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Samuel Tolbert

I love that DOOM: The Dark Ages requires ray tracing, and I hope more games follow

DOOM: The Dark Ages screenshot with a demon holding a GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card.

There's been a bit of a fuss across the internet ever since the arrival of the perfectly-scored DOOM: The Dark Ages, with the PC requirements for the game revealing that id Software's latest gore-drenched demon-slaying shooter requires a graphics card with ray tracing hardware.

This means that, at minimum, prospective PC players need a card starting from around NVIDIA's 20-series in order to jump in, locking out older cards like the GTX 1080.

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