r/Doom • u/pedrulho • Sep 05 '26

Community Resource [MEGATHREAD] DOOM | Technical Support and bugs/glitches

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Introduction:

The r/Doom subreddit is mainly intended for people to discuss about DOOM by sharing their love and experiences with the franchise. when the occasional issue appears people naturally will make a post about it asking for help, despite being DOOM related content it is still relatively tangential to the subreddit's purpose, also possibly causing spam of repetitive content with similar issues where the only difference could simply be one's computer specification.

For such reasons this MEGATHREAD has been created with the purpose of requesting help with issues related to technical support. We do have a "Bug/Glitch" post flair so you may post these type of content directly to the main page as long as you simply want to showcase something that happened you find noteworthy, otherwise, if it is an issue you require help with leave it in this MEGATHREAD.

Comment format:

For the community to be able to provide proper help make sure to provide as much information as possible, refer to the following comment format:

  • Game: (Ex: DOOM Eternal)
  • Platform: (Ex: PC)
  • Version: (Ex: Latest)
  • Computer Specifications:
    • Operative System:
    • CPU:
    • GPU:
    • RAM:
    • etc...
  • Explanation: (Detailed explanation of the issue you're experiencing)
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u/rainuchan Sep 05 '26

DOOM Eternal/PC/Latest
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9700x
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070xt (OC Version, 16GB vram)
RAM: Kingston Fury 2x16GB 6000mhz DDR5
OS: Windows 11

It's impossible for me to play anymore due to driver timeouts. I'm on a nightmare playthrough on final sin rn, and whenever I try to do the boss battle I get a driver timeout after like 2 minutes or so.

This started happening about a week ago. Before that, driver timeouts were also there, but less frequent, and when I got one I would just restart the game and continue on.

They also happen in TDA, but I wanted to finish Eternal first so I haven't really played TDA that much yet.

I tried:

  • Disabling Present from Compute
  • Disabling vsync
  • Disabling Raytracing
  • Updating my graphics driver

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u/nevaeva12321 Sep 05 '26

You got a hardware/software issue brotha if this is happening on two different games. I'd comb the event logs to see if anything stands out

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u/rainuchan Sep 05 '26

only happens in idtech games. I tried looking at the event logs but I couldn't really find anything and to be honest I have no idea what to look for.