![]() "All while continuing to feature everything you already love about QuakeCon." QuakeCon 2019 "will include all-new Doom-inspired activities, events, exclusives, developer panels, hands-on demos, new information about Doom Eternal, and a few surprises we aren’t quite ready to talk about," Bethesda said. The reason is that 2019 is, somewhat loosely, the 25th anniversary of the original Doom-it was released in December 1993-and Bethesda isn't going let the "Year of Doom" go uncelebrated. This year's QuakeCon will go heavy on the Doom, the famed FPS that preceded the big bring-your-own-computer show's namesake. If you own the original Quake 2, you’ll be able to point Quake 2 RTX to your install folder and then play the full game with all the new ray-traced bells and whistles enabled. Starting June 6, anyone will be able to download the first three levels of Quake 2 RTX, the same way id released the shareware version back in 1997. ![]() Nvidia says this version of Quake 2 uses path tracing to render just about everything you see on screen, which gives it “the highest workloads of any ray-traced game released to date.” Thus, the recommended system requirements are on the steep side: Nvidia recommends at least an RTX 2060 for this version of Quake 2. The team has also updated all of Quake 2s textures, some from the Q2XP mod pack and others they’ve enhanced themselves.īetter yet, Nvidia will be posting the source code for Quake 2 RTX on GitHub to make it easy for modders to use this as a starting point either to enhance Quake 2 further or to use it in mods. Using real-time ray tracing for global illumination has meant that they’ve been able to add several new options, including the ability to select the time of day in a level. D student Christoph Shied, Nvidia has replaced all the original effects in Quake 2 to create Quake 2 RTX, and it looks absolutely lovely. The announcement video above shows off the rocket jump forward ray tracing represents. Nvidia first showed off its remaster of Quake 2 at this year’s GDC, and you’ll be able to play it yourself June 6-provided your hardware is up to the task. If you have the requisite hardware and want to check it out, you can grab Quake 2 RTX from Steam or download it directly from Nvidia. As it pertains to Quake 2 RTX, it's been upgraded with realistic reflections, refraction, shadows, and global illumination. However, it's at least a nice bonus while we wait for more ray-traced games to appear. Obviously a 22-year-old game with prettier visuals is the not the promised land for ray tracing, and for most people it's not reason alone to consider an RTX card. To play it, you will need a GeForce RTX 2060 or higher RTX graphics card, along with an Intel Core i3-3220 or AMD equivalent processor, 8GB of RAM, and 2GB of storage space. ![]() That means you can't play it with a GTX card, even though Nvidia adding ray tracing support to Turing and Pascal-based GTX variants. The RTX version uses path tracing to render almost everything on the screen, giving it "the highest workload of any ray-traced game released to date." If you want to keep playing, you'll have to shell out a modest $4.99 to buy the original game, which then unlocks the complete RTX version.Įven though Quake 2 is more than two decades old, the official ray-traced version is taxing on graphics hardware. For everyone else, the first three levels are free. It is now available to download and play for free, in part or in whole, depending on whether you already own the original game or not.Īnyone who already owns Quake 2 can play the ray-traced remaster in its entirety at no cost. For the past several months, Nvidia has been adding a fresh coat of ray-traced paint to Quake 2, which originally released way back in 1997. ![]()
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