played on a new ryzen 7950x3D/RTX 4080 build in 1440p after upgrading from an i7 8700K/1080 Ti rig. i think my frame rate was consistently in the 90 to 120 range with the default settings when the game wasn't constantly tripping over itself.
portal is a great game but this RTX version, despite yes being very pretty, kinda sucks ass technically. it stuttered a lot, which i'm assuming is because of some behind the scenes shader compilation from rtx remix, but it was bad enough that the credits sequence with still alive became hilariously out of sync with the lyrics text and the actual music, plus every time i quit out of it steam would still think i was playing it so it's leaving behind some ghost task or something, forcing me to close steam if i wanted to play anything else because said ghost task wasn't showing up in my task manager. the new assets and lighting also kinda fuck up a lot of the inherent aesthetic and intention; windows to previous test chambers in the escape sequence were virtually opaque and i couldn't see through them, and the whole thing felt a little too cleaned up in the direction of portal 2 from the original game's intentionally sanitized art style. it gets to a point where you can't really recognize some walls as being portal-able in the escape sequence, and the inherent visual guidance of things is just ever so slightly murkier. plus i dunno if it's the DLSS implementation or what but the whole thing just feels smeared in vaseline at times, which is definitely not the case in other games i've played so far with DLSS on.
this being a pretty decent demonstration of RTX/DLSS however (sure i'm playing it a year after the fact and on a newer generation of graphics card, but regardless) at an effective cost of zero dollars and zero cents for already owning the original game (as long as we don't account for the ballistic amount of money i spent on this graphics card), and it still being portal aka "One Of The Best Video Games Of 2007", i guess i can let it slide. i think i would rather just tell someone to play the original version, though.
portal is a great game but this RTX version, despite yes being very pretty, kinda sucks ass technically. it stuttered a lot, which i'm assuming is because of some behind the scenes shader compilation from rtx remix, but it was bad enough that the credits sequence with still alive became hilariously out of sync with the lyrics text and the actual music, plus every time i quit out of it steam would still think i was playing it so it's leaving behind some ghost task or something, forcing me to close steam if i wanted to play anything else because said ghost task wasn't showing up in my task manager. the new assets and lighting also kinda fuck up a lot of the inherent aesthetic and intention; windows to previous test chambers in the escape sequence were virtually opaque and i couldn't see through them, and the whole thing felt a little too cleaned up in the direction of portal 2 from the original game's intentionally sanitized art style. it gets to a point where you can't really recognize some walls as being portal-able in the escape sequence, and the inherent visual guidance of things is just ever so slightly murkier. plus i dunno if it's the DLSS implementation or what but the whole thing just feels smeared in vaseline at times, which is definitely not the case in other games i've played so far with DLSS on.
this being a pretty decent demonstration of RTX/DLSS however (sure i'm playing it a year after the fact and on a newer generation of graphics card, but regardless) at an effective cost of zero dollars and zero cents for already owning the original game (as long as we don't account for the ballistic amount of money i spent on this graphics card), and it still being portal aka "One Of The Best Video Games Of 2007", i guess i can let it slide. i think i would rather just tell someone to play the original version, though.