Sony Interactive Entertainment and Arrowhead Game Studios’ third-person shooter, HELLDIVERS 2, is now available, and we’ve put together the best PC settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.
Before we delve into the best settings for HELLDIVERS 2 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.
HELLDIVERS 2 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.
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- Resolution: set as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Render Scale: Native
- V-Sync: Off on a display that supports VRR/G-Sync, On otherwise
- Texture Quality: Ultra (or lower, if GPU VRAM is 6 GB or below)
- Object Detail Quality: High
- Render Distance: High
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Particle Quality: Medium
- Reflection Quality: High
- Space Quality: High
- Ambient Occlusion: On
- Screen-Space Global Illumination: On
- Vegetation and Rubble Density: High
- Terrain Quality: High
- Volumetric Fog Quality: Medium
- Volumetric Cloud Quality: Medium
- Lighting Quality: High
- Anti-Aliasing: On
HELLDIVERS 2 serves as the sequel to the 2015 game Helldivers, which was a co-op top-down shooter. The game was released for PlayStation 5 and Windows on February 8, 2024. Unlike its predecessor, Helldivers 2 is a co-op third-person shooter. Players can select Strategems, which are air drops containing cluster bombs, sentry guns, shield generators, or supply pods with limited-use special weaponry, much like in the first game. The game supports multiplayer with up to four players. Friendly fire is always enabled, and the armor system is based on real firearms used against armored targets. Arrowhead’s unique multiplayer feature involves human observers at the studio influencing gameplay in real-time, adding an intriguing element to the gaming experience.
