vkQuake, ein auf Vulkan basierender Port der klassischen Quake-Engine, wurde in Version 1.36.0 veröffentlicht.

vkQuake rendert das Original-Quake von 1996 über moderne Vulkan-Grafik und unterstützt hohe Auflösungen, hohe Bildraten sowie optionales Raytracing.

Wichtigste Neuerungen sind ein durchsuchbares Level-Auswahlmenü mit Kartenbeschreibungen, moderne Fadenkreuz-Optionen, eine stark überarbeitete Konsole mit Maus-Textauswahl und Zwischenablage sowie getrennte Konfigurationen pro Spiel bzw. Mod. Dazu kommen Kompatibilitäts-Fixes für Dawn of the Machine und das 2026-Rerelease sowie zahlreiche Physik- und Performance-Verbesserungen.

Improvements:

• Compatibility with Dawn of the Machine and the 2026 rerelease update: fixed MD5 animation and skinning, improved handling of invalid replacement models, corrected localization priority and centerprint wrapping, added a laser-cannon binding, and fixed the impulse 119 stack overflow
• Added a searchable level-selection menu with map descriptions, source categories and a skill-selection screen before starting a level
• Modern crosshair options: five new crosshair styles with configurable size, color and opacity
• Added Classic, Smooth and xBR filtering options for UI graphics
• Major console improvements: mouse text selection, clipboard copying, clickable file links, better line editing and tab completion, configurable notifications and a larger command history
• Split configuration into global and per-game settings, stored separately for each game or mod
• Unified user-file locations: store-detected installations and -multiuser now write saves, demos, screenshots and configuration to the platform user directory
• When a Steam, GOG or Epic installation cannot be found, vkQuake now asks the user to select the classic or rerelease game directory
• Improved the multiplayer Join menu: addresses can be pasted from the clipboard and hostname:port is parsed automatically
• Expanded loading-screen coverage plus an id Software logo splash screen during startup
• Added support for mod directories that are symbolic links
• Added an optional quit confirmation (cl_confirmquit)
• Performance: added a spatial hash to reduce the cost of finding entities affected by moving platforms, and moved eligible brush entities onto the indirect rendering path
• Replaced r_speeds with the scr_speeds overlay, showing CPU, GPU and GPU-wait timings
• Enabled PipeWire audio support in the Linux AppImage
• Updated mimalloc to 3.4.5 and fixed incorrect POPCNT detection preventing vkQuake from starting on older processors

Fixes:

• Fixed moving-platform and rider handling, including floating-point contact errors, entities falling through or being crushed by elevators, landing velocity and rollback (default with sv_gameplayfix_elevators 3)
• Fixed entity interpolation timing and visible jitter at frame rates above 72 FPS
• Gravity and friction at physics rates below 72 Hz now match their 72 Hz behavior
• Turning noclip off now searches for a nearby valid position instead of leaving the player stuck inside solid geometry
• Fixed ray-tracing acceleration structures becoming stale after enhanced models are reloaded
• Fixed High-DPI rendering appearing pixelated on MacOS and Wayland when using SDL3
• Fixed player-name changes being overwritten after another userinfo setting changed
• Fixed pending resolution, refresh-rate and fullscreen selections being discarded when changing VSync

Quelle: GitHub