Doom 2: RAY TRACED – Release news

Realtime path tracing allows shadows, reflections and global illumination without any prebaking. Everything has a shadow. Emissive maps contribute to lighting. Volumetric lighting is traced to simulate a dense atmosphere.

Mirrors reflect.

Glass refracts and reflects.

Particle-based fluid simulation for blood. It can interact with everything in a scene.

Based on GZDoom.

Note: You can switch between classic and ray traced renderers in realtime. By default bound to 'C'. Console variable is 'rt_classic', set to 0.5 to render half of the screen in classic, half of it in ray traced.

By default, Doom 2: RAY TRACED (2024) uses RTGL1 renderer. Previously, it was used in:

• Half-Life 1: Ray Traced (2023)
• Quake 1: Ray Traced (2022)
• PrBoom: Ray Traced (2022)
• Serious Sam TFE: Ray Traced (2021)

And for Doom 2, the renderer was upgraded further, adding:

• particle-based fluid
• NVIDIA DLSS3 Frame Generation
• AMD FSR3 Frame Interpolation
• HDR monitor support
• simple height maps
• performance tweaks

Note: to enable DLSS, follow instructions here.

However. Doom 2: RAY TRACED is compatible with...

To make a Doom 2: RAY TRACED build to be compatible with RTX Remix, download Remix wrapper here. And Unpack it into your Doom folder, and run 'gzdoom_REMIX.bat'.

Note: upon the very first run of RTX Remix, you will need to wait for shader compilation (it happens only once, when entering any game map, usually ~20 seconds).

RTX Remix screenshots:

THANKS TO:
voxel doom project - for models
half-life 1 ray traced - for renderer
gzdoom community - for help with modding
id software - for the game

Music used in the trailer: EGT - Shawn's got a shotgun Youtu.be , Davester2296 - Into Sandy's City Youtube.com , Bobby Prince - Doom II Intermission, Mick Gordon - BFG Division

Music used in the mod: Kolibri92 - Icon of Sin Youtube.com