PC World - USA (2019-07)

JULY 2019 PCWorld 23

We ran Quake II RTX on a

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Nvidia’s remastered Quake II RTX is the first fully path-traced video game, and you can

have it for free. BY GORDON MAH UNG

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ou are now finally able to get

Nvidia’s remastered Quake II

RTX version for free (go.

pcworld.com/qkll). And

if you’re wondering just how fast the game

runs, we just found out in the oldest-school

way possible.

First, to catch you up, Nvidia has taken

iD’s classic 1997-vintage shooter Quake II and

lovingly updated it with a fully path-traced

renderer. While you might dismiss that as “just

another game with hybrid ray-tracing”

support, this is much more than that. At this

juncture of ray-tracing hardware performance,

most games use ray tracing sparingly and

IMAGE: NVIDIA

VIDEO: WE RAN QUAKE II

RTX ON A GEFORCE RTX

2080 TI CARD

Watch now at go.pcworld.com/bnm