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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

id tech

 

[Kataploom]

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

id tech

People complains that something doesn't belong to game but if game stop adding new stuff then it's stale lol.

I want digging it at the beginning because of the controls but ended up really liking it in the end.

 

[EverythingsOverrated]

Game runs really well, but is it me or are a lot of the environmental textures pretty blurry? I thought it was just the console versions after playing the Series X version first yesterday, but after playing it on PC tonight with everything set to high, it's definitely not just the consoles.

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

id tech

Same, finished this level earlier today, really cool. The movement feels surprisingly good, especially considering id isn't exactly experienced with flight/flight combat in their games.

 

[Kataploom]

Game runs really well, but is it me or are a lot of the environmental textures pretty blurry?

I thought it was my computer and raised Texture memory to max amount and it barely improved, had to make piece with the fact that devs just wanted them that way because it's supposed to run at 60 fps on consoles