Nvidia is using nostalgia and goodwill to market its latest GPUs. But RTX-washing betrays the original games' intentions, and it needs to stop.
RTX-washing. It’s our term for old PC games that have received glossy ray tracing effects. It’s certainly makes for a neat tech demo, but if you’re like me, you might wondering if there are any other benefits.
A fresh coat of shiny At its recent GTC showcase, Nvidia used a handful of games and demos to showcase its new RTX 4090 GPU. These included the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 Overdrive mode, which cranks up the ray tracing to previously impossible levels; an unplayable Racer RTX demo; and Portal RTX, a version of Portal redone with Nvidia’s new RTX Remix modding tool.
That vibe is a big part of the Portal lore, too. “What is this place?” you ask yourself the first time you step into a test chamber. It’s clearly rundown, and as becomes clear over the course of the game, hasn’t had human intervention for a very, very long time. That’s why it looks the way it does. In contrast, Portal RTX would have needed to have GLaDOS scrubbing and polishing the floors every day to achieve such a state of reflective cleanliness.
The same goes for Minecraft RTX, one of the ironically most demanding RTX ray tracing-supporting games. Part of Minecraft’s incredible success came because it was so accessible, from a hardware perspective, and also because its low-resolution world was understandable and approachable.
It’s the same way Lord of the Rings fans felt when getting their first glimpse of the high frame rate Hobbit movies. What was supposed to make them look and feel more realistic just made them look like soap operas. In a quest for greater fidelity, we lost the magic of what makes movies an escapist experience.Not only do you have to pay out at least $900 for an RTX 4000 graphics card, but you lose so much of what made the original Portal great.
Considering our conclusion is that the RTX 4090 is a giant waste of money, I don’t think it succeeded.
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