NVIDIA technologies not only drastically improve the visual of games on PC, but also to streamline their performance. The Californian company is now showing its work on a highly anticipated title, namely Doom the Dark Ages.
What if Doom the Dark Ages became the new figurehead of the PC gaming? The game that puts your computer on your knees to offer the most successful graphics as possible? In any case, this is Nvidia’s goalwhich presents the result of his work through a comparative visual.
Doom The Dark Ages has been developed with the Tech 8 Engine ID, to which Nvidia technologies are added. The most emblematic is obviously path tracing. As a reminder, path tracing is an advanced version of Ray Tracing, which allows you to better simulate the behavior of light. Thus, the light rays rebound in an unlimited way in space while taking into account the texture of the surfaces. The consequence is the rendering of an extremely realistic image. To fully understand the work done on The Dark Ages, Nvidia publishes a comparative photo with and without path tracing. Lights, shadows, reflections, the result is stunning.
Nvidia is counting on Doom the Dark Ages to show its technological advances
Of course, path tracing is a technology extremely gourmet in resources. In order to improve performance, the game can count on the DLSS 4. In addition to upscaling, the game allows you to generate up to three images between two frames, thanks to AI. What triple the number of images per second a novelty only available for the latest born from Nvidia cards, namely the RTX 50XX. That’s good, the game is offered if you get one of these cards.
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As a reminder, Doom the Dark Ages is the third part of the reboot initiated in 2016. This time, we will explore the origins of Doomslayer, since the story takes place before the first game. On the menu of new products? Unpublished environments, more tough enemies, but above all a redesigned combat system, more earth, nervous and focused on the use of the shield. Needless to say, this cocktail requires not only beautiful graphics, but also exemplary fluidity, hence the use of the Frame Gen.
Doom The Dark Ages is off to a good start to be the new stallion meter of the PC game, but note that it also comes out on PS5 and Xbox Series. Available on May 13.
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