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Quake II (2023)

Playable · Completable

Confirmed playable on September 16, 2026 and rechecked on September 25 as PPSA09477 v1.003. Level lighting, textures, weapons and NPCs are visible: the dark world and missing models seen in earlier builds are resolved in the observed gameplay. Menus, HUD and controller input all work.

Test host
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
Build
0.3.2
Recorded runs
2
Confirmed
September 16, 2026
Quake II gameplay with a lit level, visible enemies and the player's weapon, rendered by PS5PCEM
Quake II gameplay with a lit level, visible enemies and the player's weapon, rendered by PS5PCEM

What works

  • Complete playthrough confirmed by the maintainer, with rendering rechecked later.
  • Lighting, textures, weapons and NPC models all appear; earlier dark-world and missing-geometry defects are gone.
  • Menus, HUD and controller input behave correctly.

What does not

  • Busy combat scenes still run well below the peaks, so the high figures are not a floor.
  • Performance work continues.

Measured performance

The maintainer reports peaks of 60–70 FPS in lighter scenes, with busy combat noticeably slower. Buffer reuse and GPU clears cut transfer overhead.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Result

Test history

Every recorded run for this title, newest first. Entries marked as a development build were never published as a release.

  1. Quake II gameplay with a lit level, visible enemies and the player's weapon, rendered by PS5PCEM
    Development build

    Rendering rechecked, with peaks of 60–70 FPS

    A recheck as PPSA09477 v1.003 found level lighting, textures, weapons and NPCs all visible, resolving the earlier dark-world and missing-model reports. Buffer reuse and GPU clears reduced transfer overhead; lighter scenes peak at 60–70 FPS while busy combat stays slower.

    Read the report →
  2. Quake II title screen rendered by PS5PCEM
    Development build

    Playable and completable

    The maintainer confirmed a full playthrough. The work behind it covered startup imports and directory listings, deferred G-buffer writes, depth comparison samplers, and the typed buffer reads that model vertices and lighting data depend on. Missing NPC geometry came back.

    Read the report →

Captures

Captures

Frames produced by the emulator itself during the runs above.

Quake II gameplay with a lit level, visible enemies and the player's weapon, rendered by PS5PCEM

Rendering rechecked, with peaks of 60–70 FPS

September 25, 2026

Quake II title screen rendered by PS5PCEM

Playable and completable

September 16, 2026

2

Recorded runs

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

0.3.3

Current build

October 4, 2026

Playable

Result

Playable · Completable

Other titles

Playthrough reports carry the date the maintainer confirmed them. Every timing refers to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti development machine and will differ on other hardware. Game content is supplied locally and is never distributed here.

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