Helldivers 2 Optimized Graphics Presets (2025)

!!WARNING!!
The FPS on the presets may vary from 1-2 FPS to 5-10 FPS depending on scenery your currently in and if your in battle or not so have that in mind.

Extremely inspired by this video by BenchmarKing: https://youtu.be/FtM4ffG_zko

Below you'll find different presets for graphic settings in Helldivers 2 which will help you get better fps while still making game nice looking and comparisons between them.

If you chose the preset you think will be good for your pc and youre fps are still low try changing Image Quality to Ultra Quality and lower until the fps will be to your liking but I mostly recommend sticking to Native.

Graphics Presets

For Texture Quality you need to set them based on your GPU VRAM:

• 3,4GB: Low
  
  
• 6GB: Medium
  
  
• 8GB,10GB: High
  
  
• 12GB and more: Ultra

I mostly recommend Quality Preset if you have some performance to spare because most of settings on lower options don't really add that much FPS and only look worse. Examples: Shadows High --> Medium (about 2 FPS), Ambient Occlusion ON --> OFF (about 1 FPS), Terrain Quality Medium --> Low (about 1 FPS). So if you really need fps or want to game to play above 60 FPS then go lower.

Optimized Graphics Presets:

Quality Preset Settings

• Motion Blur: Personal Preference
  
  
• Depth of Field: Personal Preference
  
  
• Object Detail Quality: High
  
  
• Render Distance: Ultra
  
  
• Shadow Quality: High
  
  
• Particle Quality: Medium
  
  
• Reflection Quality: Medium
  
  
• Space Quality: Medium
  
  
• Ambient Occlusion: ON
  
  
• Screen Space Global Illumination: OFF
  
  
• Vegetation and Rubble Density: High
  
  
• Terrain Quality: High
  
  
• Volumetric Fog Quality: Low
  
  
• Volumetric Cloud Quality: Lowest
  
  
• Lighting Quality: High
  
  
• Anti Aliasing: Personal Preference

Balanced Preset Settings (about 6-10 fps gain from Quality Preset but it depends on the scenery and the situtation)

• Motion Blur: Personal Preference
  
  
• Depth of Field: Personal Preference
  
  
• Object Detail Quality: High
  
  
• Render Distance: High
  
  
• Shadow Quality: Medium
  
  
• Particle Quality: Medium
  
  
• Reflection Quality: Low
  
  
• Space Quality: Low
  
  
• Ambient Occlusion: ON
  
  
• Screen Space Global Illumination: OFF
  
  
• Vegetation and Rubble Density: Medium
  
  
• Terrain Quality: Medium
  
  
• Volumetric Fog Quality: Low
  
  
• Volumetric Cloud Quality: Lowest
  
  
• Lighting Quality: Medium
  
  
• Anti Aliasing: Personal Preference

Performance Preset Settings (about 8-10 fps gain from Quality Preset but it depends on the scenery and the situtation)

• Motion Blur: Personal Preference
  
  
• Depth of Field: Personal Preference
  
  
• Object Detail Quality: Medium
  
  
• Render Distance: Medium
  
  
• Shadow Quality: Low
  
  
• Particle Quality: Low
  
  
• Reflection Quality: Low
  
  
• Space Quality: Low
  
  
• Ambient Occlusion: ON
  
  
• Screen Space Global Illumination: OFF
  
  
• Vegetation and Rubble Density: Medium
  
  
• Terrain Quality: Medium
  
  
• Volumetric Fog Quality: Low
  
  
• Volumetric Cloud Quality: Lowest
  
  
• Lighting Quality: Medium
  
  
• Anti Aliasing: Personal Preference

Performance++ Preset Settings (about 20-30 fps gain from Performance preset)

• Motion Blur: OFF
  
  
• Depth of Field: OFF
  
  
• Object Detail Quality: Low
  
  
• Render Distance: Low
  
  
• Shadow Quality: Lowest
  
  
• Particle Quality: Lowest
  
  
• Reflection Quality: Lowest
  
  
• Space Quality: Low
  
  
• Ambient Occlusion: OFF
  
  
• Screen Space Global Illumination: OFF
  
  
• Vegetation and Rubble Density: Low
  
  
• Terrain Quality: Low
  
  
• Volumetric Fog Quality: Lowest
  
  
• Volumetric Cloud Quality: Lowest
  
  
• Lighting Quality: Low
  
  
• Anti Aliasing: OFF

Comparisons between presets

The screenshots were taken on 2K Native resolution and Ultra Textures

Quality Preset



Balanced Preset



Performance Preset



Performance++ Preset

[DeadGames2]

@Chaos Guard
Im running this game on I3 10100f lol

[BlunderFunk]

If your CPU is shit, this guide is useless, game is very CPU-bound

[DopesickDreamz]

This is helpful and I appreciate it. I do wish they would give us DLSS to though.

[adnan_skisenses]

developer need to give us DLSS 4 option instead of inferior in game scaling

[KUZYXD]

@Revlis I have RX 6700 XT and 60 fps 2k native with Ryzen 7700

[Chaos Guard]

The author forgot to add that the game requires a CPU with 10 cores lol

[☆Revlis☆]

@Dolan:pls_GER I know but this guide was made in mind of people who need each one fps and want game to look good

[☆Revlis☆]

@Milamber depends on what resolution you wanna play
as of right now for these resolutions I would recommend

1920x1080 - something like rtx 4060 or rx 7600 should be enough
2560x1440/3840 × 2160 - rtx 4070 ti super or rx 7900 xt both should be enough too

they should give you on native resolutions and ultra settings stable 60 fps
of course for those gpus you need good cpu so they wont bottleneck
but I recommend if your swapping gpu to wait for 50 rtx series

[Dolan:Der_Sammler]

Not trying to be offensive, but I don't see the benefits or magic in this guide. A low preset will give you increased performance, a higher preset will give you increased visuals. This formula is as old as the gaming industry itself and should be very self-explanatory.

[Milamber]

What video card would you recommend for ultra everything, excluding your guide?