Doom Dark Ages is the latest addition to its game series, but many players have reported crashing issues with it. For example, this is what a player said about that game crashing, “The Dark Ages is just unplayable on PC right now! The Game keeps crashing/freezing.” It’s hard to play Doom Dark Ages with such regular in-game crashing. This is how you can fix regular in-game Doom Dark Ages crashing on Windows PCs.
Verify the Doom Game
You can start your troubleshooting by running a verification scan for Doom Dark Ages. That probably won’t fix the Doom Dark Ages crashing for all players, but you should check for corrupted game files because that’s a potential cause. To verify Doom, check out the instructions on this Steam page.
The Verify integrity of game files button
Disable FSR Frame Generation
Players confirm they’ve fixed Doom Dark Ages crashing by disabling FSR Frame Generation. That’s an in-game setting that enhances graphical performance with frame generation when enabled. You can turn off that setting like this:
- Open Steam and start the Doom Dark Ages game.
- Select Settings on the game menu.
- Next, select the Video tab.
- Select Off for the FSR Frame Generation setting.
The FSR Frame Generation
- Press the R key to apply.
As an optional extra, you can also try lowering graphical quality settings when you’re in the Video tab. Scroll down to the Advanced graphical settings on that tab. Click the Overall Quality Slider option and select a Medium or Low setting from there.
Change the Upscaler Setting to DLSS
Selecting the DLSS Upscaler setting has also fixed regular Doom Dark Ages crashing for some players. If you have FSR selected for the Upscaler, try changing that setting to DLSS. To do that, go through steps one to three of the previous resolution and then select DLSS on the Upscaler drop-down menu.
The Upscaler option
Roll Back Graphics Drivers
Some players have reported that Doom Dark Ages crashing occurs after updating the graphical drivers. If you’ve recently updated your graphics driver as well, then that could be causing the crashing. You can roll back a recent graphics driver update as instructed on this NVIDIA support page. Those steps are also relevant for AMD GPUs, but you’ll need to double-click an AMD graphics card in Device Manager instead.
The Roll Back Driver option
Disable Integrated Graphics Cards
Does your PC have two graphics cards? If so, try disabling the integrated Intel one to ensure Doom uses the better dedicated GPU. This is how you can disable an integrated graphics card with Device Manager:
- Bring up Device Manager by right-clicking the Start Menu and selecting that utility on the menu.
- Expand Display adapters by double-clicking that category.
- Right-click the integrated (usually Intel) graphics card to select Disable device.
The Disable device option
- Click Yes when asked to confirm the selected option.
Disable Overlays in Software
Game overlays can potentially cause Doom Dark Ages crashing to occur. To remedy this potential cause, try disabling overlay settings within Steam, Discord, MSI Afterburner, and GeForce Experience if you can. Go into the settings for those software packages and select to disable their overlays from there.
The Steam overlay setting
Close the OBS Software
Bethesda support confirms that the OBS software can conflict with Doom Dark Ages. Do you have OBS installed on your PC? If you do, try closing that program before starting Doom Dark Ages. You can close that background app with Task Manager like this:
- Right-click the button for the Start menu and select Task Manager from there.
- Look for OBS on the Processes tab.
The End task option
- Right-click your OBS software to select the End task option for it.
The troubleshooting methods above are among the most widely confirmed ways to fix regular in-game Doom Dark Ages crashing on PCs. There probably isn’t a surefire way to fix that game crashing, but the potential resolutions covered here are more likely to do so. To ask the Bethesda help service for more potential crashing fixes, click Continue to Submit Ticket on this help page.
