id Software: DOOM: The Dark Ages Id Tech 8 Engine Shows Its Muscles Delivering a World Rendered Using Virtualized Geometry, Robust Physics Simulation and Ray-Traced Lighting at High Performance

DOOM: The Dark Ages is setting out to be one of the most visually impressive games launching this year, as the latest iteration of id Software's proprietary engine has fully embraced cutting-edge technology to deliver a complex game world at high performance. In a new analysis shared today, the tech experts at Digital Foundry took a first look at what the id Tech 8 engine delivers in the new entry in the series. While the demo that media played did not feature path tracing, it did feature regular ray tracing, which included ray-traced reflections like in DOOM Eternal and ray-traced [...]