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Doom: The Dark Ages devs explain why their game is only playable on GPUs with ray-tracing

For a franchise spanning over three decades, the loyal DOOM fan base has not been happy with the fact that the 2025 release, DOOM: The Dark Ages, is only playable on GPUs with the Ray Tracing feature.
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Doom The Dark Ages ray tracing might have killed your frame rate, but at least it saved id 110GB of disk space

id has revealed that, if it hadn't updated its idtech engine to use ray tracing instead of pre-baked global illumination, Doom: The Dark Ages could have taken far longer to develop and been a much ...
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Doom: The Dark Ages Releases Second Major Content Update

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...