Apex Legends Latency and Settings Guide - THE BEST SETTINGS FOR PERFORMANCE & LAG

if you've not seen one of these guides before from me you want to check out the first one I did on Rainbow Six Siege which explains a lot about what I'm testing and some of the wider factors you might want to consider as far as this video we're going to get straight into it Apex doesn't have that many settings to play with it does have Nvidia reflex but there's no settings for dlss FSR or xss or even quality presets for that matter we do have the usual Ultra very high high medium low and very low when it comes to the texture streaming budget but otherwise it's only a handful of individual settings the texture streaming budget does include recommendations for how much vram you should have to use each of those settings now I'm testing with this RTX 4060 laptop system which has 8 GB of vram Al be on a tiny 128bit bus so in theory this setting shouldn't really do too much but we'll be testing that to find out for sure so let's get to testing now the first result here is on default settings save for vsync being turned off as it was for all of the test results here that means an ultra streaming budget uh 2x anistropic anisotropic filtering High ambient occlusion and just the rest of the settings you see here this is is really close to the maximum sort of set of settings by default so we can expect this to be on the slower side now just showing you a single result isn't all that interesting so I'll include the first comparative test here too which is simply turning Reflex on just looking at those two you can see how much of a difference reflex can make we go from 28 milliseconds of end to end latency to just 20.9 milliseconds now that's still pretty high so let's see if we can do anything about that one of the settings that I haven't mentioned yet is the Adaptive resolution FPS Target this essentially drops the render resolution on the fly to try and maintain the target FPS which by default is set to just 60 FPS and the highest option is only 100 so as you'll see well that just isn't all that useful here strangely disabling it only serves to add a tiny bit of latency bringing the average up to 22 milliseconds that's still an awful lot better than without reflex on but it seems worth leaving that one on interestingly looking at the performance numbers so far the highest we've seen is actually the default settings run 183.2 FPS average as we've seen scene turning Reflex on generally either doesn't do much to the performance or like in this case provides a little less performance as it works to shorten the delay between inputs and Fram showing up on screen what's strange about the AA only run is that it provided functionally the same performance as the reflex and adaptive resolution FPS Target run so that added latency as small as the difference may be is from a pipeline step rather than just missing FPS now I think it's worth having a play with that texture slider since we were testing on Ultra thus far our only option is downwards even with the same AA only setting swapping to very high textures did improve or did provide a slight drop back down to the reflex only result at 20.9 milliseconds High textures went even further dropping a whopping not point 2 milliseconds amazing I know medium was a fraction higher at 21 milliseconds flat and low was a few millisec or microsc rather slower at 21.1 milliseconds interestingly looking at the FPS results there really isn't much in it here low did push ahead slightly but it's so marginal unless your system doesn't meet the vram requirements it seems just changing the texture setting won't have much of an effect now seeing as changing the texture settings didn't do all that much let's try something more Brash let's set everything to low or off just the lowest settings that we can get finally we have an actual effect we drop the average latency to just 17.3 milliseconds the first significant change since turning Reflex on what I find most interesting here is actually the FPS results where we can see a significant jump in performance going from around 175 FPS average to 240 FPS average and if you convert that convert that to frame times well that's around 5.7 milliseconds and around 4.1 milliseconds or about 1.5 or so milliseconds difference that means for most of our latency benefit seems to be coming straight from the FPS or the added FPS although there is still likely some level of sort of Step skipping in the the render pipeline that helped to touch too still it's clear that more FPS gives you a competitive Advantage here and lastly I wanted to try dropping the resolution from this laptop stock 2560 x600 down to 1920 by 1200 to see if that makes any difference remarkably it does dropping the average to just1 .3 milliseconds what's more interesting for me is seeing the FPS results aren't really any different which is quite a surprise really vsync is off so the FPS capping at 240 the screen refresh rates is a bit of a weird Behavior still the lower latency or lower latency is possible with lower resolutions at least on this machine so regardless of your settings enabling Nvidia re Flex seems to be your best bet to get a competitive advantage in Apex Legends if you want the utmost in competitive advantages though setting everything to low might be useful and you can even try dropping the resolution too if you can stomach the visual quality difference of course these results are still somewhat specific to this system I've been testing on and so if you want to be able to test games like this on your own system you can check out my open source latency testing tool at OS rt.com the link in the description I hand build each of these tools right here at home and ship them worldwide so there's a look at the latency and performance of Apex Legends if you want to see more videos like this one do hit the Subscribe button and let me know what other games you'd like to see me test in the comments down below like I said if you want to check out my open source latency testing tool that's Linked In the description at or rt.com you can also check out plenty of these these other latency guides that I've already done on the channel and I'll leave them on the end cards otherwise thanks for watching hope you enjoyed it we'll see you all in the next video

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Length: 7min 38sec (458 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 18 2024