EA, Bit Reactor, and Respawn Entertainment’s turn-based tactics game, Star Wars Zero Company, 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 Zero Company, 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 Zero Company 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.
GRAPHICS
- Windowing Mode: Borderless Windowed
- Resolution: As per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Frame Rate Limit: Set to unlimited or preference
- V-Sync: Off (on a display that doesn’t support VRR/G-Sync, turn On if screen tearing is bothersome)
- Upscaling Technology: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Upscaling Quality: Performance
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Global Illumination: Medium
- Reflections: Medium
- Post-Processing: Low
- Textures: Ultra
- Effect Quality: Medium
- Shading Quality: Low
- View Distance: Medium
- Hidden Object Details: Full
- Environmental Geometry Detail: On
How Does Star Wars Zero Company Run On Steam Deck?
GRAPHICS
- Windowing Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Frame Rate Limit: Set to unlimited
- V-Sync: Off (on a display that doesn’t support VRR/G-Sync, turn On if screen tearing is bothersome)
- Upscaling Technology: AMD FSR
- Upscaling Quality: Balanced
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Global Illumination: Low
- Reflections: Low
- Post-Processing: Low
- Textures: Low
- Effect Quality: Low
- Shading Quality: Low
- View Distance: Low
- Hidden Object Details: Simplified
- Environmental Geometry Detail: On
As seen in the above video, Star Wars Zero Company can drop well below the target frame rate of 30 fps on the Steam Deck using the lowest graphical settings. As such, we consider the game to be unplayable on Valve’s handheld device.
