DOOM: The Dark Ages Gets Release Date, PC System Requirements, and New Gameplay Trailer

[GFreeman]

The time draws near to Reign in Hell when DOOM: The Dark Ages releases May 15, 2025, on Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 and PC. Preorder your copy today! For PC players, check that your setup is battle-ready by consulting our PC Requirements below, including listings for Minimum, Recommended and even Ultra 4K settings.

A NEW GENERATION OF IDTECH
id Software's most ambitious title yet, DOOM: The Dark Ages pushes new standards in visual fidelity and performance with the power of idTech8. Taking full advantage of modern hardware on all platforms, idTech8 ushers in a new era of gameplay performance and visual fidelity featuring all-new dynamic interactive ray-traced lighting and shadows, higher-fidelity image quality, increased gore and destruction and so much more. With the largest environments ever in a DOOM game, DOOM: The Dark Ages delivers an epic experience full of worlds to explore, hordes of demons to destroy and an action story worthy of the Slayer's legend. Whether soaring through the air with his dragon or smashing giant Titan-sized demons using his Atlan mech, the Slayer is taking on his biggest battles yet - all beautifully rendered and running at a buttery-smooth 60 frames per second on all platforms.



System Requirements
MINIMUM (1080p/60 FPS/Low Video Settings)

• OS: Win 10 64Bit / Win 11 64Bit
• CPU: AMD Zen 2 or Intel 10th Generation @3.2Ghz with 8 cores / 16 threads or better (examples: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or better, Intel Core i7 10700K or better)
• GPU: NVIDIA or AMD hardware ray tracing-capable GPU with 8 GB dedicated VRAM or better (examples: NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super or better, AMD RX 6600 or better)
• System RAM: 16 GB
• Storage Capacity: 512 GB or higher NVMe SSD (100 GB Available)

RECOMMENDED (1440p/60 FPS/High Video Settings)

• OS: Win 10 64Bit / Win 11 64Bit
• CPU: AMD Zen 3 or Intel 12th Generation @3.2Ghz with 8 cores / 16 threads or better (examples: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X or better, Intel Core i7 12700K or better)
• GPU: NVIDIA or AMD hardware ray tracing-capable GPU with 10 GB dedicated VRAM or better (examples: NVIDIA RTX 3080 or better, AMD RX 6800 or better)
• System RAM: 32 GB
• Storage Capacity: 512 GB or higher NVMe SSD (100 GB Available)

ULTRA 4K (2160p/60 FPS/Ultra Video Settings)

• OS: Win 10 64Bit / Win 11 64Bit
• CPU: AMD Zen 3 or Intel 12th Generation @3.2Ghz with 8 cores / 16 threads or better (examples: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X or better, Intel Core i7 12700K or better)
• GPU: NVIDIA or AMD hardware ray tracing-capable GPU with 16 GB dedicated VRAM or better (examples: NVIDIA RTX 4080 or better, AMD RX 7900XT or better)
• System RAM: 32 GB
• Storage Capacity: 512 GB or higher NVMe SSD (100 GB Available)

Note: DOOM: The Dark Ages requires a hardware ray tracing-compatible GPU to play on PC, including Minimum Specifications. Details on Path Tracing specifications will be revealed at a later date.

DOOM: The Dark Ages launches May 15, 2025, on Game Pass, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC. Play up to two days early with Early Access by preordering DOOM: The Dark Ages Premium Edition.

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[Cheeseball]

Can't wait. Doom Eternal was a great power rush, a speedrunner and movement enthusiasts dream.

 

[Frick]

Eight cores minimum?

 

[neatfeatguy]

Alright, here comes Hexen!

 

[Cheeseball]

Alright, here comes Hexen!

Hell yeah. It looks like I'm not the only one who thought this was an indirect throwback to Heretic & Hexen.

 

[Ayhamb99]

Super excited for this, I loved both 2016 and Eternal and I've been patiently waiting in order to try out something new since i practically did everything for Eternal on Ultra Nightmare lol

The only troubling thing is the GPU requirement, I wonder if my 2060 will be able to handle it at all if the minimum is a 2060 super, now with the RTX 5000s release i'll be keeping track of ebay for any great used deals since i am pretty sure more folks will be selling their old RTX 3000s cards or even 4000s cards now in order to upgrade.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Eight cores minimum?

Yes. Come on, we all knew that was coming.

 

[freeagent]

12GB card sad face.

Yes. Come on, we all knew that was coming.

Right? Even Indiana Jones would like 12700K or 7700X.

 

[dgianstefani]

Right? Even Indiana Jones would like 12700K or 7700X.

It's the same engine. Hence mandatory RT card.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It's the same engine. Hence mandatory RT card.

Is it really? Didn't know that. Interesting..

 

[Frick]

Yes. Come on, we all knew that was coming.

I will not believe it until I see it, because that suggests a Ryzen 3700 will perform better than a Ryzen 9600X.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I will not believe it until I see it, because that suggests a Ryzen 3700 will perform better than a Ryzen 9600X.

Depends. It might. Unlikely, but it is possible if the devs focusing on bifurcated process threading.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Eight cores minimum?

10 bucks says it will run fine on a 3600 and it also wont actually need 16 gb of ram

 

[Cheeseball]

They probably say eight cores minimum just to prevent any bottlenecking to get high FPS. I'm pretty sure this can still run on a Steam Deck (Zen 2 quad-core) at a locked 60 FPS to 90 FPS just like Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

They probably say eight cores minimum just to prevent any bottlenecking to get high FPS. I'm pretty sure this can still run on a Steam Deck (Zen 2 quad-core) at a locked 60 FPS to 90 FPS just like Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal.

I would look at how Indiana Jones performs on the steakdeck this will likely be similar both require RT capable hardware.

 

[Cheeseball]

I would look at how Indiana Jones performs on the steakdeck this will likely be similar both require RT capable hardware.

Not that good. To even get 30 FPS in you need to be at 800x500 and use upscaling:

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Not that good. To even get 30 FPS in you need to be at 800x500 and use upscaling:

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While I expect this to be more optimized for fast paced twitch shooting it requiring RT is going to make weak/first generation RT cards sweat pretty badly is my guess.

 

[dirtyferret]

Eight cores minimum?

watch the AMD 7600x run way past 60 FPS at either 1404p or 4k

 

[freeagent]

While I expect this to be more optimized for fast paced twitch shooting it requiring RT is going to make weak/first generation RT cards sweat pretty badly is my guess.

This is the part where we pay the price for our cut down version of the flagship.. it is always sad.

watch the AMD 7600x run way past 60 FPS at either 1404p or 4k

I am not sure about that.. its pretty heavy.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

This is the part where we pay the price for our cut down version of the flagship.. it is always sad.

I am not sure about that.. its pretty heavy.

Indiana Jones worked pretty well on midrange rdna 2 and above I don't think it's unreasonable for a 2025 game to require 2018 or newer level hardware it's just seems more recent because amd didn't properly support it till 2020 and really 2022..... 6700XT and above are fine for 1080p. I can't remember what min Turing card you need I know 2080ti is around 80fps with supreme settings at 1080p

 

[dirtyferret]

I am not sure about that.. its pretty heavy.

yeah, I saw PCGH benchmarks (and you know the German's have no love for Indy!) and it looked like one of the games the Intel Ultra line does well on. Still they got into the 70's FPS avg with the i5-10400 and lows in the 60's with it. Not saying it's not heavy just the wording or "core" instead of "performance" is awkward and can confuse people who don't understand the difference.

 

[Cheeseball]

Indiana Jones worked pretty well on midrange rdna 2 and above I don't think it's unreasonable for a 2025 game to require 2018 or newer level hardware it's just seems more recent because amd didn't properly support it till 2020 and really 2022..... 6700XT and above are fine for 1080p. I can't remember what min Turing card you need I know 2080ti is around 80fps with supreme settings at 1080p

I think the minimum requirement stating that an RT card and 8-core CPU is required is just to keep up with the times (e.g. paper requirements), at least for Doom. The developers of Indiana Jones didn't really aim their game at weaker devices like Windows/SteamOS handhelds so thats why its bad.

 

[Upgrayedd]

2016 style MP or Eternal style? Please be 2016. I didn't see any mention of it.

 

[Tomgang]

Dam. This is the first game i have seen ask for minimum 8 cores/16 threads as minimum system requirements.

The beginning of the end where 6 cores/12 Threads was enough. Well guess Hexa core will be faced out just quad-core did it before that. But still feel it quite steep demand for minimum.

 

[Easo]

2016 style MP or Eternal style? Please be 2016. I didn't see any mention of it.

Speed looked closer to Eternal. But I really hope it won't have the rainbow confetti drops, those were awful as far as I was concerned.