What are the best Star Wars Outlaws settings for PC? I was left in awe of the performance of Star Wars Outlaws and would be praising it as one of the most well-optimized PC titles of the year if not for some infrequent, random, and unexplained crashes.
You won’t need the best graphics card to explore the galaxy in Star Wars Outlaws, but the more power your gaming PC has, the prettier the game will look. The crashes I experienced could be attributed to the pre-release build of the game, but they’re something to keep an eye out for regardless.
Here are the best Star Wars Outlaws video and gameplay settings for PC:
Best Star Wars Outlaws graphics settings
- Environment Reflection Quality: High
- Fog Blur: On
- Microdetail Quality: High
- Particle Quality: High
- Scatter Density: Ultra
- Shadow Quality: High
- Distant Shadows: On
- Shadow Proxies: Of
- Spotlight Shadows: Many
- Spotlight Shadow Quality: Ultra
- Deformable Terrain Quality: Ultra
- Lens and Cinematic Effects Quality: Ultra
- Extra Streaming Distance: 100
- Object Detail: 200
- Destruction Quality: High
- Spotlight Projection Resolution: 512
- Terrain Tesselation: Ultra
- Volumetric Fog: Ultra
- Volumetric Clouds: High
- Upscaler: Nvidia DLSS
- Frame Generation: On
- Ray Reconstruction: On
- Upscaler Mode: Fixed
- Upscaler Quality: Quality
As I’ve already alluded to, the general performance of Star Wars Outlaws on PC is fantastic. The above figures show the average, 1% and 0.2% fps for two of my testing runs.
The top figures, with an average of 91.7fps, were running the game at the listed settings, while the second set of figures, showing the 67.4fps average, included ray tracing at the medium presets. These results are also at 2,560 x 1,440p, with the 1080p results creeping up by around 10-15%.
While it’s easy to be critical when a game doesn’t offer many settings to tweak in the menus, Star Wars Outlaws does the complete opposite and provides an overwhelming number of settings that can be adjusted.
Presets are helpful, but depending on how old your hardware is, you could easily spend up to an hour adjusting settings, meaning your quickest option for finding the best setting is just to cycle through presets because there is no benchmark tool available.
My only issues with the performance of Star Wars Outlaw were the random crashes that would strike at the most inconvenient times. Regular autosaving is in place, so progress wasn’t lost often, but it’s disappointing to see such issues at all, especially with no error message to help determine what the problem is.
It could well be that the review build of the game I used to test has this issue ironed out come release day, but it’s worth flagging just in case it’s still there in the full build.
Best gameplay and accessibility settings
There is no shortage of gameplay and accessibility options in Star Wars Outlaws, and all of these settings can be accessed and adjusted before you even make it to the main menu of the game.
Each setting you encounter, whether it’s something basic like the gameplay difficulty, or something crucial like the colorblind options, comes with great detail to let you know exactly how changing the setting will impact the game.
I scrolled through six sections of settings before playing the game and felt adequately prepared for when I finally started playing, knowing that all my usual setting requirements were in place. These are little things that can often go overlooked in games, but Ubisoft must be credited for how it has handled the gameplay and accessibility settings in Star Wars Outlaws.
How we tested Star Wars Outlaws
At PCGamesN, we use dedicated gaming rigs to test the best settings for performance and gameplay in the latest releases. The test rig used for Star Wars Outlaws includes the following components; Intel Core i7 11700F, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 12GB, 32GB of DDR4 3200MHz RAM, MSI B560 motherboard. We also test using Widows 11 64-bit.
We always run our testing first at 1,920 x 1,080 to identify the best settings, then again at 2,560 x 1,440 using the same setup to gauge the difference in performance. We use CapFrameX to capture frame data and compare testing sessions.
Does Star Wars Outlaws need an SSD?
The Star Wars Outlaws system requirements list that an SSD is required at all tiers. Installing the game on an HDD may result in unstable performance and much longer load time in-game.
How to monitor performance in Star Wars Outlaws
If you want to keep an eye on performance in Star Wars Outlaws, we have an easy method that works whether you’re using an Nvidia or AMD graphics card.
For Nvidia cards, ensure you have GeForce Experience or the Nvidia App installed and the in-game overlay enabled. Then hit ALT + R in-game to bring up your performance monitor. With AMD cards, you can enable performance monitoring via the Radeon overlay using the shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + O.
Alternatively, you can download free software such as CapFrameX or Nvidia FrameView, to get a cleaner, more simplified benchmarking tool that works with any graphics card.
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