Q2PRO-X — when you want more out of Quake II.

The main download is now Q2PRO-X 1.6 Beta 5. It builds on 1.5 with contact and blood effects, relief materials, vegetation, separate lighting and visibility presets, health-based ambience and new multiplayer tools. Weapon audio prediction, demo search and renderer stability have also been improved.

The complete changes since 1.5, settings and examples are covered by 29 guides in each language. The project history can be read chapter by chapter or downloaded as a PDF.

The main download is now Q2PRO-X 1.6 Beta 5. It builds on 1.6 with contact and blood effects, relief materials, vegetation, separate lighting and visibility presets, health-based ambience and new multiplayer tools. Weapon audio prediction, demo search and renderer stability have also been improved.

The complete changes since 1.6, settings and examples are covered by 29 guides in each language. The project history can be read chapter by chapter or downloaded as a PDF.

The complete weather foundation remains: rain, storms, puddles, runoff, accumulating snow, lava steam, wet-lens effects, underwater rendering, and weapon reactions. Version 1.6 adds BSP surface objects and grass, coverings and drawings, volumetric steam/smoke, and living materials such as mold, wall water, greenery, cracks, bricks, and creatures.

The sky is now a world of its own: Earth and Moon, Sun, planets, meteors, comets, ships, clouds, rays, and a Black Hole with lensing and matter capture. Celestial bodies and sky traffic are independent, so selecting the Sun no longer enables meteors or spaceships.

Native WGL supports architecture and liquid tessellation; mirror surfaces reflect the scene, models, materials, and celestial objects. EGL remains a fully supported backend for every shared AVFX system except WGL-only hardware tessellation.

Q2PRO-X 1.6 includes a dedicated HDR pipeline: gl_hdr enables internal HDR rendering, while gl_hdr_output enables a real HDR signal to the monitor when the backend and Windows/display path support it.

For the best HDR effect, use the win32wgl backend: it generally gives a brighter image without losing detail in lamps, sun, and moon. win32egl also supports HDR output, but needs Windows HDR enabled and uses gl_hdr_egl_app_white_max to protect detail from overexposure.

Users tune Peak brightness to the monitor peak, Paper white to ordinary-white comfort, tone mapping to taste, and use screenshotjxr / screenshotjxr_raw for HDR screenshots.

The AVFX preset library brings together ready-made visual profiles for different scenes and purposes, and it can grow with the client without changing the familiar selection and loading workflow.

The generator uses a deterministic seed, quality and chaos levels, surface coverage, color and shape combinations, independently configurable effect groups, and a final summary. Changes remain inert until Generate is pressed; Celestial Bodies is limited to the Sun, planets/Earth, and the Black Hole, while meteors, comets, and spaceships live under the separate Meteors and Ships master. Surface Materials and Wildlife have independent Random / Always / Off masters, so either family can be guaranteed or excluded while the coverage zone remains independently configurable.

Personal slots let players load, save, and rename their own variants from the menu without modifying the shipped cfg files.

Stock Q2 clients snap the model when a server correction arrives. On a jittery link that reads as a twitchy view. LAGHAX watches prediction error, ping, jitter, and loss, and stretches the correction across time — but only when it actually needs to.

Modes: cl_laghax 0 (off), 1 (fixed window), 2 (adaptive, default). Ships with a full HUD showing live stats, drag-to-reposition, edit mode, and optional pred: / phys: / rt: diagnostic rows.

The client renders "ghost" versions of projectiles and effects right at fire time, before the server confirms them. When the real entity arrives, they are handed off seamlessly, so you never see a double render or a teleport.

Strictly visual. Damage, hit-reg, ammo authority all live on the server. The client just shows you what is about to happen, latency-compensated.

Classic Q2, Q2PRO, and R1Q2 each have their own subtly-different movement feel — prediction, stepping, and subframe physics all differ. Q2PRO-X lets you pick one via a single setting instead of editing a constellation of cvars.

Plus a dedicated fixedmove mode for people who want a deterministic repeat cadence. Step smoothing damps the stair-popping without changing real movement.

Q2PRO-X wires up OpenAL Soft and exposes the full spatial-audio surface — binaural 3D, HRTF, reverb, device selection, auto-detection — via the menu, with proper cvar reference docs.

If you play on headphones, this is one of the most perceptually-impactful upgrades: proper positional audio dramatically improves enemy localisation.

In-match you mostly need to see your opponent, your damage, and the projectile streams. Q2PRO-X exposes surgical knobs: held-weapon transparency, segmented model highlights, bloom, gamma scale, damage-blend intensity — all with defaults that do not alter the classic look.

Highlights include model color overrides: individual player models can be colored with named colors, while demos can use one dedicated demo visual profile regardless of the mod that recorded them.

Version 1.6 includes a dedicated user layer for MD2/MD5 model parts: head, arms, torso, legs, and carried weapon can be tinted separately, with shared or per-model color sets stored through visual/AVFX presets.

Q2PRO-X highlights remain a local visual layer: they do not change the server, hitboxes, damage, movement, or network protocol. In 1.6, items, weapons, and players have dedicated style, alpha, shell/tint, brightness, scale, and color controls.

Player mode = Model parts replaces a single whole-model color with separate head, arms, torso, legs, and carried-weapon tints. MD2 and MD5 paths are supported while preserving model, skeleton, animation, and skin path.

Precise tuning includes shared/per-model color sets, weapon color source, alpha, fullbright, replace tint, and body-zone controls head_start, legs_end, softness.

Q2PRO-X brings together the server browser, cvar browser, mod overlay, LAGHAX HUD, Performance HUD, and live item timers. These tools are configured inside the client and need no external utility.

Q2PRO-X treats fair play as a serious responsibility, so automatic timers are disabled by default on every online server. Exceptions are managed at server level through protected controls; server administrators can enable them for their own servers. Manual timers remain available. Operating and administration details are covered by the Live Item Timers Guide in the Documentation section.

The default-off Performance HUD reports only active subsystems, their budgets, and available CPU/GPU metrics. Inactive AVFX sections are not measured merely for the overlay.

The primary settings interface is the new Guided menu; a separate menu for multiplayer players is also available. Menu and console scale/alpha, language, fonts, browser layouts, and save policy are configured independently.

Version 1.6 adds major pages for Network God, Startup Intro, Game Statistics, live item timers, Performance HUD, AVFX materials, and the preset generator while retaining HDR, highlights, Voice Chat, demo tools, Single Player, and mods.

The (X), (G), and (M) badges explain setting scope. Global, mod-related, demo-visual, and local values remain separate, while mandatory legacy migration preserves user choices.

On a cold start, Q2PRO-X presents an opening sequence without blocking the main menu: the logo pulses and lights the scene while electricity, fireworks, ships, meteors, and comets are composed in one timeline.

Music is selected from separate Russian and English pools for the active language. The Intro composition can be enabled per part, volume is configurable, and logo lighting or electricity may remain active after the sequence ends.

Starting directly with +map or a server connection skips Intro and never delays entry. Music fades smoothly during map loading, while controls beside the logo mute or restore it without changing saved volume cvars.

The CVAR Browser shows descriptions, scope, defaults, flags, and related actions so players can work through the interface instead of memorizing thousands of names.

In 1.6, the catalog no longer truncates silently at an old fixed capacity: it scales with the variable registry. A dedicated Debug tab exposes session-only diagnostics that are never written to user configs.

The browser also includes public console commands organized by purpose, with syntax, options, examples, and consequence badges. Selecting a row only inserts the command into the console and never executes it automatically.

Network God unifies LAGHAX, prediction, AutoPort, Ping Adaptation, Jitter/Guardian, and Network Lab. Its large RU/EN report explains the measured fact, what it means, the recommended action, expected result, verification, and rollback; the report can be scrolled, copied, and saved.

Ping Adaptation can maintain a manually selected final ping or automatically match a duel opponent and the average active-opponent ping in TDM/FFA. Spectators are excluded; the layer creates no packet loss and remains compatible with LAGHAX, prediction, and fixedmove.

The established network suite remains complete: server browser, global favourites, auto-port scanning, OpenTDM HUD, Voice Chat, Russian input, auto-translit, and /en translation. Optional computer monitoring warns about background network load.

Voice Chat is controlled from the menu and can automatically join the server room when you connect to a game server. The player does not need to type a room name manually when autojoin/server room mode is enabled.

Mic device, VAD threshold, PTT/toggle keys, mic gain, receive volume, deafen, and control server are saved in the normal Q2PRO-X profile.

Game Statistics analyzes the local demo library and builds a personal match history: played games, frags, results, opponents, maps, and modes. Client-recorded .dm2 files are the primary source; server-side .mvd2 remains a secondary format.

Spectator sessions, warmup, test recordings, and files below the minimum size are kept separate from real matches. Results are parsed through baseq2, OpenFFA, and OpenTDM adapters; when an outcome cannot be proven, it remains honestly unknown. Automatic refresh is configurable and off by default.

The browser and player retain MVD/DM2 playback, next-frag/director, heatmaps, movement trails, item-timer overlays, and a separate demo visual profile. Personal facts shown in Startup Intro are selected independently.

Q2PRO-X 1.5 ships its own baseq2/q2pro-x/gamex86_64.dll and does not overwrite the stock baseq2/gamex86_64.dll. Single-player experiments remain inside the Q2PRO-X layer without breaking a normal Quake II install.

Single Player Experiments can randomize items and monsters, run DM maps locally with monsters and scoring, visually deform BSP geometry, vary monster appearance, and swap water/lava with real damage/physics/material/AVFX contacts.

Free World removes artificial route restrictions from monsters: they react to sound, join an ongoing fight, anticipate obstacles, and choose paths that are actually open. AVFX snakes interact with water, grass, snow, and weapons and can fight the player and monsters.

The Mods menu scans local mods. Native 64-bit game DLLs run directly, while legacy 32-bit gamex86.dll mods use baseq2/q2pro-x/utils/q2pro-x-bridge32.exe.