Thanks for the review and the tips for the various demo's to test with.
I missed the Quake train the first time around so it was interesting to play now and, in retrospect, see it's influence on so many games I played in the early 2000's.
Per reading your review I went ahead and cranked my case fans and 2080TI to full OC settings right off. It was holding mostly around 2100Mhz/14300Mhz. I haven't done the demo loops you guys did because I was limited for time this morning but I did play thru the first 2 levels for around an hour. At 4k it was averaging 23-27fps in these sections. I also set global to high and with V-sync on. Unfortunately updating the driver broke some of rivatuner(probably just need to reinstall) so I don't have any V-ram metrics to report but I am interested what might be going on there.
After killing whatever was needed I spent some time just walking around and taking in the visuals more. It really is beautiful. It was kind of confusing seeing the effect of the lighting, water, reflections, coupled with the older textures. Overall a really nice blend.
Many people are already stating how they'd love to see various similarly aged games get this treatment. I'd love to see the original AvP/Primal Hunt games get it. Seems like their lighting and environments would be awesome with this.
We put Quake II RTX to the test to see how the 22 year old game performs with a fresh coat of raytracing. We put a RTX 2080Ti and GTX 1080Ti to the test to see how they stand up to the raytracing upgrade added on to the game. Discuss your thoughts on our findings below!
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I noticed in the options menu a setting for using multi-gpu. Does anyone know if this applies to modern SLI and if so has NVidia put something in the drivers to allow DXR to work with SLI for this game?
I ran it on my 1080 GTX SLI set up and it seemed to be using both cards. I clocked in around 7FPS at 5760x1200 before giving up and moving on to something else. Should try to toggle that and confirm the rate drops.
Thanks for the review and the tips for the various demo's to test with.
I missed the Quake train the first time around so it was interesting to play now and, in retrospect, see it's influence on so many games I played in the early 2000's.
Per reading your review I went ahead and cranked my case fans and 2080TI to full OC settings right off. It was holding mostly around 2100Mhz/14300Mhz. I haven't done the demo loops you guys did because I was limited for time this morning but I did play thru the first 2 levels for around an hour. At 4k it was averaging 23-27fps in these sections. I also set global to high and with V-sync on. Unfortunately updating the driver broke some of rivatuner(probably just need to reinstall) so I don't have any V-ram metrics to report but I am interested what might be going on there.
After killing whatever was needed I spent some time just walking around and taking in the visuals more. It really is beautiful. It was kind of confusing seeing the effect of the lighting, water, reflections, coupled with the older textures. Overall a really nice blend.
Many people are already stating how they'd love to see various similarly aged games get this treatment. I'd love to see the original AvP/Primal Hunt games get it. Seems like their lighting and environments would be awesome with this.
Quake 2 was a lot of fun that's for sure. I think it's a good and bad comparison for RTX though. Modern games use other lighting techniques to simulate many of the things RTX does so the difference isn't nearly as stark as Quake 2 makes it appear. Eg BF5 or Metro with RTX on or off isn't nearly as different. I don't know that either Metro or BF5 really uses RTX to it's potential though, I'm hoping we see some new titles that really impress.