The Best Video and Optimization settings to Boost FPS in Apex Legends Season 15

yo what is good YouTube today I have another video for you guys on apex Legends optimization uh this is going to be kind of a comprehensive guide um sort of like a checklist that you can go through and make sure that um you've done all these different steps uh some of them will be more helpful than others but all of them will have a little bit of benefit to your performance so it's kind of something that whether you've done a little bit of optimization or you've done none at all is a good starting place that you can just kind of look through and it will help you get a little bit more frames and improve your gameplay experience now none of this is really new information but I want to have it all in one place as well as make sure that people are aware that this is all you know updated and still relevant as some of my videos are a bit older all right so without further Ado I'm going to get into the video but before we start I would really appreciate if you guys would subscribe to my channel as well as leave a like if this does end up helping you now starting off let's talk about launchers now you can run Apex through either steam or origin in my personal experience origin is going to be slightly better performance so if all you care about is performance go with origin however steam does have the benefit that you have integrated steam friends list as well as you can actually you know change your name so with seem you are essentially fully Anonymous in game there is an anonymous mode however people can just wait on your box and after you leave the game they'll actually be able to see who you are or if you kill someone then in their death recap they'll be able to see who you are but if you want to be truly Anonymous you can actually change your name or you can just do very goofy names um and this won't you know be a permanent thing you just change it how much you want between that and the friends list that's really the only benefit that steam offers um origin is a little bit better performance so again if you only care about frames play origin now either way you do want to change some settings in your launcher so start off with origin and go to your application settings now you want to make sure that you turn off origin helper service this is just going to eat a little bit of performance not a huge amount but it will be a little bit so you may as well turn it off doesn't really do anything beneficial for you um this stuff as well is basically not going to make a huge difference but like it doesn't help you it's only for their benefit and it might actually hurt your frames a little bit so go ahead and turn that stuff all off um I recommend turning off your Cloud save as it can sometimes uh bug out and like overwrite your settings so I would recommend turning that off um definitely want to turn off all of your notes um if you want to have like chat messages sounds on probably won't have like sound on um maybe you want the node but you probably don't want that it can just interrupt your game be a little bit annoying um origin in game turn that off under Center that off all it's going to do is hurt your frames and that's pretty much it for origin um now that we are going to do some things in launch options so just show you how to do that just click on the game in my game library and go to settings game properties and I don't have the game downloaded but if I did there would be a launch options category in here okay so moving on to steam now you want to go to steam settings in-game now you're gonna need this on obviously the first time that you log in so you can log into your EA account but go ahead and turn that off as it is going to potentially reduce your frame rate as well as um if you do have it on for whatever reason like if you really like it like I mean I won't blame you like if you really want to use it that's okay but definitely change the uh shortcut key if you are a non-auto Sprint user because if you're sprinting and then you try to open your inventory it's going to open up the in-game so make sure you change that now interface we can actually [Music] um uncheck all of these boxes the only one you maybe want checked is enable directorate for improved font smoothing and kerning that just makes your fonts look a little bit nicer but it doesn't really matter you can turn off all these I mean you can leave from Steam but turning off all of these will just improve the performance a little bit a library you want to go to low bandwidth mode low performance mode is going to reduce the amount of just like content and graphical stuff going on in your library so if you have steam open while you're playing the game this is going to be hurting your performance a little bit now obviously on a top end system all these things that I've just talked about not going to make a huge difference realistically but for peace of mind I recommend doing it as well as if you have an older system it will make a real difference like if you're running on an older CPU especially or if you have limited RAM usage um reducing things like this will definitely help a little bit uh downloads won't really matter Cloud are going to turn that off but that's preference really um now controller if you happen to play controller I recommend that you actually disable steam input for Apex specifically now the way you do that is you would go to this little gear properties controller disable steam input this is because Apex actually has a native controller input and it has a little bit lower latency in my experience and from others have reported than the steam input as well if you play on a PlayStation controller and you have steam input on you will not always get the correct button prompts um I'm not actually sure if it's always the case it might have actually been fixed by now but at least um in the past when I've used a PlayStation controller with steam input enabled it was giving me Xbox controller prompts and that's not an issue with origin that's only with steam now if you do use it for rebinding stuff then you know that's okay please don't use to protect racing that's cheating but like if you just want to like change around your layout more so than the game allows or adjust some like stick settings and you can do that but if you're just playing stock controller I'd recommend just disable this and just use the native setting now just to cover um for launch options I'm gonna only show it in Steam for the rest of the video but I didn't show how to do it in origin so you just go to your properties and it just takes you right there all right so now that we've covered the launchers let's go ahead and cover the in-game settings that are relevant before we address in-game settings you want to go ahead and find your save game location now it's basically going to be wherever your user profile is in Windows um to be like on your C drive probably users and then your name save games respawn Apex local Now video config main thing is we want to make sure if you've done any previous messing with this make sure that read only is off right now because we're going to change some in-game settings and if you leave it on it's not going to save any of that so go ahead and uncheck read only and hit apply all right now that we've done that here in the game let's look at the video settings that are relevant so obviously the first thing is you want to play full screen please do not play borderless full screen I know it's a little bit more convenient but the performance is not as good because this is a DirectX 11 game now I believe this game is going to be getting DirectX 12 support in the future so when that does happen it's going to be irrelevant and you're going to want to play whatever mode you feel like but borderless and full screen are essentially the same thing in DirectX 12. so when that happens you can play borderless all you want but for now it is just inferior in every way um it's just not going to be a good experience so please don't do that now aspect ratio obviously if you want to play on a different aspect ratio for stretch res um I do have guides on that I'm not going to cover that specifically here because you know this is more of a comprehensive guide stretch res isn't necessarily always going to be a performance increase right like it will in some cases because if you're choosing like a lower you know overall resolution but I want to be a little bit more focused here so if you do want to play stretch res you can visit one of my guides here and I can you'll be able to see exactly how to do it brightness I recommend increasing that a little bit obviously this isn't going to be performancing but it will just make it a little bit easier to see things I would say like in the 60 to 70 range is good Beyond 70 is way too high and everything just gets like blown out now feel the view this is not really going to affect your performance much unless you have like a really really bad PC I recommend playing on the maximum now I am going to cover what you can do in an auto zec later in the video it's not a whole lot there's not much you can do in auto exec it's actually like almost nothing relevant to Performance but if you do want to increase pass 110 we can go up to 119 so I will show how to do that now off of the ability scaling is not going to hit your performance but you want to turn this off um just for gameplay purposes same thing with Sprint view Shake vsync you're going to want to disable this even if you use a g-sync monitor or freesync if you actually want to disable it in game and you would then enable it through Nvidia control panel all right so Nvidia reflex enabled versus enabled plus boost you're definitely going to want this at least on enabled as it does reduce the system latency so your inputs are going to feel much better pretty much in every case you definitely want to at least enabled the main difference according to what Nvidia says is that boost is going to turn on like higher power management like that's basically it it's going to allow you to use more power for your graphics card so Nvidia only recommends using it with RTX 30 series cards with older cards is not generally recommended however after doing a bit of digging I don't think that it actually matters I previously thought that having boosts on was actually bad if you had older than an RTX 30 series card I didn't use it when I had a 10 series 1080. I did believe that it actually reduced your performance at the time however after doing some testing and a bit more research it seems like all that it does is it actually does the same thing as turning on maximum performance in Nvidia control panel which I have always had set even with a 10 series card so I don't think any testing I've done is really uh relevant if I had this on I do think that you should just go ahead and have prefer maximum performance on and then you can leave enabled or enable plus boost and it won't really matter if having enable plus boost does hurt your performance then just go ahead and turn it off but otherwise I would just leave it it doesn't really matter all right now adaptive resolution FPS Target now this is going to be a dynamic resolution system I don't recommend using this as it only goes up to 100 and it's not a great implementation there is a way to edit your config set a higher FPS Target and I can show you how to do that however I don't think it's a great idea even if you can set it as it often will not actually meet the Target that you set and if it is below the target you said it's going to scale the resolution way too low and you just get a really ugly picture it's not super well implemented in this game so I would just avoid it I also just think that Dynamic resolution scaling in general is not great for multiplayer games as it's just better to have a consistent image I think that if you want to play on a low resolution for more frame rate and you have you know a weaker graphics card I think you should just play on the lower frame rate and just have it consistently bad instead of sometimes good and sometimes bad it can be very inconsistent and annoying during combat like trying to see people so I recommend just avoiding this but if you really really do want to try it you can go to your video config and it's going to be um this is your settings for it so you would enable it with one and this is going to be the time now the game uses milliseconds but actually like the way this Express is kind of weird so you would do so if you wanted to do 240 FPS as your target minimum you would do like 1000 over 240 then you would multiply that again by 1000 so it would be four one six seven that would be your minimum and then for your maximum which would be your lowest frame rate like I said you want to do like 180 you do 1000 over 180 and times one thousand so do like five six one six seven so that'll be 180 to 240. however it's actually not gonna like work very well like I said um it's basically like if you are struggling to hit those frame rates like you're basically just gonna be at like 50 resolution the whole time and it's still not going to be hitting the frame rates a lot of times um if you're on weaker Hardware you're going to be CPU bound as well so reducing your resolution by that much is not actually going to help you you're basically just going to want to play on a static resolution and reduce it as low as you possibly can without getting diminishing returns in terms of frame rate and without being like unusably Blurry I so moving on past that anti-aliasing a lot of people don't like it I personally recommend using it my recommendation is actually to use anti-aliasing in addition to sharpening with Nvidia sharpening filter that's going to be the best appearance if you're playing on a low resolution especially if you're playing on anything less than your native monitor resolution you're going to have a lot of rough edges and you really want the anti-aliasing to smooth that out and then you have sharpening that will kind of get rid of the Vaseline effect but if you don't like anti-aliasing and you don't want to listen to me even though I know what I'm talking about that's fine you can turn it off but I will say this is not going to make a huge difference to Performance even if you have a Wii GPU it's not going to hurt your frame rate like any significant amount to have anti-aliasing on this is a really good implementation in this game like maybe on like a GTX 1060 it will hurt your family a little bit but I very much doubt it and I would recommend uh leaving it on in terms of texture streaming budget now this is going to be literally just up to visual preference and then also amount of video RAM that your card has now this is not going to affect your performance like pretty much at all um from what I've tested there's maybe like a one percent frame rate difference between having it completely off and then having it on at all so literally the only difference in performance is whether you have it on or off the level that you have it on is not going to affect your performance pretty much at all as long as you are you know staying within a reasonable amount for your graphics card so if you have like a six gigabyte card obviously don't use eight gigabytes however from what I've tested I've never seen the game use more than four gigabytes of video memory while having it on eight gigs even with an eight gigabyte card usually I'm sitting around 30 video memory usage maybe 40 percent so honestly you probably can run this on maximum even if you have less than eight gigabytes of video RAM but I wouldn't recommend doing that but if you really want to you probably could I personally play with it a bit lower just as a visual preference because I don't want my textures to be super sharp and kind of distract me or like draw attention away from like my enemies I don't want it to be you know completely disgusting ugly but I usually play on Lower very low just to have it so you know the textures are there but they're not like distractingly sharp but that's kind of a me problem now texture filtering if you just want the maximum performance put on bilinear or tri-linear it really won't make a difference if you have a pretty good graphics card and you want the best visual Clarity in terms of textures like environments then I'd run 8 or 16x any traffic filtering this is going to hurt your frame rate a little bit depending on the graphics card you have so if you're on like an RTX 3080 or something better than that you can just run on 16x and it will basically make no difference but if you're on a little bit of a weaker card even with my 3060 TI there is a little bit of a difference with 16x so not a huge amount but definitely uh this is one of the first things you can turn off and basically what this is going to do is it's going to affect how sharp textures are from a distance right so if you have this on eight and you have it on tri-linear and then things are going to look really sharp close up like your gun will look really sharp um your hands and uh like characters in front of you will look really sharp but the environment past like a few meters will start to get kind of blurry again and so again for visual Clarity purposes if you're more of a competitive player or not even like competitive but you know you you're pretty good at the game and you just want to be able to see your enemies then there's no real benefit to having this on um asked trilinear like maybe an isotropic 2x is like a good balance if you have a decent system like relatively modern like you know 30 60 2060 something better than that or around there and you don't really need like the absolute best performance you know this is not going to make a huge difference 7 on 2x but it's going to look a little bit nicer like noticeably nicer than having it off um but again if you're just all about Max performance put this on trial linear bilinear doesn't really matter always turn this off like no matter what if you have this on then there's something wrong with you um this is going to be like probably the most intensive visual effect in the game like it's it reduces your frame made by a lot um is the absolute first thing that you should turn off sunshadow coverage and sunshadowed detail as well you should turn off it's not going to make a huge difference in terms of performance but it's just going to add more Shadows which you don't want like that's literally just going to make it harder to see people um and it will hurt frames a little bit all right now spot Shadow detail now this is going to be easiest to see in the lobby and the loading screens but basically adds self-shadowing to the character models there is already some self-shadowing flip Shadows enabled but it's relatively low detailed it's going to be self-shadowing that's also like affected by the environment it's going to be higher detail um you're going to want this off for most performance of course now if I put this on insane you can see my performance actually drop from 300 all the way down to like 120. um if you have a really good GPU and or if you're like capping your frames at like 144 for example and then you could actually get away with running this but it's pretty pointless um it does look nice in the lobby in the loading screen because it makes your character look really nice but yeah it's basically just gonna be eating away your frames you're never gonna see it on your own character because this is a first person game um and you're never really going to be looking at other character models in close detail uh when you're actually playing the game so it's kind of pointless I feel like it would be nice if there was a way to have this only enabled in lobby um you could like run on the glow and it won't hurt your frames that much like here it's only you know taking like 50 frames or something which is still quite a lot but uh it's not nearly as bad but yeah definitely want to have this off for frame rate there's actually two settings for this a spot shutter detail and dynamic spot shadows I'm not sure if there are any Dynamic spot Shadows if you have this enabled and you have uh this part disabled but I can tell you that putting this Dynamic Splash I Was disabled will I believe automatically disable the other spot shells yeah so I have it on insane and disabled and I'm getting 300 FPS but if I enable I'm instantly getting 140 so I'm pretty sure that disables it but yeah I would just turn off both for most frame rate volumetric lighting turn this off it it basically just blinds you and it reduced your performance model detail now this is not actually model detail you would think hey I want characters to be as highly detailed as possible so I want to turn this on high yeah don't do that um that actually like it's very misleading um characters are always going to be rendered at the maximum detail I'm pretty sure um I don't believe that characters are affected by this at all even though it says that Legends are what this mainly does is it affects the draw distance of a lot of uh like inconsequential models around the environment um I recommend saying this in low as it will give you some performance boost now if you are looking at the config um loud switch go this is that setting so if you look at like older guides um from like 2019 or if you're around then you may remember that there was a way to like turn your game into complete like potato mode and that was by setting this down to zero if you do this now um the minimum it can be is 0.6 it is hard coded now so you can't actually lower this below it like you can't put like 0.3 or anything um it'll always go to 0.6 which is the same as low in-game there is actually still a way to make the game into like that potato mode kind of thing like N64 kind of mode it doesn't help your frames at all though so I'm not going to cover it here um I have considered making a video on it I'm not sure if it could be considered cheating because it might affect some objects but if there is demand I could make a video on that you could also search Nvidia inspector potato mode and you'll find guides for other games on how to do that there may be some cases where actually cover will not show up like someone might be you might like see someone and then you Scope in and suddenly a rock pops in and that you can't see them anymore uh that can be a bit of an issue because you might be shooting at someone and like you might be like why can't I hit this person then like you realize just like there's a random like rock or something like this this is not a super common occurrence but it does happen uh I think it's actually more of a benefit if anything to be able to see someone behind an object um but if that thing if that kind of thing does bother you or just like the pop-in in general does bother you you can set this to high and that will make things pop in uh from a further distance um some objects like for instance this this pull even on the highest detail they're still popping all right so even setting on high hopping is the same so if Poppin is something that bothers you unfortunately turning on high won't actually improve that in all cases so I recommend just having this on those just so that you get the best performance but you really want to know how you could effects detail just put on low like it doesn't really make a huge difference in terms of frame rate but it literally only affects like a few things and it's like there's really no benefit to have this higher um it won't help a visual Clarity or anything it's just going to hurt your frame rates like a tiny amount probably negligible for most graphics cards but with some it might actually make a difference so spit on low uh impact marks I don't think it'll make any difference if you have it disabled or low but there's not really any gameplay benefit to having them on so I just turn them off um it's probably not going to actually hurt your performance again but if you're on older Hardware just turn it off uh if you're on newer Hardware it yeah it's probably negligible ragdolls this does actually make a noticeable difference on CPU load I would turn it on low and you will also notice that if you haven't you also notice that if you have this on high uh like after you kill someone there will be their body will be like around for much longer and can be kind of distracting so I'd recommend just turning that on low that's gonna be it for in-game however there's one more thing that we can do in the config that's going to be setting that CSM enabled so there's gonna be one by default what this does is this turns off character shadows um as well as some environmental Shadows this is going to actually give you a pretty nice frame rate Improvement especially on older Hardware that's going to make a pretty big difference so I'd recommend doing this now there are going to be some cases where like you could theoretically like look at someone's Shadow and that could actually help you uh like if someone's on High Ground above you that could theoretically help you but the amount of times like that's happened compared to the frame rate benefit you get is just like it's it's not worth it to have them on I would recommend just throwing it off um so you need to save that and then once you've saved that you need to right click and make it read only so that will make us uh just not uh override the Shadows otherwise um it will launch your shadows turned off but if you make any kind of change to your graphic settings uh ever again then it will turn it back on so keep it on mute only and it'll prevent that and that's why you want to make sure that you first turn off read only and then set everything as you want you know like set your texture streaming budget and everything um so that way you don't have to like mess around the config you can just do it in game and then you can just change the one thing instead of changing everything so it's gonna be it for graphics now let's talk about audio now we actually cannot use audio occlusion anymore that's been disabled but there is one config kind of thing that we want to do um you might when you first launch the game if you haven't uh fixed this you might have an issue whether it's showing up as surround and that can cause some issues so the way we want to fix that is we can actually go to our launch options we want to put plus num speakers to that's going to guarantee that it puts it in speaker headset mode um so go ahead and do that now these are not going to be really performance related but in game I would recommend turning off your Crosshair damage feedback as I do find that the big X is it's just too big it takes up too much of your screen and it doesn't really provide any benefit that you don't already get from having damage numbers on now by default it's going to be on both I think uh or maybe it's unsacking my default by the way I recommend stacking loading numbers it literally just shows individual events uh so it's not very helpful compared to just having stacking there's literally zero reason I have both on as it doesn't give you any extra info it just clutches your screen uh floating like it's just not as good as stacking because you want to be able to call out a damage number recommend turning out button hints put and track prompt cell in compact because default is disgusting created ping opacity Auto Sprint I recommend playing with it off so that way you can actually walk whenever you want to however if you do use Auto Sprint already I do have a way to actually mind a walk button and that will be linked in the description damage feedback I recommend just putting 3D I don't recommend having both uh as it's just actually a visual clutter 3D seems to be the easiest to see definitely turn off this setting as you will be unable to use a crafting menu in the ring and you won't be able to get Shield swaps uh if you're getting shot at on this performance display turn that on so that way you can see ping FPS and all that I think that's pretty much it for this um I personally use colorblind setting even though I'm not colorblind as I find that is actually a little bit more clear a little bit nicer on my eyes but that's just personal preference I recommend turning off subtitles because it's just going to clutter your screen like you know what they're saying unless you play with a different language I'm a chase you know whatever who cares so that's pretty much gonna be it for the in-game settings however we do have more things I want to cover so one of the biggest things that you can do if you have a high refresh rate monitor especially is going to be actually making sure that Apex runs in proper full screen mode so with 99 of games what you have to do is you just go to your game EXE you right click properties compatibility disable full screen optimizations so go ahead and do this now however this is not actually going to work we still need to do it but it's not going to work um basically what full screen optimizations is is that in Windows 10 and newer um basically full screen programs don't actually run in True full screen it runs in a fake like borderless mode that is um kind of it's supposed to get the benefits of borderless full screen like faster Tab out time but it actually does have worse performance with DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 this is fixed but in DirectX 11 it's uh it's pretty bad it messes up your performance um in Apex especially I've noticed when I don't have this done um there's quite a bit of stutters and just my performance is actually like worse overall um but some games is fine but Apex is like especially bad as well if you have multiple monitors with different refresh rates and you have any kind of video content on your second monitor it can actually affect the refresh rate of your main monitor that the game is playing on this only happens if you have the game in borderless full screen or if you don't have full screen optimization disabled it's due to desktop Windows Manager vsync just forced on in Windows 10. now on Windows 11 there's actually a way to disable that vsync issue um I haven't personally tested it but if you are on Windows 11 basically what you're going to do is go to your system display graphics and you're going to turn on optimizations for windowed games and that way you can just completely ignore this step this will actually it will fix the issue that I just described so if you're on Windows 11 go ahead and do that now instead of doing the steps I'm going to describe so for the rest of you we need to go ahead and make sure that this game runs in proper exclusive full screen mode again better performance as well as we won't have the issue with uh second monitors hijacking our refresh rate and messing with it so if you have for instance like a YouTube video open it can mess it up and even when the worst offenders is actually OBS even if you have the preview disabled on OBS having your OBS main window open will actually mess with the refresh rate in borderless full screen games and games with full screen optimization turned on so basically if you're a single PC streamer and you haven't done this step you've you've been playing Apex sub optimally if you use OBS to stream and you don't have this stuff done like you've basically been causing unnecessary stutter due to this to be more clear you've literally been playing Apex at 60 hertz even if you paid for like a 240Hz Monitor and you're running at 240 FPS if you have this issue so this is actually a huge thing that like a lot of people don't realize that OBS does this as well so the way we need to fix this because just checking the box for whatever reason Apex doesn't work Apex just kind of quirky like that it just doesn't listen to you we actually have to edit our registry which I know sounds scary but it's actually like there's no way that you can damage your PC or anything so go ahead and press your start Windows key or just go to your start menu and type regedit if you have like user account control or whatever uh enabled it might like pop up a message and we're going to go to H Key current user system and game config store now first of all we're going to actually click on game DVR enabled we're gonna hit zero if that's not already on zero um this is just like some extra windows bullcrap that we want to turn off um but that's not the main thing so click on game conflict store children and then hit Ctrl F it's refine and we're going to type R5 Apex now if you're lucky it will just go right here it'll just find it match exe full path you'll see a folder like this um if it keeps on searching and it doesn't find something from this uh set of keys that we looked in then basically it's an issue with your windows version and you're not going to be able to do this fix I have had issues where on some custom versions of Windows this key just like doesn't show up I believe on anything like Windows NT like server base uh you can't do this fix so if that is the case and you really really want to fix this you're going to have to reinstall Windows um I recommend you can either just do it through Microsoft just regular old windows 10 or you can use what I'm using which is revus that has this key that will work if you never run the game also you won't have this key so make sure you've run the game of course if you're doing first time setup on a new PC or you just recently reinstalled make sure you do that um but assuming that we found this what we need to do is we need to change Flags so by default it's going to be on 11. we need to change this to 2 1 1. hit OK close this restart your PC just to be safe but you probably don't have to um now the way that we can test this is if you change your windows volume with like a volume key on your keyboard or if you have like Spotify or something and you have like the overlay and you can just hit like play pause on your key basically none of that kind of overlay stuff will show up when you're in an exclusive full screen application so if that stuff is showing up then it didn't work but if it's not showing up then that means that it worked and you fix it okay so now that we've done that the game should be running in proper exclusive full stream mode it is going to take longer to tab in and out of the game that is unfortunate however it is absolutely worth it as you are going to be getting better performance um and you're not going to be having as much stuttering as well as we're going to fix the refresh rate issue with multiple monitors so this is one of the most important steps you can do for Apex to make it run smoothly I really really recommend you do this all right now moving on there's not much more we can do specific to Apex all right let's talk about auto exec so I did mention it earlier with fov now there's basically nothing you can do for auto exec in terms of performance basically everything related to Performance that you could change in the config has been disabled except for the ones you can already do in game and disabling Shadows so anything any video or like any site that you see that says like we have an auto exec that improves performance is lying wrong or just it's already something you can do in game um a lot of it just doesn't work anymore so there's basically nothing you can do for performance but there are a few things that we can do so I'll show you how to make that right now so first of all go to your Apex Legends CFG go to your view Tab and make sure that file name extensions is checked right click new text document auto exec .cfg hit yes now you can edit this with a notepad or something um so what can we do in here we can do CL fo fob scale 1.7 so if you want higher than the maximum you can set to 119. um you can do this already by setting it as your um in your launch options or in your profile.cfg but doing this in auto exec will make sure that it happens every time you launch the game in case that you um change your video settings and it gets reset we can also do the num speakers so that's two just to make sure if you don't want to have that in your launch options we can do bind as follow-up exact auto exec if you want to have a key to like re-initialize this if it like gets resetting game so if you want to change like your resolution or something and your fov gets reset to 110 now you have a button that you can press to reset it um other than that there's really not a whole lot we can do you can change some of your binds if you want like if you want to bind uh more than like two buttons to an action you can do that in here um if you want to bind macros you can go down here I'm not really gonna show you how to do any of that stuff um it's not really relevant to the video and questionably uh more on but if you want um if you want to bind a walk button or Auto Sprint you can actually do bind I'll shift let's walk right that's basically all we can do there's really not a whole lot we can do in the auto exec um oh we can do FPS Max zero you can also do this in your launch options um if you play LGS all you're allowed to do is this this is the only thing you can do um technically all this is not allowed but like realistically it's not an issue so that's it for auto exec um there's nothing you can do for performance again so just like just don't worry about it um yeah so moving on to Nvidia settings now I have covered this in other videos but just to go through it again um you can do this in global or you can do it in specifically in Apex now like I said I recommend using tsaa and if you want to play on a low resolution um then native and even if you are playing on Native for the best appearance I recommend anti-aliasing on plus using sharpening to fix the blurriness turn on image scaling and then set the sharpening um I recommend like around 20 as your maximum probably more like 15. and you can set this as well on your G-Force experience now we want to make sure that basically all this is off and he's probably filtering uh you can get that application controlled if you're going to use it um or you can actually force it through here if you if you want to use it um I have it set to off turn off xia and Gamma crushing um basically all this can be set to off low latency mode this is overridden by reflex so we can turn this off for games that don't have reflex you might want to use this but Apex does Max frame rate now I recommend uh you can just use in-game setting if you want to set your frame rate I recommend playing the game on cap to be honest like there's no downside joining the game uncapped um so like why not but if you do want to cap your frame rate you could do this through here um it is going to be a little bit smoother in terms of frame times if you cap it through here compared to in-game however it's going to add a like a little bit of input lag like literally one frame of input lag I believe power management for maximum performance I want to make sure it's the highest available refresh rate turn on an isotropic sample optimization allow negative law bias texture filtering set it to Quality there's basically no difference in performance uh like the high performance mode you could literally be playing on like an absolute potato GPU and this won't make any benefit just leave it on quality um try linear oxidation turn that on started optimization turn that on turn off triple buffering and vertical sync we do not want vsync you use g-sync uh then you would turn this on so again if you use g-sync or freesync monitor you have that option enabled um it would have a separate like panel here in uh Nvidia control panel and you'd have it off in game so you don't want it on in game but you would have it on in the control panel right so other than that there are some specific Windows settings that you can turn on so go to so our graphic settings turn on Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling now if you're a streamer you may have heard don't do this that's outdated information it actually is perfectly fine in the later versions of Windows 10. you want to go ahead and select Apex and you want to hit options high performance um if you are a streamer OBS you can set the power saving or high performance it actually doesn't matter my mindset to power saving and I've never had any issues with dropping frames or anything it actually works perfectly fine so any information tells you don't use this mode with OBS is it's just wrong and outdated as long as your windows is up to date it is also worth mentioning that if you have this on you should be able to run OBS without needing to run in admin mode and it will still capture games that normally need admin mode on however I still do run OBS and admin mode even though I have this on so this will help a little bit with performance um as well you can go to start menu again mode turn this on again there will be some information out there that's going to tell you don't do this again that it's outdated what this does is it disables some background Windows services so all it does is just disable some stuff that you don't need so that way you can just play at Max performance I recommend turning off the game bar this is basically just another overlay um there's no real benefit to it so yeah just go ahead and turn that off that's pretty much going to be it in terms of what you can do unless you want to like really strip down your operating system and that's not really something that makes sense to cover in the scope of this video um other than that you can try overclocking your CPU or GPU or Ram those are things that are going to be specific to your Hardware so just you know you're gonna have to Google stuff based on what you own what's what your PC uses um if you're not sure like what your RAM is you can actually um and download cpu-z so like say you don't know what Ram you have like maybe you bought like a pre-built or something you're not sure that it's running at the right speed and just run this and this will tell you your memory um it'll tell you the current speed as well as you click on SBD you can actually see like the manufacturer the part number you can look it up and make sure that it's running at the correct speed now you should be able to just set in your bios XMP or doc P to automatically overclock it that's what I recommend doing um if you don't know how to get to your bios like if you have like a very fast boot you can actually um you can hold shift click on your power hold shift restart I'm not going to do this right now because that will end the video but this will then show a screen where you can click on troubleshooting so we'll show you this option screen you're going to go ahead and click on UEFI firmware settings that will take you to your bios so if you don't know how to get to it otherwise so it's our menu power alt shift restart UEFI firmware settings um otherwise you might be able to just like tap f11 or delete or something like that uh when you're starting up your PC but you're gonna go to your bios make sure that your XMP or docp is on set your bio so your RAM is running at the correct speed if you're on a ryzen CPU make sure that you turn on Precision boost overdrive you can basically set that all to Auto if you don't want to mess with everything but always make sure that you have PBO on if you're on Intel I'm not super familiar with overclocking that but I believe that it just comes automatically out of the box overclock to you know um Auto overclock while you're playing but you can definitely like look up your specific CPU and try overclocking it there um terms of other resources that can help you guys I recommend getting cap frame X now a lot of times when people will talk about their performance they'll say oh I get 240 FPS all the time in Apex I I listen to the people say that and I I look at the hardware that they have and I just don't believe them and it might be that you know they're looking at their performance display while they're just running around the map and they see 240 but when they're actually in a fight it's probably gonna drop quite a bit um and they're not reporting any kind of like average frame rate they're just looking occasionally at the at the performance display and like just you know looking at best case scenario now this software what this does is it hooks into your game and it gives you a um it gives you an average you can record um while you're playing and you can see like your average frame rate you can see stuttering um you can look at like your sensor so you can see like you know was everything running at the right speed or my temperature is very high you know if your temperatures are very high then you want to make sure that like or so that your room is um well ventilated that your PC isn't like up against the wall um you want to make sure that you clean it somewhat regularly you're not super Dusty in there um as well as you want to change your fans so um again in your bios you can change your CPU and your system fan speeds um I recommend like you want to be keeping your stuff around like 60 to 70 that is like your ideal operating range for most stuff um so like if you use cap frame um and you're seeing like 80s and stuff for a CPU temp then you definitely want to crank up your fan speed like have it set you know when you get to 70 it hits 100 or something like that um in terms of your GPU most of them are going to be like there's good Auto like uh fan speeds built into you know NVIDIA drivers so you don't really have to worry about that but if you're overclocking with like MSI afterburner um then you want to make sure that you have user enabled hand speed and you want to have it you know hitting 100 by around like 70. right it's going to be really loud but that'll keep your temperatures down and that's going to be what keeps your performance up basically performance and temperature are inversely related so the lower your temperature is the better your Hardware can operate um at Boost clocks um depending on the GPU you have it might be beneficial to overclock I'm not really going to go over how to do that it's basically going to depend on what GPU you have um and then if you got lucky with a good piece of silicon you don't have to do your own testing to make sure that's stable so just go ahead and like Google a guide you know if you're interested in it but you know this is something that you can do if you're like really hurting for frames but just know that it will give diminishing returns and uh it's definitely like it's a rabbit hole like you will definitely lose a lot of time if you are trying to overclock so in a lot of cases it might be better just kind of suck it up and play on Lower frame rate um or just try to save up for better Hardware rather than overclocking um as someone who's been you know in that scenario for quite a while so those are just some additional resources that can maybe help you get you know a little bit of extra frame rate especially Capri Max being able to uh record and then eventually like compare you know you can take like it makes these nice pretty grass for you so I don't I don't know what I was doing in these different uh tests but you know you could test like different resolutions and whatnot so very very useful tool highly recommend it now the other thing that you can do beyond all this is you can optimize your operating system and if you have not reinstalled windows in a while always helps to reset Windows periodically um but if you are kind of a power user and you want to try something that will make a noticeable difference in your frame rate I recommend installing rev us instead of normal Windows through Microsoft now this is what I'm using right now it's a custom build of Windows 10 that just has a lot of the features stripped out the um kind of mess with performance I found that it does help with my frame rate a decent amount um yeah so just go to revvy.cc they have all the instructions that you need to install it if you're not really a super Advanced user then I wouldn't worry about this but it's relatively simple to install that's pretty much gonna be it for the video um I know the end part was a bit long-winded with kind of random things um but hopefully this helped you guys out as kind of a checklist of things that you should do to optimize your game as well as kind of places that you can go for further help

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Keywords: optimization, nvidia, amd, intel, overclock, fps, boost, framerate, dlss, directx, dx11, dx12, unreal engine, unity, source, steam, origin, fsr, fsr2.0, frame generation, 4090, 3060 ti, apex, call of duty

Id: Kab4Dls4H6o

Length: 55min 16sec (3316 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 24 2022