IO Interactive’s latest action-adventure game, 007 First Light, is now available for PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs and the Steam Deck.
Before we delve into the best settings for the PC version of 007 First Light, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.
007 First Light Best Settings
The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.
GRAPHICS
- Fullscreen resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Display mode: Full Screen
- V-Sync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else On
- V-sync interval: if V-sync is On, set to max refresh rate of your display or preference
- Transfer function: 2.2
- Resolution scaling: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Upscaling resolution: Performance
- Texture quality: Ultra
- Texture filter: Anisotropic 16x
- Level of detail: Medium
- Terrain quality: Ultra on GPUs with 16GB VRAM, High on GPUs below 16GB VRAM
- Shadow quality: Medium
- Volumetric fog quality: High
- Volumetric effects quality: High
- Global illumination quality: High
- Reflection quality: High
- Motion blur: as per your preference
How Does 007 First Light Run On Steam Deck?
GRAPHICS
- Fullscreen resolution: 1280 x 800
- Display mode: Full Screen
- V-Sync: Off
- Transfer function: 2.2
- Resolution scaling: AMD FSR
- Upscaling resolution: Balanced
- Texture quality: Low
- Texture filter: Trilinear
- Level of detail: Low
- Terrain quality: Low
- Shadow quality: Low
- Volumetric fog quality: Low
- Volumetric effects quality: Low
- Global illumination quality: Low
- Reflection quality: Low
- Motion blur: Off
As seen in the above video, 007 First Light runs above a frame rate of 30 fps for the most part on the Steam Deck using the lowest graphical settings, very rarely dropping into the high 20s. As such, we consider the game playable on Valve’s handheld device.
