Doom is surely the first shooter in history as we know it today. The one that dared to generate true three-dimensional maps, with uphills, downhills and areas that communicated with others within a more complex virtual environment than anything seen up to that point in titles such as Wolfenstein 3D . So despite the almost 30 years behind it, why not update it with the latest in graphics technology?
Ray tracing everywhere
Thus, and faithful to the habit of being one of the most modified games of all time, Doom has not hesitated to get on the bandwagon of the famous ray tracing, or ray-tracing that the English say, and that is not another something that the graphic technology that little by little is making its way into the hardware that we use right now to play. PS5 and Xbox One Series X | S have been the first to carry it natively on their hardware, as well as PCs that equip graphics with that capacity and that are increasingly on the market.
The mod, which you can try on your PC right now, is very easy to install because you only need to download the files that apply that ray tracing to the game and, later, copy those old WAD files that you know so well into the same folder of the old versions with personalized voices (Chiquito de la Calzada’s is one of the best) or with completely modified graphics that have turned this Doom into the perfect platform to do tests of all kinds.
If you want to install it right now on your PC with compatible ray-tracing graphics card, you just have to:
- Unzip the prboom-rt.zip file to an empty folder on your computer.
- Inside it copy the original game files . The famous DOOM.wad.
- Now just run the prboom-plus.exe file to start the game.
Don’t you see Doom better?
The improvement obtained with this mod is spectacular because suddenly those practically flat 3D environments with very limited lighting seem to come to life, with spotlights appearing that stain the rest of the surfaces that make up the game. There are even moments when we will see our shadows and those of the enemies drawn with incredible precision on the walls in the background, which gives the scene a realism that Doom had not achieved until now.
Without a doubt, this is an example of how much graphic technology has advanced in recent years, where a true revolution is taking place that will lead to video games being practically indistinguishable from reality in the near future. The ability of ray tracing to render scenes that are ever more accurate and faithful to what we can in the real world, not just in texture and motion quality, heralds a new phase in both hardware and performance. software and this Doom , without a doubt, is one more example of how much fun it is to update the old classics to the new times.