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Every frame matters inDungeonbornewhere death comes swiftly. The first-person dungeon crawler challenges you to escape with your loot while dealing with monsters and other players in atraditional PvPvE experience. With every second counting down to oblivion, you must always try to strike hard and fast. That, however, becomes problematic if your game is suffering from low frames per second (fps) or stuttering because of random fps drops.
Thankfully,Dungeonbornefeatures a range of graphics settings that can be optimized to let your PC pump more fps than on default. It is a quick and easy process, and highly recommended if you are looking to dominate other human players.
Best Graphics Settings to Maximize FPS in Dungeonborne
There are a few things that must be cleared before optimizing your graphics settings inDungeonborne. Firstly, in your Display settings, always set your Display Mode to Fullscreen and Resolution to native. Secondly, disable Vertical Sync to eliminate input lag unless you want to test yournew G-Sync gaming monitoragainst screen-tearing issues.
Disable the Camera Sway and remove any cap on the Frame Rate Limit. Lastly, increase the Field of View to expand your peripheral vision. This, however, can slightly impact your frame rates. So, experiment with what you find comfortable.
Make sure to confirm thePC system requirements forDungeonborne. The dungeon-extraction game requires a minimum Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card, which is nearly two decades old. The graphics settings below should help you gain a significant fps boost even with the old hardware.
Description and Notes
3D Resolution
50 Percent
It changes the upscaling resolution of Anti-Aliasing. However, if Anti-Aliasing is disabled in favor of another upscaling method (DLSS/FSR/XeSS), you must experiment with the 3D Resolution slider for the best gains.
Global Illumination
Medium
Medium provides a good balance of improved lighting and high fps. Setting it to High or above activates ray-tracing effects, which are fairly cumbersome. Lower Global Illumination also offers acompetitive PvP advantageby removing almost all shading.
Shadows
Off
Disabling (or lowering) Shadows has always been one of the best ways to gain a massive fps boost, especially inonline PvP games. Set it to Medium if you want Shadows to help you see enemies better in the distance.
Anti-Aliasing
The Supersampling options offer better optimizations that overwrite Anti-Aliasing, so disable this.
View Distance
Very High
Anything lower forces textures to pop around you inDungeonborne. It is highly recommended to max out the View Distance to help spot enemies at long ranges.
Textures
Set Textures Low/Medium at 1440p/1080p respectively if your GPU has less than 4GB VRAM. If your VRAM is more than that, max out the setting to improve texture clarity when seeing objects at an angle inDungeonborne.
Effects
Low
Disable all effects to get an immediate 10–15 fps boost inDungeonborne. If you want to see the lanterns and fireplaces working, though, set Effects to either High or Very High. Anything lower will force the fire animations to be laggy.
Reflections
Yet another setting similar to Shadows that eats a lot of resources. Setting it to High or above activates ray-tracing reflections. Disabling Reflections is recommended for non-RTX cards.
Post-Processing
Cinematic effects such as motion blur are distracting, so turn them down as much as possible.
Supersampling Mode
Disable Supersampling to get the most frames possible. However, enabling it to Quality or Performance can makeDungeonbornerun smoother depending on your graphics card. Note that Supersampling changes your 3D Resolution setting. You will need to experiment with the slider to see what works best.
Sharpness
100 Percent
Experiment with what looks best for your monitor. 100 percent Sharpness can look good on older displays, but the new ones might need Sharpness to be below 50 percent for improved visuals.
Advanced Models and Shadow Rendering
This is one of the most demanding features inDungeonborne, and not at all worth the fps drops, especially for older systems. It adds a high level of detail for objects at close range. Disable this setting for themaximum fps boost possible.
The above graphics and video settings were tested on anold Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080to net over 200 frames per second inDungeonborne. Hence, there is a lot of room to experiment if you are running an Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series (or AMD equivalent).
None of the graphics settings require you to restart the game. Jump into the Training Room and start tinkering with the video settings to see their effects and fps gains/losses in real time.
How to Enable FPS Counter in Dungeonborne
Dungeonborne, unfortunately, does not feature a built-in fps counter. You will have to rely on Steam to see how well your system is running the game.
Both the Nvidia and AMD apps also feature built-in fps counters. They even share other processing data such as how much Memory and VRAM are being used. Similarly, head into their Settings to turn on the fps display.
