Quake II: RTX Edition

[PelinalWhitestrake]

Remove the dust from your CD's and baseq2 folders Athenas, Bittermans, Jokers, Stepchild's and Mavericks

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce...-release-date/
June 6 Release, and MS announced that the next DX12 update will feature DX12RTX

[Guardian Bob]

Does it work on AMD yet?

[D3athsting]

Does it work on AMD yet?

It's a nvidia project so...

[Arrashi]

Man its heartwarming that even so many years later Q2 is still techdemo.

[PelinalWhitestrake]

Man its heartwarming that even so many years later Q2 is still techdemo.

And still making Epic Unreal SEETHE after all these years

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/st...56755095736320

i cant wait to see this fucking shit SRC released soon, now i can watch DorkPlaces for Quake 1 finally die and be forgotten, And maybe see a Proper Quake 1 port that isn't a Slave of the motherfucking OpenGL or it dies in mid development like Quakespasm.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Nice to see Quake getting some love! Time to repost the advertisements

[bbr]

That is pretty cool.

Quake was one of my fav games to mod.
and it had great mods (airquake, nighthunters,. and more)

[Guardian Bob]

It's a nvidia project so...

But isn't that paying favoritism to a game made in 1996 and kinda open source? As long as there isn't a line of code that looks for Nvidia hardware to run. Like If (hardware=Nvidia) run game.

[zEmini]

Don't you need some super high powered graphics card to run this?

[D3athsting]

Don't you need some super high powered graphics card to run this?

You need a ray tracing capable card, that means a nvdia RTX-series card

[zEmini]

You need a ray tracing capable card, that means a nvdia RTX-series card

Not sure what that means but I have a GTX 1080 so apparently that isn't good enough. So basically a new expensive video card to run a very old game.

[D3athsting]

Not sure what that means but I have a GTX 1080 so apparently that isn't good enough. So basically a new expensive video card to run a very old game.

Nobody forces you to play that and nobody who purchased a RTX2xxx card did this to play quake 2 but it's good to have more stuff to keep gpu busy

[Cyclone Jack]

Not bad. All they need to do now is lower the brightness of the lighting by a whole lot, and add muzzle flashes, then they'll be on to something.

[Wondercrab]

The side by side comparisons are a really good example of how graphical remasters like this often completely wipe out the original tone of a game in favour of modern effects. The result is something that looks more technically impressive while losing the atmosphere that made it engrossing in the first place. I'm reminded a lot of the disappointing Abe's Oddysee remake.

[PelinalWhitestrake]

The side by side comparisons are a really good example of how graphical remasters like this often completely wipe out the original tone of a game in favour of modern effects. The result is something that looks more technically impressive while losing the atmosphere that made it engrossing in the first place. I'm reminded a lot of the disappointing Abe's Oddysee remake.

Not really, all of it can be fixed with modding, also stroggos sky was always blue and rusty, and quake 2 started at the Dawn mimicking the Original Operation Overlord.

Also: i think its time for MMOC have its own DOOM/Quake retro FPS corner.
there's so many cool stuff, and its damn easy to create complex maps for quake or HL nowadays thanks to Jakchammer, and Doom builder + Slade for DOOM

[D3athsting]

tried rtx on bf5 maxed out at 1440, the first solo mission runs at 50-70 fps on a 2080ti, the prologue runs at 70-80

[Rennadrel]

You need a ray tracing capable card, that means a nvdia RTX-series card

Pascal and Maxwell series cards have had RTX enabled since April.

[D3athsting]

tried rtx on bf5 maxed out at 1440, the first solo mission runs at 50-70 fps on a 2080ti, the prologue runs at 70-80

Edit: switching to DX11 results in 30-40 more fps

[PelinalWhitestrake]

AAAAAAND its out on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1.../Quake_II_RTX/

[PelinalWhitestrake]

Digital Foundry released a full fledged review of it