Earlier this year, DOOM: The Dark Ages became the sixth PC game (not counting RTX remakes like those made for Quake II and Portal) to support real-time path tracing after Cyberpunk 2077, DESORDRE, Alan Wake 2, Black Myth: Wukong, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

id Software's latest entry in the DOOM franchise did not support the technology at launch. Still, a month later, on June 18, 2025, the developer released an update introducing path tracing and NVIDIA's DLSS Ray Reconstruction . Both features significantly improved the game's visual quality and made it, alongside its excellent performance, a benchmark against which developers must compare their work.

This week, NVIDIA published a Q&A with id Software's Director of Engine Technology , Billy Khan, to discuss the studio's

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