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Why You Should Play the Original ‘Doom’ With Ray Tracing

By 4 abril, 2022No Comments

To check out the effect for yourself, you’ll need an Nvidia GPU. (Hopefully we’ll see AMD GPU support in the future.) You’ll also need a .wad file of the original Doom. You can grab this file from the purchased version of Ultimate Doom from stores like Steam or GOG, the latter of which is running a decent sale as of this writing.

If you have an Nvidia GPU, setting the game up is relatively simple: First, download and unzip the prboom-rt.zip file found on sultim-t’s GitHub page into a new, blank folder. Drop your DOOM.wad file into this folder, then run the “prboom-plus” app to get going.

Unfortunately, even with an NVIDIA GPU, some users are running into issues, myself included—when I try to run the game, I’m greeted with a “Signal 11″ error. This isn’t necessarily an issue with sultim-t’s mod, as this Signal 11 error seems to be a legacy problem with the PrBoom app. With any luck, your machine won’t experience this issue, and you can run down the corridors of Doom in all their ray-traced glory.

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And this isn’t the only retro game to benefit from ray tracing mods. Sultim-t has also added ray tracing to Half-Life and Serious Sam TFE. Playing any of these will show you what ray tracing can do, even for games that don’t take place in hell.

  

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