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Life & fun · May 28, 2019

Quake II RTX

A ray-traced remaster of the classic hit game Quake II

Quake II RTX launched on May 28, 2019 with 82 votes, #444 of 3,072 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

What it does

Quake II RTX will be released on June 6th, 2019. If you have a GeForce RTX graphics card, or other capable hardware, you can experience the first 3 levels of the game for free, fully remastered with path-traced graphics and a variety of other enhancements

The eagerly-anticipated ray-traced remaster of the classic Quake II is coming soon. Learn about the latest improvements and enhancements, check out a new trailer, and see how RTX ON compares to the original 1997 release.

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