

Leave this on if you’re using TAA, as it will negate the blurring effect while keeping jagged edges at bay. Sharpening – Engage or switch off the FidelityFX sharpening filter. FXAA is very slightly easier on the GPU, but when pairing TAA with sharpening (see below), you get much smoother-looking edges. FSR Quality therefore delivers the best blend of speed and fidelity.ģ840x2160, Epic quality, FSR on Quality setting 3840x2160, Epic quality, DLSS on Balanced settingĪnti-aliasing – Unless you’re overriding this with DLSS, you can choose between TAA and FXAA (or turn it off, if you’re an anarchist). The lower FSR settings, Balanced and Performance, also fall far shorter of replicating the look of native res. Setting FSR to Ultra Quality also provides a boost, albeit a smaller one than Quality, in exchange for a negligible quality difference.

DLSS’ Ultra Performance mode bumped the gains up to 13%, but looked markedly lower-res. DLSS makes distant objects look sharper, and includes its own anti-aliasing instead of simply upscaling TAA, though its Performance setting ‘only’ gave me a 8% frame rate increase to FSR Quality’s 35%. Besides FSR and DLSS, there’s also a spatial upscaling option built into the engine itself, though for pure frame rate gains your best bet is FSR on the Quality setting. Upscaling – Renders the game at a lower resolution to save performance, then upscales the image to match the native resolution. Here are which settings you can change to boost performance, and which ones can be left alone:

Obviously there are DLSS (albeit on Nvidia GeForce RTX cards only) and FSR, as well as a few others settings of varying impact.Ģ560x1440 native, Epic quality 2560x1440 native, High quality 2560x1440 native, Medium quality 2560x1440 native, Low quality Nonetheless, they’re not your only tools for affecting how Back 4 Blood looks and, by natural extension, how it runs. In addition to its Low, Medium, High, and Epic (urgh) quality presets, there are only five individual quality options that can be set to the same levels. GPU – Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / AMD Radeon RX 590.CPU – Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 7 1800X.GPU – Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon RX 570.CPU – Intel Core i5-6600 /AMD Ryzen 5 2600.90fps at 1440p too, though for really slick performance at this resolution I’d suggest an RTX 2060 / Radeon RX 5700 or above. I didn’t have either a GTX 970 or Radeon RX 590 to hand, but I did try the 8GB RX 580, and with FSR helping out it could average 130fps at 1080p. The recommended spec also targets 60fps at 1080p, along with the High preset.

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Nothing too scary here, and in fact I’d put them on the pessimistic side: the minimum spec apparently targets 60fps at 1080p with the Low quality preset, but I tested a GTX 1050 Ti and it averaged close to 90fps with the High preset and FSR on its ‘Quality’ setting. Image credit: Image provided by Turtle Rock Studiosįirst, though, let’s take a peek at what Turtle Rock are asking of your rig. Further down we’ll look at the best settings to change in order to effectively improve performance. There graphics quality settings are relatively streamlined, though if you don’t want to just slap on a preset it’s still possible to make specific tweaks.
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Back 4 Blood is also one of few games to support both Nvidia DLSS and AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), so there’s ample opportunity to boost performance via upscaling.Īll the PC essentials are here, like an uncapped framerate and FoV adjustment, as well as some pretty good 21:9 ultrawide support: cutscenes and menus stick to 16:9 but otherwise it works well, with appropriate UI positioning. It runs smoothly on older low-end hardware, and scales well enough on luxury kit that with one of the best graphics cards you can easily secure 144fps at 4K. Even so, it’s nice to see Turtle Rock Studios’ latest co-op shooter goes a lot easier on PC hardware than it does on me. Most of my Back 4 Blood playtime has been spent getting brutalised by an endless queue of Special Ridden, like an zombified take on that bit in Airplane!.
