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Quake II RTX

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3.6/5

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3.6

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Quake II RTX
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Discover more games empowered with the visual fidelity of real-time ray tracing and the ultimate performance of AI-powered NVIDIA DLSS. Game Description Shortly after landing on an alien surface, you learn that hundreds of your men have been reduced to just a few. Now you must fight your way thr...
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3.6/5

( 64 Reviews )

3.6

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2019, Lightspeed Studios™, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 64-bit, Intel i3-3220 or AMD Equivalent, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, or higher, 2 G...
Time to beat
7 hMain
9.5 h Main + Sides
15.5 h Completionist
8.5 h All Styles
Description

Discover more games empowered with the visual fidelity of real-time ray tracing and the ultimate performance of AI-powered NVIDIA DLSS.



Game Description

Shortly after landing on an alien surface, you learn that hundreds of your men have been reduced to just a few. Now you must fight your way through heavily fortified military installations, lower the city's defenses and shut down the enemy's war machine. Only then will the fate of humanity be known.

About Quake II RTX

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). 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.

Quake II RTX is fully ray-traced and includes the 3 levels from the original shareware distribution.





Purchase Quake II: Quad Damage to access all levels from the base game as well as multiplayer support.


© 1997 id Software LLC, a ZeniMax Media company. QUAKE, id, id Software, id Tech and related logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of id Software LLC in the U.S. and/or other countries. Bethesda, Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax and related logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of ZeniMax Media Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All Rights Reserved. This product is based on or incorporates materials from the sources listed below (third party IP). Such licenses and notices are provided for informational purposes only. Quake II: Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Id Software, Inc. Licensed under the terms of the GPLv2. Q2VKPT: Copyright © 2018 Christoph Schied. Licensed under the terms of the GPLv2. Quake2MaX "A Modscape Production": Textures from Quake2Max used in Quake2XP. Copyright © 2019 D Scott Boyce @scobotech. All Rights Reserved. Subject to Creative Commons license version 1.0. Roughness and specular channels were adjusted in texture maps to work with the Quake II RTX engine. Q2XP Mod Pack: Used with permission from Arthur Galaktionov. Q2Pro: Copyright © 2003-2011 Andrey Nazarov. Licensed under the terms of the GPLv2. ©2019 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDA logo, the GeForce GTX logo, GeForce, the GeForce RTX logo, NVIDIA GameWorks, NVIDIA SLI are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

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Minimum system requirements:

Note:
A short guide on how to set up Quake II RTX and Quake II: Quad Damage can be found here.

Note:
A short guide on how to set up Quake II RTX and Quake II: Quad Damage can be found here.

Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
7 hMain
9.5 h Main + Sides
15.5 h Completionist
8.5 h All Styles
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Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
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Size:
1 GB

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Posted on: August 19, 2021

Linux?

If you go to either Steam or the official website (and through that, GitHub at the NVIDIA/Q2RTX repository), you can download this game for Linux. However, GOG only provides the Window build. I know that Linux is sort of Valve's domain, but the lack of a Linux build when every other provider has it seems like a huge oversight on CD Projekt's part. I'm glad it is on here for my Windows friends, but if you are running on Linux, just go to GitHub. Its DRM Free there, too.


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Posted on: August 20, 2021

octocron

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Games: 559 Reviews: 1

3060 not enough

For me, this was a tech demo that just further proves that ray tracing is a waste. A 3060 can't push this past 45 fps all for... reflections and lighting effects that can be done in modern games without RT. I feel like an old man for not getting the hype around RT. If you want to feel justified in blowing your money on a high end graphics card I think there are better ways.


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Posted on: August 20, 2021

Maybe in a decade?

It's Quake II, which is an absolute classic. This version is a nice upgrade, but you need an amazing system to run it properly... maybe in a decade or so when high-end cards become easier to find it'll be worth it, but for now I'll stick with Quad Damage.


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Posted on: September 5, 2021

dizzy_plays

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Games: 487 Reviews: 9

Works on AMD RX6000 too!

I already filed a ticket about this but GOG seems to take a long time to process that. The system requirements are incomplete since they only mention NVIDIA cards. Quake 2 RTX also runs on AMD RX6000 cards (I tested the GOG version on RX6800) as it uses Vulkan Ray Tracing. As far as the game goes, not a big fan of Q2 myself but the ray traced lighting is glorious.


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Posted on: August 15, 2022

danblasch

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Games: 275 Reviews: 28

outdated and missing linux version

gog only has version 1.0, as of june 2022 the newest version is 1.6. Furthermore, the linux version is missing here: get it on github instead. Why bother to distribute the rtx version here, if no one is going to maintain and update it?


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