Quake 2 Remastered is already crashing for a number of gamers following shock launch

Quake II Remastered was surprisingly launched for a number of gaming platforms on Aug. 10 through the Quake World Championship at Quakecon. And despite the fact that the group is happy about it, a number of gamers have reported they’ll’t play the sport.

The studies, for now, are coming from PC gamers. One Redditor stated Quake II Remastered is crashing after the intros and several other different gamers reported related issues on the Steam forums. This challenge is presently affecting gamers with Home windows 10 and Home windows 11, so it’s unlikely that it has something to do with the PC’s working system.

With so many gamers going through issues taking part in Quake II Remastered, it’s possible that Bethesda will ship a hotfix within the close to future to aim to resolve no matter challenge is making the sport crash. A participant stated they have been in a position to get Quake II Remastered working after including these two instructions to the sport’s launch choices on Steam:

  • -skipmovies
  • +r_rhirenderfamily d3d11

The primary command forces Quake II Remastered to skip all of the intros, whereas the second command forces your pc to render the sport in DirectX 11.

Though gamers are having issues with the discharge of Quake II Remastered, this can be a nice replace for followers of the traditional area shooter. The brand new model options optimized settings, together with enhancing graphics, and brings new content material.

The hype round Quake II Remastered will possible develop as we close to the weekend, particularly as a result of the sport is already obtainable on Xbox Recreation Move.

This new model of Quake II is promoting on Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Change, and PC (Steam, Microsoft Retailer, or GOG). Should you already owned the unique Quake II, you’ll be capable to get the brand new launch as a free improve.

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Leonardo Biazzi

Workers author and CS:GO lead. Leonardo has been obsessed with video games since he was a child and graduated in Journalism in 2018. Earlier than Leonardo joined Dot Esports in 2019, he labored for Brazilian outlet Globo Esporte. Leonardo additionally labored for HLTV.org between 2020 and 2021 as a senior author, till he returned to Dot Esports and have become a part of the workers crew.

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