Xbox Game Studios and Obsidian Entertainment’s action role-playing game, The Outer Worlds 2, 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 The Outer Worlds 2, 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.
The Outer Worlds 2 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
- Window Mode: Windowed Fullscreen
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Frame Rate Limit: as per the max refresh rate of your display or preference
- Vertical Sync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else On
- Upscaling: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, Intel XeSS otherwise
- Upscaling Quality: Quality
- Motion Blur: as per your preference
- Hardware Raytracing: On (or Off if performance headroom isn’t available)
- Screen Effects: Low
- View Distance: Medium
- Shadows: Low
- Anti-Aliasing: Low
- Textures: Very High
- Visual Effects: Medium
- Foliage: Medium
- Global Illumination: Medium
- Reflections: Medium
- Crowd Density: High
How Does The Outer Worlds 2 Run On Steam Deck?
GRAPHICS
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Frame Rate Limit: Unlimited
- Vertical Sync: On
- Upscaling: Intel XeSS
- Upscaling Quality: Performance
- Motion Blur: as per your preference
- Hardware Raytracing: Off
- Screen Effects: Low
- View Distance: Low
- Shadows: Low
- Anti-Aliasing: Low
- Textures: Medium
- Visual Effects: Low
- Foliage: Low
- Global Illumination: Low
- Reflections: Low
- Crowd Density: Low
As seen in the above video, The Outer Worlds 2’s frame rate tends to stay above 30 fps on the Steam Deck using the lowest possible graphical settings. As such, we consider the game playable on Valve’s handheld device.
