GTX 1080 / i7 7700k @1080p (60 FPS Settings)

[Darth Siffmaul]

I saw a few people trashing the game for its performance, so I thought I'd share my personal settings to try.

I tried every setting and compared them with screenshots and FPS-costs.
These settings are better than the XBX1 settings and you won't notice much of a difference while playing.

Of course you can put a few settings higher, if you have a better graphics card.

Benchmark result:
MIN: 58.2678
MAX: 111.887
AVG: 87.7903

Settings:
- Texture Quality: Ultra
- Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
- Lighting Quality: Medium
- Global Illumination Quality: Medium
- Shadow Quality: High
- Far Shadow Quality: Low
- SSAO: Medium
- Reflection Quality: Low
- Mirror Quality: High
- Water Quality: Custom
- Volumetrics Quality: Custom
- Particle Quality: Medium
- Tesselation Quality: High
- TAA: High or what ever
- FXAA: On or Off
- MSAA: Off

Advanced Settings
- Advanced Settings: Unlocked
- Graphics API: Vulkan
- Near Volumetric Resolution: Low
- Far Volumetric Resolution: Low
- Volumetric Lighting Quality: Medium
- Unlocked Volumetric Raymarch Resolution: Off
- Particle Lighting Quality: Medium
- Soft Shadows: High
- Grass Shadows: Medium
- Long Shadows: On
- Full Resolution SSAO: Off
- Water Refraction Quality: High
- Water Reflection Quality: Medium
- Water Physics Quality: 1 Bar
- Resolution Scale: Off
- TAA Sharpening: What ever setting you want
- Motion Blur: On or Off
- Reflection MSAA: Off
- Geometry Level of Detail: 5 Bars
- Grass Level of Detail: 2 Bars
- Tree Quality: Low
- Parallax Occlusion Mapping Quality: Ultra
- Decal Quality: Ultra
- Fur Quality: Medium

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1933839112

[Harvey Nitz]

i have 32 gigs of ram and an nvidia 1080 8 gig GPU. and i get 60 plus frames all on ultra , smooth as smooth can be. strange some gamers have a similar set up and experience performance problems ?!

[Darth Siffmaul]

Originally posted by Louise Dabo:

i have 32 gigs of ram and an nvidia 1080 8 gig GPU. and i get 60 plus frames all on ultra , smooth as smooth can be. strange some gamers have a similar set up and experience performance problems ?!

These settings are for constant 60 FPS, not for reaching it.

[Purple Pikachu]

u can max out basic ssao, and tree Q. they dont have much of a diffrence perforemance wise unless u enable full res ssao and tree tesselation. set fur Q to high 1-2 fps drop while skinnig an animal is worth the graphics. Also grass lev of detail could go 5-6 without a visible impact for me.
ım on 1060 and switch global illumination between med(45 and above)- high(32-40) 1080 should keep up with high illumination. check it out especially in the wilderness and decide if illumination is worth for ya

[TobbeManNBOT]

How come I dont belive that Dabo. I have i7.6700 32GB ram 1080 and I do 1440p if I set everthing to Ultra my fps would simply die. My setup is more similar to Darth settings wise and Iam getting a solid 60fps but in wilderless 70 to 80fps

[Darth Siffmaul]

Originally posted by Purple Pikachu:

u can max out basic ssao, and tree Q. they dont have much of a diffrence perforemance wise unless u enable full res ssao and tree tesselation. set fur Q to high 1-2 fps drop while skinnig an animal is worth the graphics. Also grass lev of detail could go 5-6 without a visible impact for me.
ım on 1060 and switch global illumination between med(45 and above)- high(32-40) 1080 should keep up with high illumination. check it out especially in the wilderness and decide if illumination is worth for ya

I actually saw some bigger fps hits (3-5 fps) with tree quality higher than low at some instances. That's why I put it on low, 'cuz it matches the XBX1 setting.

Fur quality makes only sense to me, if you are using the first person mode.
The artifacts you'll notice on low are only present from near angles.

I'm using these settings to have 60 FPS in every town, so some compromises had to be made.
When it only comes to wildeness, then yeah, I could max a few more settings here and there.

[Purple Pikachu]

Originally posted by Darth Siffmaul:

Originally posted by Purple Pikachu:

u can max out basic ssao, and tree Q. they dont have much of a diffrence perforemance wise unless u enable full res ssao and tree tesselation. set fur Q to high 1-2 fps drop while skinnig an animal is worth the graphics. Also grass lev of detail could go 5-6 without a visible impact for me.
ım on 1060 and switch global illumination between med(45 and above)- high(32-40) 1080 should keep up with high illumination. check it out especially in the wilderness and decide if illumination is worth for ya

I actually saw some bigger fps hits with tree quality higher than low at some instances. That's why I put it on low, 'cuz it matches the XBX1 setting.

Fur quality makes only sense to me, if you are using the first person mode.
The artifacts you'll notice on low are only present from near angles.

I'm using these settings to have 60 FPS in every town, so some compromises had to be made.
When it only comes to wildeness, then yeah, I could max a few more settings here and there.

imo for singleplayer u dont need solid 60 but thats ur choice

Originally posted by TobbeManNBOT:

How come I dont belive that Dabo. I have i7.6700 32GB ram 1080 and I do 1440p if I set everthing to Ultra my fps would simply die. My setup is more similar to Darth settings wise and Iam getting a solid 60fps but in wilderless 70 to 80fps

weirdly i get better fps in sanint denis and in other towns better then i get in wilderness no matter tree quality.. i luv the optimization of this game

[Darth Siffmaul]

Originally posted by Purple Pikachu:

Originally posted by Darth Siffmaul:

I actually saw some bigger fps hits with tree quality higher than low at some instances. That's why I put it on low, 'cuz it matches the XBX1 setting.

Fur quality makes only sense to me, if you are using the first person mode.
The artifacts you'll notice on low are only present from near angles.

I'm using these settings to have 60 FPS in every town, so some compromises had to be made.
When it only comes to wildeness, then yeah, I could max a few more settings here and there.

imo for singleplayer u dont need solid 60 but thats ur choice

Yes, and that's why I love PC gaming. You can choose how you want to play.

[Mephisto-Luzifer]

Nice thing. Which settings would you recommend to change with the same rig but an 9700k?

[Darth Siffmaul]

Originally posted by Mephisto-Luzifer:

Nice thing. Which settings would you recommend to change with the same rig but an 9700k?

Based on the video from Digital Foundry, I'd say CPU doesn't change that much.

Maybe some LoD settings higher.
But as I can't test it, I'd say trial and error.

[TobbeManNBOT]

For me Purple Pikachu 60fps is super important to me. Thats why Iam running a powerful pc otherwise I would just stay on console. Thats why Iam super excited 4 tonight to see if they announce Horizon Zero dawn 4 PC

[Darth Siffmaul]

Originally posted by TobbeManNBOT:

For me Purple Pikachu 60fps is super important to me. Thats why Iam running a powerful pc otherwise I would just stay on console. Thats why Iam super excited 4 tonight to see if they announce Horizon Zero dawn 4 PC

I'd like to play this game on PC too.

Hopefully not an Epic Store only exclusive again, but I have a feeling it'll be that way.

[TobbeManNBOT]

Iam hopefull its not since Death stranding is on steam coz I want achievements its so daam important and EGS just dont seems 2 care about that. HZD is to important to me 2 ignore it if it comes to PC..

[Harvey Nitz]

Originally posted by TobbeManNBOT:

How come I dont belive that Dabo. I have i7.6700 32GB ram 1080 and I do 1440p if I set everthing to Ultra my fps would simply die. My setup is more similar to Darth settings wise and Iam getting a solid 60fps but in wilderless 70 to 80fps

what can i say ? if i knew you i would invite you around my house for proof. but as it stands , you gunna have to think im a liar. merry xmas to you.

[TobbeManNBOT]

Why dont you show us =) Not calling you a liar but I just dont belive it. This game is prob nb1 super demanding game of all pc games

[Harvey Nitz]

Originally posted by TobbeManNBOT:

Why dont you show us =) Not calling you a liar but I just dont belive it. This game is prob nb1 super demanding game of all pc games

show you how ? youtube ? you will have to forgive me i dont stream or upload to youtube. actually what i said is true apart from i lowered the quality of the water effects (sorry my mistake). the amount of people having problems with rigs well above my spec , proves there is an underlying problem. hardware is not the issue it seems.