vkQuake

Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm (by Novum)

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vkQuake reviews and mentions

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  • Quake Brutalist Jam II
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Nov 2023
    > Personally, I prefer https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake because it allows disabling texture smoothing.

    All hardware-accelerated Quake source ports that I'm aware of allow you to disable texture smoothing, going all the way back to the original GL Quake (if not earlier).

    It was historically set through the console (rather than through a graphical menu), via the `gl_texturemode_ command

    On modern hardware capable of trilinear filtering, the appropriate texturemode to disable texture smoothing (which keeping the other niceties of hardware acceleration was

    gl_texturemode "GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR"

    For the Ironwail engine, which is the currently preferred Quake source port for modern 3D hardware, options on whether or not to use texture smoothing (and other "retro" aesthetics like whether to use square or circular particles) are things that can be toggled in the video configuration menu.

  • does vkQuake have a speedometer?
    1 project | /r/quake | 17 May 2023
  • What source ports are you using (Windows/Linux)?
    5 projects | /r/quake | 9 May 2023
    vkQuake https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake (Yes I know the author just dropped support but I suspect it'll be picked back up)
  • End of vkQuake development · Novum/vkQuake · Discussion #691
    1 project | /r/quake | 5 May 2023
  • vkQuake 1.30.0 released
    3 projects | /r/quake | 14 Mar 2023
    Annnnnd 1.30.1 is already out with a few small fixes: https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake/releases
  • Are there Open Source Games?
    13 projects | /r/godot | 11 Mar 2023
    That last one is an open source engine for a trio of existing free games, but if we count open source engines for commercial games the amount of famous examples grows exponentially. All id Software games up to Doom 3 have had their engines made open source and have a huge number of modern versions available for all of them. So Arcane Dimensions, the greatest by a mile Quake campaign ever made, was completed just three years ago and you need a modern open source engine like vkQuake to play it - even the Quake Remastered engine can't handle the huge AD maps. There's also an open source Morrowind engine, an open source Freespace 1/2 engine (Diaspora above actually runs on this), an open source point and click engine called ScummVM that runs so many old adventure games it's almost an emulator...
  • Playing TyrQuake on the VisionFive 2
    1 project | /r/VisionFive | 17 Feb 2023
    You can get the packages to build from vkQuake: https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake
  • Elevator Jank - why does this happen and how do I fix it?
    2 projects | /r/quake | 13 Feb 2023
    A better solution - and one that lets you run the game at any arbitrary framerate you want - is to switch to a fork of quakespasm with framerate independent physics. I'd strongly recommend playing with Ironwail, but vkQuake is also a great option. Both of these ports offer significant performance improvements over vanilla quakespasm and some other nice rendering features.
  • best qauke 1 source port?
    2 projects | /r/quake | 18 Jan 2023
    If you plan on playing Arcane Dimensions with all features like custom HUD and particles then the best choice is VkQuake. It is also able to play the big and complex maps at very high FPS, which most other source port struggle with.
  • Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm
    1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 15 Jan 2023
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