You Can Now Download Quake II Remastered for Free



Nvidia has launched a graphically-updated version of Quake II mdash; dubbed Quake II RTX mdash; to show off the ray-tracing capabilities of its platform, found on the Nvidia GeForce 20 series.  
Nvidias graphically-updated version of Quake II — Quake II RTX — is now available for free Last month, the graphics card maker had announced it would be remastering the game to show off the ray-tracing capabilities of its eponymous RTX platform, found on the Nvidia GeForce 20 series, that enables real-time ray-tracing Nvidia is calling Quake II RTX the worlds first game that is fully path-traced It claims that its ray-tracing technique brings together all lighting effects such as shadows, reflections, refractions and more into a single ray-tracing algorithm If you already own Quake II on Steam, you can now enjoy the full game as the path-traced version Or you can pick up the free Quake II RTX demo on Nvidias official website and Steam, which gives you three levels
To get started, head to Nvidiacom or Steam to get Quake II RTX Once the download is finished, run the installer and then pick from one of two options on the welcome page: a free demo that gives you three levels; or b full version that incorporates all levels The latter choice also lets you play multiplayer deathmatch and cooperative multiplayer modes with the new path-traced feature Of course, youll need to own the game, which currently costs Rs 350 in India on Steam As we mentioned, Nvidia and id Software announced the remastered version of Quake II late last month
If you want an idea of what it looks like before you bother with the installation process, heres a trailer:
Keep in mind that Quake II is still a game that is now over two decades old It originally released in late 1997 Quake II RTX has published by Nvidias LightSpeed Studios
We are giving Quake II back to gamers with a bold new look, as Quake II RTX, Nvidias head of GeForce marketing, Matt Wuebbling, said in a prepared statement Ray tracing is the technology that is defining the next generation of PC games, and its fitting that Quake II is a part of that
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