What is the best display setting for this game?

[Sib3riaNX]

1080p High Settings
1080p High Settings - DLSS 3.5 Quality
1080p High Settings - DLSS 3.5 Quality - Frame Generation
1080p Ultra Settings
1080p Ultra Settings - DLSS 3.5 Quality
1080p Ultra Settings - DLSS 3.5 Quality - Frame Generation
1080p Ray Tracing Overdrive - DLSS 3.5 Quality - Frame Generation
1080p Ray Tracing Ultra - DLSS 3.5 Quality - Frame Generation
1080p Ray Tracing Ultra - DLSS 3.5 Quality
1080p Ray Tracing Ultra

rtx 4060 dual oc,ryzen 5 5600x and 16 gb ram

[Nar!]

@siberiaN
check this out, friend. This 4060 video benchmark might help you better understand the best settings to use at 1080p.
https://youtu.be/k9ba5IXdoCk?t=29

[Sib3riaNX]

Thank you.
I researched on Google and YouTube and now I'm trying to discover which one is the best.

[Sib3riaNX]

Ray tracing extreme dive dlss quality 20-30 fps :D Well, other than this setting, which do you think is the best?

[Nar!]

Well it really is up to you as the one looking at your screen, friend.
If you're comfortable playing at 30fps (previous gen console performance) with all the effects turned up, then enjoy it that way.

Personally, I look for more balance between fps and quality.
I can do between 55-60fps just fine with any game I play before my eyes notices too much frame drops, so I try to push the adjustments as far as I can within 55-60 frames. But if it dips below 55 on average, then that's when I decide to adjust certain settings I can be comfortable without.
Like crowd settings set to medium, screenspace reflections set to high instead of ultra, fog and cloud set to medium. etc.

Just make a decision on how many frames per second you'd like on average, then adjust your game settings around that and you should be golden.

[egg fu]

depends on what your priority is, wanna go for the most fps?
then do 1080p High Settings - DLSS 3.5 Quality - Frame Generation (bring screen space reflections down to medium for more gains)

overdrive is great but regular ray tracing is meh and is not that noticeable apart from the reflections imo. overdrive might be a bit too much for that card anyhow, even with frame generation.

[catch22atplay]

And Note that Dog Town is way more demanding. So the video may not be overly helpful for that. If you use Ray Tracing you can disable Local Shadows which will change to Rastered shadows which means cpu not gpu. In some situations it looks better. Power line shadows, vegetation shadows for example.

tbh with that card i'd go for DLSS Quality or even as low as Balanced. No Ray Tracing of any sort. But if you want to use Ray Tracing maybe only use reflections. Can also turn Ray Reconstruction ON. Really seems to impact metal parts on NPCs and is quite noticeable.

Not really comparable but this is DLSS Balanced. Only pic i had with Balanced was when i was cpu testing my system. But wanted to show that Balanced doesn't look horrible.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3160266615

[Sib3riaNX]

DLSS or Ray Tracing better ?

[catch22atplay]

DLSS changes it to a lower resolution then upscales it to your set resolution. It's not a quality setting like tessalation or lens flare or Ray Tracing or whatnot. Like if you set everything to Low and used DLSS quality it'll still be a turd. But setting everything to high/ultra then using dlss quality or balanced looks tons better. So long as you don't have to upscale it overly like dlss performance. DLSS is used to get more fps with least amount of detail lost. And it out performs fxaa taa fsr and looks better then them as well. There are times when fsr beats dlss in performance but dlss always looks better.

So set it to DLSS Quality or Balanced then play with the other settings. But DLSS Quality or Balanced you should use no matter what imo. Add Framegen as needed if you can deal with the doubling of latency.

[Jouchebag]

Not surprised a 4060 can't do Ray Tracing worth a damn. Neither can my 3070. But if you're playing at 1080p you should be able to max out most settings without any DLSS/Frame Generation. Raw image with temporal anti-aliasing is still better, crisper, smoother most of the time.

Originally posted by siberiaN:

DLSS or Ray Tracing better ?

These are not mutually exclusive and have nothing to do with each other's effect on image.

[Sib3riaNX]

3070 better 4060 ?

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by siberiaN:

3070 better 4060 ?

Slightly. But I play at 1440p, almost all settings maxed and DLSS will get me 60 fps, but without it I still get 55-60. Combined with a gsync monitor the drop under 60 isn't very noticeable.

I much prefer the visuals of the game without DLSS.

[Sib3riaNX]

Ray tracing max or off ?

[Gamefever]

Originally posted by siberiaN:

3070 better 4060 ?

That is highly dependent on whom you go to for that information.
Also depends on game and other components in PC.

Generally a 4060 is roughly going to be the same as a RTX 3070.
Early on in 4060's life it was certainly not as good as a RTX 3060, there have been improvements.

It should be a fine enough card for playing a whole bunch of older games though.
Just understand, a nvidia card ending with 60 is basically an entry level gaming card, that does not mean you can expect great graphics.
So here is the thing though, if you play old games :D card will be actually pretty good might even max out old games, Cyberpunk might seem like old game but uh no its a game that has been used to basically benchmark PC hardware for a while now, sort of like the old Crysis game.

Originally posted by siberiaN:

Ray tracing max or off ?

IF you can stay above 55-60 FPS range after turning on ray tracing, go for it.
Just play with the graphic settings until you have solid ~60 FPS, game plays an feels fine right there, but it can absolutely go much higher.

The frames per second will effect how responsive the game feels to your controller inputs and having a lot of FPS will also prevent stutter.
There are people that think its ok to play at like 20-30 FPS, Im not one of them.
Playing at low FPS might make some people actually feel sick or worn out.

[valium]

Are you using a 1080p monitor? A 4060 should be more than enough to handle 1440 maxed out without ray tracing.

I have a 3070, which is comparable, maxed out I get 80+ fps on average with some dips into the 70s, 60s at the worst. Without ray tracing.

[Augustus Gloop]

Originally posted by siberiaN:

rtx 4060 dual oc,ryzen 5 5600x and 16 gb ram

I recently bought this card as well and I can't believe how good it makes the game look.