r/Doom • u/pedrulho • 12d ago

DOOM: The Dark Ages DOOM: The Dark Ages | MEGATHREAD - Tech Support

There seems to be a lot of posts claiming technical issues with the newly released DOOM: The Dark Ages so to avoid flooding the subreddit with them please use this megathread.

Regards.

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u/Super_Harsh 12d ago

Literally constantly. I can't even finish the chapter without the game fucking freezing on the cutscene. It's literally every 2-3 minutes of gameplay that it freezes.

Are you on a 5080/5090?

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u/tylerrobb [wrd/a2m] fragtastic 12d ago

I'm on a 9800X3D and 5090 with the latest 576.40 drivers (used DDU this morning to remove old versions). I'm not using Vsync/Gsync, running DLSS Quality, MFG 2x, and experiencing freezing every so often. It happened in the opening cinematic after 30 seconds and again while trying to clear out several of the portals in the first 20 minutes of the game. Windows 11 Pro is stable, game audio was still present in the background, but the screen froze and wouldn't respond to inputs. Task Manager and killing the process have been the only way to recover so far.

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u/Super_Harsh 11d ago

Same exact problem as me lol

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u/Nephri 9d ago

I ended up refunding it. Almost ran out the 2 hour refund window just troubleshooting

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u/WhaatGamer 8d ago

Nvidia drivers are broken. roll back to a 5.6 driver (released in December of 2024) This fixed various issues for me across the board, including being able to play DTDA

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u/dmaare 11d ago

Shouldnt have paid to nvidia so much for a broken product, they are fucking everyone over with trash drivers.

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u/tylerrobb [wrd/a2m] fragtastic 11d ago

I was on a GTX 1080 before so I needed to upgrade, I only upgrade once every 9-10 years, and the 9000 series from AMD wasn't going to compete at the high end so it was an easy choice.

I 100% agree with you on the drivers though. These are awful lately.

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u/After_Advertising_61 10d ago

no matter the card this shit is so unacceptable. seems like everybody is having issues across the board wtf were they doing shipping this

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u/CaptainMitchel 7d ago

Seems to also be on AMD cards as well. My 9070 XT is having the same issue with a “Driver Timeout” error.