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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Best Settings Guide For PC

Focus Entertainment and Saber Interactive’s third-person shooter hack-n-slash game, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, 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 Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 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.

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 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.

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  • Display mode: Fullscreen
  • Display Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
  • Render Resolution: Native
  • Resolution Upscaling: NVIDIA DLSS if supported by GPU, else AMD FSR2
  • Vertical sync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise
  • FPS Limit: Unlimited on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise with target frame rate set to 60
  • Quality Preset: Custom
  • Texture Filtering: Ultra
  • Texture Resolution: Ultra
  • Shadows: Medium
  • Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: High
  • Screen Space Reflections: High
  • Volumetrics: Medium
  • Effects: Medium
  • Details: Ultra
  • Cloth Simulation: Medium

Steam Deck Optimized Settings

The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.

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  • Display mode: Fullscreen
  • Display Resolution: 1280 x 800
  • Render Resolution: Performance
  • Resolution Upscaling: AMD FSR2
  • Vertical sync: Off
  • FPS Limit: 60
  • Quality Preset: Custom
  • Texture Filtering: High
  • Texture Resolution: Medium
  • Shadows: Low
  • Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: Off
  • Screen Space Reflections: Off
  • Volumetrics: Low
  • Effects: Low
  • Details: Low
  • Cloth Simulation: Low

As seen in the video above, mostly dropping the graphical settings to their lowest and disabling the screen space effects allows Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 to generally run above 30 fps. In order to get a relatively consistent frame time delivery, set the frame limit to 30 fps via the Steam Deck overlay.

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