Quake II is a first-person shooter video game released in December 1997. It was developed by id Software and published by Activision.It is not a direct sequel to Quake; id decided to revert to an existing trademark when the game's fast-paced, tactile feel felt closer to a Quake game than a new franchise. The game's storyline is continued in its expansions and Quake 4. The Lost Station is a hidden level in Unit 1 of Quake 2. It takes place in the lower levels of the base, beneath the Comm Center. The level features a central gondola that allows swift travel throughout the station, several winding corridors, and a cave that contains a super shotgun. The station is protected mostly by guards and enforcers, with a few flyers and parasites. The objective of the. Gamers who already own or buy Quake II ($4.99 on Steam) can play the entire game, including multiplayer deathmatch and cooperative multiplayer modes. Be aware that if a non-RTX gamer connects to an RTX server, the game will crash if the flare gun is used. For more details, including a Quake II RTX technology video, visit www.nvidia.com.

The games launch from the remote app, but the GLOSC layer and the games don't seem to interact correctly. Every time I try, I'm eventually forced to bring up a keyboard, Win+Tab to the apps window, and manually close the game app (which then closes the connected GLOSC overlay) to get back to square one.

Black Screen and then Crash on running the game

Known Fix:

If you open the game and just get a black screen - this is usually caused by the game not recognizing your monitor/graphics cards native resolution properly;

Running the game from Steam

Go to the game in your Steam Library
Right Click and select ' Properties '
In the General tab, select ' Set Launch Options '
Add ' -windowed '

Running the game from the Native Installer/exe

Go to the game Shortcut (or find the .exe C:Program Files (x86)Eden Star Pre-AlphaEdenGameBinariesWin64**EdenGame.exe** and Right Click and then create a Shortcut)
Right Click on the Shortcut and select ' Properties '
In the ' Target ' line, after the quotation marks ( ' ) append the end with ' -windowed ' e.g.

'C:Program Files (x86)Eden Star Pre-AlphaEdenGameBinariesWin64**EdenGame.exe' -windowed

The game should run in windowed mode fine. While in game you can try setting the resolution via the options menu and after this, then set the game to fullscreen again.

Solution 2

Find the GameUserSettings.ini file located here...

C:Users*YourUserNameHere*AppDataLocalEdenGameSavedConfigWindowsNoEditor

Note* if the AppData folder isn't visible, follow the instruction here... http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/show-hidden-files#show-hidden-files=windows-7

2) Next copy and paste this file into another folder or your desktop, and delete the one inside the original folder. The Game should automatically generate a new one fresh for you when you next Play.

Remove the files from the 'Movies' folder

Navigate to your Steam Eden Star install directory
Find the 'Movies' folder and delete the movies

C:Program Files (x86)SteamSteamAppscommonEden Star Pre-AlphaEdenGameContentMovies

if this fixes the issue it's a rare and difficult to reproduce issue and it would help us greatly if you could post us your system specs here or on the forums.

This is a priority issue for us and will implement a permanent solution as soon as possible, Thank you for your patience.

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

Quake II RTX
Developers
Publishers
Engines
Release dates
Windows	June 6, 2019
Linux	June 6, 2019

1Availability
2Game data
3Video settings
- 3.1Renderer differences
5Audio settings
6Network
7Other information

Quake
Quake	1996
Quake II	1997
Quake III Arena	1999
Quake 4	2005
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars	2007
Quake Live	2010
Quake II RTX	2019
Quake Champions	EA

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website
Steam	Can be played without Steam running.

Version differences[edit]

When launching the game for the first time, you have the option to play the free shareware version of the game. To get access to the full game, files from original Quake II need to be located during initial installation process.^[1]

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>baseq2q2config.cfg^{[Note 1]}
Linux	$HOME/.quake2rtx/baseq2/q2config.cfg

This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>baseq2save^{[Note 1]}
Linux	$HOME/.quake2rtx/baseq2/save/

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

Video settings[edit]

Graphics settings.

Resolution scaling settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution	Vert- or Hor+, see Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen	See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)	80-120
Windowed	Freely resizeable.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	16x (not configurable) in RTX mode; 8x (configurable with the `gl_anisotropy` console variable) in OpenGL mode.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	Resolution scale up to 200% and TAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Quake 2 Crashes On Launch