Doom: The Dark Ages is the next major installment of the iconic shooter franchise, bringing players to the Doom Slayer's glory days in the medieval age. As a prequel to the 2016 reboot, The Dark Ages is the perfect entry point for new fans.

If you want to run this pulpy shooter on minimum settings, you need a ray-tracing-capable graphics card at the very minimum. This is the second game using id Tech 7 to do so in the last two months (though Indiana Jones and the Great Circle proved to be worth the upgrade).

Yesterday on Twitter, Nvidia employee Jacob Freeman shared the PC requirements for the upcoming Doom: The Dark Ages, highlighting that the latest id Tech 7 engine would enforce mandatory ray tracing a la the last one,