RX-7800-XT 1440p optimisation guide

[RotGoblin]

This is my tweaked settings for (for me) the best balance between performance and visual quality on my setup, R5 5600X and RX 7800 XT.

Score: 26718
Average: 77.88fps

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3421733702

Instead of using FSR, I dropped the render rate down to 85%. This gives me a slightly softer image, but you don't get any of the fizzle and incorrect AI artifacting, and honestly the difference in quality from 85-100% isn't really that noticeably, but the performance uplift is.

I'm quite heavily bottlenecked by my processor, those with 8 core processors or newer 6 cores with higher IPC could probably get away with a higher render rate, or even trying Ray Tracing, though for me the performance hit of Ray Tracing isn't worth the extremely-mild visual upgrade.

These settings could probably be applied to similar specced machines, Intel i5 12600K, RTX 3080/4070 etc.

Anyway, here's my settings;

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3421733842
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3421733993
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3421734119

Feel free to comment, share your own tweaks and suggestions, or your own scores.

[Gub]

So here are my specs. I have a 3080, 7800X3D, 64GB of RAM. I normally play on my ultrawide monitor.

On my ultrawide monitor which has 3440x1440p, and your settings, I get a score of 18971 which gives me 55.39 fps on average on the final score. But considering the beginning cutscene tanks the benchmark results, I was easily seeing 60+ fps throughout different parts of the game.

On my same monitor, using 2560x1080, I get a score of 23242, which averages about 67.87. Only problem here is the screen looks like someone slathered Vaseline on the entirety of the screen. Certainly not appealing as it hurts my eyes.

On my second monitor, which is a 2560x1440p monitor, I get a score of 21459, which averages about 62.72 FPS. Great clarity as it used to be my main gaming monitor for 4 years before getting an UW.

Overall, the game is perfectly playable to me. I do think this optimization is much better than the beta, because I was getting about 40-45 FPS on average. So hitting 60 is just fine for me. Thanks for the settings. It is an improvement. Especially considering this is all without DLSS upscaling. Using native res is pretty rad.

[RotGoblin]

Originally posted by Stank Ahh Pig:

Overall, the game is perfectly playable to me. I do think this optimization is much better than the beta, because I was getting about 40-45 FPS on average. So hitting 60 is just fine for me. Thanks for the settings. It is an improvement. Especially considering this is all without DLSS upscaling. Using native res is pretty rad.

Glad to hear it helped!

[Gatsu]

RX 6800xt and 1440p
cpu: 5700X3D
I tried your specs and my score is 27,697 with FPS 81.12 fps
Then I tried with ulta settings everything on highest (when you pick ultra some options still stay on high so I turn them to highest also), variable rate shading OFF, FSR on native AA with frame gen.
Score is 17,285 with FPS 101.22
In my opinion FSR native AA with framegen looks better than %85 render rate tweaked settings. I took some SS and compared them. I didnt noticed any artifacts and blurriness. Suprisingly it works pretty well.
I recommend you to give it a try. It looks better and gives you higher fps.

[DOY]

I'll be that guy and say if you are already dropping the render rate to 85% then just turn on FSR. You'd get comparable or better imagine quality with maybe the minor artifacting with better performance. Yeah i get it FSR quality is still only 66% of the resolution or whatever the number is now.

[RotGoblin]

Originally posted by DOY:

I'll be that guy and say if you are already dropping the render rate to 85% then just turn on FSR. You'd get comparable or better imagine quality with maybe the minor artifacting with better performance. Yeah i get it FSR quality is still only 66% of the resolution or whatever the number is now.

I disagree, I even stated so in the OP.

Render scale 85% just leaves a mildly softer image that is barely noticeable.

I find FSR/DLSS artifacts EXTREMELY noticeable.

[DOY]

you do you i dislike any kind of upscaling because i like my image sharp and accurate.

[del_bosque_dol]

Many thanks Goblin, as I was trying to find settings for 1440p. I really appreciate your sharing.

[RotGoblin]

Originally posted by Gatsu:

RX 6800xt and 1440p
cpu: 5700X3D
I tried your specs and my score is 27,697 with FPS 81.12 fps
Then I tried with ulta settings everything on highest (when you pick ultra some options still stay on high so I turn them to highest also), variable rate shading OFF, FSR on native AA with frame gen.
Score is 17,285 with FPS 101.22
In my opinion FSR native AA with framegen looks better than %85 render rate tweaked settings. I took some SS and compared them. I didnt noticed any artifacts and blurriness. Suprisingly it works pretty well.
I recommend you to give it a try. It looks better and gives you higher fps.

I mean, my settings with Render rate 100, Native FSR and Frame Gen would quite possibly net more performance.

But if it looks better for you! Great! We still learned something.

[RotGoblin]

Originally posted by del_bosque_dol:

Many thanks Goblin, as I was trying to find settings for 1440p. I really appreciate your sharing.

You're welcome!

[Andham]

Thank you for this. I am using this is a base for the settings I'll plan on use, (of course i closed the tool and didn't record the settings. >.>)
Using a 7900XT and 7900X3D with a 3440x1440 monitor. From my benchmarks i am able to consistently get a score over 20k and my low fps seems to come from a few frames of cut scenes (was using high) and entering the village. I am using the AMD software to limit my FPS to 60.
I might be able to push for higher settings if i adjust the resolution down to 2560x1440, or less stress/more stable using similar settings.
Happy Hunting!

[RotGoblin]

Originally posted by Andham:

Thank you for this. I am using this is a base for the settings I'll plan on use, (of course i closed the tool and didn't record the settings. >.>)
Using a 7900XT and 7900X3D with a 3440x1440 monitor. From my benchmarks i am able to consistently get a score over 20k and my low fps seems to come from a few frames of cut scenes (was using high) and entering the village. I am using the AMD software to limit my FPS to 60.
I might be able to push for higher settings if i adjust the resolution down to 2560x1440, or less stress/more stable using similar settings.
Happy Hunting!

No worries, hope it helps!!