Also holy crap thanks for this. Really like that you showed each individual setting and explained mostly what it does. Tired of videos that are just "Yeah setting everything to low gives like 20fps more than high, idk there ya go."
Even worse when these kind of repetitive videos on all games get ton more views than this actual optimization guides. RU-vid algorithms really sucked at this to differenciate between brainrot and quality contents. 🤷🏻♀️
There is a hidden Sharpness option inside the Display tab, that is set to 0 by default, I strongly recommend checking this option and increase it, the game will look a lot better and less blurry! Thanks for the video, great as always 👍
Good! This channel to the rescue as usual. It's so rare that this kind of through comparisons and research happen nowadays it feels like a blessing against all those channels recommending either running everything on low or some other tricks that could fall into the esoteric category haha.
Thank you so much for explaining each setting and showing both the visual difference and FPS impact, and giving a recommendation for each. Helped to tune this well on my 6700 XT.
The GOAT of fps guides. BTW the game seems to have a vram memory leak when enabling frame gen atm so avoid it until they put an update out resolving the issue. Also thanks for putting a guide out for TFD. Wasn't expecting it so soon after requesting it
Great optimization guide! 1 thing I found on Reddit which might be useful for some players: If you are crashing while using Frame Generation just close every program that can capture your screen! - For me it was Medal TV - I closed it and the game works with FG. Also don't afraid to set Anti-Aliasing to Ultra with FSR3 + FG since the game will be less pixelated. (The better the GPU the less blurs and pixels you will see ofc.)
I just follow your optimized settings with DLAA, medium ray tracing + ray reconstruction, with frame gen, the game runs at 170+ fps consistently with 4090 + i9 13900k, graphics is incredibly crispy and beautiful. Previously with everything ultra I was only getting 100-120, great improvement without noticeable visual downgrade, amazing work.
you are my savior. i was literally about to quit playing because the game was so demanding. These settings kept the beauty and took away the jagged and painful parts! Not sure how to explain other than you made my gaming experience so much better, and my PC isn't trying to burn itself down haha
I'm primarily a console gamer but I have been gaming on my Gaming Laptop recently playing The First Descendant. This is an excellent video on graphics settings for us newbs, Thank You.
Was not expecting the king to make a guide for this game, I love you my guy. Also any chance for you to check back on dragons dogma 2? As apparently there has a been a lot of updates that help. As I would love settings for that game. If not then who would you recommend for optimization for games you won't or haven't done.
I want to make a video for Dragon's Dogma 2 covering the latest update; I just need some free time to do it. As for an optimization guide , I don't think there is any RU-vidr who has made a dedicated optimization guide video for that game. However, there is a website pcoptimizedsettings.com that I believe has covered it, though I'm not sure if it will help with a CPU intensive game like Dragon's Dogma 2.
a good stress test would be the white knight map and the 4 pillar mission with all spots activated at the same time. There is ton of enemies at the same time and the map itself is a frame drop mess. Good video btw :)
Great breakdown as usual. I want to add that while all the recommendations are good, the game performance completely changes after you're done with the story (Normal Mode). You'll be playing better and faster and there's going to be A LOT more stuff on the screen. Especially in a full party. Prepare to use some heavy upscaling unless you have a beast of a PC.
I think from now on you should make two separate optimized settings, quality prioritized and performance prioritized. Shadows on medium looks awful compared to high, but high still runs better than ultra. Just a little idea :) Keep up the good work!
So what did you settle on with DLSS and Texture settings? I assume you settled on off for DLSS but Textures you said didn't make much difference so just leave it on Ultra?
I would advice to test different DLSS quality levels with this game. The idea is, on my setup at 1440p both Balanced and Performance produce extremely good results, it might be comparable to Quality, so you could offset performance loss from turning RR on by lowering DLSS preset if you wish. And imo RR is desirable in this game due to various IQ improvements, picture looks more stable with it, especially when i.e. something like hair considered. Try testing it on Ultimate Bunny and you will likely see the difference on her hair.
I just wanna mention, this game uses your fps to calculate your weapon fire rate, so your dps goes up the higher your frames are going from 30 to 120 is around a 25% increase in overall dps with most high fire rate guns. but going from 90 to 120 is only like a 5% increase.
I have Radeon 6700XT. I play at 3440x1440. I have 150 FPS on fields. Some settings on ultra. My secret is FMF2. If you have atleast 6000 series card you can try it.
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Is there any big loss in picture quality vs DLSS performance and DLSS quality?
My setup: R5 3600, RTX 4070, 16GB DDR4 3600Mhz and I'm having several FPS drops. The game recommends me to play high, but even though I test it with everything at a minimum, it doesn't change. My monitor is 29 ultrawide (2560x1080). Obs: The game is installed on a nvme 5000MB/s.
DLSS Frame gen has а memory leak. It constantly switches back and forth when you enter and exit the menu with a second freeze. After several hundred visits to the menu, the memory leak can be more than 4-5GB of video memory for just one frame generator, so you will have no memory left for other game resources and FPS will drop catastrophically. This is a new bug in the latest patch. And absolute specular reflections with 100% accuracy are only available with the RT ULTRA + RR setting optional (ideally visible in the mod improvement room on the floor), otherwise the usual SSR + Cubemap.
1440p with Ultra settings, DLSS Quality, FG On, RT Off = absolutely incredible gameplay and visuals on a 4080 Super. 200+ fps when running around with Bunny is recommended lol
The object quality is tricky. Going from low to medium can hit you for 30 or more fps in certain maps when you zoom in with a weapon and it loads extra geometry... i had to set it to low to avoid this issue in my computer.. from 90 to 60 fps for zooming in is not a good thing, setting it to low means going from 90 to 85 when zooming...
Perfect settings, my only issue with this game is the random ass frame drops i get ... theses freezes are really annoying as hell especially in boss fights ... still can't figure what the hell is wrong but since im far from being the only one i can only guess its a gift from the dev's lol
great work as always! very thorough and helpful did you try testing enemy ragdolls for the "physics" setting? I suspect that's mostly what it's for - and likely CPU related
Interesting. For me, ray tracing set to high (with ray reconstruction off) takes my FPS from 81 to 59. (I have rtx 3080, and Vram goes from 6.8GB to 7.4GB. So still some left until the 10GB cap)
I do not know if anyone else has noticed but if I put global illumination any higher than low, when I ads my frames drop by 10 any ideas?. Great video man very informative with each setting thank you.
if you plan on doing alot of group content. the "Effects" part of the video is a bit misleading considering this applies to ALL descendants in the area. including your group. so youre going to see a massive chug in performance
Thank you for the detailed video, the game looks much darker if the global illumination sets to low and I have to set it to medium so I can see more clearly. Aaaaand I wanted to ask something, when I turn on the frame gen & FSR my camera is kinda laggy like a smoothing effect on another game, is it because I'm using RTX card?
