Dragon Age The Veilguard PC optimization guide

Dragon Age The Veilguard is the latest and greatest from developer BioWare as far as its technical makeup and visual flourishes are concerned. The latest effort from the WRPG heavyweight studio shines the best on PC, with many options for tech-savvy gamers to tinker around with to get the right mixture of visuals and gameplay.

Whether it is newcomers checking out the game on their lower-spec system or a longtime fan going all out with max graphics, here are the optimized settings for Dragon Age The Veilguard on PC.

Note: This article is subjective and solely reflects the writer's opinion.

Best optimized settings for Dragon Age The Veilguard on PC

The game features many attractive vistas that shine the best at max graphics (Image via EA)

Tech nerds will no doubt be immensely satisfied with the number of tweakable graphics options on display. That said, here are the ones that offer the best visuals possible without skimping out on eye candy. Players can expect a baseline performance of 60 fps at 1080p out of these settings on most setups.

Texture Quality: Medium
Texture Filtering: Ultra
Lighting Quality: High
Contact Shadows: On
Ambient Occlusion (AO): HBAO Full
Screen Space Reflections (SSR): On
Volumetric Lighting: Ultra
Sky Quality: Ultra
Ray Traced Reflections: Off
Ray Traced Ambient Occlusion (RTAO): Off
Ultra Ray Tracing: Off
Level of Detail: High
Strand Hair: On
Terrain Quality: Ultra
Terrain Decoration: High
Visual Effects: Ultra
Post-Processing: High

To put it simply, any settings that have been kept at High or above tend to pose a minimal loss to the average frame rate during most gameplay scenes. On the flip side, the settings that have been turned off are demanding, which makes sense in this context as they all center around raytraced solutions for lighting, ambient occlusion, reflections, and more.

Players with higher-end rigs can no doubt push the settings higher on a case-by-case basis and see where their threshold lies. One of the few outliers in this regard would be textures, as even 8 GB cards will have a tough time streaming the High and above-quality textures.

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Dragon Age The Veilguard PC system requirements

The real-time action demands smooth performance (Image via EA)

Here are the minimum and recommended specs to run this game on PC:

Minimum:

OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
CPU: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 3 3300X
RAM: 16 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/1650 / AMD Radeon R9 290X
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 100 GB available space
Additional Notes: SSD recommended, HDD supported; AMD AM4 CPUs on Windows 11 require AGESA V2 1.2.0.7 or newer

Recommended:

OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
CPU: Intel Core i9-9900K / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
RAM: 16 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 / AMD Radeon RX 5700XT
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 100 GB available space
Additional Notes: SSD recommended, HDD supported; AMD AM4 CPUs on Windows 11 require AGESA V2 1.2.0.7 or newer

Dragon Age The Veilguard is available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.