Half-Life 2 RTX is now available in demo form and a new GeForce Game Ready driver is available for those looking to get the most out of their time with the game.

This week, Nvidia rolled out the 572.83 Game Ready driver. This update includes support for the Half-Life 2 RTX demo, as well as titles like new life-sim ‘InZOI' and Warhammer 40K Darktide's new DLSS 4 update.

With both Assassin's Creed Shadows and The Last of Us Part 2 dropping on PC over the next week, this driver also includes day-one optimisations for those games, so if you install the driver now, you'll be good to go when both titles release.

While new game optimisations are a key headliner here, this driver update also brings support for DLSS Override in 61 additional games. DLSS Override launched as a feature for RTX GPUs alongside the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 in January. At this stage, a good chunk of the most popular DLSS-supported games also support the Override mode, allowing you to force the game to use a newer, more up-to-date version of DLSS, rather than the potentially older version available in the game.

KitGuru Says: The Half-Life 2 RTX demo has arrived at long last. As expected, it is a truly impressive reimagining where ray-traced effects are doing all the heavy lifting, bringing new life to levels through ultra-realistic and reactive lighting and shadows.

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