Just in time for Quake II’s 21st anniversary, programmer Krzysztof Kondrak has released his vkQuake 2 to the public via GitHub. vkQuake II is essentially Quake II code v3.21, but with the Vulkan renderer: “What you can expect however is a pure, vanilla Quake II experience. Exactly how it would play back in 1997.”



It requires the Visual Studio 2017 C++ Redistributable (32 bit) to run the application. The release package comes with game data used in the demo version – for full experience, copy all retail Quake II data paks (pak0.pak, pak1.pak, pak2.pak) into the baseq2 folder and run the executable. The mission packs should theoretically work as well.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Quake II on Vulkan API Now Available on GitHub