Now You've Made Me Mad

Summary

In this candid video, penguinz0 expresses his frustration with the botched launch of Doom Dark Ages, a game plagued with persistent crashing and optimization issues. As a fervent Doom fan, he's particularly disappointed with the game's reliance on faulty driver updates, which exacerbated its unplayable state. Despite his extensive efforts to troubleshoot, the blame from the gaming community wrongly shifts towards players, rather than the developers. This highlights a recurring issue with game releases not being properly optimized for PC, leaving frustrated fans to bear the brunt of the technical mishaps.

Highlights

• Doom Dark Ages crashes make it borderline unplayable, upsetting a huge Doom fan. 🔥
• Blaming players for driver update issues is unfair and frustrating. 😡
• Game releases should not involve players acting as beta testers. 🧪
• PC game optimization is crucial, yet often overlooked by developers. ⚙️
• Despite good gameplay, technical issues ruin the experience. 🎮

Key Takeaways

• Doom Dark Ages is disappointing due to persistent crashes and faulty driver updates. 🎮
• Players are unfairly blamed for technical issues that are known problems. 😤
• Game launches should not make players feel like beta testers. 🛠️
• The game might be good, but technical issues overshadow its quality. 🤯
• AAA games should be optimized and work seamlessly at launch. 💰

Overview

Penguinz0 rides an emotional rollercoaster of frustration and disappointment with Doom Dark Ages, a game he's been eagerly anticipating yet finds riddled with crashes and technical glitches. As a die-hard Doom enthusiast, this hits particularly hard, casting a shadow over what could otherwise be an enjoyable gaming experience.

The video resonates with many who share the sentiment that players are unjustly shouldered with blame for updating drivers, despite it being a known issue. This stance highlights a broader unease with how companies handle game launches, often releasing titles that require extensive player troubleshooting rather than providing seamless enjoyment from day one.

Ultimately, while Doom Dark Ages showcases elements of good gameplay, these are unfortunately overshadowed by its poor optimization for PCs, a common blight among modern releases. Penguinz0's critique serves as a rallying cry for developers to prioritize the player's experience and quality assurance before launching a game, to spare fans from the hassles and frustrations of acting as unwilling beta testers.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction The speaker expresses frustration and anger over their experience with the game Doom Dark Ages, which crashed approximately 20 to 21 times during a 4-hour streaming session. Despite being a huge fan of the Doom series, exemplified by Doom Eternal being one of their top 50 favorite games, the frequent crashes rendered the game nearly unplayable and an overall infuriating experience.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Streaming Issues with Doom Dark Ages The speaker discusses their disappointment with the game 'Doom Dark Ages' and their struggles with streaming the game. Despite being excited about the game and owning a collectible statue, they find the game unsatisfactory and difficult to run. They compare this to their past experience with 'Dragon's Dogma 2', a game that also had issues running on their previous PC. The speaker emphasizes that they are unable to make excuses for the performance issues of 'Doom Dark Ages'.
• 01:00 - 01:30: Driver Update Problems The chapter 'Driver Update Problems' discusses the issues faced by the speaker after updating their drivers, which adversely affected their gaming experience with the game Doom Dark Ages. The speaker expresses frustration at being blamed for updating the drivers, as others have suggested that this was an obvious mistake. The comparison is made to an unpleasant experience, with the speaker humorously rejecting the criticism by comparing it to a jellyfish sting at a public beach. The chapter captures the speaker's irritation as they describe the experience of launching the game only to encounter problems, which dampens their enthusiasm and excitement.
• 01:30 - 02:00: Criticism and Response to Blame The chapter "Criticism and Response to Blame" discusses the need for updating drivers for optimal performance in gaming. The narrator shares a personal experience where they were prompted to update drivers for better functionality. They argue that expecting things to work smoothly should not be considered unreasonable, even in the context of 2025 gaming, where technology standards are high. The narrative implies a critique of technological processes that make necessary updates appear optional, questioning the efficiency and effectiveness of such systems.
• 02:00 - 03:00: Troubleshooting and Comparisons In this chapter titled 'Troubleshooting and Comparisons,' the speaker discusses issues related to the video game Doom Dark Ages, particularly focusing on driver compatibility problems. They talk about the need for updated drivers to play the game on PC and mention that the issues are widespread, affecting multiple users, not just themselves. The chapter highlights Nvidia GPU driver version 57640 or higher as necessary for proper game functioning, implying that some problems users are encountering are due to outdated drivers. The narrative also touches upon the frustration with public relations efforts by others trying to downplay these widespread issues.
• 03:00 - 04:00: Blame Game The chapter 'Blame Game' discusses a documented issue where some users experience persistent game crashes when playing on the port 57640.
• 04:00 - 05:00: Geographical Player Experience The chapter titled 'Geographical Player Experience' delves into the frustration of relying on updates and new releases that fail to function as expected. The narrator describes a scenario where they feel unjustly blamed for trusting a company's driver updates that turned out to be faulty. They question the fairness of being held accountable for issues caused by the company's non-functioning product rather than the company itself taking responsibility. The chapter reflects on the wisdom gained in retrospect, acknowledging that downloading the new drivers was a mistake, but argues that this was unforeseeable at the time of the decision.
• 05:00 - 06:00: Personal Experience The speaker shares a personal experience about encountering unexpected problems due to newly released software drivers. They explain that without prior data or reviews, they had no way to anticipate issues until they directly experienced them. The metaphor of tasting and rejecting 'dog food' is used to describe the unpleasant realization after trying the drivers. The speaker expresses regret over not being able to foresee the issues.
• 06:00 - 06:30: Conclusion In the conclusion, the narrator expresses frustration about being blamed for a negative experience with a product launch. They argue that the blame should be on the large corporation responsible for the failed launch, rather than individuals updating their drivers as prompted by the game. The narrator finds the criticism directed towards users unreasonable, highlighting how they even tried to roll back the update in response.

Now You've Made Me Mad Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 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
• 00:30 - 01:00 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
• 01:00 - 01:30 [ __ ] 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
• 01:30 - 02:00 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
• 02:00 - 02:30 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
• 02:30 - 03:00 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
• 03:00 - 03:30 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
• 03:30 - 04:00 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
• 04:00 - 04:30 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
• 04:30 - 05:00 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
• 05:00 - 05:30 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
• 05:30 - 06:00 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
• 06:00 - 06:30 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
• 06:30 - 07:00 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
• 07:00 - 07:30 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
• 07:30 - 08:00 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
• 08:00 - 08:30 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.
• 08:30 - 09:00 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.