Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment’s action adventure game, Star Wars Outlaws, 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 Star Wars Outlaws 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.
Star Wars Outlaws 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.
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- Vertical sync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise
- Display mode: Exclusive Fullscreen
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Frame rate limiter: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise with target frame rate set to 60
- Upscale type: NVIDIA DLSS if supported by GPU, else Intel XeSS if supported by GPU, else AMD FSR3
- Upscaler mode: Fixed
- Upscaler quality: Quality
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- Environment reflection quality: Medium
- Fog blur: On
- Microdetail quality: Medium
- Particle quality: Medium
- Scatter density: Medium
- Shadow quality: Medium
- Shadow proxies: On
- Spotlight shadows: Many
- Spotlight shadow quality: High
- Deformable terrain quality: Ultra
- Lens and cinematic effects quality: Medium
- Extra streaming distance: 0
- Object detail; 100
- Destruction quality: High
- Spotlight projection resolution: 256
- Terrain tessellation: Medium
- Raytraced contact shadows: Low
- Raytraced diffuse reflections: High
- Raytraced diffuse reflections resolution: Medium
- Raytraced specular reflections: High
- Raytraced specular reflections resolution: Very Low
- BVH quality: Low
- Volumetric fog: Medium
- Volumetric clouds: High
- Depth of field: High
- NVIDIA RTX direct lighting: Off
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
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- Vertical sync: Off
- Display mode: Exclusive Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Frame rate limiter: On with target frame rate set to 60
- Upscale type:AMD FSR3
- Upscaler mode: Fixed
- Upscaler quality: Ultra Performance
GRAPHICS
- Environment reflection quality: Low
- Fog blur: Off
- Microdetail quality: Low
- Particle quality: Very Low
- Scatter density: Low
- Shadow quality: Low
- Shadow proxies: On
- Spotlight shadows: Few
- Spotlight shadow quality: Low
- Deformable terrain quality: Low
- Lens and cinematic effects quality: Low
- Extra streaming distance: 0
- Object detail; 75
- Destruction quality: Low
- Spotlight projection resolution: 128
- Terrain tessellation: Low
- Raytraced contact shadows: Low
- Raytraced diffuse reflections: Low
- Raytraced diffuse reflections resolution: Medium
- Raytraced specular reflections: Low
- Raytraced specular reflections resolution: Very Low
- BVH quality: Low
- Volumetric fog: Low
- Volumetric clouds: Low
- Depth of field: Low
- NVIDIA RTX direct lighting: Off
As seen in the video above, despite setting to the lowest possible graphics settings, Star Wars Outlaws runs at a highly inconsistent frame rate (with frame limit set to 30 fps) on the Steam Deck. The frame rate can hover anywhere between the 15 to 25 fps range. As such, it currently isn’t a recommended way to play the game.
