DOOM Eternal Video Card Performance Review

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Graphics Settings

Starting with the graphics options in the game we can select the window mode, aspect ratio and resolution.  There are multiple options for VSYNC.  You can put it on an Adaptive setting, turn it On or set it to Triple Buffering.  For our testing though we turned it to “Off.”  Under Motion Blur you can set a different quality mode of that, we left it on the default “High” for all testing.  It appears that the global setting does not change the Motion Blur option.

DOOM Eternal now also supports HDR for those with HDR displays.  You can toggle this option on or off.  Note, it doesn’t work yet with AMD GPUs, we got an error shown above about that.

Quality Settings

To control the graphics settings one but only needs to select the “Overall Quality” drop-down box under Advanced.  Under here you will find preset options: Low, Medium, High, Ultra, Nightmare, Ultra Nightmare.  All you need to do is select the quality and it will change every graphics quality accordingly.  This is what we used to control the settings in our testing. 

Note that at the top is a VRAM counter, it shows how much VRAM your video card has, and how much the setting requires.  Note that this game will NOT let you set a quality setting that exceeds the VRAM limitation of your video card.  You cannot force a higher setting, no matter what.  This makes the game settings limited by the amount of VRAM on your video card.

Resolution Scaling

There is one other very important setting you need to be aware of.  This one can and will affect image quality.  At the bottom is a setting called Resolution Scaling Mode.  With this setting, you can select Dynamic, or Static or Off.  If you put it on Dynamic then the next setting, Resolution Scaling Target FPS comes into play.  If you have this on let’s say 60 FPS the game will change rendering resolution on the fly to maintain the desired FPS.  This will, of course, change your image quality, and not show you the game’s true performance.  If you set this option on Static you can actually change the resolution scale in percentage yourself. 

If you want the game to just flat out run at its best image quality, and performance then you’ll want to turn this option to “Off.”  We have turned it off for all of our testing.  Just note, it is enabled on Dynamic by default.  So, you MUST manually disable this if you want the absolute best quality the game can offer. Also for our testing, we had Depth of Field and Depth of Field Anti-Aliasing both enabled. 

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