Square Enix’s action role-playing game, Final Fantasy XVI, 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 XVI 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 XVI 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.
DISPLAY
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Screen Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Refresh Rate: as per the max refresh rate of your display
- V-Sync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise
GRAPHICS
- Super Resolution: NVIDIA DLSS if supported by GPU, else XeSS if supported by GPU, else AMD FSR3
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Upscaling: Quality
- Frame Rate: Max available on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, otherwise set to target frame rate according to preference
- Graphical Fidelity: High
- Texture Quality: High
- Texture Detail: High
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Water Quality: High
- Clutter Density: High
- NPC Quantity: High
- Screen Space Reflection: On
- Ambient Occlusion: On
- Bloom Shader: On
- Variable Rate Shading: Off
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
DISPLAY
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Screen Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Refresh Rate: 60
- V-Sync: Off
GRAPHICS
- Super Resolution: AMD FSR3
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Upscaling: Performance
- Frame Rate: 60
- Graphical Fidelity: Low
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Texture Detail: Medium
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Water Quality: Low
- Clutter Density: Low
- NPC Quantity: Low
- Screen Space Reflection: Off
- Ambient Occlusion: Off
- Bloom Shader: Off
- Variable Rate Shading: Off
As seen in the video above, despite dropping most of the graphics settings to their lowest, Final Fantasy XVI delivers highly inconsistent performance. Even after setting the frame limit to 30 fps via the Steam Deck OS, the game will still see drops into the low 20s. As such, it currently isn’t a recommended way to play the game.
