Escape from Tarkov is a pretty demanding FPS. We don’t just mean of your shooting prowess and awareness, it’ll also work your PC pretty hard too. If you want to stand a chance to outplaying your opponents and escaping with loot, you should definitely learn how to improve your FPS in Escape from Tarkov. Follow our tips for the best settings for Escape from Tarkov to improve your performance and with it, your gameplay too.
Improve your FPS in Escape from Tarkov
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When a gunfight going south can cause you to lose everything at the blink of the eye, having a high, stable frame rate is extremely important. Hidden in the game’s menus are several settings that, when tweaked, can help you improve your FPS in Escape from Tarkov quite dramatically. Turning all your graphics settings down in one thing, but these tips aim to improve performance without sacrificing textures or visibility distance. Let's get started with the best settings for Escape from Tarkov
We’ll start off by getting the obvious bits out of the way: If you’re having trouble with stuttering and FPS, make sure you meet the game’s system requirements and that your graphics driver is up to date. With that in mind, here are some suggested changes in the graphics menu to improve your FPS.
- Enable fullscreen mode - Windowed is convenient, sure, but this is a near-guaranteed way to have your game run better.
- Disable VSync - You should avoid playing any competitive, reflex-based game with VSync on.
- Set Overall Visibility to 1000 (or 400 for an even greater boost) - Visibility is key in Tarkov, so you don’t want to drop this too much. That said, the max visibility is such a long distance that you’ll rarely if ever get to use it, so feel free to drop to 1000 at least.
- Set Shadow Visibility to 100 - this determins how far away you'll see shadows. Useful for spotting enemies, but a big performance drain.
- Set Object LOD quality to 2 - setting this value offers one of the biggest FPS bumps.
- Disable HBAO, SSR, HDR, Z-Blur, Chromatic Aberrations, Noise and Grass Shadows.
Once your game is running at an FPS you’re happy with, you can begin to tweak some of these settings back up to see how it affects your performance. We recommend boosting textures and shadows before other details as many of the fancier effects like Grass Shadows actually make it harder for you to spot other players.
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Finally, one old trick used to boost FPS players that might work for you requires modifying the game files. Courtesy of Reddit user MimicTMI, many players on Windows 10 reported big FPS jumps after following these exact steps:
- Navigate to your Escape from Tarkov game folder (EFT).
- Right-click on EscapeFromTakov.exe and select Properties.
- Find the Compatibility section and check the box which reads Override high DPI scaling behaviour.
- Select Application from the menu and click OK.
Hopefully the tips above will have helped you improve your FPS in Escape from Tarkov. Being able to spot your enemies and aim smoothly is crucial, so establishing a stable frame rate should be a top priority. If you’ve had success with any other settings tips, please let us know in the comments below! After more Escape from Tarkov guides? Try these!