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Quake II RTX Download 1.4.0

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/16/2020 08:30 AM [ 50 comment(s) ]

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Here you can download Quake II RTX, the legendary 1997 game with added real-time ray traced global illumination and reflections, dynamic direct and indirect lighting effects, mimicked physical material light reflection properties, and volumetric lighting effects.

id Software’s Quake II launched in 1997, bringing gamers a new single-player campaign, a long-awaited, addictive multiplayer mode that we played for years on pitifully-slow 56K modems, and a jaw-dropping engine that supported 3DFX GPU acceleration out of the box. Colored lighting, dynamic visual effects, and much more, all running at a glorious 640x480, or perhaps 800x600 if you had top-of-the-line hardware.

Fast forward to 2001, when id Software made the Quake II engine open source, enabling anyone to legally release total conversions with complete engine overhauls. Ever since, fans have beavered away on their own personal projects, the latest of which is Q2VKPT.

Released in January, Q2VKPT was created by former NVIDIA intern Christoph Schied, a Ph.D. student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. The “PT” in its name stands for Path Tracing, a compute-intensive ray tracing technique that unifies all lighting effects (shadows, reflections, et cetera) into a single ‘pure ray tracing algorithm’. With Ray Tracing being all the rage, word of a developer making a beautiful, real-time ray-traced version of Quake II made headlines around the world.

But path tracing has a downside: its random sampling algorithm introduces ‘noise’ that makes gameplay appear grainy and speckled, as seen in 2016’s Q2PT. To solve the problem, Christoph and his university colleagues built upon ideas originally conceived in 2016 during his NVIDIA internship, when he co-invented a fast way to remove said graininess by combining the results of multiple game frames, in a manner similar to that used by Temporal Anti-Aliasing.

 

 

As Christoph states on his site, Q2VKPT is the basis for future research, and a platform for more ray tracing goodness. So, we reached out shortly after Q2VKPT’s release to ask if our own ray tracing experts, many of whom he worked with previously, could develop enhancements and major additions. He said yes, and this week NVIDIA is presenting the newly-created Quake II RTX together with Christoph at GDC 2019.
Running on a Vulkan renderer, with support for Linux, Quake II RTX is a pure ray-traced game. That means all lighting, reflections, shadows and VFX are ray-traced, with no traditional effects or techniques utilized.

“But what’s new with Quake II RTX compared to Q2VKPT?”, you ask. A lot. We’ve introduced real-time, controllable time of day lighting, with accurate sunlight and indirect illumination; refraction on water and glass; emissive, reflective and transparent surfaces; normal and roughness maps for added surface detail; particle and laser effects for weapons; procedural environment maps featuring mountains, sky and clouds, which are updated when the time of day is changed; a flare gun for illuminating dark corners where enemies lurk; an improved denoiser; SLI support (hands-up if you rolled with Voodoo 2 SLI back in the day); Quake 2 XP high-detail weapons, models and textures; optional NVIDIA Flow fire, smoke and particle effects, and much more!





Limitations:
1.4.0 (December 15th, 2020) New Features: Added support for final Vulkan Ray Tracing API. The game can now run on any GPU supporting 'VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline' extension Added temporal upscaling, or TAAU, for improved image quality at lower resolution scales. Fixed Issues: Fixed a crash that happened when there are no available sound devices. Fixed a few issues with the tone mapper and the profiler for AMD GPU compatibility. Fixed a server crash: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/86 Fixed black materials and some light leaks: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/55 Fixed missing railgun lights in photo mode: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/75 Fixed missing sun light on geometry with invalid clusters. Fixed the CFLAGS for MinSizeRel and RelWithDebInfo builds to generate correct debug symbols. Fixed the game stuttering on Linux: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/62 Fixed the issue with all models being missing or corrupted on some maps during network play. Fixed the nearest filter when DRS was enabled and then disabled. Fixed building the game with GCC10 on Linux: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Q2RTX/issues/80


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    « GeForce 441.41 WHQL driver download · Quake II RTX Download 1.4.0 · AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 19.12.1 driver download »

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    smashmambo
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    #5735365 Posted on: 11/26/2019 11:20 PM
    8700K @ 4.7
    MSI GTX 2070 Super Gaming X
    Running at 1080p G-sync.
    Just downloaded version 1.2 now

    Using the new 441.41 driver and running around the first level I'm getting between 75 - 85 fps with the dynamic scaling turned off. With the scaling turned on I could set a target fps, but it makes the image too blurry and you're forced to disable the temporal AA. It's very playable tho.

    wavetrex
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    #5735440 Posted on: 11/27/2019 07:44 AM
    A 1080 can do RTX?

    Yes, but performance is abysmal.

    Can't remember when they added it in the drivers, but it wasn't very long ago.
    Uses the shader cores to do RT calculations, which obviously isn't anywhere near as efficient as dedicated hardware... but it can be done.

    See this article for example:
    https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/crytek-releases-neon-noir-ray-tracing-benchmark.html

    Raytracing is not limited to RTX cards.. they simply do it faster, that is all.
    (but still not fast enough... yet)

    msotirov
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    #5735454 Posted on: 11/27/2019 09:23 AM
    I am so happy for RTX owners that they finally have something to play.

    Hilbert Hagedoorn
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    #5735455 Posted on: 11/27/2019 09:34 AM
    I am so happy for RTX owners that they finally have something to play.


    Can we please not do the sarcasm and negativity all the time? Come on guys, it's just uncomfortable to read the forums this way.

    erho
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    Joined: 2018-09-02

    #5735472 Posted on: 11/27/2019 10:48 AM
    Guess it will need next gen RTX 3000 series for a good experience.

    That's a bit of an exaggeration. The game is quite playable on a 2080Ti @ 1440p 100% resolution. Also playable with 2070's and 2080's with resolution scale or just 1080p.

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