How DOOM: The Dark Ages Runs on the Steam Deck - Steam Deck HQ
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With SteamOS getting a quick new update, we decided to check out DOOM: The Dark Ages on the Steam Deck and see just how well it is running.

The TL;DR: The game won’t launch on current steamOS, but preview build 3.7.6 fixes the launch issue.

Unfortunately the game is unable to maintain decent frame rates even with severe reductions in graphical settings.

The drastic decrease in performance compared to Doom 2016/Doom Eternal is due to the game using mandatory ray tracing for lighting.

It’s possible that we’ll see some patches or mods that improve performance, but at launch it will not be a good deck experience.

  • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Yes, but you deepthroating the technology is now relevant to me, because now it’s limiting my options on what hardware I can use to play the game, unnecessarily.

    • kadup@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Can I run Doom 2016 on my mechanical pencil? Of course not, Doom 2016 needs hardware capable of fast rasterization, texture mapping, a lot of floating point arithmetic, and so on, a mechanical pencil can’t do that. Fair enough.

      Can I run Doom the Dark Ages on a card that lacks ray tracing hardware? Of course not. Fair enough.

      I wasn’t the one developing the game, and I also wasn’t the one forcing you to buy a lesser GPU, so again, not really my issue now is it.

        • kadup@lemmy.world
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          23 hours ago

          Cool beans. I really like ray tracing compared to rasterized GI or reflections, so I’m going to happily enjoy the game, thanks.