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Doom: The Dark Ages is an expertly-crafted PC release - and flies even on modest hardware

Digital Foundry's Alex Battaglia shares his tech review of Doom: The Dark Ages on PC, including optimised settings and performance figures.

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[AFBT88]

ID tech keeps winning. Flawless performance on my both machines.

 

[Skifi28]

A little off topic, but I was surprised with how "cheap" RT reflections seem to be in the game and how Id missed including them on the ps5 pro.

Other than that, seems like a very solid PC version. Shame it didn't launch with PT, but I imagine most people wouldn't use it anyway including myself.

 

[Thebonehead]

Played the first level last night.

Where is the shader compilation?

Think they're having a tech deep dive with Id so will be interested to find that out.

 

[Bojji]

I played it yesterday on pc and while it runs very good I don't see any "wow" factor here. Game just looks mediocre.

 

[Fess]

Haven't watched the video but first level ran obsolutely silky smooth on my bigger PC with everything set to max besides the resolution (only a 1440p screen). Will try on the couch PC over the weekend.

 

[R3TRO]

Only on the 3rd chapter but it runs great. It's nice seeing pc games that perform well.

 

[yamaci17]

runs incredible on my 3070
really optimized
native 1080p with rt reflections enabled and high preset 60-75 FPS
dlss quality (looks better than native 1080p) 75-90 fps
actually even 540p dlss 4 looks better than native 1080p lol

Imgsli

actually my gpu is undervolted extremely to 1.7 ghz (to get the minimum amount of fan noise/fan speed i can get away with). add another 10% to these

 

[OverHeat]

Graphics are not impressive sadly…

 

[SpokkX]

How do i make sure RT reflections are enabled? it seems to be default? On a 5080 so performance is amazing

 

[yamaci17]

How do i make sure RT reflections are enabled? it seems to be default? On a 5080 so performance is amazing

reflection settings above low gets you rt reflections

 

[Lootlord]

Graphics are not impressive sadly…

Have to wait for the pathtracing patch on PC, just like Indiana Jones.

 

[SpokkX]

The physics are great - lots of destructable stuff all over, including statues etc

Really impressive realtime rt gi also

But having a 5080 i would really like the pathtraving update since it does barely push the gpu now

 

[drotahorror]

runs incredible on my 3070
really optimized
native 1080p with rt reflections enabled and high preset 60-75 FPS
dlss quality (looks better than native 1080p) 75-90 fps
actually even 540p dlss 4 looks better than native 1080p lol

Imgsli

actually my gpu is undervolted extremely to 1.7 ghz (to get the minimum amount of fan noise/fan speed i can get away with). add another 10% to these

Getting similar performance on my 3060ti on high preset 1080p DLSS quality. I'm satisfied.

 

[drotahorror]

The physics are great - lots of destructable stuff all over, including statues etc

That's what I wanna talk about. There's some really cool destruction, kind of reminds me of Returnal and Batman Arkham Knight's destruction. Pillars crumble, railings break, sometimes even walls will break apart a bit. Almost everything you see has some some sort of destructibility outside of obvious things like doors.

 

[amigastar]

Have to wait for the pathtracing patch on PC, just like Indiana Jones.

Yeah, i'm waiting for pathtracing.
Oh and btw i love my RTX 4070, runs beautifully on it.

 

[SpokkX]

Just played the first dragon level - people actually compained about this? what the hell? it as just a cool way to traverse and show off a large level. Hardly a big deal or a big part of the game - and really impressive how the engine so easily just goes between large and small scale without any loading

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