Konami and Virtuos’ action-adventure stealth game, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, 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 Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, 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.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Best Settings For PC
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
- Windowed Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- V-Sync: Off on a VRR/G-sync display, On otherwise
- Maximum Frame Rate: 60 (Note: the game doesn’t support frame rates above 60)
- Anti-Aliasing Method: DLSS on NVIDIA GPUs, TSR otherwise
- Upscaling Quality: Quality
- Shadows: Low
- Textures: Ultra
- Global Illumination: Medium
- Bloom: High
- Motion Blur: Off
- Depth of Field: Off
How Does Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Run On Steam Deck?
GRAPHICS
- Windowed Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 720
- V-Sync: Off
- Maximum Frame Rate: 60
- Anti-Aliasing Method: TSR
- Upscaling Quality: Performance
- Shadows: Low
- Textures: Low
- Global Illumination: Low
- Bloom: Off
- Motion Blur: Off
- Depth of Field: Off
As seen in the above video, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater often runs above 30 fps, but can dip into the mid 20s during combat/stealth encounters. As such, we consider the game barely playable on Valve’s handheld device.
