Forspoken has been released for the PC and comes with huge performance problems. In this guide, we’ll tell you the best settings for the PC to increase the FPS and maintain the best possible quality.
The release of Forspoken has been met with mixed to negative reactions from the gaming community. Especially PC players suffer from FPS drops and lousy performance. The Forspoken review clearly reflects this. Guided editor-in-chief Kevin Willing tried out all settings and tested them with different hardware. Now we can clearly say: We have found the best settings for maximum framerate!
This is our test setup: We tested our settings on three different systems. We were able to increase the average frame rate (FPS) by around 10 to 20 FPS. With the Max FPS settings even further, you will find them at the end of this guide! Anyway, these are our test systems:
- Gaming Laptop:
- RTX 2070
- Ryzen 5 5600h
- 16 gb RAM
- Midrange PC
- RX 6700
- Intel Core I7 9700k
- 32 Gb Ram
- High End Setup:
- RTX 3080ti
- Ryzen 9 5950x
- 64 GB Ram
The best settings for the perfect mix of quality & performance.
Forspoken does not offer any particular variety of graphics settings. Accordingly, the optimization turns out to be quite simple for you. But before we go into detail, you should — sorry to mention this — update your graphics drivers. Both Nvidia (download) and AMD (download) have released a new driver version on January 23. Also check if your hardware meets the minimum requirements!
Attention: Switch your graphics preset to “Custom” for now. This unlocks more graphics options that would otherwise remain grayed out!
Rendering Settings
| Variable Shading Rate (VRS) | ON |
| Dynamic Resolution | OFF |
| Model Memory | High |
| Texture Memory | High |
Image Quality Settings
| AMD FidelityFX (AMD GPU) | With 4k = Performance / With 1440p = Balanced / With 1080p = Quality |
| Nvidia DLSS (sorted by resolution) | With 4k = Performance / With 1440p = Balanced / With 1080p = Quality |
| Sharpnes | 1.0 |
| Render Resolution | 100 % |
| Model Detail Level | High |
| Texture Filtering | High |
Post Filters Settings
| Reflections | High |
| Motion Blur | Up to you |
| Depth of Field | ON |
| Fog Quality | Standard |
| Cloud Quality | High |
| Shadow Quality | High |
| Ray Traced Shadows | OFF |
| Ambient Occlusion | High |
| Ray Traced Ambient Occlusion | OFF |
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Forspoken graphics settings for maximum FPS
In this section, we’ll show you which settings suck up the most performance and turn them off entirely if necessary! So the following settings are used to maximize the frame rate and we were able to find a full 15 FPS compared to the best graphics+performance settings and a full 28 FPS compared to all settings on Ultra!
These are the graphics options you’ll need to change compared to those above:
- Fog Quality – Low
- Cloud Quality – Low
- Model Detail Level – Low
- Texture Filter – Default
With these settings, we were able to lift to 120 FPS with the 3080ti system in 1440p, and that’s about as good as it gets in Forspoken. However, depending on the complexity or effects storm in the scene, it can sometimes collapse.
UPDATE: How to make Forspoken feel even smoother
Through our playthrough yesterday, we noticed some bad stuttering despite reaching an average FPS of 80 to 90. Many other players have this problem as well. This is caused by high frame times that are unstable as hell. So we are going to show you how you can improve the smoothness of Forspoken despite not having great FPS.
- You need to download (via msi.com) MSI Afterburner and Rivatuner (both come together)
- Now install and start both programs.
- In MSI Afterburner, go to the settings and then to “monitoring”.
- Scroll down until you reach “Frame Times”, click “Show in OSD” and choose the option to show graph and text.
- Now fire up Forspoken and run around for a little bit, maybe even fight. Keep your FPS and Frame Times in sight!
- Remember the lowest frames you noticed. Let’s assume your lowest was 72 FPS.
- Tab out and go into Rivatuner. There you’ll see the option “Frame Limit”.
- Set the Frame Limit 1 or 2 Frames below your lowest FPS. So in your imaginary case, set it to 71 or 70.
What you have noticed is that the graph that shows you your frame times is now stable. You fixed the stuttering — mostly. Unfortunately, Forspoken is very poorly optimized, and you will still encounter some stuttering here and there, but trust me it will be much better.
We hope we could help you with our guide to improve the performance in Forspoken! If you have any further questions or would like to expand our guide, please write us a comment or contact us via Community-Discord!
2 Comments
I have a 3080Ti, not sure how you get 120FPS at 1440p? I am trying to play it at 1440p and it struggles to maintain 60, constantly dipping to 50-55
Hey my friend! As we said 120 FPS is achievable but with severe drops. You can share your other specs like CPU or RAM or SSD, maybe its caused by that. To clarify, I will add another sentence that explains what the average fps look like. Thank you for reaching out! For you: 120 FPS are achievable within confined rooms, Dungeons etc. But they drop to around 80 or 90 at times. The lowest I could notice was around 70 FPS.