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Quake 2 RTX Update 1.5 adds support for new Vulkan extension, improves performance

NVIDIA and id Software have released a new update for Quake 2 RTX. According to the teams, Patch 1.5 adds support for ray tracing using the `VK_KHR_ray_query` extension API. This new extension promises to improve performance and according to some early reports, it really does. Continue reading Quake 2 RTX Update 1.5 adds support for new Vulkan extension, improves performance

Quake 2 RTX Patch 1.4.0 released, adds support for platform-agnostic Vulkan Ray Tracing

NVIDIA has released a new update for Quake 2 RTX that adds support for platform-agnostic Vulkan Ray Tracing. This basically means that Quake 2 RTX is no longer locked on NVIDIA’s hardware. Instead, this fully path-traced game can now run on all GPUs that support the latest Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions. Continue reading Quake 2 RTX Patch 1.4.0 released, adds support for platform-agnostic Vulkan Ray Tracing