Doom: The Dark Ages has players rip and tear through hordes of demons as they plunder their way through hell as the Doom Slayer. The game is built on top of id Tech 8, and comes with a mandatory ray tracing requirement, which makes it quite unforgiving on lower-end hardware.
As such, running this game on handhelds such as the Legion Go and ROG Ally can be quite a challenge. Tweaking settings does help a lot, and the optimized settings for the game can be found detailed below.
Optimized Doom: The Dark Ages settings for the ROG Ally and Legion Go
In-game settings
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9/16:10; native aspect ratio
- Resolution: 1600×900/2560×1600; swap as per your display’s resolution
- Refresh Rate: 60
- Vertical Sync: Off
- Present Form Compute: Off
- Field of View: 90
- Sharpening: 1.50
- Film Grain: 0.00
- Upscaler: FSR
- FSR Super Resolution: Performance
- FSR Sharpness: 50%
- FSR Frame Generation: Off
- Nvidia Reflex Mode: Off
- Motion Blur: Off; personal preference
- Overall Quality Slider: Low (this applies to all presets under it)
ROG Ally specific settings
- Operating Mode: Turbo (25 W)
- Control Mode: Gamepad
- AMD RSR: On
- CPU Boost: Disabled
- Resolution: 900p
- AMD RIS: Off
- FPS Limiter: Disable to take advantage of VRR
- AFMF: Disabled; best to leave disabled since it causes additional latency
- Recommended VRAM: 6 to 8 GB – 8 GB is recommended for the ROG Ally X while those with the original Ally should stick to 6 GB. Auto is recommended for those using Bazzite or similar SteamOS-like distributions such as CachyOS.
Legion Go specific settings
- Mode: Performance
- OS Mode: Efficiency
- TDP: 25 W
- Refresh Rate: 144 Hz
- VRAM: 6 GB or Auto
Expect somewhere between 40 to 50 FPS on either handheld, at the Turbo (25+ W) preset. For best results, do not enable frame generation to avoid additional latency.
