The Best Settings Hunt: Showdown That Give You an Advantage Over Your Enemies

The Best Hunt: Showdown Settings That Give You an Advantage Over Your Enemies In Hunt: Showdown, getting PVP kills is all about skill and timing. How good you are with your equipment and how well you know how to play the game are major factors in your success, as well as seeing and engaging enemies before they see and engage you.

However, there are a few things that you can change settings-wise that will help your ability to identify and react to potential targets faster.

Monitor resolution & Full screen mode

1. Monitor resolution
Make sure your resolution is set to your monitor’s native resolution settings so that you can see as clear as possible. This is especially important for catching distant movements, as well as movements between the cracks in the wood of buildings.

In order to change it, go to your in-game settings and go to the graphics tab. The first option is the resolution setting, as shown in the image above. You should choose your monitor’s resolution. I have a 4K monitor, and have in the past, tried to play in 1080p. What I found was thatI am able to catch details at 4K that I cannot at 1080p.

These kinds of tiny, inconspicuous movements will mean life or death. Hunt: Showdown is all about paying attention. Sight and sound are key elementsand if you can’t see an approaching enemy coming through the bush or if you can’t hear a hidden hunter inside a nearby barn, you are done for every time.


2. Full screen mode
If you are in windowed mode, make sure you are set to full screen. There are settings you can change, which we will explore later, to improve your FPS as it tanks in full screen. To change to full screen, you need to go to the settings menu and open the graphics tab. The full screen option is right below the resolution.

Full screen allows you to get the most out of your visual range. It also helps with immersion and engagement with what you are seeing. This is important in the same way that accurate monitor resolution settings are. Being immersed in this game is important because it helps you maintain focus and attention.

Losing focus because you are distracted by something else on your computer or simply because you are not fully immersed will lose you more matches than anything else. I have found that I will die to simple things like hellhounds, because I was not keeping a close ear to my environment.

Disable V-Sync & Disable motion blur

3. Disable V-Sync
V-Sync is not a very useful feature in general, except for very specific monitors. All it does on most monitors is drag down performance significantly without a noticeable graphical return. In order to disable it you need to go to the graphics tab in the settings menu and scroll down to the bottom. You will find it above the performance stats option. Clicking on the button so that it is empty, as in not filled in with red, means that it is off.

Anything that negatively impacts your performance without providing more color or object clarity will end up being a detriment to you. Ideally, you want 60 FPS and good visual clarity at the same time. This will help you identify discrete movement and react quicker.

V-Sync can cause your FPS to drop off, especially in graphic-heavy areas. I have been in the unfortunate situation, more than once, of losing in a face-off with another hunter because my FPS suddenly tanked when I needed it to stay stable.


4. Disable motion blur
Motion blur is the hideous monstrosity of a graphics setting straight from the mind of a madman. It was meant to impart some kind of realism to the look and feel of the game. Instead, it makes the graphics melt into one another like a lovecraftian nightmare. To disable it, go to the settings and go to the graphics tab. It is the bottom option, and is disabled when the button in empty, as in not filled in with red.

Motion blur drags down performance, ruins long range attention when in motion, and is just plain useless. When I first started playing Hunt: Showdown I didn’t realize that motion blur was enabled.This caused me to lose one of my first matches because I missed a key movement to my left in one of the stalls in a horse barn in Davant Ranch.

Disable depth of field & No Max FPS cap or 120 FPS

5. Disable depth of field
Depth of field is not as devastating to your FPS as motion blur, but it’s not useful. There is some debate here, if only to play devil’s advocate. With depth of field enabled, when aiming down the sights, any distraction from your peripheral vision is muted so that you can focus on what you're aiming at. The issue is that as you get more experienced, you’ll find that you can tune that distraction out when you’re focused on a single enemy, but the benefit of being able to spot enemies in your peripheral vision cannot be outweighed.

To disable it, go to settings and go into the graphics tab. It will be right above motion blur. Like the last two options, it is a button that needs to be empty instead of filled in with red. I used to play with depth of field on, and I have found that I would aim at a hunter and completely miss his buddy, hiding in the bush aiming at my head.


6. No Max FPS cap or 120 FPS
This is another one that some will argue on. Some will say that if you cap your FPS at 60 you will experience less peaks and troughs when you enter new areas. I like to let my GPU act freely or 120 FPS, and run as best as it can. It may come down to the quality of your GPU and what it can and can’t handle.

To set this, go to the settings and go to the graphics tab. At the bottom, above depth of field and below V-Sync you will find a tab that allows you to set your max FPS at a variety of settings. If V-Sync is enabled, this option will be greyed out, so make sure to disable V-Sync.

General graphics settings

7. General graphics settings

In Hunt: Showdown you always want to strike the perfect balance between performance and visual clarity. Certain graphical settings should be set on low, and others on high, according to what your PC can handle while maintaining about 60 or more FPS.

hese settings are the meat of the graphics tab in the game settings, and you should go through and read each one’s short description on the right to see what it’s about. Each setting has a tab that allows you to change it from low to medium to high, like any standard graphics setting.

I have all my settings set the way as shown in the screenshot above. These are the most balanced settings between quality and fps at the moment. Below I will explain why these graphics settings was chosen:

• Object Quality: High
  This setting is responsible for rendering hunters, set to High!
  
  
• Texture Quality: Low
  
  This setting is low, because I didn't notice much difference, but the game starts to load more computer resources, so the best option would be to set it to Low value and get the same picture and more fps.
  
  
• Texture Filtering: 16X (Anisotropic)
  
  Improves the appearance of a texture that is heavily tilted relative to the camera. This parameter has little effect on computer resources, so we unscrew it to the maximum.
  
  
• Anti Aliasing: SMAA 1TX
  You can do 2TX if your GPU can handle it for visual clarity, but the best bet between performance and picture is 1TX.

In the next block of settings, I advise you to put everything on low, if you want to get maximum fps and an advantage over opponents, if your goal is a cinematic quality, then turn everything on high, but at the same time performance will increase significantly.

• Lighting: Low & Shadows: Low
  These 2 settings make the picture very dark, but make the picture look cinematic.
  
  
  
• Effects Quality
  I recommend setting this setting to low so that the effects do not interfere with you in hot skirmishes.
  
  
  
• Post-Processing Quality & Particle Quality
  Filters and color correction of the processed scene. We put it at your discretion, but at high settings, it loads the PC.

Display performance stats

8. Display performance stats
In order to find out which exact settings work for your machine, you can activate a setting in the graphics tab in the game settings, above V-Sync, that allows you to measure performance statistics like FPS and ping. These are important pieces of information because you can get a read on how well your machine can handle certain effects and settings in different areas and different situations on the map.

I have the basic performance stats on, which displays FPS and ping. The detailed stats show more in depth informations, as shown in the screenshot above. The balance between performance and fidelity can be tight, but in the end it pays off.

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That's all, if this guide helped you, like and leave a comment. If I missed something or did not add something, you can always leave a comment and correct me or ask a question that I can answer for you.

Good luck and all the best. <3

[Ryo Ranma]

thank you

[Juni]

thanks, i did almost as you did and the rest of the settings i'd ajusted from the comments below.

[AMIR ;)]

ty my friend you are the best <3

[Conor]

The comments

[Witch ~]

man should I trust the guide or the comments

[KungThulhu]

object quality sets the render distance of everything BUT the hunters. low is much better for spotting hunters at a distance because the world isn't loaded in fully but hunters are. It used to change how far hunters load in as well but even then you only had to set it to medium.

Frames should honestly never be limited unless there is something wrong with your PC that makes big jumps in framerate.

Anti aliasing should be off or smaa 1x. None of the TX versions since they make your game blurry as hell.

You get absolutely no gain in performance from lower textures. Where you set it depends on your vram. Some prefer low because apparently it makes hunters easier to spot.

Bad guide made by someone who doesn't know what they're doing. I don't get why you feel entitled to post a guide on something you clearly don't know a lot about.

[DeGreZet]

- SMAA 1TX and 2TX makes game more blurry, so it's better to keep it off or lowest option
- also Post-Processing Quality & Particle Quality doesn't effect performance at all

[Nantes]

You should add the tip to use the program Lossless Scaling (costs like 7 bucks). It allows you to use image upscaling techniques (notably, AMD's FSR which is basically the equivalent of Nvidia's DLSS) in games that don't support them (such as in Hunt: Showdown). I normally have 60 FPS at 3440x1440 resolution fullscreen, but by windowing the game to 2560x1080 and then using Lossless Scaling to upscale it to 3440x1440 fullscreen, I get 80-90 FPS instead! And I did comparison screenshots and I cannot notice any drop in visual quality of the upscaled vs. true 3440x1440 versions, just a free performance boost!

[luzrk]

really good guide thanks

[EZE-007]

fps go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr