QuakeIIxp is a multi-platform (windows, linux and freeBSD (experemental)) graphics port of the game Quake II developed by Id Software. Completely updated rendering takes full advantage of the latest graphics cards to get the perfect picture, preserving the original style of the game.
Installation under Linux here
Russian FAQ here
Features:
- Real time per-pixel lighting and shadowing (like DooM3) with hi quality parallax mapping (relief mapping technology) with self-shadowing
- PBR and blinn-phong lighting models
- HDR render and HDR sky boxes
- Cubemaps and caustic light filters
- Light coronas
- Editable GLSL shaders
- 2d lighting for hud digits, console background and menu tags
- In-game light editor
- Advanced decal and particle system (infinity decals and soft particles)
- Md3 model format support (with out tags, no q3 player models support!!!)
- Reflection (screen space local reflection) and refraction surfaces
- Radiosity normal mapping and high resolution lightmaps
- Antialiasing - MSAA and FXAA 3.11
- Postrocessing effects -Glare, Depth of Field, Radial Blur, Thermal Vision, Filmic chromatic aberration lens distortion and vigneting, Gamma/Brightness/Contrast/Saturation/Vibration, Motion Blur, SSAO, Scanline and median cinematic filters
- Raw mouse input (windows only)
- xBox360 controller support (windows only)
- OpenAL 3d audio engine with EFX (high-quality environmental audio sound effects both win and linux)
- Playing OGG and WAV music tracks from the hdd
- Native support for the Reckoning mp. All other addons and mods supported in compatibility mode
Minimum System Requirements:
- Windows 7 or higher, ubuntu 10 or higher, freeBSD (experemental)
- 2 core cpu with sse2 1.8ghz
- 4Gb system RAM
- 5Gb on Hdd with The Reckoning mission pack
- Installed Quake2 v3.20
- Full openGL 4.5 compatible 4GB video card AMD RX series or NVIDIA GF 6XX.
- Integrated sound card with openAL drivers
Installation:
- Install quake2 from Steam, GOG or from original CD-ROM.
- For cd version install 3.20 patch.
- Unzip q2xp in to quake2 folder.
- Install openAL drivers for your audio card.
- Remove previous version of xpconfig.cfg and CACHEXP folder.
- Play it.
About compatibility with the original game (original multiplayer servers, old demos) and mods:
- By default, the engine uses gamex86xp.dll (q2xp net protocol)
- If engine can't find gamex86xp.dll it try load original q2 game dll and set original net protocol version
- If you have booth game dlls you can use +set net_compatibility 1 for select net protocol version (like dm game on original q2 servers)
Recommended System Requirements:
- windows 7 or higher, ubuntu 10 or higher, freeBSD (experemental)
- 4 core cpu with sse2 3.4ghz
- 8Gb system RAM
- 5Gb on Hdd with The Reckoning mission pack
- Full openGL 4.5 compatible geforce 980ti or better
- Creative X-Fi sound card or better
How to run any other mods - mission packs or run old demos:
- Install mod
- Run quake2xp as - quake2xp.exe +set net_compatibility 1 +set game MyModFolder
Crash? How to create log file:
- quake2xp.exe +set developer 1 +set logfile 2
- Find qconsole.log in baseq2 folder
- Place content of the file to www.pastebin.com
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Features:
- hdr render
- hdr glare
- hdr sky boxes (use 32bit hdr file format)
- async frame rendering
- new filmic effects - chromatic aberration, lens deform, vigneting
- better thermal vision for ik glasses (rogue)
- full dynamic lighting for glass surfaces
- improved self shadowing for parallax
- player weapon collision
- two sided decals
- vertex lighting for alpha and water surfaces
- improved caustics
- massive media update
- refraction particles support (look railgun fire effect)
- lava heathaze effect
- new security shield effects
- dynamic screen resolution list (windows only)
- update loading screen
- fast curl http downloading for multiplayer
- the strength of the controller vibration depends on the amount of health and armor (windows only)
- game controller charging icon (windows only)
- better linux support with amd cards
- better zaero support +relight
Be careful - to run you need a video card with full OpenGL 4.5 support and 4 gigabytes of video memory! To run on 2GB cards, set in console:
r_maxTextureSize 512
r_textureCompression 1
vid_restart
Do a clean install. I highly recommend not mixing with a previous version of q2xp or any other ports. It is not advisable to use long paths to the game or containing non-English characters.
Install:
- unpack archive in to you fresh quake2 3.20 folder
- if you have a creative audio card you can delete openal32.dll from game folder
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The mod absolutely rocks. If you are going to play Quake 2, it should be while using this. So true to the original, but such an improvement in so many ways.
Thank you for all of the time and dedication!
GLimp_CheckWindowsVersion() - Unsupported windows version.
Windows 7 and above required
Need fix detection Windows 8.1 OS, tried compatibility mode Windows 7/8, it failed.
im test compatibility mode 7-8 - all work fine
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Hi the mod is great but for some reason the music don't work no matter if i change the music source any fix ? and thanks for your hard work
I don’t have a crystal ball so I can’t answer why it doesn’t work in your case. Agree the phrase "does not work for me" does not contain any information that can help.
Version 1.27 runs perfect for me, but sometimes it happens to me that when I go from one map to another, the game drops a lot of fps, so I have to save the game and exit the game and start it again and load the game and then The fps are normal now. This did not happen to me with the previous version. Maybe it's windows 11 or it could be my pc or this version of quake2xp.
when your problem occurs, type in the console
gpuInfo - video memory usage
memInfo - ram usage
and copy the data received in the console to me
First it starts with 2.56 gb of video memory, map change now 3.05 gb, map change again now 3.58 gb and another one and the fps drop.
I'm realizing that the video memory is consuming or increasing while you're playing, the idea is that it stays fixed and doesn't consume like other games. You should fix that in this version.
I don't understand why it consumes more video memory when I change the map, in the previous version this didn't happen my friend.
With stable fps 2.60 gb of memory video, change to another map low fps 3.65 gb of video memory of 4gb, mem usage 1658 mb of 8gb please help me to fix that.
set
r_maxTextureSize 512
r_textureCompression 1
Type this in the console and need to restart the game?
yep or edit config and run the game
Now it works, the video memory goes up a little slower every time I go through a map, I played a last map and it said gpu usage 3.95 gb out of 4.00 gb, I go to another map and I get a crash when it loads the next one, where it says loading light interaction map. It consumes almost the entire graphics card. I'll have to stick with the previous version of q2xp or maybe future updates will fix this.
I found a place that ate video memory, but still you need to use the texture size limit and compression
And what values should I put in these commands? These same until you fix it in the next version?
r_maxTextureSize 512
r_textureCompression 1
I wrote the parameter values.
these commands have been available in the config and console for many years. Texture compression is also available in the video menu.