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Quake 2 RTX annouced - NV supported version of Q2VKPT
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Great, googly....
This looks so great, and I can't wait to try it out at like... 15 fps second with that soundtrack blasting!
edit: I must've watched this video like 20 times. I wish he shot that glass!
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It must feel good to have actively participated in the development of one of the most legendary and consistently lauded PC games of all time. Are you gonna play through it again with Ray tracing for some feels?
The details in Doom 3 are a bit smaller, which might require a bit more rays cast to have a similar impact. When you don't have enough rays for the geometric detail of a scene, despite some good denoising you'll end up with things looking bit flat, poor shadow definition, etc.
Huh. Somebody should do a rundown on how this ray-traced version compares to the path-traced version. Wonder why they opted for the former instead of further developing the later.
Well, somebody could take the code for this and port it to DOOM 3 if they wanted. They'll probably face a bunch of new performance and quality challenges in doing so.
In a month or whatever you'll download the mod for free and unzip it to your Quake 2 folder.
Compare to q2vkpt or the old software path traced mod or what?
Looks amazing. GOD I really hope Cyberpunk 2077 impliments RT Reflections or Real Time Global Illumination. That plus DXR, Killer APP.
It's too bad The Division is partnered with AMD. RTX for The Division 2 and Division 1 would have been absolutely incredible.
Many games look soooo good, but are really hampered by the limitations of GI/Shadows/SSR.
It's too bad The Division is partnered with AMD. RTX for The Division 2 and Division 1 would have been absolutely incredible.
Many games look soooo good, but are really hampered by the limitations of GI/Shadows/SSR.
Quake RTX vs Q2VKPT, not the older Q2PT. I'm just wondering whythey took the work done on the pathtracer, and then used that to go all in on raytracing instead.
Over the last hour, I read the blog post - they talk about the noise in Q2VKPT being a factor they wanted to eliminate, so that might be the primary reason.
At the very least, I suspect they're adding some non-raytraced effects, or are simply departing from fully path traced effects, so maybe that's why they didn't want to call it fully path traced, if it wasn't anymore.
I suspect (I would bet money) those strong lights cast from the windows into the rooms are not path traced, perhaps raytraced shadows (which would be different from path traced lighting in that the shadows are explicitly calculated, rather than calculated indirectly by diffuse bounces from the illuminated surfaces toward the windows). Frankly, the window sunlight could not appear so well defined on current (exclusively) path traced illumination. You would need dozens of rays per pixel for that.
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How does this work ? I have a 1060 GTX 6GB but I got it on September 2017. Is it compatible?
They mean that starting in April (next month), 1060 6GBs will have these features enabled through a software update.
Battlefield V with RTX: Meh, whatever.
Metro: Looks nice, but not $1200 nice.
Quake 2: I NEED IT NOW
I apparently have odd priorities.
Seriously though, I love how it looks both with and without path tracing. I wish they'd do Quake 1 too, since I think that game holds up better visually than Quake 2.
Metro: Looks nice, but not $1200 nice.
Quake 2: I NEED IT NOW
I apparently have odd priorities.
Seriously though, I love how it looks both with and without path tracing. I wish they'd do Quake 1 too, since I think that game holds up better visually than Quake 2.
Fantastic, thank you!
(I was not expecting this legacy support!)
You have RIGHTEOUS priorities.
This Quake II looks like what the FUTURE LOOKED LIKE (back in the day).
it's weird and kinda funny how something older and low poly somehow makes a more impressive example
that video is astonishing, this is probably one of the most exciting game tech videos I've seen in a while
Yeah, compared to what they showed last week this blows it out of the water.
Needs at least some dev time if the engine doesn't support it. For engines that do support it already, maybe it will be possible to achieve with mods.
Whoa! What assets of yours are in this game?
I was a kid when I got my first 3D accelerator in 98 and Quake 2 was my first foray in that part of PC Gaming. The pride you must feel strongly eclipses mine on revisiting an old milestone with a fresh coat of paint I'm sure. :)