The fantasy action game Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, released in 2001 and based on the film “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” has long lost its magic, but modder mmdanggg2 decided to bring it back.
Image source: Electronic Arts
GeForce evangelist Jacob Freeman noticed that mmdanggg2 added support for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to the D3D9DrvRTX utility, a renderer for Unreal Engine 1 configured to work with Nvidia’s RTX Remix.
The recently updated version of D3D9DrvRTX to 1.5.0 allows you to run a 23-year-old game from Electronic Arts with support for path tracing, DLSS 3.5 smart scaling and other modern features.
Freeman demonstrated exactly how Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone looks with the listed technological improvements in the screenshots attached below.
As journalists from the DSOGaming portal note, D3D9DrvRTX has transformed Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, but to complete the picture, the game must be manually removed from the fake light sources used to illuminate the scenes.
In addition to Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, D3D9DrvRTX is compatible with five other classic games, including Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex, Rune and Nerf Arena Blast.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone debuted on November 16, 2001 on PC, PS1, Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Color – on the same day as the film of the same name. In December 2003, a new version of the game was released on PS2, Xbox and GameCube.