Okay, before we start, you won’t be able to play this version of Death on a pregnancy test or cash register. But whatever, original Death with ray tracing is great so I can forgive that one drawback.
Announced yesterday on April Fool’s DayThis new visual mod for the original 1993 release of Death not a joke. Created by modder sultim-tthis mod added Real-time path tracking to PrBoom’s source port Death. It currently supports the first three episodes of the classic shooter and dramatically changes the way Death looks, let you play old timer with amazing, modern light.
Install this new ray tracing mod for Death To be pretty simple. You will need an original Doom.wad file to run this, this considering how old and cheap the game is, you may already have a kick around somewhere on your computer. Then you just need to download the mod for PrBoom, one Death source port and you are out of the race. Or should I say… RAY-ces. (I shouldn’t. I’m sorry I did.)
Sultim-t explained on the mod’s download page that this only works with Nvidia GPUs and they are willing to help someone make this work on Linux.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a classic Id shooter get a raytracing treatment. In 2019, Nvidia partnered with Id to create Quake II RTX, a version of the classic shooter that also uses real-time ray tracing technology.
I really like the way Death and Quake look with fancy real-time lighting. The simple textures and geometry of these classic shooters will remain the same in 2022, but now improved lighting can enhance the atmosphere of this old-fashioned digital world. In particular, sometimes Doom looks very scary when using this new mod.
Of course, as mentioned, you’ll need a powerful PC to run these games with ray tracing as the technology is very resource intensive and needs modern, fairly high-end GPUs to work.
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