Quake II RTX is not a hybrid solution like Battlefield V, Metro Exodus or Shadow of Tomb Raider, this is running fully path traced. Running even 40 FPS at 3840x1600 resolution on a (albeit expensive) consumer GPU is a big deal. Real-time ray-tracing was pretty much out of reach until recently. While whine about performance is fun it is missing the point. It honestly looks more impressive than it has any right to. While it is still low-poly and despite the model/texture upgrades done looks somewhat dated, it works well as a showcase for ray-tracing - dynamic lights, AO, shadows, reflections, refractions.

Quakes, thanks to their open source, are a welcome testing ground for various things and for this one Nvidia took someones project to implement Vulkan and path tracing into Quake II - for a thesis on filtering techniques, I believe - and ran with it. This is not meant to be an AAA game, it is a techdemo.

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