by find the best Forspoken settings for your system can be a tedious task as fantasy gaming demands a lot from your rig. However, that unfortunately says more about the quality of this PC port than the level of visual fidelity you can expect to see.
If you haven’t heard, the system requirements for Forspoken are surprisingly heavy. The list of recommended specs includes hardware that many modest machines will struggle to meet, such as 24GB of RAM. Meanwhile, developer Luminous Productions reckons you’ll need an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 to hit 60fps and run the game at 4K resolution.
Our test bed’s GPU, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, has enough pixel pushing power to run Forspoken at a playable frame rate, but the best Forspoken settings will help you increase fps no matter what. pixel pusher you pack.
PCGamesN benchmark: MSI MPG Trident AS 11th gaming PC, with an Intel Core i7 11700F processor, MSI Ventus Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, 32 GB of DDR4 3200 MHz RAM, an MSI B560 motherboard and Windows 11.
Best Forspoken Presets
The best Forspoken preset for most people will be “High”, since the majority of its settings aren’t too far off from our own custom preset. It’s also the lowest option that doesn’t automatically trigger some form of upscaling technology, either AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 or Nvidia DLSS, depending on your graphics card.
The jump to “Ultra-High” can be accomplished on a mid-range GPU like the RTX 3070, but the minor visual improvements it offers just aren’t worth the effect it has on your frame rate. medium. While this preset is really only for those with the best graphics card models, some of its intricacies can still be enjoyed without much loss in performance, such as ray-traced ambient occlusion, as we’ll see. later.
The ‘Standard’ preset could be a godsend if you have an older pixel pusher, dropping reflections and ambient occlusion settings on a peg. Just keep in mind that it automatically engages scaling, which will help increase fps but affect image quality (especially at lower resolutions such as 1080p).
Finally, we suggest avoiding “Low” altogether if that can be helped. The main reason for this, again, is due to the use of scaling, which is set aggressively to the most performance-oriented setting, image quality be damned. Additionally, there are only a handful of settings that actually hamper your frame rate to any noticeable degree, meaning you’re unnecessarily slashing objectively better graphics.
Best Forspoken Settings
Here are the best Forspoken settings:
- Variable Rate Shading (VRS): Disabled
- Dynamic Resolution: Disabled
- Model Memory: High
- Texture Memory: High
- AMD FSR 2 / Nvidia DLSS: Quality
- Sharpness: 0.80
- Render resolution: 100%
- Model Detail Level: High
- Texture Filtering: High
- Reflections: Standard
- Motion Blur: Off
- Depth of Field: Off
- Fog Quality: Standard
- Cloud quality: high
- Shadow Quality: Standard
- Ray-traced shadows: off
- Ambient Occlusion: High
- Ray-traced Ambient Occlusion: Disabled
- Anti-Aliasing: Temporal AA
Shadow quality
Shadow quality in Forspoken has a significant performance footprint. This is often the case in open-world games, thanks to their vast environments littered with many dynamic and static objects that each cast their own shadows. Going from “High” to “Low” mitigates potential bottlenecks by up to 17%, but we recommend sticking to “Standard” for a balance between better visuals and higher fps.
Fog quality
If you’re struggling to hit your target frame rate, removing the fog quality can be a big help in some areas. Improvements of up to 14% look nice when using the ‘Low’ preset, but reducing this setting has a more noticeable visual impact, so we’d suggest sticking with ‘Standard’ here.
Ray-traced shadows
Ray-traced shadows is one of the two ray tracing settings that Forspoken offers, and it’s the one you should probably ignore. You’ll be hard-pressed to notice huge differences with them enabled, and leaving them by the wayside can net you 10% more frames.
Depth of field
Many gamers automatically choose not to use depth of field, as it is usually a preferred setting. However, it has a surprisingly large effect on performance, to the tune of 8%. This is perhaps the easiest trade-off of all the Forspoken settings tweaks you can make.
