Tim Yeung
Tim Yeung
Jul 10, 2017 · 3 min read

PUBG — optimize game settings (day 1)

Update (Sep 2017):

i found the reason of blurry is related to setting “Screen Scale” after do few round game/display card setting turning.

so here is my latest quick solution for X51 R1 user (Focus to increase FPS):

System:

  • RAM: 8GB ram not enough for pubg so do everything to reduce system memory usage.
  • — no background app running,
  • — close high memory usage software,
  • — chrome browser background task
  • Monitor the HDD usage and disable service superfetch if 100% HDD usage happend
  • Windows 10 — Game Mode enabled
  • Windows 10 — performance options, ref: https://support.microsoft.com/en-hk/help/4002019/windows-10-improve-pc-performance

Game Setting

  • PUBG windows mode and resolution 1280 X 720
  • Screen Scale = 70
  • Very Low Setting

Emperor LemonFace give me some suggestion to optimize game settings

Ref to comments:

You should download ReShade to remove blur and improve colors. It doesn’t affect performance and it increases visuals. In the launch options you can put: +vt_maxPF 8 -high -malloc=system -USEALLAVAILABLECORES +mat_antialias 0 window -force-featurelevel-11–0 It should help performnce by a bit. You could also add -lowmemory as you only have 8GB but I don’t have any experience with that one. You could also tweak the Nvidia Controlpanel settings, if available


So, I do a quick research and update my steam launch options:

-refresh 60 +vt_maxPPF 8 -malloc=system -sm4 -USEALLAVAILABLECORES +mat_antialias 0 -window -lowmemory -nomansky

  • -refresh <rate> — Force a specific refresh rate.
  • +vt_maxPPF # — Adjusts GPU Transcode to improve texture streaming performance where # is 8 for processors with 2 or 4 cores, 16 is processors with 6 or more cores
  • -malloc=system can be used to force using Windows allocator even when allocator dlls are present
  • -sm4
    It forces the game to use Shader Model 4 instead of the usual Shader Model 5. The game looks and feels almost the same but you get much better performance. There is more a matte look to the game but it is not bad at all. Best performance boost out of all of these options.
  • -USEALLAVAILABLECORES
    This does exactly as it specifies. This will ensure that all of your CPU cores are being used while running PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
  • +mat_antialias default is 0 but can’t find description.
  • -window Forces the engine to start in windowed mode
  • -lowmemory
    This launches the game in 4gb memory mode. If you have less than 16 gigs of RAM then this is basically a must have for better performance.
  • -d3d10
    Using sm4 forces the game into using DX10 instead of DX11 and this does the same thing.
  • -nomansky
    This disables a lot of the detailed sky features like a lot of clouds and super stary night sky. This minimizes all of those but you still get them.


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