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Feb 09, 2026 10:00am PST

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DOOM 2 RAY TRACED?

Wtf, you think I need a reason to replay it?
BACK TO HELL WE GO!

https://youtu.be/0mhdGeQ9NHo?si=3lJ1CdVgS1EuU4FI

Aug 13, 2024 12:32am PDT

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DOOM 2 RAY TRACED? Wtf, you think I need a reason to replay it? BACK TO HELL WE GO! https://youtu.be/0m... : biofrog
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  Clever use of the Voxel Doom assets. : Conan
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    Yep noticed that too.. those aren't 2D sprite bodies : biofrog
    - It's a project called Voxel Doom. Worth your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-S7BBQ5YsI : Conan
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  Nice but the first thing I'd do would be to find a brightness slider. Too dark in places. : Kub666
  - scaredy cat : Chandler55
  - It has HDR support which brightens it up quite a bit :D : biofrog
- Omg : Milleh
- Looks siiiick! : evildanish
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  Hmm if loaded through gzdoom will this also worn with brutal Doom / project brutality? : Milleh
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    It does load through gzDoom and supports mods, so probably? : biofrog
    - I'll try tonight! : Milleh
- Wow looks great. Feel like applying RT to old games is so much more transformative than modern ones, whic... : disembodied potato
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  Amazing, I wonder how will they solve the problem of some areas being way too dark?
  
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  Amazing, I wonder how will they solve the problem of some areas being way too dark? : someWayne
  - they should just make a mulitplier for indirect bounce would fix the dark areas and soften the general lo... : imperator
  - Hopefully it includes a flashlight toggle by default, if not, hopefully you can add a compatible mod for ... : Milleh
- So I just got home, sat to play a bit.. and lost an hour. It's really nice!! The colours pop, HDR is su... : biofrog
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  Doom and iD have certainly given so much to video game fans. I can't believe we are still playing around ... : u sir name
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    Their embrace of modding and open sourcing their games was such a gift. : disembodied potato
    - John Carmack truly is videogame Jesus. : PenicillinX57
  - I just finished listening to Masters of Doom, and though I lived through that time it was really fun to r... : cokefiend
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  crashes on launch for me :( : mwasher
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    noooo :( I didn't do anything special Followed the instructions to go to https://github.com/vs-shiro... : biofrog
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      yea, did the same. just a null memory access crash when it launches https://imgur.com/a/tlYyTDq : mwasher
      
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      yeh straight up access violation, buggah! I did happen to update my NV drivers to 560's on the weekend,... : biofrog
      
      updated to the latest and same issue boo : mwasher
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    It has to be the Steam version, you have to run gldoom in it's own folder, and you have to copy/paste the... : u sir name
- Before I clicked the video link I was all, "ok whatever" ... but holy crap that looks amazing. : TickHeadDog
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  OMG...that looks fucking rad! : PenicillinX57
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U28Ai0h9m0 It's hard to get a feeling for how fluid and colourful it ... : biofrog
    - he doesn't seem to have the gratuitous blood splats turned on tho :D : biofrog
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- Ooh awesome! I just bought Doom 1 + Doom 2 last week and I'm having a blast with all the mods. I wonder i... : m0nkz
- Shut up and take my money!!!!! : gameindustryplant
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  This is so well done! Earlier videos of Doom RTX someone posted a while back looked way too colorful. Thi... : FirstPersonCooter
  - It's definitely one of the downsides to these RTX conversions. I tried the Deus Ex one and many areas we... : dkrulz
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  The pregnancy test is gonna struggle on this port. : ughhhhhhh
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    There's an option to turn off fluid simulation, but the blood splooshes can be fun.. dripping from the ro... : biofrog
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  Doesn't work with brutal Doom, expected I guess, oh well someday maybe! I mean it loads but the graphics... : Milleh
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    Whenever you're dealing with physically based rendering you need more information for it to work right - ... : Conan
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      Hmmm interesting, yea, so I probably shouldn't expect any other mod to work unless work was done to make ... : Milleh
      
      I mean they'll "work", but they won't look right. : Conan
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- Politely paging darkdeus : Lasers_PewPew
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- Whatever the quality of the project may be, that was a GREAT trailer! : kallanta
- It actually looks kind of insanely good. They need to do this shit to Daggerfall/Arena. : bill crystals
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  Downloading now, but holy hell what is with the speed from the github site? About 120KB/s. : TickHeadDog
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    I can only assume it's getting hammered : PenicillinX57
    - SADLOL Guess I'll try it out tomorrow. Still a long way to go and I'm sleepy :( : TickHeadDog
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- That looks amazing : aethyr

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