Professional Rust Settings [2026] UPDATED

We will be going trough all the important graphic settings, how to change your resolution (NVIDIA & AMD users). These settings are optimal for PvP, but can also be used for players struggling to reach their monitors refresh rate...

Why these settings?

• You will no longer see objects breaking (No FPS drops while raid towers are demolished)
  
• Long distance fights you'll be able to see trough certain trees and bushes (200-300m)
  
• Sound will be improved if you've forgotten to use the optimal settings.
  
• The game won't look bad, it still looks beautiful.
  
• You will reach 150+ FPS with a decent PC, if you have a low end PC then you might consider lowering your resolution to be able to reach a stabile FPS above your display's refresh rate.

Graphics

• Depth of Field - OFF
  
• Ambient Occlusion - OFF
  
• Anti-Aliasing - OFF
  
• High Quality Bloom - OFF
  
• Lens Dirt - OFF
  
• Motion Blur - OFF
  
• Sun Shafts - OFF
  
• Sharpen - ON/OFF (It gives a cleaner look, however FPS might drop by about 2-3)
  
• Vignet - OFF
  
• Graphics Quality - 1 (Fast)
  
• Large Scale Occlusion - OFF
  
• Grass Displacement - ON
  
• Shadow Cascades - No Cascades
  
• Water Quality - 0 (Easier to see players in the water, also easier to see when diving)
  
• Water Reflections - 0
  
• Max Shadow Lights - 0
  
• Shader Level - 100
  
• Draw Distance - 1500 (Max it if you're frequently roof-camping)
  
• Shadow Distance - 100
  
• Anisotropic Filtering - 1
  
• Parallax Mapping - 0

Performance

• Max Gibs - 0 or 10 (When a wall breaks you'll see no object breaking)
  
• Particle Quality - 0
  
• Object Quality - 25-50
  
• Tree Quality - 25
  
• Terrain Quality - 25-40
  
• Grass Quality - 30-50
  
• Decor Quality - 0

Audio

• Music Volume - 0
  
• Speaker Mode - 7.1 Surround (if your headphones support it)

Resolution

If you play other competitve games on a lower resolution you might consider lowering it, some of the best players in Rust play on lower resolution in order to maximize FPS, however its not worth it if you're playing on a 60Hz screen (unless you have problems reaching 60FPS)

You can change your resolution when you start rust, however if you want to remove black bars then do this.


NVIDIA

1. Right click on your desktop background.
   
2. Click "NVIDIA Control Panel"
   
3. Click "Change Resolution"
   
4. On the bottom left click "Customize"
   
5. Adjust it to what you want, however it must be the same as when you start rust
   (1440x1080 recommended)

AMD

1. Right click on your desktop background.
   
2. Click "AMD Catalyst Control Center"
   
3. Click "My Digital Flat-Panels"
   
4. Click "Custom Resolutions (Digital Flat-Panel)"
   
5. Adjust it to what you want, however it must be the same as when you start rust
   (1440x1080 recommended)

[frikadelity aka bang bang]

graphics.maxqueuedframes 1-2 or 3?

what do you think about this?

[Kiro]

I play other competitive games in lower res, in rust lower res looks so blurry, the fov is good but the image of people on distance look even more pixelated in relation of the distance, any tips to improve the visibility with lower res? is it normal?

- i played csgo and many others games on 1280x960 , in rust i tryed a 1280x960 and 1440x1080, or even lower, but all the res have the same issue with pixeled characters

[User6173792264]

I do not see "Graphics
Depth of Field - OFF
Ambient Occlusion - OFF
Anti-Aliasing - OFF" at the top when I check graphics options. shitty outdated guide.

-rep

[djayjazz]

@BixtyMcoy I am still rocking a 1050ti lol

[BixtyMcoy]

i still have a 3060 in my pc is wack but i just play sometimes. any tips would be huge

[GoodGood]

As of Sep-30-2024, using a Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IRX8H with:

13900HX
RTX 4080 mobile (175w) *** This is the max wattage for 4080's in laptops
32gb ddr5 @ 560mt/s
1TB PCIe 4.0
2560x1600 @ 240hz
Rust settings were optimized using Geforce Experience
- Some tinkering done with common "professional FPS settings" found all over the place.... never helped a meaningful amount.

Seeing average FPS of 120-140... the gpu overclock seems to actually hurt performance because there's a function of giving up CPU wattage to provide to the GPU, so i believe i'm CPU bottlenecked at this point, not GPU, but tinkering with the wattages, lowering the GPU wattage to 140 lowers temps a fair bit and I would not see below 130, never above 150.

[14k hrs beamer]

what settings for god pc 200 fps constant

i have i9 and 3090 but only get 150 and idk why

[GoAway.NOW]

can you disable gore on rust

[Cave Goblin]

update for 2024?

[᲼᲼᲼]

If you want better FPS upgrade your CPU, of course make sure it's compatible with other components. If you are on AM4 right now I recommend the 5800x3d. If you are on AM5 get either the 7800x3d or the 7950x3d. With these 3 CPU's you are gaurenteed above 160 on non-demanding servers. Above 100 on the competitive scene.