How Modders Reimagine Classic Games with NVIDIA RTX Remix and Generative AI

Last week at Gamescom, NVIDIA announced the winners of the NVIDIA and ModDB RTX Remix Mod Contest, a $50,000 competition celebrating community-made projects that reimagine classic games with modern fidelity.

The entries showed how far video game modding has come, with individual modders and small teams pulling off overhauls of similar quality to those created by entire studios.

At the heart of these projects was NVIDIA RTX Remix, a platform that lets creators capture assets from classic titles and rebuild them with modern lighting, geometry and materials. Paired with generative AI tools like PBRFusion and ComfyUI, modders can now upscale or generate thousands of textures and automate repetitive tasks so they can focus on their artistry.

Plus, with NVIDIA RTX GPUs accelerating these AI-driven workflows, ambitious remasters that once took years can now come together in months.

There are currently 237 RTX Remix projects in development, building on over 100 finished mods and 2 million downloads across fan favorites like Half-Life 2, Need for Speed: Underground, Portal and Deus Ex.


The RTX Remix Mod Contest crowned Merry Pencil Studios’ Painkiller RTX Remix with several awards, but it wasn’t the only mod worth celebrating.

Here’s a closer look at the winning submission, along with other standout projects that showcase how RTX Remix and AI-powered tools are redefining what’s possible with modding on PCs.