[Game] Doom the Dark Ages will not run well on steam deck at release
[Game] Doom the Dark Ages will not run well on steam deck at release
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.
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Didn't they manage to get Indiana Jones working after a while? That's on the same engine, right? I'll be patient. Don't have the energy for Doom at the moment anyways.
I honestly had no issue with Indiana Jones at launch on the Deck. My tolerance for performance issues is probably higher than average, granted, but I started playing it within a few days of launch on the Deck and beat the main story within a few weeks of that. It was officially unsupported and there were absolutely some framerate hiccups, but it was totally playable and enjoyable. It actually ran better on the Deck than my desktop (also Linux, to be fair) for a while because of nvidia driver issues. The faster pace of Doom will make it more of a problem, though.