Doom now supports Vulkan on Windows PC, possibly adding a 20% of greater boost to its framerate, according to AMD.
“When we were looking to adopt Vulkan for DOOM, the main question we asked ourselves was: ‘What’s the gamer benefit?’” id Software chief technical officer Robert Duffy on Bethesda’s website.
“Ultimately the biggest benefit will be high framerates. There are a number of game-focused reasons super-high framerates matter, but primarily its movement and player feel. The game just feels amazing running that fast, so we made it a priority to try to really exploit the available hardware on PC.
“We also anticipate some older GPUs will now be able to play the game at good framerates. We hope the range of GPU support widens with additional game and driver updates. That said, this is the first time a triple-A game is releasing on a brand-new API and brand-new drivers so there may be a few bumps, but our testing is showing really great performance and stability.”
You can get the latest Doom drivers on both AMD and NVidia. For more on Vulkan support, head here.
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