The original Quake gets a ray tracing upgrade - and it's incredible - Eurogamer.net

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Beyond image reconstruction, gamers actually get two different RT implementations with this mod - a 'classic' option that looks more like the original game with some very nice ray-traced upgrades, alongside a full path-tracer, radically transforming the aesthetic of the game.

The classic renderer uses ray tracing for all the primary rendering of geometry, but the lighting is still processed through texture-based light maps like the original game, meaning you get similar lighting and ambience, with some intriguing RT effects: water surfaces are completely different, with RT reflections that show the full surroundings.

The path-traced option offers a more radical transformation by leveraging path tracing for all of the game's lighting, full replacing light maps and the other tricks Quake used to simulate the look of light back in 1996.

Teleporter pads with their little red lights cast light and shadows on nearby surfaces - confirming that coloured lighting is also added, something missing from the original Quake.

Lava is an emissive light source too, of course, dramatically transforming many scenes.

More impactful still is that the sky itself is an emissive light source, so that iconic purple skybox now casts literal purple hued light onto the world below, an incredible effect augmented by the injection of frustum-aligned voxel fog, which can also be lit.

One of the more controversial changes I would say comes from the change to the hazardous chemical pools in the game: in the original they are green/brown textures but here, they're transformed into a super-bright neon teal.

An RTX 3080 gets you to 4K60 locked in DLSS quality mode, but even using FSR2 performance mode, AMD's RX 6800 XT had some unfortunate frame-rates issues.

At native resolution, the RTX 3080 offers twice the performance of the RX 6800 XT - not completely unexpected with a path-traced workload like this - but given the disparity at native resolution, I really would have expected to see 4K FSR2 performance mode deliver 60fps on the higher-end RDNA 2 cards, so I think the AMD side of things may need some work.

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