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.

  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    That’s so disappointing to hear. DOOM and DOOM Eternal not only run fucking fantastically on the Steam Deck, but they look fucking gorgeous on it too.

    I had my suspicions that Microsoft would fuck something up and now my suspicions say that this is it (and I hope this is the extent of it)