News:
Quake II RTX will be released on June 6th, 2019. 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. And if you own a copy of Quake II, you can play the campaign in its entirety, and play against others in online multiplayer.
How to get Quake II RTX:
On June 6th, at 6am PT, Nvidia will release Quake II RTX as a direct download on their website. This will include the first 3 levels of the game, released freely in 1997 as shareware, plus all of their new technological enhancements, updated textures, and enhanced models.
If you have the original Quake II release, download and install Quake II RTX from their website, run the installer, and point it to the full copy of Quake II when prompted so it can copy over the full game’s levels and assets.
Features:
- Improved Global Illumination rendering, with three selectable quality presets, including two-bounce GI
- Multiplayer support
- Time of day options that radically change the appearance of some levels
- New weapon models & textures
- New dynamic environments (Stroggos surface, and space)
- Better physically based atmospheric scattering, including settings for Stroggos sky
- Real-time reflectivity of the player and weapon model on water and glass surfaces, and player model shadows, for owners of the complete game (the original Shareware release does not include player models)
- Improved ray tracing denoising technology
- All 3,000+ original game textures have been updated with a mix of Q2XP mod-pack textures and our own enhancements
- Updated effects with new sprites and particle animations
- Dynamic lighting for items such as blinking lights, signs, switches, elevators and moving objects
- Caustics approximation to improve water lighting effects
- High-quality screenshot mode that makes your screenshots look even better
- Support for the old OpenGL renderer, enabling you to switch between RTX ON and RTX OFF
- Cylindrical projection mode for wide-angle field of view on widescreen displays
Source: Quake II RTX Available On Windows and Linux June 6th
Future download link (probably): https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/campaigns/quake-II-rtx/
