Category: quake ii

‘Quake II’ is free right now from Bethesda, ‘Quake III’ next week

[ad_1] Last weekend during its online QuakeCon event, Bethesda made the original game available for free via its launcher on PC. The promotion encouraged donations to charities like the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Trevor Project, and of course gave PC gamers a reason to save a couple dollars by installing and activating the […]

‘Quake II RTX’ update delivers more realistic ray-traced visuals

[ad_1] The upgrade expands just where you’ll see ray tracing kick in, too. It’s now visible on security monitors, and you can even see hall-of-mirrors recursive reflections on certain surfaces. Performance might also improve depending on your system. You now have the choice of dynamic resolution scaling that will try to maintain 60 frames per […]

The free ‘Quake II RTX’ demo is now available on Steam

[ad_1] NVIDIA says this is the first fully path-traced game. The ray-tracing technique pulls “all lighting effects such as shadows, reflections, refractions and more into a single ray-tracing algorithm.” You can snag the Quake II RTX demo from Steam and NVIDIA’s website, or pick up Quake II for just $5 if you don’t already have […]