---
title: 'Doom Eternal Upgrade Uses Vulkan Ray Tracing'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-20100-4cc53a038c8617c5de6eb2a8a1e4a53e'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-20100-4cc53a038c8617c5de6eb2a8a1e4a53e.md'
date: '2021-06-30'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - 'Ray Tracing'
---

#  Doom Eternal Upgrade Uses Vulkan Ray Tracing 

  June 30th at 3:05pm

 The much-anticipated ray-tracing patch for Doom Eternal has arrived, and it’s a doozy. At the top of the bill is support for ray-traced lighting effects in the FPS game using Khronos’ cross-platform Vulkan API, enabling advanced effects on both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.pcgamesn.com/doom-eternal/update-6-ray-tracing-dlss)

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