How to Play Classic Doom with Gorgeous Ray Tracing Effects

The original 1993 Doom game, which formed the basis for nearly three decades of shooters, remains alive and well. The game has been ported to more or less every platform that is possible but it's much more than just a meme. TLAUNCHER FOR MINECRAFT Mods for the community, such as Brutal Doom, that have access to the source code for the original game, have kept the original game's popularity after it was surpassed by more modern games. The latest addition to the popular shooter is a new generation of lighting effects that ray-trace.

This isn't the first time we've seen an assemblage of high-tech lighting over low-tech visuals. The well-knownly bloated Minecraft has official Nvidia-branded RTX support and Nvidia revamped Quake II to show how full-blown path-tracing can look like. However, the Doom mod is available for free to all PC player. It's also particularly dramatic in Doom's sci-fi settings which is a Martian colony that is infested by hoards of ferocious monsters. Realistically rendered shadows and reflections from plasma ammunition, fireballs, and pools of lava demonstrate just how lighting can be done with good lighting even for Doom's basic polygon-based environments and sprite enemies.

You can see those effects in action in the video posted by PCWorld's YouTube channel below along with an explainer of how to enable the mod and play Doom with the gorgeous lighting yourself.

The PrBoom mod comes from programmer Sultim Tsyrendashiev, who's also included support for Nvidia DLSS and other popular tweaks, including an ever-available in-game flashlight. You'll still need a fairly powerful PC to run the mod at its peak, though DLSS can help ease the load. The original three episodes of Doom are fully playable, though you may require a look at the settings file to get the best performance on your machine. You can download the mod files and the source code on Github.

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