
Bureau of Meteorology, Australia February 10, 2021 Tsunami affecting marine area commencing after 2:45 am AEDT Thu, persisting for several hours Warnings at: /KtL1fMMoyh MARINE THREAT warning for LORD HOWE ISLAND. Seeing how Nvidia integrated modern features into this classic game is really exciting.Noumea: A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the South Pacific on Thursday (Wednesday as per India Standard Time), generating a tsunami that threatened island nations in the region. Equally special is the relationship with Nvidia, whom we have worked with since the early days of first-person shooters. Quake II RTX will be available as a free download for both Windows and Linux users starting June 6 via .Īs per Tim Willits, Studio Director at id Software and one of the designers of the original Quake II, “It's rare that a PC game has the impact and longevity of Quake II, and seeing it reimagined with ray tracing 20 years later is something special for me. Those who already own Quake II, however, will get the entire game (including multiplayer deathmatch and cooperative multiplayer modes), fully path-traced, meant to give those who have already played the game a totally new feel while playing.

The free, remastered Quake II RTX features the first three single-player levels of Quake II. This elegant form of rendering is used in computer graphics in films but has previously been too expensive for games," Nvidia says. Path tracing "traces light rays (paths) through the scene in a way that unifies all lighting effects into a single ray-traced algorithm.

Called Quake II RTX, the remastered video game will be available to download for free for all on starting June 6.Īccording to a blog post by Nvidia, Quake II RTX is the world's first game that is fully path-traced using a ray-tracing technique, and the final result looks visually stunning.

Now, after more than 20 years, Nvidia has announced that the game has been remastered using a ray-tracing technique called path-tracing, which unifies all lighting effects such as shadows, reflections, refractions and more into a single ray-tracing algorithm. The game was developed by id Software and is not a direct sequel to the original Quake, which launched a year before. Quake II, the classic first-person shooter video game, was first released in December 1997.
