Secret Mode and Fuse Games’ racing game, Star Wars: Galactic Racer, 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 Star Wars: Galactic Racer, 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.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer 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 Mode: Windowed Fullscreen
- Display Resolution: As per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Target Framerate: Uncapped, or as per the max refresh rate of your display or preference
- Resolution Quality: 50%
- VSync: Off on displays that support VRR/G-Sync, otherwise set to On to target your preferred refresh rate
- Motion Blur: On
- Anti-Aliasing Quality: Epic
- Foliage Quality: Epic
- Global Illumination Quality: Epic
- Landscape Quality: Epic
- Post Process Quality: Epic
- Reflection Quality: Epic
- Shader Quality: Epic
- Shadow Quality: Epic
- Visual Effects Quality: Epic
- Texture Quality: Epic
- View Distance Quality: Epic
- Full Screen Effects: On
- Anti-Aliasing Mode: TAAU
- Resolution Scaling: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Resolution Scaling Quality Mode: Performance
How Does Star Wars: Galactic Racer Run On Steam Deck?
- Display Mode: Windowed Fullscreen
- Display Resolution:1280 x 800
- Target Framerate: 60 FPS
- Resolution Quality: 50%
- VSync: Off
- Motion Blur: On
- Anti-Aliasing Quality: Low
- Foliage Quality: Low
- Global Illumination Quality: Low
- Landscape Quality: Low
- Post Process Quality: Low
- Reflection Quality: Low
- Shader Quality: Low
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Visual Effects Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Low
- View Distance Quality: Low
- Full Screen Effects: On
- Anti-Aliasing Mode: TAAU
- Resolution Scaling: AMD FSR
- Resolution Scaling Quality Mode: Performance
As seen in the above video, Star Wars: Galactic Racer tends to run above 30 fps for the most part on the Steam Deck using the lowest graphical settings, usually fluctuating between the mid to high 30s. As such, we consider the game to be fairly playable on Valve’s handheld device.
