Graphic Settings

[BioFringe]

I used to play back before the extra settings were added and on a different system. Looking to do some benchmarking for myself tomorrow but in the meantime I was hoping that anyone with some insight might chime in on what settings they would recommend for my system...

i5-11600K 3.9 GHz
RTX 3060 Ti (8gb VRAM)
16gb RAM
SSD
1440p
Windows 10
Single Player
60 FPS Cap

Here are the options with my best guesses so far without doing any research or testing yet...

Post-Processing Quality [Low | Medium | High | Ultra] = High
Shadow Quality [Low | Medium | High | Ultra] = High
Effects Quality [Low | Medium | High | Ultra] = High
Anti-Aliasing Quality [Low | Medium | High | Ultra] = Ultra
High Quality Terrain [Off | On] = On
Terrain LOD Blending [Off | On] = On
Distance Detail [0-5] =5
Object Detail [0-5] = 5
Shadow & Lighting Detail [0-5] = 5
Extra Shadow Casters [0-5] = 5

Thanks in advance.

[Marck]

Your system is way above the recommended requirements, so with a 1440p resolution my guess would be that you can set everything to "Ultra" for a non-customized game. If you actually experienced any issues, then I'd recommend lowering one or more of the last three detail settings (Extra Shadow/Shadow & Lighting/Object) step by step until you are satisfied with the performance.

Depending on how taxing your custom game settings get, e.g. more biomes with dense vegetation, you may eventually want to lower some of the quality settings.

[BioFringe]

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the delay in responding.

I was pleasantly surprised when I loaded the game up the next day and realized that I could run it without any issues on max setting. Very nice. It looks so good compared to when I last played it. And it runs super smooth.

My problem now is the controls and the UI. I'm also playing Subnautica and No Man's Sky right now and coming to this game can be a pain after playing either of those. Something about the controls that gives me a headache. I need a reticle pasted in the center of the screen and this game doesn't seem to have that.

I also couldn't figure out how to work the UI since there wasn't a mouse cursor present when I open a panel. Turns out that I needed to change a setting (Hold to Orbit) and that seemed to help but the UI still gives me headaches just like the controls do.

I really want to play this game but this is my 3rd attempt and it just might not be for me. That's ok but damn if it doesn't suck.