Quake 2 Unofficial Patch

1. Quake 2 Unofficial Patch Game

Quake II or Quake 2 was released on December 9, 1997. It was developed by id Software and distributed by Activision. Quake II isn't a direct sequel to Quake, it merely uses its name due to id feeling the game’s fast-paced, tactile feel felt closer to a QUAKE game than a new franchise. 'Quake II v3.24 Unofficial Patch (.exe version 3.2.4.2) By Knightmare (knightmare66@yahoo.com) This is a simple, no-frills patch that fixes bugs (including the nVidia 191.x driver crash) and adds only meager tweaks aside from Ogg Vorbis support. Intended for Quake2 purists who have been using the woefully out of date version 3.20, it is not.

This page is for the original 1997 game. For the ray-tracing capable version, see Quake II RTX.

Key points

Engine is open source with modern multi-platform ports available; see Source ports

Active modding community.

The Steam version lacks the soundtrack, but this can be fixed.

General information

Quake Wiki - A detailed wiki for every Quake game made.

Func_Msgboard - The mapper hub, new map releases, technique improvements.

FAQ on Steam forums - A starting point for new Quake II players.

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

• 1Availability
• 2Essential improvements
  • 2.2Source ports
• 3Game data
• 4Video settings
• 5Input settings
• 6Audio settings
• 7Network
• 9Issues fixed
• 10Other information

Availability[edit]

A demo is available.

A faithful higher quality icon can be found on Archive.org.

The native Linux version has been ported by both iD Software and Macmillan Digital Publishing. The Ryan C. Gordon 'Icculus' version can be downloaded from this page, which includes both binary and the source code to compile the software with specific settings.

Quake II: Quad Damage includes the base game along with all expansions, a soundtrack, and a launcher created by GOG.com.

This game can also be played on OS X and DOS using a source port.

GOG.com's launcher for Quake II is fully customizeable by editing Q2Launcher.ini allowing you to add more mods or even modify the exe files the launcher should use.

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

Essential improvements[edit]

Official patch[edit]

• 3.20 - Latest official patch.

Source ports[edit]

Since the release of the source code various engine overhauls and source ports have been created to enhance or modify the game in different ways. Which one to use is a matter of taste. Yamagi Quake II is recommendated for authenticity to the original; Q2PRO or Quake II Starter is recommended for a multiplayer-oriented experience.^[2]

r1ch.net anticheat module[edit]

Some multiplayer servers require clients to use the r1ch.net anticheat module, supported source ports are listed on its website.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Yamagi Quake II moves this to %USERPROFILE%DocumentsYamagiQ2baseq2*.cfg unless launched with -portable.

Save game data location[edit]

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

Video settings[edit]

Widescreen resolution[edit]

Field of view (FOV)[edit]

Frame rate (FPS)[edit]

Use a source port to avoid physics issues at high frame rates.

Texture quality[edit]

Use gl_texturemode gl_nearest_mipmap_linear to disable texture smoothing while avoiding distant texture aliasing. Can be combined with anisotropic filtering.

The 8-bit textures option, when disabled, uses 16-bit textures. This is independent of the texture filtering options.

The game uses non-power of two textures for models, which were supported by the software renderer, but not by the OpenGL renderer. Therefore, textures in OpenGL have to be resized to a power of two; this is controlled through the console command gl_round_down. By default this is set to 1, which downsamples textures to the nearest power of two, reducing quality noticeably in the process. This was used due to limitations of contemporary 3D hardware. Setting gl_round_down 0 (and doing a vid_restart, or putting it into an autoexec.cfg) improves texture quality noticeably.

Input settings[edit]

Mouse acceleration[edit]

Audio settings[edit]

Localizations

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

All official maps are designed for at most 16 players. However, dedicated servers can be set to have the max player limit at 256

Connection types

Quake 2 Unofficial Patch Game

Ports

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

VR support[edit]

Issues fixed[edit]

Saves not working in The Reckoning and Ground Zero[edit]

If you are getting 'function pointers have moved' error in console after trying to load game, install fan-patch 3.24. Issue noted in GOG.com release.

No music playback[edit]

The music plays directly from the game-CD so the Steam version unfortunately lacks it. Try applying the Ultimate Quake II patch mentioned above.

If you prefer to use the original engine you can download the soundtrack from the Steam discussions. Either burn a new CD from the image file or use a CD emulator like WinCDEmu to mount the image.

GOG.com version does not require this method, as the whole soundtrack is in OGG format, which the game was modified to use it instead.

Stuttering frame rate (yquake2)[edit]

Might occur when using fractional display refresh rates.

Play the expansions with KMQuake II[edit]

See gun with wide FOV[edit]

'No Input arguments' when running the launcher (GOG.com)[edit]

This problem occurs only if you try to run the main EXE file. It must be ran from the Launch Quake 2 shortcut to make it work. This is due to the fact that it contains a code in the Launch options.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Middleware[edit]

Technical information[edit]

Quake II Facelift mod[edit]

The ingame method uses a simple linear filter; an alternative exists in the form of the mod 'Quake II Facelift', released in 2007, which supports Lanczos upsampling for even further improved texture quality. It also includes several other changes, like an implementation of the water screen distortion effect from the software renderer, an option to toggle texture filtering off (via setting the '8-bit texture' option to 'on'), and desktop resolution support (via selecting sub-640x480 resolutions).

This mod also has a few shortcomings; widescreen support is essentially broken as objects at the left and right side of the screen are culled out, so keeping to 4:3 resolutions is recommended. Also, load times between levels are increased, text and HUD elements are forcibly upscaled and look rather ugly, and the brightness setting now affects the skybox.

System requirements[edit]

Notes

1. ↑ ^1.01.1When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%VirtualStore (more details).
2. ↑ ^2.02.1File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/2320/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (2320) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

1. ↑RELEASE: QUAKE II + III, WOLFENSTEIN 3D, RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN - GOG.com News
2. ↑Quake II source ports. what are the best for sp and the best for mp? : quake
3. ↑yquake2/04_cvarlist.md at master · yquake2/yquake2 · GitHub
4. ↑IAS Quake2 Patch Beta - earsound.com (retrieved)
5. ↑59fps on Windows · Issue #371 · yquake2/yquake2
6. ↑Running The Reckoning and Ground Zero with kmQuake2
7. ↑Steam Community :: Guide :: Configuring version 3.20 (widescreen and no mouse accel)