Doom Eternal – Graphics Study

Re:Doom Eternal – Graphics Study by jiggawatts on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @10:10AM (#24408512)

Out of curiosity, have you played the game itself?

I played both the predecessor Doom 2016 game and Doom Eternal on the exact same hardware, and I was blown away by the performance and quality difference.

Never before have I seen a game crank up the graphics quality this much and improve performance to this extent without requiring a hardware upgrade.

To put things in perspective, I had to play Doom 2016 at 1080p on an NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti for acceptable framerates, but I played Doom Eternal at 4K and it produced a silky smooth 60 fps throughout.

Whatever they're doing... it's working!

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Re:Doom Eternal – Graphics Study by Agentlien on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @11:06AM (#24409138)

I've not yet had the chance to play Eternal myself. With a massive backlog of games and my own hobby project vying for what little of my free time I don't spend with my two kids...

But from everything I've seen I'm deeply impressed with what Id has done these last few years. Of course, Id doing impressive things is nothing new, but these new Doom and the latest Wolfenstein was still beyond expectation.

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Re:Doom Eternal – Graphics Study by Bombthecat on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:55PM (#24410885)

What they are doing is: they got help from google to optimize shit out of the game for stadia. (online streaming service for games)

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Re:Doom Eternal – Graphics Study by flohofwoe on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:16AM (#24419413)

Such problems are not solvable with money or manpower, and I don't think the Id team depends on Google engineering knowledge for GPU optimizations ;)

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