Apex Legends performance analysis: which settings to disable for the best FPS

Apex Legends performance analysis: which settings to disable for the best FPS

5 years ago
Anonymous $Dftgs0JzgE

https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-settings-performance/

Apex Legends surprise dropped today—read more of our impressions of the new Titanfall battle royale game here—and after a few hours in game, we have a good idea of how it runs. Apex Legends is built using Valve's Source engine, and in our experience runs quite well on a wide variety of hardware. Even modest graphics cards like the GTX 1060 shouldn't have a problem locking down 60fps at 1080p.

Along with resolution, v-sync, and aspect ratio, there are 13 settings you can adjust. There's also a 144fps framerate cap in place, at least in this initial build. That's enough for most monitors and gamers, but it limits what the best graphics cards and CPUs can handle. There are no presets, so all settings need to be manually adjusted, and many appear to have a minimal impact on performance, though in aggregate you can boost performance quite a bit in going from maximum to minimum quality. Here's a brief rundown of the settings, along with the measured difference in performance: