Playing old games on Maximum settings !

[neoglow]

On the last couple of Steam Sales I picked up some old or oldish games that I either had before that were non steam or never owned, some of which I pretty much completely overlooked. Like Quake 4.

Does anyone else really enjoy the fact that with todays hardware you can load them up and ramp up all the quality settings to max and it still runs with decent fps!?

I could only dream of playing Quake 4 on max detail when it was released with the rig I had back then, even high settings was a struggle.

 

[neoglow]

Quake 1 looks awesome with that mod, I must check that out. Thanks for the mod details and pics.

Lol, Ive just started the install for Quake on Steam, its only 55mb lol!

Its amazing how game sizes have grown.

 

[neoglow]

This. I've been replaying Quake in 1080p using the 'Darkplaces' mod, along with HighRes textures, nice water, HDR and real lighting

Makes it look fantastic

Are the High Res textures, water, HDR and lighting all part of the Darkplaces mod or are they separate?

 

[neoglow]

I use:

Darkplaces: http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/download.html (gives you high res, better lighting, HDR, AA and Anniso support)

Real Time Lighting: http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/files/romirtlights_id1.pk3 (for better shadows and lighting effects put that in the ID1 folder)

Rygels High Res Textures: http://games.on.net/file/14291/Rygels_High_hi-res_texture_pack_for_LordHavocs_DarkPlaces_Quake_mod (I use the 900MB one, the Ultra pack doesn't look much different and is a much bigger download). Again place it in your ID1 folder, open up the config.cfg file in the same folder and add:

r_glsl 1
r_glsl_offsetmapping 1
r_glsl_offsetmapping_scale 0.05

To the end. Save, and run Darkplaces.

Pretty Water: http://quakeone.com/files/6-pk3-models-textures-darkplaces/39-darkplaces-pretty-water-nice/

Again put that in the ID1 folder.

Gives you what you see in the screenshots previously.

Thanks for info, will check these out!