Still a far cry from the amazing performance of Eternal, but great to see regardless.
Eh, 30 fps for a frenetic shooter like this is still pretty not great.
I can get a solid 45 fps on a Deck on Cyberpunk 2077, similar graphical fidelity imo, especially at a lower end output resolution.
The whole problem, from a ‘running on a Deck’ perspective, is that Doom Dark Ages is built on idTech 8… which forces raytracing.
They would have to refactor the whole game / build a whole new variant of the engine that based off the Vulkan-Base branch of idTech8, that has… you know, a lighting engine that can look at least comparable without relying on realtime raytracing.
Not just do some optimization tweaks.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 days ago
Hopefully long term the next Steam Deck sells even better and we’ll see support like this more often. I know about Larian and Bloober’s recent native builds.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
The problem is raytracing vs affordability.
Pick one, basically.
If you make a game on an engine, or in a way where there’s no way to run the game without raytracing on, well, thats not gonna run well on an affordable system.
If you build a handheld that can do realtime raytracing, ok, you can play some more AAA games now, but your device cost to the consumer basically doubles.
We are currently in an economic depression in the US, you probably are not going to do well with a market strategy that relies on consumers generally having a lot of disposable income.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 days ago
One of the reasons why this is even possible is, because Valve sticks to current Steam Deck as the base. If they introduced the Steam Deck 2 already, then not only would this mean for developers more to test and optimize for, it also meant the new 2 would be the baseline and old Deck is forgotten quickly. Therefore even if lot of people ask for a Steam Deck 2, its crucial that Valve waits with the update. And honestly, its already impressive what we can play on it. I did not expect Dark Ages on it to play this well.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 days ago
I agree with you, but that’s what I intended with saying long term.