![]() ![]() I suspect the main point is to provide source code to give developers an example of how they could incorporate RTX into their games, since the code for Quake II has been open-sourced for a number of years. Quake II RTX is a cutting-edge, ray-traced reimagining of id softwares old school classic, by NVIDIAs Lightspeed Studios. So, all you are really getting for free is the new renderer. ![]() You have to own a copy of the game if you want to play the whole thing. Likely the same Quake II demo that's been available since the late 90s. Metacritic Game Reviews, Quake II RTX for PC, Quake II RTX is a cutting-edge, ray-traced reimagining of id softwares old. And if you’re a developer, download the source from Github. If you have a GeForce RTX graphics card, or other capable hardware, you can experience the first 3 levels of the game for free, fully remastered with path-traced graphics and a variety of other enhancements. It's a bit like what Half-Life: Source was to Half Life, though Quake II is far older at this point than half-Life was when its port was released.Īlso, the headline is not really accurate saying "Quake II RTX will be free". By Andrew Burnes on J Featured Stories GeForce RTX GPUs NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing Quake II RTX, our ray-traced remaster of Quake II is now available to download and play Grab it from Steam, or directly from our website, for PC, Ubuntu, and SteamOS. Now, we can confirm that Quake II RTX will be released on June 6th, 2019. They don't appear to have touched the level geometry or animations or anything like that. It pretty much looks like a 20+ year old game with some improved lighting effects. This special release of Quake II includes the 3 shareware levels, but with extensively reworked graphics and codebase to make use of Nvidias ray-tracing. Nitrium said:Will this look more or less identical to the original or waaaaay betterer? If not, is there any point to this?There's a trailer showing comparisons between original and the RTX version. Quake II RTX is a cutting-edge, ray-traced reimagining of id softwares old school classic. ![]()
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