Quake 1 - With Ray Tracing! 

Every new graphical feature was mindblowing to me back then!

I did like it!

Hi, please how you do it???

@@Aztulnerub1 I've got a video on how to, and there are some links in this one to help in the description.

I played the game on its day, using a CRT monitor, and it didn't look anything like that. Is a little overdone.

@@ghost085 it really should have been called a TV filter, PC crt monitors never had scanlines unless you had a really old 80s pc monitor running at a low resolution and even then they were more subtle compared to consumer televisions.

I disagree with "really pretty" - more natural looking is a better description. Somehow, proper lighting has a soothing effect on the brain. When you turn it on, it's almost as if you can't even see it because it's just "normal", but with it off the picture becomes too artificial and unpleasant.

@@getsideways7257 yeah, I find the reds super soothing. I hope they tweak the skybox lighting and make it all consistent.

@@GooseUK What I meant is the "uncanny valley" type of an effect. It's not just about humans and faces, but can also rear its ugly head when it comes to animations and... lighting. Although, I guess human brain is more used to seeing incorrect lighting, so it's grown "ok" with the cartoonish lighting we usually have in games. Still - at least in my case - I feel much more at ease when the scene is lit more or less naturally. That also helps with making it look more "3D".

@@getsideways7257 when I first tried quake 2 rtx I really had to go back and play the original again to compare because like you said, it looked so natural I almost feel like I wasn’t even noticing how improved it really was from my old memories.

@@mikeg2491 I hope you were playing the RTX version on an HDR capable screen, because the extended range adds even more to the table than just ray tracing. I'd go even as far as saying that RTX loses at least two-thirds of its appeal if it operates within the constraints of the standard range. That's no wonder, considering that real life sun rays are expected to cover widest ranges of luminosity, while human eye can discern twice the color gamut even of the best consumer grade display devices - reality is much more colorful than the stale sRGB we were forced into using for decades. Lately I've been experimenting with injecting HDR into older titles (or just firing up some DOS oldies in the HDR mode with boosted colors and luminosity) with the addition of screen space ray tracing, and I have to say the games become alive once more when tuned right. And since RTX goes one or two steps further - processing full scene GI, shadows and reflections - combined with HDR this *is* the future, and the future is now. Can't wait for NVidia to finally release their RTX enabler tool they were boasting for a while now. I also hope it allows to switch on HDR without resorting to Special K.

I loved it! My mate threw up!

144p waat

I did not recall this!

Using HD pack in my opinion reduce its charm. That blocky pixelated texture and polygon along with realistic lighting behaviour make it adorable

I meant, too bright lights, atmosphere often takes a hit.

I'll be taking at look at expansions this weekend. As far as I can see it should work no probs

no way?

Lmao :)

If we could get raytraced pong, I would play it. For a bit.

It's fully path traced

Just the video output of the editor, I was running this in 1080p I think, certainly not 720p

Not at all, I had to remove music because of NiN, but the game is spot on?

oh worth saying you can download the audio replacement packs via the link above - may help

Yeah the skyboxes kind of ruin a lot of the image - too strong.

vulkan. based on the vkQuake

I'm not sure I've had it... when does it come up?

@@GooseUK Hi, sorry but the work took me a lot. I looked into the Quake (Steam) setup but nothing, so I launched vkQuake and that's when I get that error message. I copied quakeEX.kpf (as told by github) in the vkQake dir and still the same error ...

@@lscarpellini67 try fresh install? I've put a new guide up so you can see my folders etc.

@@GooseUK Thanks so much for your patience and availability, I followed your tutorial step by step but it keeps giving me the usual error. 😣

Did used to use my separate mics, this one is in the Arctis headset as it's just easier while I'm playing.

ffs lol

sure

Just put you a guide up. Should be live ten mins from now.

skybox waaay too much

to be fair it's not what I was going for, but I have the first map up as a stream. Will probably do most of the game too

Funnily enough about to bang on the 'ray traced' doom now... I disagree on atmosphere overall, but something is missing in Quake 1 tho so I get you... Growing up with this game had added extra meaning for me I think.

That's because you don't understand what ray tracing is about. Reflections and even shadows is just an added bonus, but the actual reason why you need it is proper GI.