quake2xp mod

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

Discord

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
• 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
• sRGB render buffer
• Antialiasing - MSAA and FXAA 3.11
• Postrocessing effects -Bloom, Depth of Field, Radial Blur, Thermal Vision, Film Grain, 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 2GB 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