Atomic Heart Best Settings Guide For PC

Mundfish’s first-person action role-playing game, Atomic Heart, is now available on PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on low-to-mid end system specs.

Before we delve into the best settings for the PC version of Atomic Heart, 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.

Atomic Heart 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 tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.

DISPLAY

• Window Mode: Fullscreen
• VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise
• FPS Cap: as per the max refresh rate of your display and preference
• Screen Resolution: as per the native resolution of your display and preference

QUALITY

• Preset: Custom
• Depth of Field: Off
• Motion Blur: off
• Anti-Aliasing: High TAA
• DLSS Super Resolution: Quality (on Nvidia GPUs that support DLSS)
• DLSS Frame Generation: On (on Nvidia GPUs that support DLSS 3.0)
• Nvidia Reflex: On
• Fidelity FX Super Resolution: ON (on GPUs that don’t support DLSS)
• Animation Quality: Medium
• Shadows: Medium
• Ambient Occlusion: High
• Visual FX: Medium
• Number of Objects: High
• Materials: Medium
• Volumetric Fog: Medium
• Post-Processing: Medium
• Textures: Max (or lower if VRAM is lower than 8 GB)
• Anisotropic Filtering: 8
  
• 3D Model Quality: High
• Vegetation Density: Medium
• Hard Drive Speed: choose HDD or SSD depending on the type of storage drive in your system
• Shader Cache: On

Atomic Heart is a FPS action role-playing video game developed by Mundfish and published by Focus Entertainment and 4Divinity. On February 21, 2023, the game was made available for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.