Best Star Wars Outlaws graphics settings for PC

Star Wars Outlaws is now out on PC. The game is a bit demanding and will need some good hardware for the best experience. Those with more modest GPUs like an RTX 3060 or RX 6600 XT will especially need to crank down the graphics options. Like most high-profile Ubisoft releases, this game also packs a bunch of settings that need to be customized.

This article outlines the ideal settings combinations that work best for the average gaming PC. We have targeted a 60 FPS experience for the guide.

Note: You need a PC that satisfies at least the minimum requirements for these settings to work. Make sure your setup has at least a Ryzen 5 3600/Intel Core i7-8700K with an AMD RX 5600 XT/Nvidia GTX 1660 6GB.

Star Wars Outlaws graphics settings for PC

Star Wars Outlaws supports all forms of upscaling and gives gamers massive customization freedom. You can fine-tune the experience based on what you prefer. Below is the cheat sheet that should give you an idea of which options to choose:

Video

Monitor: Primary display
Vertical sync: Off
Display mode: Fullscreen
Resolution: Max. supported by monitor
Cinematic display mode: 16:9 (as per native monitor)
Monitor refresh rate: Max. supported by monitor
Cinematics framerate: Locked
Frame rate limiter: Off
Nvidia Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost (for Nvidia RTX GPUs)
Out of focus sleep: Off
Screen calibration: As per preferences

Upscaling

Upscaler type: Nvidia DLSS (recommended for Nvidia RTX 40 series GPUs), AMD FSR 3 (recommended for Nvidia RTX 30 series and below, AMD RX 7000 series and below)
Frame generation: On
Ray reconstruction: On (for RTX 4070 12 GB and above)
Upscaler mode: Biased
Upscaler quality: Balanced (for 60-class GPUs), Quality (for 70-class and above), Native AA (for RTX 4090)

Graphics - Basic

Chromatic aberration: On
Film grain: On
Depth of field: High
Motion blur intensity: 0
Camera motion blur intensity: 0
Per-object motion blur intensity: 0
Nvidia RTX Direct Lighting: Off
MSI Mystic Light Light: Off

Graphics - Advanced

Environment reflection quality: High
Fog blur: On
Microdetail quality: High
Particle quality: High
Scatter density: High
Shadow quality: High
Shadow proxies: Off
Spotlight shadows: Many
Spotlight shadow quality: High
Deformable terrain quality: High
Lens and cinematic effects quality: High
Extra streaming distance: 50
Object detail: 125
Destruction quality: High
Spotlight projection resolution: 512
Terrain tesselation: High

Turn on ray tracing in Star Wars Outlaws only on AMD RX 6700 XT and above. For Nvidia GPUs, switch ray tracing on if you have an Nvidia RTX 3070 and above.

Raytraced contact shadows: Medium
Raytraced diffuse reflections: Medium
Raytraced diffuse reflections resolution: Medium
Raytraced specular reflections: Medium
Raytraced specular reflections resolution: Medium
BVH quality: High
Volumetric fog: High
Volumetric clouds: Medium

Graphics - High contrast mode

High contrast mode: None
World color: Default
Ally highlight color: Blue
Hostile (aware) highlight color: Red
Hostile (unaware) highlight color: Purple
Interactions highlight color: Yello
Climbable surfaces highlight color: Green

Do note that this Star Wars Outlaws settings list is designed with the average gaming PC in mind. Some computers have extra rendering prowess while some others don't. You will need to alter the options accordingly. However, upscaling with frame generation should help all modern GPUs push out a playable framerate.