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Quake 2 was created for Windows 95/98 systems. Installation onto a 64 bits version of Windows 11 or Windows 10 seems to be possible and the game also starts properly. However, getting the game going in full screen is a challenge. Resolutions higher than 1600x1200 are not available. And you can only look around with your mouse by pressing a key. All in all pretty 90s!
I certainly don't play many games, simply due to time restrain, but Quake 2 has gotten me and thus I am playing 1-2 hours online each day. I'm also the proud member [F3] T-Bone of the clan F3 (Fanatic Frag Freaks ). Thus I reckon myself as pretty experienced about what really counts for a Quake 2 player. I know that the taste for weapons is widely spread amongst the Q2 players and whilst the majority seems to love the Rocket Launcher, I love the Railgun. This weapon is one of the most powerful in experienced hands, but it asks for two important things. A good ping and a high screen resolution. The Railgun is an excellent sniper weapon and at a high resolution you can kill enemies at large distances who may not even see you. You can also aim a lot more smoothly with a higher resolution, so for me screen resolution is the way to go.
I don't see any reason for playing Quake2 at 640x480 anymore since the days of Voodoo2 and TNT. It is advisable to play at the highest screen resolution you can get, as long as the frame rate is acceptable. Now here the discussion comes in. What is acceptable? Many Q2 players will answer '40-50+ fps is what it takes'. This is of course incorrect. A sustained frame rate of 25-30 fps would actually do, it may never ever drop below 25 though, because that would cause game play restrictions. The different fps values that people are talking about come from different benchmarking demos for Q2. There is the pretty useless built in 'demo1.dm2' or 'demo2.dm2', or some more demos included into 'Reckoning', the Q2 mission CD. Then there are the two larger demos recorded from the Q2 benchmarking Guru Brett '3 Fingers' Jacobs, which are 'massive1.dm2' and 'crusher.dm2'. You may remember what I said in the introduction, we shouldn't care less about 'average frame rate', we want to know the worst case scenario of a 3D card. As long as this is above a decent level, we don't have to worry anymore. Now unfortunately Q2 tells us only the average frame rate from a benchmarking demo, no maximum, no minimum. Luckily did Brett help us out here. He had the idea of putting 3D cards through tougher tests by recording a demo with a huge amount of explosions and light weapons, so he recorded 'crusher.dm2'. I never used this demo so far, because in reality it's a perfect CPU benchmark. The CPU rather than the 3D card do the transform and lighting and 'crusher' is asking for the last bit of CPU performance. This is what makes it so great though. 'Crusher' can be seen as the worst case scenario in Quake2. You will hardly ever be in a death match with so many rockets, hyperblaster, BFG and Railgun shots flying around you, or if you should, you may not stay alive for long. Using 'crusher.dm2' shows how bad the frame rate can get. I claim that you can run Q2 just fine as long as your 'crusher.dm2' result is above 25 fps. Now what we really want to know is how far can we go up with the resolution whilst keeping a good result in crusher.dm2.
320x200 was still a struggle. Running Quake at "max resolution" would have been an absolute pipe dream, and high performance at higher framerates than 320x200 very much demanded hardware acceleration.
Yet Quake didn't get a new release for 25 years. If your code can already handle running higher resolutions, is doesn't matter if not every single PC can't run them at a decent speed yet, CPUs will get faster. Having to constantly update your game just to unlock resolution options because a new CPU came out is the biggest waste of everyone's time.
People get what you are saying, but what they are trying to tell you in turn - and you don't seem to be understanding - is support for higher resolutions essentially future-proofed the games somewhat. I really fail to understand why you can't understand why a developer would support higher resolutions in preparation for the better machines they knew would eventually come and that this does in fact neatly and sensibly explain away your confusion over why they would do this.
As Quake II RTX uses path tracing for the rendering of virtually everything, a GeForce RTX GPU with performance-accelerating RT Cores is strongly recommended. As detailed in our ray tracing deep-dive, high ray tracing workloads necessitate the use of RT Cores, and Quake II RTX has the highest workloads of any ray-traced game released to date.
Author: JakFrostEmail: jakfrost@planetquake.comWeb Site: Created: December 26, 1997Last Modified: December 3, 1998Based On: Quake 2 v3.20Source: _2.html
Note: This command will display the files and directories of any directory on the hard disk. It is necessary to specify the location of the directory to be displayed using a relative path format. In a relative path the character . means current path, .. means parent path, and / or \ separates directories. It is also necessary to specify a filename mask which will determine what files are displayed. In a filemask the character ? substitutes for any single character, * substitutes for any number of characters. If the command is executed without parameters it will display the contents of the quake2/baseq2/ directory.
Note: If this toggle is enabled textures which are not sized to the power of 2 will be enlarged to the next higher power of 2. Normally textures will be shrunk to the next lower power of 2. Enabling this toggle will make some textures sharper such as monster skins but will degrade performance.
Note: This command will take a screen shot of the current frame buffer. When a screen shot is taken while using software mode, the screen shot will be in the PCX format. When the screen shot is taken while using the OpenGL mode, the screen shot will be in TGA format to save allow the saving of high-color video mode information. This command is most useful when saving score information at the end of a match, or when taking screen shots of weird things in the game.
The PlayStation version uses a new engine developed by HammerHead for their future PlayStation projects[16] and runs at a 512x240 resolution at 30 frames per second.[15] The developer was keen to retain a visual parity with the PC version and avoid tricks such as the use of environmental fog. Colored lights for levels and enemies, and yellow highlights for gunfire and explosions, are carried across from the PC version, with the addition of lens flare effects located around the light sources on the original lightmaps. There is no skybox; instead, a flat Gouraud-textured purple "sky" is drawn across the ceiling. The game uses particles to render blood, debris, and rail gun beams analogously to the PC version.
Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game and stated that "all in all, id should be commended for the advancement of its technology and improvement in its single-player level design, but it's going to be up to mod designers to provide the necessary additions to the multiplayer game in order to make it stand out from Quake."[64] GamePro said the game "lives up to its impossibly high hype." Praising its interconnected levels, new weapons, enemy design, soundtrack, and the ability to play as a female character in multiplayer mode (which they called "an overdue nod to the growing number of QuakeGrrls"), they gave it a perfect 5.0 out of 5 in all four categories (graphics, sound, control, and funfactor).[69]
FSR 2.0 supports the same graphics cards technically. AMD says the requirements for an optimal experience are a little more strict, though. You can still use it with an Nvidia or AMD GPU, but AMD recommends a slightly more powerful graphics cards for higher resolutions. You can see the recommended GPUs in the table below.
Note : If you are unfamiliar with those "old" algorithms, I highly recommend to read Chapter 3.6 and 15.6 from Computer graphics: principles and practice By James D. Foley. You can also find a lotof information in chapters 59 to 70 in Graphics programming black book by Michael Abrash.Here it is a pseudo-highlevel-code:
Just came back to Quake 3. Installed the latest ioquake3 and my models no longer look like this. Specular maps seem completely messed up. Map textures almost look like the specular map is simply being overlayed on top of them.
This section is for the benefit of you poor deprived folks out there whoSTILL don't own a 3D card. Quake2 doesn't perform very well in software 2D mode, excepton very high-end systems with very fast 2D graphics cards. Even so, there's noway you can get the performance in software mode that you can get in 3Dmode.
Meiotic recombination and de novo mutation are the two main contributions toward gamete genome diversity, and many questions remain about how an individual human's genome is edited by these two processes. Here, we describe a high-throughput method for single-cell whole-genome analysis that was used to measure the genomic diversity in one individual's gamete genomes. A microfluidic system was used for highly parallel sample processing and to minimize nonspecific amplification. High-density genotyping results from 91 single cells were used to create a personal recombination map, which was consistent with population-wide data at low resolution but revealed significant differences from pedigree data at higher resolution. We used the data to test for meiotic drive and found evidence for gene conversion. High-throughput sequencing on 31 single cells was used to measure the frequency of large-scale genome instability, and deeper sequencing of eight single cells revealed de novo mutation rates with distinct characteristics. 2b1af7f3a8