id Tech 2

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This page documents information about an engine not developed by Valve. This information is documented here because it has technical and/or historical relevance to Valve's engines.
Todo: Mention FTE FTE, a notable fork of the Quake I engine. See Quake#Source ports for more info.
id Tech 2
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Developer(s)
id Software
Release date(s)
21 December 1999 (Source code release)
Written in
C, Assembly (for software rendering & optimization)
Successor

id Tech 2 id Tech 2, also known as Quake engine, is an engine created by Wikipedia icon id Software for Quake Quake, and later modified for Quake II Quake II. It was used as the foundation for GoldSrc GoldSrc and all subsequent Valve Valve engines.

id Tech 2 consists of the following two "branches":

Both id Tech 2 engine branches were later made open-source under GNU GPL 2.0 (or later) license.

See also