These effects Nvidia says will require the RT cores found on RTX series GPUs, thus the minimum specification for running the game will be a GeForce RTX 2060 GPU. Water and glass will refract light, surfaces will deliver more accurate reflections and light sources illuminate surrounding objects. Quake II RTX includes real-time range time of day lighting, sun light and indirect illumination. Considering Quake II is just $5 on Steam, the barrier of entry is not that high if you can't find your old CD-ROM and want to check out the game after all these years.
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Owners of the original can patch their copy and enjoy the entire game, including multiplayer modes fully path traced. It includes the first three single-player levels of the PC gaming classic. The free download is now available on Steam and as a standalone download (Windows, Linux) from TechSpot's downloads section.
Nvidia and Bethesda unveiled the development of Quake II RTX at Computex 2019. This will give a whole new look to id Software’s classic game that originally launched in 1997. Quake II RTX uses path tracing, a ray-tracing technique that unifies all lighting effects such as shadows, reflections, refractions and more into a single ray-tracing algorithm. What just happened? Nvidia in collaboration with Bethesda have released Quake II RTX as a free download.