Embark Studios’ third-person extraction shooter, ARC Raiders, 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 ARC Raiders, 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.
ARC Raiders 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
- Window Mode: Borderless Fullscreen
- Display Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- VSync: Disabled on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else Enabled
- Frame Rate Limit: as per the max refresh rate of your display or preference
- Upscaled Resolution: 100%
- Resolution Scaling Method: DLSS set to Quality on supported GPUs, AMD FSR set to Quality otherwise
- Resolution Scale Quality: Quality
- Motion Blur: as per your preference
- NVIDIA RTX Global Illumination: Dynamic High (or lower if performance headroom isn’t available)
- View Distance:Medium
- Anti-Aliasing: Epic
- Shadows:Medium
- Post-Processing: Medium
- Texture: Epic
- Effects: Medium
- Reflections: High
- Foliage:Medium
- Global Illumination Resolution:Medium
How Does ARC Raiders Run On Steam Deck?
GRAPHICS
- Window Mode: Borderless Fullscreen
- Display Resolution: 1280 x 800
- VSync: Disabled
- Frame Rate Limit: Unlimited
- Upscaled Resolution: 100%
- Resolution Scaling Method: AMD FSR
- Resolution Scale Quality: Quality
- Motion Blur: as per your preference
- NVIDIA RTX Global Illumination: Static
- View Distance:Low
- Anti-Aliasing: Low
- Shadows:Low
- Post-Processing: Low
- Texture: Low
- Effects: Low
- Reflections: Low
- Foliage: Low
- Global Illumination Resolution: Low
As seen in the above video, ARC Raiders’ frame rate tends to stay above 30 fps on the Steam Deck using the lowest possible graphical settings. As such, we consider the game playable on Valve’s handheld device.
