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For shooters,Doom: The Dark Agescan push your system to its limits. Depending on what you have, it can make or break your experience with the game. While it runs on Unreal Engine 5, which is filled with issues, DOOM: The Dark Ages, for the most part, runs well.
On the other hand, it’s not immune to the problems impacting most modern games. However, knowing what settings to tweak or turn off can make a world of difference. This guide will show you the best settings to run DOOM: The Dark Ages on, so it can be properly optimized.
Best Settings To Use
The interesting part of this game is thatray tracing will be enabledregardless. In turn, this might cause DOOM: The Dark Ages to behave differently. On top of that, if you don’t have a graphics card that can handle this feature, you may not get fully immersed.
With that being said, these settings are the best in terms of performance and allow your system to breathe more, even during those demanding moments.
Recommended option
Match your monitor’s aspect ratio
Use your monitor’s native resolution
Set to your monitor’s refresh rate
Off
Present From Compute
On (Turnoffif using third-party overlays like Discord or OBS for better performance)
Resolution Scaling Mode
Off or Dynamic (Upscaling may improve image quality and frame consistency)
Performance Metric
Choose between None and Ultra Nightmare (Displays performance stats on the right-hand side)
If you start getting screen tearing, try turning on Vertical Sync at that point.
Personal preference, but 90–100 is optimal for performance
Quality (EnableDLAAfor potentially more frames if supported)
NVIDIA Reflex Mode
On
If your CPU is older or not as strong, consider putting NVIDIA Reflex Mode to Boost instead of On.
Recommended Option
Texture Pool Size
Adjust based on your GPU’s VRAM (Keep ~20% VRAM free; check usage stats in the bottom-right corner)
High
Reflection Quality
Medium or Low (Ray tracing is on by default, so lowering this helps performance)
High or Medium
High or Ultra
Nightmare or Ultra Nightmare
Directional Occlusion
Ultra Nightmare
These Advanced Settings are for computers that are in thehigh-end tier of medium-range PCs. However, if your hardware is dated, you may use these settings as a reference point and experiment on what works. On the other hand, if you have a strong setup, there’s more room to play with when using these settings.
Fortunately, for the most part, DOOM: The Dark Ages does a good job taking advantage of what your system has and tries to give you a smooth experience overall.
