Quake 1 receives a ray tracing mod

Interesting things: Just after Nvidia added ray tracing to Quake II, lots of wondered why no 1 introduced the attribute to its predecessor. A prolific modder has now launched a conversion to fill that gap, whilst asking followers to wait around a very little longer for an additional really-anticipated task.

Sultim "sultim_t" Tsyrendashiev is back, including genuine-time route tracing to id Software's 1996 traditional Quake. The mod's initial expose was a shock addition to a trailer asserting a delay on the 50 %-Everyday living 1 path tracing undertaking in January.

The new Quake mod is readily available on Tsyrendashiev's GitHub and is effective with the first 1996 launch and 2021 remaster. Tsyrendashiev based his venture on vkQuake --a Vulkan conversion of QuakeSpasm.

Users putting in the Steam edition of Quake can rapidly utilize the mod by downloading and unzipping its archive and then operating the vkQuake executable, which ought to instantly detect the Steam folder.

To manually set up on non-Steam editions, copy the game's PAK documents and songs folder into a new folder named "id1," positioned in the identical listing as the vkQuake executable. Make confident to overwrite the outdated cfg file with a new a single. Players with RTX graphics cards should really put in DLSS 2. by downloading the dll file and unzipping the RayTracedGL1-DLSS zip file into the very same folder as vkQuake.

This mod is the third ray-tracing enhance for a vintage FPS that Tsyrendashiev unveiled this yr. In April, he launched a conversion for the initial Doom. He also has a single accessible for Serious Sam.

Tsyrendashiev has considering the fact that current the Doom mod to assist AMD GPUs. People who to begin with passed on it because they never own RTX playing cards may perhaps want to check out it. For those without the need of DLSS, functioning the sport at retro resolutions will help with performance.

Yet another common initial-person activity getting ray tracing this calendar year is Portal, courtesy of Nvidia and its new RTX Remix pipeline. The firm hopes more modders will use its new toolset to incorporate ray tracing and other capabilities to ahead-rendered DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 titles. Remix has now established beneficial in including enhanced textures and DLSS 3 (or DLSS 2) to The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and the first Mount & Blade. The Portal conversion will be freely accessible to homeowners of the sport on Computer system in November.