Doom (2016)

I just saw this available on Steam to purchase and no thread about it here yet.

I used to play Doom when I was like 15 but I don't know if I will enjoy fighting imaginary monsters that are unrealistic now that I'm almost 32 years old.

Do you think it's worth it? Also, do you think that my system will run it @ 60FPS fine with max settings on a 1920x1080 resolution?

 

DUDE . BEST FREAKING GAME EVER.
Dont care if others hate it. I played the beta, and cant wait to get down to it. At least until Overwatch sucks up all my time once its out.

 

It actually does look fun... O_O

 

ok thanks, just bought it

 

But can you kill monsters with ghetto blaster playing Rick Astley?

 

Newegg has it for $45 with a promo code if you want a physical version and can wait a few days for shipping.

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I day 1ed this sucker. I love it. Calling it violent is an understatement. Got it purely for the campaign. I'm relieved the melee didn't ruin it.

 

I hope campaign is at least as good at Doom 3. That was the most atmospheric scare-fest I've every played.

 

Paid $35 at cdkeys.com and came with some DLC content. Much worth at this point. I thought MP beta was absolute trash, but saw video of single player and was intrigued.

 

Bought it yesterday and played a little this morning to see how it ran on my setup. I am very happy that it works with SLI. So far the first 5 minutes or so have been very good.

 

And I think you might see some dips at 1920 at Ultra. I am running SLI titan x and I still see some dips below 60 on ultra at 2560.

 

Doom doesn't support SLI in single player.

 

oh darn

 

I'm seeing 80 to 90 percent utilization on both cards in single player

 

Actually more like 90 to 95, it's scaling really well.

 

Over 50GB!? Really?

And about SLI: http://wccftech.com/doom-pc-sli-support-dev-shares-4k-resolution-performance-tip/

Earlier today, id Software Lead Rendered Programmer Tiago Sousa has confirmed on Twitter that SLI support is coming to the game. One user noted that the game already runs a lot better with SLI enabled, but Tiago Sousa confirmed that things are going to get better, as there’s currently an issue with shadows limiting SLI scaling.

 

Yeah I don't think SLI is working great - high usage on both cards doesn't always mean good scaling. Project Cars does the same thing. I'm running around 130fps at 1080p maxed everything on an overclocked 980ti.
1440p on a single should easily push you over 60fps all the time.

 

I just read it's actually not "officially" supported which may mean the same thing it does as with Far Cry Primal where some people can get full scaling on their system but the same guy with a different motherboard will get no scaling at all. Guess we have to wait for the official support.

Needless to say I am in no way comparing this game to Far Cry Primal which was kind of an aborted fetus.

 

Meh, so far it feels more like a Serious Sam sequel than Doom. Too fast paced and shoot and run. Doom 3 was a classic sneak and horror type game. This feels just too much like same old same old.

 

I love Serious Sam, it's literally the epitome of FPS for me.

 

Nothing wrong with Serious Sam, just that it isn't Doom. Doom is slow, creepy, suspense. Not run and gun with a billion bad guys.

 

Weirdly enough this reminds me of the original dooms. Loving it so far, and been a while since a fast paced SP shooter came out.

 

doom 3 I would agree with you, but the original doom was more akin to serious sam I think

 

well installing the latest nvidia driver disabled one of my gpus and also increased performance. I think I may not be able to trust afterburner ever again.

 

Doom 3 was a bit of a departure. Doom 1 and Doom 2 were fight for your life and faster paced.

I like all 4 of them now, though.

Sent from a 128th Legion Stormtrooper 6P

 

How does it still surprise you? It's an id tech engine, of course it's gonna require those 50GBs.

But that's what Doom is all about. Doom 3 was an exception.

This game does look interesting. I guess one more for my wishlist...

 

just buy it already lol

there's also the new homefront game too on tuesday...i wonder how that will run if it's worth getting.

 

I'll wait
Though I said the same about ROTTR last time, and look how it went...

Some dude at Eurogamer played it on GTX960 and it was not good (20ish FPS).

 

based off an old beta build probably which is still not representative of the final game.

 

I like how carmack puts it.. "doom is about 2 things, 1:shotguns 2:demons"

I haven't played enough but I hope there's a double barrel that's as satisfying as the original dooms.
Mind you that explosive second fire hits the spot.

@HTWingNut

If you liked doom 3 you probably won't care for this one so much. It's more akin to Doom 1,2,Final Doom.

 

still trying to get across a damn bridge but i keep falling short

 

That I don't know. It was a pretty recent video, so IDK.

There is. I watcher official preview video, and dude playing had that tasty double barrel shotty out there.

 

just get doom then LOL

it'll tide me over till overwatch is properly out!

 

I'm going to try on 970m and let you know how it goes. If it plays fine on that, it will do fine with 960.

 

Wait, how are you gonna play Homefront exactly, it's not out yet!

 

Oh, ha, this is DOOM thread, I didn't follow the whole conversation, silly me.

 

I dunno, doesn't feel like Doom 1 or 2 and played both to death when they came out. I guess maybe it was fresh then because there wasn't really anything else like it. But today, well... I'll give it time, but just feels too generic and little sense of suspense. I remember hesitating around every corner and before every door in Doom 1 and 2. But now they're just front and center.

 

Hahaha I actually remember playing doom 1 and 2, listening by the door to see how many were inside.
Yeah, nothing will ever beat the originals really.
I can also remember how violent they felt. More shocking than now, but I was pretty young at the time and it was all uncharted territory back then.. It's really hard to tell. Not much leaves such a big impression on me as did back then.

There's not too many reboots (or games for that matter) that get me giddy though. I think they've done the atmosphere brilliantly though overall.
I'm only a few levels in so we'll see if my impressions change when I'm through.

 

One thing I have to say is that it is scalable. Plays on GT 940m with slight overclock at 1280x720 medium details at 40-50 FPS! 1024x576 bumps FPS up to 60. Very impressive.

 

Funny you say this, I was thinking it is just like Painkiller ... definitely different vibe from Doom 3. I even remember playing Doom 2, and it is much faster than that game as well.

 

waiting for the patch that will have the vulkan api as its renderer...will like to see how the game performs then!

 

I was 29 when the original Doom came out. Played it on my 286-12 (as in MHz). AMD 486-40

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Old fart can't remember... LOL

 

Checkpoint saves only? It syncs video settings too on Steam. Why? Makes no sense. I don't want same video settings on PC's I play it on, only save games and key bindings.

 

It does, and apparently, it creates a cache for the video settings that makes it difficult for some users to actually change their settings later without deleting both cache folders or reinstalling their drivers ( http://steamcommunity.com/app/379720/discussions/0/357286119106178993/). It appears to be an issue primarily affecting Kepler users, although my experience has been quite normal in this regard.

 

managed to get it to run at 1080p with the new drivers and interestingly when capped to 120hz the game goes between 60-120fps but mainly stays in the 70-100fps range. But as a result the temps went into the low 70s which i think is ok.

though i did try running it at 900p and it felt like a solid 120hz.

EDIT: I think i should rely less on the fps counter in RTSS since it's more granular and it seems the polling speed for getting the fps is way slower than the fps counter in-game and i think the fps counter in game is way more accurate in terms of real world speed. the in game fps counter does seem to ignore fps drops from hitching caused by loading and saving.

 

@thegh0sts you can increase the polling speed in RTSS.

 

how? where's the option for that?

 

Spoiler

 

oh ok, i was just editing the global profile in the folder

 

Yeah kinda PainKiller-esque as well.