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DF Weekly: Doom: The Dark Ages pushes current-gen tech hard - and it looks phenomenal
Digital Foundry shares new details on the latest idTech engine powering Doom: The Dark Ages.
The latest idTech has been enhanced, updated and revamped for the current generation, while the potential for the PC version is sky high - my colleagues saw the game running with path traced lighting during Nvidia's CES 2025 editor's day. id's Marty Stratton describes an "enormous increase in overall world detail and player immersion feedback compared to Doom Eternal/idTech7" in very simple terms: "more AI, more geometry, more gore, more destruction." Again, the Intel chip is significantly more performant here, especially when paired with DDR5 memory, but the point is that the 'windows' of CPU recommendations here is pretty narrow and higher-end processors outstrip anything seen here, so like Doom Eternal before it, we're hopeful for plenty of opportunities for high frame-rate gaming on higher refresh rate displays.
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