Modmaker provides original Half-Life with ray tracing

Mod maker sulim_t has released Half-Life: Ray Traced. This mod is free to download and adds ray tracing to the first Half-Life game. Users must own the game to use the mod.

Sulim_t has Half-Life: Ray Traced released Thursday on GitHub. The mod adds real-time path tracing to the game. The rendering technique is used for global illumination, reflections, refractions and other visual effects. According to the maker, this works at ‘interactive frame rates’.

To use the mod, players must own Half-Life 1 on Steam. They can then download the mod on GitHub and via the installation instructions add ray tracing to the game. Users can also download an optional file that adds DLSS to Half-Life from the mod page on GitHub. The mod maker shares few details about what hardware is compatible with Half-Life Ray Traced. In any case, the mod should work on video cards that support hardware ray tracing, such as Nvidia’s RTX GPUs and AMD’s RX 6000 and 7000 series.

Sulim_t has been working on a ray tracing mod for the first Half-Life game, which was first released by Valve in 1998. The mod maker announced the mod last summer. Sulim_t previously also released similar mods for Serious Sam: The First Encounter, DOOM and Quake.