Quake II revisited with titan XP lol

vapor matt · 1 Jan 2017 at 12:44

For a laugh I thought I would revisit one of my favourite games I played on a PC , I thought wow amazing GFX at that time.

Quake II, my PC looked like this and 45fps demanding game.

Pentium 11 450 MHz Abit BH6 M/B and 64 meg of ram and 2 voodoo II cards scan lined together, replaced by SLi with creative sound card and CRT 17" monitor. a dial up 56k Zoom modem. I think it was freeserve my isp at the time.

With my trusty Netscape browser, this PC was the daddy lol the voodoo2 cards cost about £200 plus at the time. the CPU was £400 top of the range lol

well last night I saw it on steam for £1.60 so thought yea why not see how it plays now lol I didn't record the frame rate but I wasn't struggling for GFX power. but still remembered parts of the game lol although is does look a bit strange compared to modern PC games.

Rroff · 1 Jan 2017 at 12:57

The engine falls apart at around 500fps IIRC - you can bind a key to timerefresh to do a quick benchmark.

Still probably my favourite game of all time.

Tommy_Here · 1 Jan 2017 at 13:50

downloaded a custom version to update it and got it running at 4k looks so sharp!
look at my videos on youtube of custom maps with tank commander ( My favorite enemy ) vs the makron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYlhYz81GD4

Rroff · 1 Jan 2017 at 14:09

Heh cool - I've got a little project I still work on from time to time that is basically a guild wars style version of the game (complete with a custom game world in the style of the original) - plus put back in some of the missing attacks and animations like the berserker jump slam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqVeIKY6-2w

enhanced the AI so they will jump obstacles to get you etc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2M-FEn8Rys

(Funny thing is most of the monsters have animations or unused animations that can be reused for jumping, falling over and getting back up, etc.)

Mauller · 1 Jan 2017 at 15:26

You should try VkQuake, it is a vulkan renderer for the original quake.

I get 250-300FPS stable on my 7870. lol

stooeh · 1 Jan 2017 at 20:04

I get 2000+ fps in the timedemos for GLQuake

Might have to try that vkQuake (normally use ezQuake)

Ian Evey · 1 Jan 2017 at 22:35

Loved Q2 and especially ra2, So much fun at the time.

Gotta love those ra2 maps.

Guest2 · 2 Jan 2017 at 15:40

I've just downloaded this on Steam (took 3 seconds to download in Steam on 1Gb fibre

)

I still remember the commands to run the bench from all those years ago;
timedemo 1
map demo1.dm2

853fps on default openGL, 1024 x 768. I remember being happy with 25fps back in the day playing on 800 x 600

stooeh · 2 Jan 2017 at 22:37

I still have a few old screenshots from Q1 ranging from 320x200 (or 240?) resolution. Looks like a right postage stamp now. Probably 20 years old now

Rroff · 2 Jan 2017 at 22:46

Sadly don't think the steam version has the original soundtrack which is half of what made the experience IMO.

Mauller · 2 Jan 2017 at 23:14

Guest2 said:
I've just downloaded this on Steam (took 3 seconds to download in Steam on 1Gb fibre )

I still remember the commands to run the bench from all those years ago;
timedemo 1
map demo1.dm2

853fps on default openGL, 1024 x 768. I remember being happy with 25fps back in the day playing on 800 x 600

Now we just need an 800hz display for it.

something daft already!! · 2 Jan 2017 at 23:26

I'd love to see a working version of this on the Gear VR.

Mauller · 2 Jan 2017 at 23:32

howiepoohs said:
I'd love to see a working version of this on the Gear VR.

i think the pace of the game would make you feel sick. same as Doom VR.

ukxenon · 3 Jan 2017 at 06:38

They don't make them like that anymore same as th original everquest

arc@css · 3 Jan 2017 at 07:04

Rroff said:
Sadly don't think the steam version has the original soundtrack which is half of what made the experience IMO.

Use this patch:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1756923

OP: for Q2, try the Berserka mod. Best I've tried out so far.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/berserkerquake2

Alternatively, there is also Quake 2 XP...
http://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-2-xp

... as well as KM Quake2:
http://www.markshan.com/knightmare/

Wizzfizz · 4 Jan 2017 at 13:51

Quake 2 was amazing! My favorite arena shooter to date, so many hours plowed into duel/TDM/CTF on Wireplay/Barrysworld.

Rroff · 4 Jan 2017 at 13:57

arc@css said:
Use this patch:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1756923

OP: for Q2, try the Berserka mod. Best I've tried out so far.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/berserkerquake2

Fortunately I have a few copies of the original CD (and a mountable image that plays the music).

arc@css · 4 Jan 2017 at 15:50

Rroff said:
Fortunately I have a few copies of the original CD (and a mountable image that plays the music).

Fair enough, though I think the patch is probably the best option as it has other improvements like a FOV slider/better sized HUD, and so on.

Ian Evey · 4 Jan 2017 at 22:49

Wizzfizz said:
Quake 2 was amazing! My favorite arena shooter to date, so many hours plowed into duel/TDM/CTF on Wireplay/Barrysworld.

I remember paying for barrysworld dial up when I wanted a 100 ping instead of my normal 160 ping

I even remember going to Chester to a Lan, was a very enjoyable time, Now I could not be arsed to pack my PC up let alone goto Chester, The joys of aging.

J0hnb0y · 4 Jan 2017 at 23:56

Quake 2 on Wireplay took me into the small hours most night. And massive phone bills too!