Square Enix’s action role-playing game, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, is now available on PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.
Before we delve into the best settings for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on PC, 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.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 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
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Screen Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Framerate: 120 fps (or below, as per available performance)
- Display Sync Technology: VRR or G-Sync on supported displays
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling (Maximum): 100%
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling (Minimum): 100%
- Background Model Detail: High
- Ocean Detail: Medium
- Character Model Detail: High
- Effect Details: Medium
- Texture Resolution: High
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Fog Quality: Medium
- Anti-Aliasing Method: NVIDIA DLSS if supported by GPU, else TAAU
- Characters Displayed: 10 (or lower, depending on available performance)
- Character Shadow Display Distance: 5
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
GRAPHICS
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Screen Resolution: 1280 x 720
- Framerate: 30 fps
- Display Sync Technology: V-Sync
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling (Maximum): 100%
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling (Minimum): 100%
- Background Model Detail: Low
- Ocean Detail: Low
- Character Model Detail: Low
- Effect Details: Low
- Texture Resolution: Low
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Fog Quality: Low
- Anti-Aliasing Method: TAAU
- Characters Displayed: 0
- Character Shadow Display Distance: 0
As seen in the video above, even at mostly low settings, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth runs at a somewhat unstable frame rate on the Steam Deck, even when capped at 30 fps, dropping as low as 23 fps during some instances. That said, the game runs well enough overall and is playable using the above settings.
