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
  • 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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citromos7
citromos7

will there be an AI upscaled texture pack implemented in the near future maybe...? there are so much graphical updates for this mod, and only the textures cant handle the pace

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KirkBarnes Creator
KirkBarnes

Here AI will not help, here you need to do with your hands. The destiny of AI speak to little boys where to look for a clitoris from girls. Lol

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citromos7
citromos7

I believe you, but something should be done with those textures, man. they are painfully lowres
they ruin the overall graphical atmosphere now, because everything else look so good, they just cant compete

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TheMrBenpulido
TheMrBenpulido

It would be great if you made it compatible with the new expansion of quake 2 call of the machine, enjoying it with these graphics would be great.

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KirkBarnes Creator
KirkBarnes

call of the machine uses an incompatible bsp format.

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Guest
Guest

Any news on AMD ati users with this mod lol ... reli want to play it again after upgrading frm old nvidia card

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KirkBarnes Creator
KirkBarnes

working amd build available on discord

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Guest
Guest

awsome !! can i plz have link to discord or so thnk u very mutch or be possible to upload the amd build here on moddb . u rock tx

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KirkBarnes Creator
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hankbaxter
hankbaxter

Hi there. Would I be able to have an invite to the discord as well? I'm looking for an AMD compatible build of your mod, which is the only version of Quake 2 I care about.

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KirkBarnes Creator
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