RTX Remix settings menu, where you can quickly switch between a number of graphics and DLSS presets. The minimum required GPU for the demo is a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.

To help you get the best experience on your system, check the charts below for our settings recommendations and adjust in-game via Alt+X.

1080p

1440p

4K

Links

Trailer Video: Half-Life 2 RTX - Demo with Full Ray Tracing and DLSS 4 Announce Video

NVIDIA Article: Half-Life 2 RTX Playable Demo Out Now, NVIDIA RTX Remix Officially Released With DLSS 4 & RTX Neural Shaders

Download Link: Half Life 2 RTX Demo - Steam Page

Steam News Page: Half-Life 2 RTX Demo Available Now For Download!

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u/RedIndianRobin RTX 4070/i5-11400F/PS5 Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

It keeps black screening and rebooting as soon as it boots into the game. Is this happening to anybody else?

EDIT: DLSS Frame generation is the culprit. Disabled it and it stopped black screening and rebooting.

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u/Status_Jellyfish_213 Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

PSA!!!!

If you have a high refresh monitor, possibly a 4k one

A 40 series card

And you have both DLSS 4 w/ frame gen and GSync enabled on the latest drivers

Many games can hard reboot your system. I’ve seen it in Avowed and this. Save yourself the pain of the LOTS of troubleshooting I did right down to tearing the system apart. Also went through every single thing in the bios and DDU trying to fix this - event viewer will tell you it’s an Nvidia driver crash.

Nvidia have known for 3 months and said nothing about it, so to even acknowledge it would have been pretty fucking nice and saved a bit of time. Feel sorry for those who may have even replaced parts because the symptoms are similar to something like a PSU failure.

The drivers from December were the solution to enable both again.

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u/Torrey187 Mar 18 '25

I’ve had this issue too. I thought it was cause I was messing with DLSS presets. I’m on a 165Hz 1440P monitor though.

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u/Status_Jellyfish_213 Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

I was also swapping DLSS presets to the latest which is why I think I came across the issue with Avowed. Oddly enough didn’t occur with monster hunter, but that might be due to the version of frame gen used, I’m not sure. Try to switch off your Gsync to confirm.

I’ve tested this a lot - deliberately crashed my machine with half life 2 rtx numerous times to prove it was the case, to the extent of having to repair windows.

I had just bought a new PSU so that was my initial thoughts but was very happy to prove otherwise. The Driver from I think it is 9th December or thereabouts works.

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u/VeganShitposting Mar 20 '25

Weird, I can run FG and Gsync on a 180hz 1440p monitor with my 4060 no issues

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u/Status_Jellyfish_213 Mar 20 '25

Down to them I guess. But those latest ones are very much trash for the 40 series. A lot of issues have been solved by reversing and I feel like I’m getting a much smoother experience now.