And the time has finally come ray-tracing fans. NVIDIA has just released Quake 2 RTX on Steam for free. This free version includes the 3 levels from the original shareware distribution, and Quake 2 RTX is also compatible with the full game (so those owning it will be able to experience the entire game with ray tracing).
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).
According to its description, 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.
Those interested can get Quake 2 RTX from here. We’ll be sure to share our PC Performance impressions with it, as well as share some 4K screenshots.
Have fun!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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For free ? I’ll try it for sure.
don’t have a gaming pc at the moment and i don’t have time, i’d appreciate an rtx 2080ti benchmark. @john are you going to do a performance analyze on this game?
97 fps @ 1080p
Hopefully someone will patch it to work with 1000 series cards.
is there an option to disable rt and try the ray tracing reshade?i want to see which looks and performs better. my 2080ti reaches to 70 degrees and 100 percent usage in gta v if use rt reshade at 1080p.
I didn’t think you had a gaming pc.
Is that a real question? You might be able to get Reshade RT to work on orig Quake II. The devs already disabled RT for you XD
i have to travel a lot and very frequently that’s why i said i don’t have a gaming PC. i live in switzerland but i study in netherland.
i tried mcfly’s reshade on metro exodus and i made a video :
watch?v=jkyfnySS2Kw
what i want to see is if an old game can push my 2080ti to 100 percent gpu usage with rt enabled then compare it to mcfly’s reshade.
metro exodus can push my 2080ti to 100 percent gpu usage (both mcfly’s reshade and the ray tracing that is in the game)
by the way i meant at locked 60fps. also i should have mentioned, i can’t get the reshade to work with quake 2. (or more specifically the ray tracing that is in the reshade). it doesn’t work with most games.
With all due respect you do troll quite a bit so hard to tell what’s real with you. I said with all due respect., Its in the Geneva convension so I can say what I want.
Q2 RTX bench with a 2080ti should get 97 fps @ 1080p per another benchmark I saw.
I forgot Reshade RT is only supporting a few games at moment and haven’t messed with it yet as its buggy and screen space vs true RT.
I would suspect the perf on true RT would be higher due to the dedicated cores on the 2xxx cards. Would be interesting to see the differences.
-Ricky
when everything is going the way they should in life, you get happy and more energetic and this is where i empty that energy more or less because you can’t be rude or act like a crazy person in real life but when things in real life get complicated or tough i don’t have the mood to troll.
Haven’t met me then. You wrong me in real life and I become said crazy person. 🙂
Countering rude with crazy since ’94.
I find it interesting you troll when life is good and step back when it’s in the sh**ter. Quite the opposite of most people.
Don’t know how this RT convo got sidetracked. 🙂
“Free Demo”, John. Otherwise I was about to return my copy I just bought for $5.
Cheesy as hell. I hated the Quake series upon release and this few rtx enhancement almost invisible during the game. Reflections… was better in Unreal and Mortyr.
Here’s the standalone link from Nvidia.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/campaigns/quake-II-rtx/?nvid=nv-int-ck-90341
Nice, thanks for this!
Link might be region-locked. “Game over” in Germany. Quake 2 might still be banned / was refused an age rating back in the day.
That sucks. 🙁
Awesome.. d/l from Steam!
Here are the official instruction on how to install it: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1089130/announcements/detail/1607135761920478150
I am dissapointed. They should not even allow GTX cards to do RTX, as it just fries up your card. My Titan XP running on a Taichi Ultimate i9-9900 blah blah blah can only get 8 frames at 1440p res with medium settings, so without those tensor cores, the card just heats up max trying to push the minimal frames (still unacceptable) to play even if were a stubborn child. I feel the only reason N released this is to promote people to upgrade their cards. Thing is, take a screenshot at 4k with this game running max settings, and it looks like total a**e in RTX. Great idea, not so well implemented, and the sad thing is that I love this game so much from my childhood, and now it just feels raped and ruined by the promise of more glimmer.