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Over the past month, I've been diving into more games to play with RTX-Remix, and spending a lot of time on the RTX-Remix GitHub page, especially the Issues tab. I've been opening tickets for problems I've encountered and brainstorming ways to improve the toolkit. One notable ticket was for Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, addressing an old issue where Lara's playermodel wouldn't appear in most levels. With help from nv-ajaus at Nvidia, who pointed out a fix for the bridge.conf file in the .trex folder, I managed to resolve it. This success inspired me to undertake a complete game capture and start Remixing.

This part of my workflow is the most tedious. Capturing the entire game means playing it from start to finish, slowly moving around, and pressing the capture button to grab every texture, model, and room. The strain of replaying the game in one go was eased by using the trusty TRAOD SCU by Slobodan Ratkovic, which let me fly around and skip missions faster, making it easier to capture those hard-to-reach areas. The TRAOD Restoration Project by reborninshadow also made my playthrough smoother. With the complete game captured, I could finally start the upscaling process.

Enter PBRFusion by NightRaven, a new and extremely impressive upscaler that I'll be using a lot in my future projects. It offers PBR, including normal, height, and roughness maps. This upscaler uses ComfyUI, a tool that Remix will incorporate in an upcoming update. This gave me a great chance to familiarize myself with ComfyUI's functionality and interface.

Just when I thought I was wrapping up, PappaSlask helped me get Max Payne 2 working with RTX-Remix! He's the head project lead of the Max Payne RTX Remix mod that's currently in the works. I played through the entire game with the runtime installed. It was my first time playing Max Payne, and I can see why their team is so passionate about Remixing it.