Warner Bros Games and NetherRealm’s latest fighting game, Mortal Kombat 1, 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 the PC version of Mortal Kombat 1, 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.
Mortal Kombat 1 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.
GENERAL
- Video Mode: Fullscreen
- Screen Resolution: adjust as per the native resolution of your display
- Render Resolution: adjust as per the native resolution of your display and preference
- VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise
- Graphics Preset: Custom
- FPS Limit: 60
UPSCALING
- Upscaling Method: Nvidia DLSS or Intel XeSS if supported by GPU, AMD FSR 2 otherwise
- Upscaling Quality: Quality
ADVANCED
- Texture Quality: Ultra High
- Aniso Filtering: 16x
- Shadow Quality: High (or higher, depending on available GPU overhead)
- Bloom: On
- Ambien Occlusion: On
- Reflection: On
- Chromatic Aberration: depends on personal preference
- AA Mode: TAA
- Particle Density: High (or higher, depending on available GPU overhead)
Mortal Kombat 1 is the latest entry in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. It is developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros Games., and is the twelfth main installment in the Mortal Kombat series, serving as a sequel to Mortal Kombat 11 (2019), and the second reboot.
