Quake 1 gets a ray tracing mod

Interesting stuff: Just after Nvidia added ray tracing to Quake II, many questioned why no just one brought the function to its predecessor. A prolific modder has now released a conversion to fill that gap, even though asking lovers to hold out a small extended for yet another hugely-predicted undertaking.

Sultim "sultim_t" Tsyrendashiev is again, including actual-time route tracing to id Software's 1996 classic Quake. The mod's initial reveal was a surprise addition to a trailer asserting a hold off on the Fifty percent-Existence 1 path tracing challenge in January.

The new Quake mod is out there on Tsyrendashiev's GitHub and is effective with the authentic 1996 launch and 2021 remaster. Tsyrendashiev based his job on vkQuake --a Vulkan conversion of QuakeSpasm.

Users installing the Steam version of Quake can speedily use the mod by downloading and unzipping its archive and then jogging the vkQuake executable, which ought to immediately detect the Steam folder.

To manually put in on non-Steam editions, duplicate the game's PAK files and tunes folder into a new folder identified as "id1," positioned in the same directory as the vkQuake executable. Make confident to overwrite the aged cfg file with a new just one. Players with RTX graphics cards need to put in DLSS 2. by downloading the dll file and unzipping the RayTracedGL1-DLSS zip file into the same folder as vkQuake.

This mod is the 3rd ray-tracing update for a typical FPS that Tsyrendashiev unveiled this calendar year. In April, he introduced a conversion for the initial Doom. He also has 1 accessible for Critical Sam.

Tsyrendashiev has considering that current the Doom mod to aid AMD GPUs. People who originally passed on it for the reason that they don't possess RTX cards could want to test it. For these with no DLSS, functioning the match at retro resolutions helps with performance.

An additional basic to start with-individual video game obtaining ray tracing this 12 months is Portal, courtesy of Nvidia and its new RTX Remix pipeline. The company hopes extra modders will use its new toolset to increase ray tracing and other capabilities to forward-rendered DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 titles. Remix has already established practical in incorporating improved textures and DLSS 3 (or DLSS 2) to The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and the primary Mount & Blade. The Portal conversion will be freely obtainable to owners of the video game on Computer system in November.