A few days ago, DOOM The Dark Ages received its very first major update, three weeks after its release on PC, PS5, Xbox Series, and Game Pass, to fix various bugs and issues. This week, it's getting a new one, but this time it's focused solely on PC, with one major addition for all users of the platform, and another for those with the right arsenal. Let's take a closer look.
DOOM The Dark Ages flexes its game on PC
Besides DOOM The Dark Ages serving as a prequel to DOOM 2016 and Eternal, with a more brutal and "medieval" Slayer, this new installment also serves as a technical showcase for the latest version of id Tech, id Software's robust engine. The studio, as well as the famous FPS franchise, have a particular history with the PC, as well as a certain mastery of optimizing the capabilities of this platform.
Thus, this new update of DOOM The Dark Ages is in line with this approach, by adding to the title a very comprehensive benchmark mode. This type of tool, very popular on PC, allows you to measure the performance of your machine by running a sequence with various passages to test all its capabilities. The benchmark mode introduced in The Dark Ages follows the same path, with seven levels of the game to benchmark. This feature is available to all PC users, via the Extras section in the game's title screen.
Unlike the other major addition of this update of DOOM The Dark Ages, which introduces Path Tracing. As a reminder, this is an NVIDIA technology that, combined with ray reconstruction via DLSS, adds light effects that bounce precisely off the models. The game therefore becomes even more beautiful than it already is... provided you have a compatible NVIDIA graphics card, i.e. an RTX 4000 minimum. If this is the case in your machine, id Software has also shared the configurations required to take full advantage of Path Tracing, via the image below. Finally, this update for DOOM The Dark Ages fixes a game-freezing bug when Alt+Tab with AMD's FSR enabled on certain NVIDIA graphics cards.
Source: Bethesda
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