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Contains the GLQuakeWorld game application (multiplayer only version of Quake). Full version of Quake required to play. Quake Shareware (Game Content) DOWNLOAD (size: 8.2MB) Contains the game content from the PC Quake Shareware release, re-packaged in a Mac-friendly format. This allows you to play the first of four episodes of Quake, 8 levels. Quake Champions Mac OS X is one of the best arena multiplayer games we ever played. An alternative to this game can be Doom OS X, which is also available for free download. The graphics are way better than any previous titles and also the gameplay system has been improved. Quake is the best game of its type I have ever seen. Quake won't let me sleep at night. However, Quake could be better. As I played it, I couldn't help but think, 'Wow, imagine what this place will look like when they are done!' The 0.1.0.491 version of Quake Live for Mac is available as a free download on our website. The program belongs to Games. The unique ID for this app's bundle is org.mozilla.prism.quake. This free software for Mac OS X is an intellectual property of ZeniMax Media company. This Mac download was scanned by our antivirus and was rated as safe.
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Experience realistic reflections, refraction, shadows, and global illumination while you fight your way through the hostile Strogg civilization in the first three levels of the original game. Only then will the fate of humanity be known. Quake II with RTX—It’s On. This demo includes the first three single-player levels of the PC gaming classic. Owners of the original can patch their copy and enjoy the entire game, including multiplayer modes fully path traced.
Quake II RTX with GeForce RTX
Check out Quake II RTX and how it applies an advanced form of ray tracing known as path tracing. Get ready to experience 1997’s Quake II like never before. This is possible thanks to Nvidia's VKRay, an extension that allows developers using the Vulkan API to add ray-traced effects to their games.
Real-Time Ray Tracing
Global lighting effects like realistic reflections, refraction, shadows, and global illumination create a whole new Quake II experience. Quake II RTX includes real-time range time of day lighting, sun light and indirect illumination. Water and glass will refract light, surfaces will deliver more accurate reflections and light sources illuminate surrounding objects. These effects Nvidia says will require the RT cores found on RTX series GPUs, thus the minimum specification for running the game will be a GeForce RTX 2060 GPU.
What's New:
New Features:
- Added Photo Mode
- Added free camera controls for Photo Mode when the game is paused. See the Readme for more information.
- Added support for Depth of Field in Photo Mode
- Added support for campaign video cutscenes.
- Added support for selecting which display should be used for the fullscreen mode.
- Added support for loading map-specific files with sky clusters, which should be useful for custom maps.
- Added display of the selected inventory item name in the status bar.
Photo Mode Instructions:
- When a single player game or demo playback is paused with the pause key, the photo mode activates. In this mode, denoisers and some other real-time rendering approximations are disabled, and the image is produced using accumulation rendering instead. This means that the engine renders the same frame hundreds or thousands of times, with different noise patterns, and averages the results. Once the image is stable enough, you can save a screenshot.
- Depth of Field (DoF) - Simulates camera aperture and defocus blur, or bokeh. To control DoF in the game, use the mouse wheel and Shift/Ctrl modifier keys: wheel alone adjusts the focal distance, Shift+Wheel adjusts the aperture size, and Ctrl makes the adjustments finer.
- Free Camera Controls - once the game is paused, you can move the camera and detach it from the character. To move the camera, use the regular W/A/S/D keys, plus Q/E to move up and down. Shift makes movement faster, and Ctrl makes it slower. To change orientation of the camera, move the mouse while holding the left mouse button. To zoom, move the mouse up or down while holding the right mouse button. To adjust camera roll, move the mouse left or right while holding both mouse buttons.
- Settings for all these features can be found in the game menu. To adjust the settings from the console, see the pt_accumulation_rendering, pt_dof, pt_aperture, pt_freecam and some other similar console variables in the Client Manual.
Fixed Issues:
- Fixed a crash that happened at map load time when a custom map has no analytic lights.
- Reduced the noise in the biggun map next to the barred windows.
- Reduced the noise from yellow lamps next to the entrance of the jail4 map at night.
Misc Improvements:
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- Improved the menu settings to show units for various sliders, such as degrees or percentage.
- Made the volume controls logarithmic instead of linear.
Recent Quake II RTX news
- Someone finally cracked the copy protection
Table of Contents
Quake Installation
This process depends if you own a physical copy of Quake or if you downloaded it.
Physical copy
Since there were various releases of Quake around this is not as straightforward as you might have hoped. TODO, someone get guides like these into the wiki: http://mhquake.blogspot.com/p/installing-quake-using-dos-box.html & http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/readme.html#HowToInstallQuake_Windows
Downloaded copy
Verification
Quake Free
You should now have Quake installed.
Let's call the directory where Quake is installed the 'Quake directory' from now on. So for example your Quake directory is 'C:Quake' or '/home/ranger/ games/quake/'. If you do not know where it is, try searching for a file called pak0.pak. It should be inside a directory called id1 which itself is inside your Quake directory.
Inside the Quake directory there might be some files, these will not be needed. However there must be a directory 'id1' and inside that directory must be at least a file called pak0.pak and if you own the full version of Quake also a file called pak1.pak.
Filename | Size | md5sum |
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pak0.pak | 17M (that is 18689235 bytes) | 5906e5998fc3d896ddaf5e6a62e03abb |
pak1.pak | 33M (that is 34257856 bytes) | d76b3e5678f0b64ac74ce5e340e6a685 |
Is that the case? Excellent! If not, go find the pak0.pak and pak1.pak files on your media and create a file structure like that. If you cannot find them, start from the beginning or ask in the forum.
If you want to learn a bit about the directory and file structure of Quake then read on. If not, skip to the next step: Quake Configuration
The file/directory structure
A raw Quake installation consists of two elements:The executable (we call it engine) and the game data. The executable (usually) expects the game data to be in a directory on the same level as itself. In the case of the original game you need to have some .exe file in your Quake directory and a directory called id1. This is the game directory. Inside the id1 directory there are the .pak files. These contain the game data (levels, sounds, models, etc.). Think of them as archives, like ZIP but uncompressed).
By default Quake tries to load game data from the id1 directory when it launches.
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Some mods do not bother with putting their data into pak files, they instead dump all their files straight into their game directory.