Best settings for Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Dragon Age: The Veilguard was released on October 31, 2024, a decade after Dragon Age: Inquisition, and is the direct sequel to the latter. However, before you jump into the new title, there are a few settings that you should chang to get the best experience.

Keep in mind that Dragon Age: The Veilguard's system requirements are not that forgiving. Without the right graphics settings, your system may not achieve a stable 60 FPS in this title.

The article outlines the best settings to use in Dragon Age: The Veilguard to enhance your gaming experience.

Note: This article is subjective and solely reflects the writer's opinions. The settings provided below are based on the game's recommended specs and shouldn't be used resolutions higher than 1920x1080.

What are the best settings for Dragon Age: The Veilguard?

The default settings for display, graphics, audio, and more are for the general audience. You need to tune them to get the best performance in the game.

Display

The display settings allow you to control the resolution, refresh rate, framerate, and more. Here are all the display settings you should use in Dragon Age: The Veilguard:

Active Monitor: Primary monitor
Window Mode: Fullscreen
Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Refresh Rate: 120Hz
Frame Rate Limit: 60
VSync: Off
Triple Buffering: On
Brightness: 50%
Contrast: 50%
Enable HDR: Off
HDR Calibration: Off
Upsample Method: Nvidia DLSS/ AMD FSR
Upsample Quality: Quality
DLSS 3/FSR 3 Frame Generation: Off
NVIDIA Reflex: On + Boost (Only for Nvidia GPUs)
Anti-Aliasing: Default
Render Scale: 100%
Dynamic Resolution Scaling: Off
Target Frames Per Second: Default
Minimum Resolution Scale: Default

Graphics

The graphics settings have the biggest impact on performance. We have delicately tuned them to ensure high-quality visuals and admirable performance.

Graphics preset: Custom
Texture Quality: Medium
Texture Filtering: Ultra
Lighting Quality: High
Contact Shadows: On
Ambient Occlusion: HBAO Full
Screen-Space Reflections: On
Volumetric Lighting: High
Sky Quality: Ultra
Ray-traced Reflections: Off
Ray-traced Ambient Occlusion: Off
Ultra Ray Tracing: Off
Level of Detail: High
Strand Hair: On
Terrain Quality: Ultra
Terrain Decoration: High
Visual Effects Quality: High
Depth of Field: Off
Vignette: Off
Motion Blur: Off
Post-Processing Quality: High
Field of View: 90

Also read: Dragon Age The Veilguard guide: Best settings for Nvidia RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti

Audio

Audio settings such as environmental noise, speech, music, and more can have a tremendous impact on gameplay. Here are all the best audio settings:

Voice Over Language: As per preference
Text Language: As per preference
Subtitle Visibility: Always
Subtitle Size: Small
Advanced Subtitle Settings: Default
Mute Sound: Off
Global Volume: 100%
Music Volume: 50%
Speech Volume: 100%
SFX Volume: 90%
Ambient Volume: 70%
Menu Volume: 40%
Mute While Minimized: Off
Output Configuration: Stereo
Sound Preset: Wide Dynamic
3D Audio: On
Mono Sound: Off
Mono Panning: Default

Controls

Mouse or controller sensitivity determines how well combat can feel in the game. Apply the following for the best combat experience:

Input Mapping

Class Keybindings: Warrior
Keyboard Mapping: Default
Customize Keyboard Bindings: Default
Customize Controller Bindings: Default

Mouse

Mouse Sensitivity: 3.40
Mouse Aiming Sensitivity: 78%
Invert Mouse Y-Axis: Off
Invert Mouse X-Axis: Off
Mouse Acceleration: Off
Mouse Wheel Sensitivity: 100%

Controller

Invert Y-Axis: Off
Invert X-Axis: Off
Vertical Sensitivity: 80%
Horizontal Sensitivity: 100%
Aiming Vertical Sensitivity: 70%
Aiming Horizontal Sensitivity: 90
Swap Left and Right Sticks: Off
Look Stick Deadzone: As per preference
Movement Stick Deadzone: As per preference
Trigger Deadzone: As per preference
Global Vibration Intensity: 100%
Gameplay Vibration Intensity: 100%
Environmental Vibration Intensity: 80%
Cinematic Vibration Intensity: 90%

Interface

Here are all the best interface settings for Dragon Age: The Veilguard:

General

Hide Helmet: Conversations
Cinematic Aspect Ratio: 16:10

Menus

Text Language: As per preference
Text Size: Size 1
Menu Navigation: Cursor

HUD

Objective Tracker Visibility: Always
Mini Map Visibility: On
Lock Minimap Rotation: Off
Mini Map Position: Right
Combat Text: On
Combat Text Opacity: 60%
Combat Text Size: Large
Advanced Combat Text: Off
Display Health Percentage: On
Show Player Health: Contextual
Show Abilities: Contextual

Ability Wheel

Stick Selection: Default
Controller Activation Type: Hold
Keyboard Activation Type: Tap

Tutorials and Hints

Tutorials: On
Hints: On

Accessibility

Apply the following accessibility settings:

General

Camera Shake: 90%
Color Vision Deficiency: Off
Persistent Dot: Off
Disable UI Hold Inputs: Hold
Text Size: Size 1
Enable Accessibility SFX: On
Accessibility SFX Volume: 20%
Enable Glint Ping SFX: Off
Low Health Screen Effect: On

Subtitles

Subtitle Visibility: Always
Subtitles Size: Small
Advanced Subtitle Settings: Default

Controller Vibration

Global Vibration Intensity: 100%
Gameplay Vibration Intensity: 100%
Environmental Vibration Intensity: 80%
Cinematic Vibration Intensity: 90%

This concludes our list of the best settings for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which is properly optimized to provide the best experience.

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