DOOM: The Dark Ages Available Now In Early Access, Featuring Ray Tracing & DLSS 4 With Multi Frame Generation (2025)

The long-awaited, much-anticipated DOOM: The Dark Ages has received universal acclaim from reviewers, and is now available in Early Access for those who purchased the Premium Edition or our GeForce RTX 50 Series bundle! Witness the creation of a legend as the Slayer takes on all of Hell and turns the tide of the war, now or on May 15th when DOOM: The Dark Ages launches globally, enhanced by RTX technology:

• “DOOM: The Dark Ages uses NVIDIA’s toolkit as a performance BFG" - GamesRadar+

• “id tech 8 combined with the power of NVIDIA’s RTX 50-series graphics cards are a match made in heaven.” - GameRant

• “Doom: The Dark Ages is the poster child for NVIDIA’s DLSS 4.” - PC Gamer

• “DLSS 4 Implementation is amazing” - DSOGaming

• “From a technical perspective, DOOM: The Dark Ages is a triumph.” - GAMINGTREND

GeForce RTX gamers will receive the definitive DOOM: The Dark Ages experience thanks to our technical partnership with id Software. Multiply frame rates on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs on average by 4X at 4K using DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation. Double performance on GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs using DLSS Frame Generation, and enhance image quality on all GeForce RTX GPUs with DLSS Super Resolution’s transformer AI model.

Accelerate DOOM: The Dark Ages’ native idTech8 ray tracing technologies with GeForce RTX Ray Tracing Cores. Make gameplay even more responsive with NVIDIA Reflex. Shortly after launch, an update will introduce PC-exclusive path tracing, taking ray traced lighting to the next level on GeForce RTX GPUs thanks to DLSS Ray Reconstruction, which replaces traditional denoisers with a superior, unified AI model that enhances image quality and accelerates performance.

Below, you can watch a new, exclusive video showing you the day-one DOOM: The Dark Ages experience on a GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU, using Ultra settings, Reflex, and DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation:

Developed on the all-new idTech8 engine, DOOM: The Dark Ages runs natively in ray traced mode, rendering more immersive and spectacular scenes which feature full dynamic lighting with Ray-Traced Global Illumination and Ray-Traced Reflections.

Ray-traced global illumination lighting simulates real-world lighting to naturally illuminate and darken detail, and enables real-time lighting changes based on the properties of light cast from all light sources, and from dynamic elements, such as player and enemy weapons.

Ray-traced reflections, meanwhile, enhance suitably reflective surfaces, enabling them to mirror their surroundings, or to be more naturally shaded and illuminated, increasing image quality.

Shortly after launch, a PC-exclusive DOOM: The Dark Ages update will add path tracing and DLSS Ray Reconstruction.

Path tracing takes the quality of ray-traced lighting to the next level, reflecting additional detail and game elements on surfaces. NVIDIA Spatial Hash Radiance Cache (SHaRC) technology is leveraged to performantly compute path-traced light, while NVIDIA Shader Execution Reordering further accelerates performance on GeForce RTX GPUs.

To ensure path tracing looks its absolute best, traditional denoisers are replaced on GeForce RTX GPUs with DLSS Ray Reconstruction. This AI-based technique produces higher-quality images, with more detail, and greater stability, improving overall image quality.

Used synergistically, path tracing and DLSS Ray Reconstruction make DOOM: The Dark Ages levels more immersive, and its action more spectacular, giving GeForce RTX gamers the definitive experience.

GeForce RTX gamers cranking DOOM: The Dark Ages’ settings to the max can enable NVIDIA DLSS to ensure frame rates are at their fastest at each resolution.

Our newest DLSS innovation, Multi Frame Generation, generates three additional frames per traditional frame, multiplying performance significantly, for the fastest gaming possible at the highest resolutions and detail levels.

In DOOM: The Dark Ages, in conjunction with DLSS Super Resolution, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation accelerates performance by an average of 4X at 4K on the Ultra Preset. This massive boost enables GeForce RTX 5090 owners to experience DOOM: The Dark Ages maxed out at over 320 frames per second, GeForce RTX 5080 players at over 240 FPS, GeForce RTX 5070 Ti users at over 210 FPS, and GeForce RTX 5070 owners at over 170 FPS.

Gamers on RTX 50 Series with 8GB GPUs can enjoy DOOM: The Dark Ages at Ultra settings with high frame rates by setting "Texture Pool Size" to 1536 with minimal impact to image quality.

A similarly fast experience can be found on our newest GeForce RTX 50 Series laptops at 2560x1600 thanks to a 3.8X average DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation performance multiplier, enabling max setting gameplay at up to 270 frames per second on a mobile machine.

High frame rates reduce PC latency, making gameplay more responsive. To reduce latency even further, all GeForce RTX gamers can activate NVIDIA Reflex in DOOM: The Dark Ages. This game-changing technology reduces PC latency on GeForce graphics cards, desktops, and laptops so your actions occur quicker, making games even more responsive, and more enjoyable.

Using DLSS and Reflex, DOOM: The Dark Ages is at its fastest and most responsive on GeForce RTX GPUs.

To get your system game ready for DOOM: The Dark Ages, head to the Drivers tab of NVIDIA app or GeForce.com to download and install our DOOM: The Dark Ages Game Ready Driver.

Until May 21st, as part of our DOOM: The Dark Ages GeForce RTX 50 Series Bundle*, get the Premium Edition of DOOM: The Dark Ages (a $99.99 value) with the purchase of a qualifying GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, or 5070 desktop or graphics card, or a laptop with a GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, or 5070 Laptop GPU.

Get a head start on slaying demons with the Premium Edition, including up to 2-Day Early Access** and the campaign DLC***. You’ll also receive the Digital Artbook and Soundtrack, and the Divinity Skin Pack, which includes matching skins for the DOOM Slayer, dragon and Atlan.

Includes:

• Base Game (digital code)
• Up to 2-Days Early Access
• Campaign DLC
• Digital Artbook and Soundtrack
• Divinity Skin Pack

DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation gives GeForce RTX 50 Series bundle buyers the power to experience DOOM: The Dark Ages at 4K, at the highest detail levels, at high frame rates. And DLSS Super Resolution leverages the power of our latest transformer AI models, ensuring exceptional image quality.

You’ll find GPUs, desktops and laptops eligible for the DOOM: The Dark Ages GeForce RTX 50 Series Bundle at numerous system builders and retailers worldwide. Head to the DOOM: The Dark Ages bundle homepage to see the complete list of participating partners in your country.

Once you’ve bought a qualifying product, you’ll receive instructions on how to redeem your bundle via the NVIDIA app, and just a few clicks later you’ll add DOOM: The Dark Ages Premium Edition to your Steam account.

DOOM: The Dark Ages Premium Edition and our GeForce RTX 50 Series bundle buyers can battle the forces of Hell right now! Experience this incredible game at its absolute best by playing on a GeForce RTX GPU, with frame rates multiplied by DLSS with Multi Frame Generation, input latency reduced by Reflex, and ray-traced performance accelerated by GeForce RTX Ray Tracing Cores.

If you’ve already got a GeForce RTX PC or laptop and simply need a copy of the game, grab it here, or play on PC Game Pass.

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*While supplies last. Bundle applies for qualifying desktop, laptop, and graphics cards: GeForce RTX™ 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, 5070 desktop system or graphics card, or laptop with a GeForce RTX™ 5090 Laptop GPU, RTX 5080 Laptop GPU, RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU, RTX 5070 Laptop GPU. Technology varies by GPU. Please see Terms & Conditions for a full list of qualifying partner products. Game must be redeemed via the NVIDIA app on a desktop or laptop PC with qualifying graphics card installed. Customer must meet the age requirement for the game to redeem. Regional/Country Requirements: Some coupons require that they be redeemed in specific regions or countries. Please redeem the code in the appropriate region/country.

**Actual play time depends on purchase date and applicable time zone differences, subject to possible outages.

***DLC availability to be provided at a later date.