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- Yes, indeed: while Quake II KEX has drastically improved lighting over the original game, Quake II RTX takes things to a whole other level by rendering the entire scene using path tracing. This required drastic changes to the game's assets, as path-tracing doesn't work particularly well without material data for surfaces.
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May 27, 2019 · Now, we can confirm that Quake II RTX will be released on June 6th, 2019. If you have a GeForce RTX graphics card, or other capable hardware, you can experience the first 3 levels of the game for free, fully remastered with path-traced graphics and a variety of other enhancements.
Quake II RTX, our ray-traced remaster of Quake II is now available to download and play! Grab it from Steam, or directly from our website, for PC, Ubuntu, and SteamOS. And if you’re a developer, download the source from Github.
- Minimum Requirements
- Sky Type Changes
- Testing Methodology
- 720p
- 1080p
- 1440p
- 2160p/4K
- Conclusion
Quake II RTXwill include the first three stages of the main campaign only, but owners of the original release will be able to play the full game with ray tracing enabled. The improvements made on the game include:
Quake 2 RTX does feature the ability to change time of day as well as which world the maps take place on, I've included a few screenshots below from the same time of day (dusk) just to show the difference the type of sky can make. This is useful for those who felt the change in the juxtaposition above and the video below didn't really reflect the o...
Since Quake 2 itself is a classic game and has always had its own way of benchmarking we wanted to take it back a bit in the testing methodology with Quake 2 RTX. Rather than set up a repeatable course and go with the traditional AVG, .1%, and .01% lows we're going with just averages as a result of the Time Demo test that you too can run following ...
I can already see the groans about why even look at 720p, and honestly, it is because of the age of the game. Even prior to the RTX release of the game when I play classics like this I run them at lower resolutions so that they keep some of that grit that I remember and they were typically not designed with resolution scaling for the HUD resulting ...
Full HD starts to really put a crunch on performance as the pixels increase substantially and that increases the load and demand even more so when fully path traced than it does with traditional rasterization. The RTX 2060 was able to hit a 60fps average here but showing the advantages of the higher end cards and the raw power they pack really bene...
Looking over these results anything under the RTX 2080Ti with its massive 4352 Turing cores and additional RT cores is simply going to deliver sub 60fps performance. Even NVIDIA notedthat this title would be optimally run at a 1080p resolution, and these results show why.
Okay, UHD is a two-fold monster here. First off, running it is nigh impossible at an acceptable frame rate with only the RTX 2080 Ti being able to crest 30fps which doesn't result in a good experience for this game. Secondly, there's no real visual benefit outside of screenshots, I still am of the opinion that anything over 1080p in a game like thi...
If raw performance is what you're most concerned about then you might be disappointed, but if the technological achievement that has been achieved is what you're looking at you're looking for you are going to find polarizing responses to Quake 2 RTX. Performance numbers junkies will be left wondering why performance is so low and why can't it run a...
Aug 21, 2023 · However, Quake II 's already had a relatively-recent "remaster" of sorts in the form of Quake II RTX, a free project released by NVIDIA developers shortly after the launch of that...
May 26, 2019 · Computex -- NVIDIA today announced that Quake II RTX will be available on GeForce.com as a free download on June 6.
May 27, 2019 · Nvidia has been showcasing Quake II RTX for ages, and now it’s finally set to launch to the public on June 6. You’ll get the first three levels of the ray tracing-enhanced game for free –...
May 28, 2019 · On June 6, Nvidia are releasing the first three levels of Quake II RTX for free. Here's how to get it, plus the PC requirements you'll need to play it in all it
