Quake II RTX
Lightspeed Studios™ Developer
NVIDIA Publisher
2019-06-06 Release
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Very Positive
(4593 reviews)
Public Linux Depots:- Quake II RTX Linux Depot [1.14 G]
Quake II RTX 1.6.0 PatchHey, everyone! Today we're releasing v1.6.0, featuring the below fixed issues and improvements.
Breaking Changes:
- Re-designed the material definition system for flexibility and modding.
- Removed support for the VK_NV_ray_tracing Vulkan extension, which is superseded by
- VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline and VK_KHR_ray_query that were added earlier.
New Features:
- Added a setting to enable nearest filtering on world textures, pt_nearest.
- Added a setting to enable the use of texture and model overrides in the GL renderer, gl_use_hd_assets (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/151)
- Added support for converting sky surfaces into lights based on their flags, see pt_bsp_sky_lights.
- Added support for IQM models and skeletal animation for the RTX renderer.
- Added support for making any models translucent, and cl_gunalpha specifically.
- Added support for masked materials (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/127)
- Added support for polygonal light extraction from MD2/MD3/IQM models.
- Added support for smooth normals on the world mesh through a BSPX extension.
- Added support for unlit fog volumes. See the comment in fog.c for more information.
- Enabled game builds for ARM64 processors.
- Extended the "shader balls" feature to support arbitrary test models with animation.
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed a crash that happened when loading a map with non-emissive lava material.
- Fixed loading of multi-skin MD3 models.
- Fixed long texture animation sequences.
- Fixed some bugs in the model validation code (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/149)
- Fixed some self-shadowing artifacts by increasing the shadow and bounce ray offsets.
- Fixed some unlit or partially lit triangles by improving the BSP cluster detection logic.
- Fixed the MZ_IONRIPPER sound (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/143)
- Fixed the rcon_password variable flags to prevent the password from being stored (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/176)
- Fixed the background blur behavior when the menu is opened on a system with over 24 days of uptime.
- Fixed the barriers in non-uniform control flow in the tone mapping shader (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/129)
- Fixed the buffer flags on the acceleration structure scratch buffer (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/142)
- Fixed the crash that sometimes happened when entering The Reactor map (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/123)
- Fixed the disappearing light surfaces on some polygons with almost-collinear edges.
- Fixed the lighting on the first person weapon when it's left-handed.
- Fixed the missing frame 0 in repeated entity texture animations.
- Fixed the pipeline layout mismatch in asvgf.c (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/140)
- Fixed the rendering of the planet's atmosphere in the space environment.
- Fixed the sampled lighting estimator math, improved specular MIS.
Misc Improvements:
- Allowed changing the VSync setting without reloading the renderer.
- Extended the supported light style range to 200% to fix over-bright lighting.
- Implemented anisotropic texture sampling for objects seen in reflections and refractions using ray cones.
- Improved CPU performance by not re-allocating the TLAS on every frame.
- Improved the handling of transparent effects in the acceleration structures.
- Removed the fake ambient that was added when global illumination is set to "off".
- Removed the initialization of the async compute queue, which was unused. This improves rendering performance and fixes some compatibility issues with AMD drivers.
- Removed the MAX_SWAPCHAIN_IMAGES limit for XWayland (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/122)
- Replaced the implementation of model data handling on the GPU to improve scalability (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/171)
- Replaced the material BRDF with a more physically correct one and removed the non-linear albedo correction function.
- Replaced the normal map normalization on load with a compute shader to speed up engine startup and map loading.
Contributions by GitHub user @res2k:
- Added auto-complete for the ray_tracing_api console variable (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/112)
- Added support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/145)
- Added support for HDR monitors (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/159)
- Added support for synthesizing emissive textures and fixing lighting in custom maps (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/111, https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/136)
- Allowed saving and loading games in expansion packs (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/157, https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/150)
- Fixed a crash due to invalid clusters on some world geometry (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/165, https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/163)
- Fixed the debugging features of the bloom pass (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/160)
- Fixed the lighting from light surfaces with animated textures (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/137)
- Implemented full-screen blend effects (such as on item pickup) in the RTX renderer (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/110)
- Improved support for old mods and enabled x86 builds of the dedicated server (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/116)
- Improved the behavior of Dynamic Resolution Scaling on map changes (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/155)
- Improved the FPS counter behavior when r_maxfps is set (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/117, https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/118)
- Improved the tone mapper (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/156)
- Replaced the rendering of laser beams as billboards with volumetric primitives (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/108)
Contributions by GitHub user @Paril:
- Added settings for texture filtering in the UI (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/173)
- Added support for maps in QBSP format (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/133, https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/154)
- Merged over 350 commits from Q2PRO (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/166)
- Moved the security camera definitions to per-map files for modding (https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/pull/169)
[ 2022-01-21 20:14:11 CET ] [ Original post ] Download Quake II RTX
Quake II RTX is fully ray-traced and includes the 3 levels from the original shareware distribution.
Game Description
Shortly after landing on an alien surface, you learn that hundreds of your men have been reduced to just a few. Now you must fight your way through heavily fortified military installations, lower the city's defenses and shut down the enemy's war machine. Only then will the fate of humanity be known.
About Quake II RTX
Quake II RTX builds on the work of Christoph Schied and the team at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, who added ray tracing to Quake II to create Q2VKPT (in turn building upon the Q2PRO code base). NVIDIA has introduced new path-traced visual effects, has improved texturing, and has made dozens of other changes and improvements, resulting in an experience that rivals games created today, and pushes your RTX hardware to the limit.
Buy Quake II
Purchase the game to access all levels as well as multiplayer support.
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- Processor: Intel i3-3220 or AMD EquivalentMemory: 8 GB RAM
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2060 or higher
- Storage: 2 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Vulkan
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