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This special release of Quake II includes the 3 shareware levels, but with extensively reworked graphics and codebase to make use of Nvidia's ray-tracing technology in their contemporary GeForce RTX 20 series of graphics cards. Quake II RTX is a cutting-edge, ray-traced reimagining of the old school classic. Global lighting effects, including realistic reflections, refraction, shadows, ambient occlusion and global illumination are a result of the path-traced simulation of light.
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Quake II (Game) - giantbomb.com
giantbomb.com · 12/8/2025
Games with the best use of RTX ray tracing technology - Mezha
Mezha · 6/2/2024
Ray tracing can run without a GPU, if you like slideshows — Quake II RTX demoed at 1 FPS with CPU-based ray-tracing - Tom's Hardware
Tom's Hardware · 3/8/2024
Q&A: Looking Back to When 1997’s Quake II Got a Path Tracing Update - NVIDIA Developer
NVIDIA Developer · 12/20/2023
QUAKE II Returns! Play the Enhanced Release Today - TechPowerUp
TechPowerUp · 8/11/2023
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