Inside Doom: The Dark Ages' Path Tracing Upgrade - The id Software Interview! (inv.nadeko.net)

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[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 8 points 4 weeks ago

I would prefer a Path Tracing downgrade to baked lighting and reflection probes.

The game runs at half the frame rate of Eternal while barely looking better when dashing through demons at high speed.

Doom Eternal runs flawlessly on the Steam Deck while Dark Ages is not even close to running well.

I really hate the modern triple A laziness of adding path tracing to every game, not providing any fallbacks and slapping in some DLSS and FSR so you can't see the nice reflections and shadows anyway. It's all a blurry and noisy mess that runs badly.

[-] loreng@beehaw.org 3 points 4 weeks ago

Same, this game runs like fucking ass and doesn't look meaningfully better than Eternal.

I had a feeling forced Raytracing was going to suck ass but had some (misplaced) faith that maybe id could make it work, but no, I was severely disappointed and refunded this shite.

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