Oh, you've done it now, Buster. I am officially peeved. You've got my ham steamed, and you won't like it when I'm angry. Let's talk about Doom Dark Ages. Last night, I streamed it for like 4 hours. I had roughly 20 21 crashes, something like that. An infuriating experience that makes it borderline unplayable with how often this game would [ __ ] the bed. And that is already upsetting enough because I'm a huge Doom fan. I mean, spoiler alert, uh, Doom Eternal is one of my top 50 favorite games. I have a whole [ __ ] statue and display dedicated to it. Man, I feel like I'm playing Surgeon Simulator. I can't figure out how to point my finger at it. And then right underneath that, you might notice there's a Doom Dark Ages collectible statue there, too, cuz I was extremely excited for this game, but this is beyond disappointing, and I'm not going to try and make excuses and cope about it. It's not acceptable, and it hasn't been like Dragon's Dogma 2, for example. Another game I had huge issues getting to run. Worth noting, I had a different PC back then, so it's not like it's the same PC for both games now. But that game got torn a new [ __ ] for very similar things. But for Doom Dark Ages, that one's getting a full pass. And instead, now I'm being blamed for my experience with this game. So, the big thing is that people are saying, "I should have known not to update my drivers." Bahhamog Tui, I spit on that. That is the most outlandish statement I've ever heard. Like a [ __ ] jellyfish sting on a public beach. It pissing me off when you launch this bastard kicking your legs in your chair getting really excited. It gives you this message saying updated drivers are required and then it gives you the option of saying yes, updating the drivers to 57640 or just playing with your current drivers. It says it's required. Thus, it's highly recommended. So, in a sane person's mind, you'll see that be like, "Oh, if I want optimal performance, I'll probably need these drivers." Which is what I did. I feel like it's not unreasonable to expect things to work. I mean, I guess in 2025 gaming, that is a very high bar to clear, admittedly, but still, in a case like this, you would expect this driver roll out to be functional, not just be like a lump of coal Krampus delivers you, but that's exactly what you get. So, I downloaded those updated drivers, and there's a very well-known problem. It's not just me, and it's not my PC, contrary to what a lot of free PR warriors are doing for Doom Dark Age's horrible launch right now. It is a known issue. Even just blatantly listed here when it says what drivers needed to play Doom Dark Ages on PC. It says that the game supported by Nvidia GPUs will need 57640 or higher and that there is a documented issue. Some users may experience persistent crashing when playing the game on 57640. This is a very well doumented issue tons and tons and tons of people are having. And then I'll read comments like this. One of the top comments on the video where it says yes or play. He chooses yes to update instead of just clicking play. It didn't force you to update your drivers, Charles. You did this to yourself. What kind of victim blaming [ __ ] is this? Do you also shake your fist, rub your chin, and say the same thing when a family gets carjacked or something? Well, shouldn't have been driving. That's on you. Granted, that's a very extreme example, but this is stupid. How is it my fault for trusting that these updated drivers they are pushing would work? Why am I to blame as opposed to them for rolling out a nonfunctioning product right now? What what sense does that make? Where is the justice in that take? Hindsight's 2020. Looking back on it, yeah, obviously downloading the new drivers was not a good idea. But there's no way to have known that wasn't going to be a good idea without downloading the drivers in the [ __ ] first place. Po Dexter. There would be no way for me to know that because these drivers rolled out on launch. So, I didn't even have any data to go by if I wanted to look up to make sure the drivers were functional. I like it literally came out for that. So, the only way to know that it was dog [ __ ] was to eat the dog [ __ ] first. And now that I've tasted it, I can spit it back up and be like, "Man, wish I had known." Like, cuz they disguised it. They put that dog [ __ ] in a really appetizing dish and then fed it to me. And you and you know that because of me guinea pigging it for you. It's a stupid take and a crazy way of trying to pass the blame on this experience to me as opposed to the multi-billion dollar corporation that can't get a [ __ ] launch right. I think it is silly and unreasonable for blaming people that updated their drivers when the game itself is shoving it down their throat like a big Chad and people are just updating the drivers. Plus, for what it's worth, I did roll it back to previous drivers and still had crashing. Now, not as severe, not as frequent, but it's still there. is just an issue and other people updated their drivers because of the crashing on previous drivers only to make it worse. So like it is I think it's just stupid to be blaming people for updating these drivers when the game is telling them that it's required to do so and the drivers rolled out with the known issue of persistent crashing. That's craziness. They are the ones at fault, not the players that did what they were asked to do. Now another thing that I keep seeing people say is that it's my PC. It's truly just unique to Charles's PC. Load of absolute barnacles on that take as well. My PC can run pretty much any game ever. This is 100% the drivers being trash and also just the game not being optimized for PC at all. This is a known issue across the board. Now, I've done hours worth of troubleshooting and testing, which by the way, I think is just so [ __ ] stupid that in 2025, you roll out the game, you push the game out, you si you send it, you sell the game, and yet the first people to play it are basically your beta testers. Like, come on. Why can't we release optimized products anymore? Except for something like Expedition 33 that I can't stop glazing and gushing granny's about enough. But that game is truly perfect in the modern day and age where I had no issues with it. Even with Unreal 5, I didn't even have any [ __ ] issues, which is notorious for having like stuttering, crashing, and all kinds of other problems. A plethora of issues. Not a single [ __ ] one for me. Yet somehow Doom Dark Ages makes it almost unplayable. I'm I'm getting off on a tangent. I'm [ __ ] I am absolutely I'm livid. I'm turning tomato red. I think point is we are fighting amongst ourselves for no reason when the main villain here is the corporations that rolled out something they knew wasn't working well. This is a $70 AAA title that should come with an expectation that it is optimized to the best of their ability, that it's at least working for the vast majority of people. I understand you're never going to get something that runs flawlessly for everybody with how many different rigs there are out there. I've talked about that a lot. I get that. But this is such a widespread common problem that this prevalence should indicate that this is a pretty bad PC launch. This is not the fault of players who did what the game asked them to do. This is the fault of these companies that rolled out something that is just not in a good state. So now I've had to spend hours troubleshooting, not only myself, but tons of players have sp had to spend hours troubleshooting to find some combination of settings and changes that work, like disabling integrated graphics and all kinds of other different measures to try and take to make this game function without crashing. And people are just saying, you know, it's part of the experience. That's to be expected. It's not, though. Like expedition 33 proved that that shouldn't be the norm. It can be done. Doom Dark Ages just didn't do it. And it sucks. It really does because the game's good. I'm enjoying the game. I don't like it as much as Eternal right now, but I am still liking the game. And I'm still early in it. I could end up liking it more than Eternal. Of course, that's assuming I get to play more than in these 10-minute chunks in between crashes. Now, the solutions that I've implemented here, they seem to be working. I've been able to play issue free for about an hour straight, which is a a new personal record here for this game. So, we'll see if that holds up today on stream. But yeah, anyway, it just made me really frustrated that for years games that have had bad PC launches have been rightfully called out, but in this case with Doom Dark Ages, it's no longer like the the game itself or the Nvidia or anything. It's now the finger being pointed at players like it's their fault. Like, oh, it's just your shitty PC or well, you should have known not to update those drivers. Now you're [ __ ] That's your fault. Like it's I just think that is so dumb. My PC is a [ __ ] monster, by the way. Like it's just not my PC. And I think in a lot of these cases I've read about, it's not the PC there at fault either. It is truly just they are openly stating that this is a known issue with these drivers and also the game itself just has a crashing problem even outside of the driver update. So yeah, that's that should be what the focus is. an expensive AAA game with another bad PC port launch. Unfortunate, but it is what it is. That's about it. See you.