Xbox Game Studios and The Coalition’s third-person shooter, Gears Of War: Reloaded, 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 Gears Of War: Reloaded, 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.
Gears Of War: Reloaded 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 Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Full Screen: On
- VSync: Off on a VRR/G-sync display, On otherwise
- Frame Rate Limit: 240 (or set lower according to your max display refresh rate or preferred cap)
GRAPHICS
- Anti-Aliasing Option: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Resolution Scaling: Quality
- Texture Quality: Ultra
- Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Ambient Occlusion: Quality (drop to Performance if target frame rate isn’t achieved on a largely consistent basis)
- Motion Blur: Off
- Visual Effects Quality: Medium
- Screen Space Reflections: Off
- Flash Reduction: Off
How Does Gears Of War: Reloaded Run On Steam Deck?
DISPLAY
- Screen Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Full Screen: On
- VSync: On
- Frame Rate Limit: 240
GRAPHICS
- Anti-Aliasing Option: AMD FSR
- Resolution Scaling: Balanced
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Ambient Occlusion: Performance
- Motion Blur: Off
- Visual Effects Quality: Medium
- Screen Space Reflections: Off
- Flash Reduction: Off
As seen in the above video, Gears Of War: Reloaded mostly runs at frame rates above 60 fps, but can occasionally slip into the high 50s. As such, we consider the game highly playable on Valve’s handheld device.
