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saltystick has DOOM: The Dark Ages

May 16 @ 7:07am

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When I boot up Doom The Dark Ages on my Steam Deck, I am greeted with a black menu with just the fire effects. When loading any level, it loads the level fine, and everything is running as intended, but I can only see effects. I can't see walls, I can't see enemies, I can't see my gun. I've tried verifying the integrity of my game files, and I've reinstalled the game. Has anyone else run into this?

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patrick68794 May 16 @ 7:11am

game really isn't playable on the Deck. It doesn't have enough memory and the CPU and GPU are both too slow.

There are some config changes you can make that allow games to use more VRAM than the Deck normally allows but even then the game can drop into single digit framerates on low settings with FSR on ultra performance and frame gen only makes it run worse.

Last edited by patrick68794; May 16 @ 7:12am

Zixinus

May 16 @ 7:13am

The game needs ray-tracing. I don't think the SteamDeck can do ray-tracing at all.

From what I heard, even with beta builds for it, the performance is abyssal (about 15fps).

I would write off Dark Ages for the Steam Deck (I have one).

patrick68794 May 16 @ 7:15am

Originally posted by Zixinus:
The game needs ray-tracing. I don't think the SteamDeck can do ray-tracing at all.

From what I heard, even with beta builds for it, the performance is abyssal (about 15fps).

I would write off Dark Ages for the Steam Deck (I have one).

The Deck does have hardware RT support

Bigboss PC Faster May 16 @ 7:16am

The steam deck is too outdated in 2025

MegaMaster has DOOM: The Dark Ages

May 16 @ 3:04pm

I have too but unfortunately not solutions yet. You find any?

MegaMaster has DOOM: The Dark Ages

May 16 @ 3:04pm

I have too but unfortunately not solutions yet. You find any?

Looney Jones has DOOM: The Dark Ages

May 19 @ 1:10pm

I had the same issue. For me, I switched back to TAA upscaler in-game and that resolved the issue. Enabling FSR or XESS causes this issue. Going to try upgrading to Preview Steam OS build to see of that resolves it.

Looney Jones has DOOM: The Dark Ages

May 19 @ 1:52pm

Originally posted by Looney Jones:
I had the same issue. For me, I switched back to TAA upscaler in-game and that resolved the issue. Enabling FSR or XESS causes this issue. Going to try upgrading to Preview Steam OS build to see of that resolves it.

I can confirm that switching to preview build 3.7.6 as stated in this article resolves the issue with FSR:
https://clawsomegamer.com/best-doom-the-dark-ages-settings-on-steam-deck/

saltystick has DOOM: The Dark Ages

11 hours ago

Originally posted by Looney Jones:
Originally posted by Looney Jones:
I had the same issue. For me, I switched back to TAA upscaler in-game and that resolved the issue. Enabling FSR or XESS causes this issue. Going to try upgrading to Preview Steam OS build to see of that resolves it.

I can confirm that switching to preview build 3.7.6 as stated in this article resolves the issue with FSR:
https://clawsomegamer.com/best-doom-the-dark-ages-settings-on-steam-deck/

I am going to try this. Thank you so much!