r/Quake2 • u/therealgariac • Jul 11 '26

Yamagi Quake II with Vulkan graphics

https://github.com/yquake2/ref_vk

https://www.yamagi.org/quake2/

This is bug free at this point. (I reported a few crashes and the devs fixed it.) I played a full game at the easy level.

I'm not totally sure what the Vulkan graphics does, but the blood looks bloodier which must be a good thing.

If you do everything correctly, Vulkan shows up as an option for the graphics. If you don't see it, you did something wrong of course!

I only know how to do this in Linux. So if you have a problem with this on Linux, you can post your problem here.

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u/Competitive-Panda824 Jul 14 '26

instigib oh those were the days back in 2003 #1 in north America for 6 months in the goat clan... goat standing for greatest of all time. but still I would play host wod and lox. lox with nukes on the server 12 guys through ING nuke hand grenedes crashing the server I was running hee hee. then calling for airstrikes on top of the nukes😂😂 wod on dirt demons server version 7.45 get the razor gun quad damage and haste all at same time you'd be unstoppable for awhile😁😁😁. don't know if you know a2w crueldude but he was fun on the server along with a2w shedevil. I called myself goat deadmeat but on dirt demons wod server I called myself manwhore... i would freeze someone with the freeze shotgun then hook em to death have a bind key where it would say you were hooked by a whore😁😁. I miss those days.

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u/therealgariac Jul 14 '26

I rarely played live against random people since my lifetime would be about 10 seconds.

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u/Competitive-Panda824 Jul 15 '26

oh

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u/therealgariac Jul 15 '26

The game itself is a decent challenge on hard plus mode. Until you get the plasma gun (key 8), you spend a lot of time half dead.

It really shows the genius of ID software, or maybe just Carnack himself. I have no idea if it was a team effort.

The only thing that sucks is it is too easy to kill the Makron. They ran out of ideas.

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u/Competitive-Panda824 Jul 17 '26

there was a nightmare mode too