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Valve Source 2 Engine Rumored to Receive Ray Tracing/RTX Support Jan 14, 2021 18:18 EST Valve's Source 2 engine could potentially receive RTX/ray tracing support, if a recent rumor happens to come to light. Twitter user Pavel Djundik (@thexpaw) took to the social network with a savvy finding: the last Artifact beta received "Raytracing Shader" and "RTX" strings, archived via GitHub. While there are no additional pieces of evidence to support the idea that ray tracing is indeed coming to the engine, the mere idea is enough to get fans exciting and buzzing about its potential applications....

Artifact isn’t really a game that makes waves, nor does it seem likely to anytime in the near future, but that doesn’t mean Valve isn’t updating it or that it doesn’t still have its uses. Artifact is a Source 2 game, and as Valve continues to update it, sometimes the code of the game includes curious tidbits that could hint at possibilities in other Source 2 games (like DOTA 2 or Half-Life: Alyx for instance). Such could be the case with bits of code in the latest Artifact update that suggests ray-tracing and Nvidia RTX rendering could be in the works in Source 2.

Valve's new Source 2 engine could receive RTX and ray tracing support, hopefully that means Half-Life 3 has ray tracing support.