At Gamescom NVIDIA revealed winners of the RTX Remix mod contest and highlighted community projects that use NVIDIA RTX Remix alongside generative Artificial Intelligence tools to modernize classic games. RTX Remix lets creators capture assets from older titles and rebuild them with modern lighting, geometry and materials, while community tools such as PBRFusion and ComfyUI help batch-process and generate textures and maps. The article notes 237 RTX Remix projects in development, more than 100 finished mods and roughly 2 million downloads across fan favorites.
The contest’s best overall winner, merry pencil studios’ painkiller RTX Remix, rebuilt more than 35 levels using AI-assisted workflows and handcrafted assets. The team batch-processed thousands of low-resolution textures and used the community-trained PBRFusion model to upscale textures by 4x and generate normal, roughness and height maps that import into RTX Remix as physically based rendering materials. Artists then refined environments and crafted new props with tools such as blender and instamat. NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs powered the workflow end to end, with a cited RTX 5090 and NVIDIA DLSS used to accelerate iteration, path tracing and frame rates. The piece credits the combination of RTX Remix and generative Artificial Intelligence with turning multi-year remaster efforts into projects completed in months.
Other highlighted projects illustrate different integrations of generative Artificial Intelligence and manual artistry. unrealrtx rebuilt nearly every texture across 14 levels, using RTX Remix’s texture tools and experimental AI-generated animations and light maps. need for speed: underground RTX Remix used ComfyUI to generate more than 500 textures and produced over 30 new high-poly models that were refined in adobe photoshop and blender. portal 2 RTX Remix introduced a custom substance2remix plug-in created with a large language model to link substance painter directly into RTX Remix, shortening export-import cycles. The article closes with pointers to download NVIDIA RTX Remix from the NVIDIA app, find tutorials and documentation, and access PBRFusion on Hugging Face and moddb to explore contest submissions.
