Doom Eternal ran on my old i7 990x. Dark Ages crashes straight up.

[Whanic]

So Ive decided to by the guts for a new PC. 12900k on sale 50% off. z790 MOBO used open box. 32GB RAM. RTX 3600 stays for now. What are the chances if I decide to buy this soon does the game crash on startup?

[jordyexists]

I assume you meant 3060 and that build would meet the minimum system requirements, so you shouldn't have any issues launching the game.

Make sure you also get a nvme drive and install to that drive; this game uses a lot of streaming data so it is designed around a PCI gen 4 drive. There are some people on these forums who have reported the game working fine on SSDs and even slower storage, but I'd sooner take the developers' word that it is designed around faster storage than testimonials on the forums.

[vk^4@]

Even the simple act of opening a browser or browser refresh page compared to that old 6-core will be significantly noticeable in speed. Hopefully that 3060 is the 12Gb version vs the 8Gb.
Enjoying the DA with a RTX-2080Ti 12Gb Vram, amd 9800x3d<---little beast
/same ram as you. My advise is to use proper gpu PCIE power cables connected not cheap daisy chained multi headed versions, this way the gpu will operate at its maximum.
Upgraded also from an Intel cpu (i9-10920X cpu).
I would perform a fresh install Win11Pro, de-bloated & optimized on that new old stock Mobo.

[alex010300]

The lowest GPU the game can go is the 2060 Super, anything above and you are fine. You can use the NVIDIA app to recommend the best setting for the game so hopefully it doesn't crash again. The NVIDIA app recommended my 5080 to go 4k which is OK since I still got good fps and my game doesn't crash.

[Whanic]

Ahh yes 12GB 3060. Just got a nvme 1TB Samsung. So this should get it! Weesh meh luk