Stalker 2: Best video settings for maximum FPS, visibility, and graphics
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl uses many system resources, making it challenging to achieve stable performance while maintaining high visual quality. If the graphics settings are too low, it can greatly hinder gameplay visibility, negatively impacting your journey through the Chornobyl exclusion zone and making combat with enemies frustrating.
For this reason, it's crucial to optimize different settings to experience good graphics and a stable FPS rate while playing on a PC. This guide highlights the best Stalker 2 video settings to enhance your experience in the game.
Note: This article is subjective and reflects the opinions of the writer
Best Stalker 2 graphics settings to get more FPS
for an elevated experience
Given that Stalker 2's expansive open world features numerous environmental aspects, having optimized settings is essential for smooth gameplay. Notably, the game’s use of Unreal Engine 5 also requires substantial system resources.
If you’re using a mid-to-low-range PC, adjusting the settings as follows should help.
Also Read: What is the map size of Stalker 2?
Display settings
- Graphics card: Select your primary graphics card
- Display: Select your primary monitor
- Screen mode: Fullscreen [Exclusive]
- Display resolution: Primary monitor's maximum resolution (Native)
- Aspect ratio: Auto
- Field of view: 90
- V-Sync: Disabled
- Frame rate: No limits (if playing on a laptop, lock it at 60 FPS)
- NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: Enabled
Graphics settings
- Overall quality: Custom
- Texture quality: Medium (if V-RAM is less than 6, choose Low)
- Hair: High
- Object details: Medium
- Effects quality: Medium
- Materials: High
- Post-processing: Medium
- Antialiasing: Medium
- Motion blur strength: 0%
- Depth of field: Low
- Light shafts: Disabled
- Sharpness: 70 (adjust as your preference)
- Upsacling method: FSR
- Upscaling quality: Quality or Balanced
- DLSS Frame Generation: Off
- FSR 3 Frame Generation: Enabled
- Shading quality: Medium
- Global illumination: Medium
- Reflections: Medium
- Shadow quality: Low (can be increased to Medium depending on the performance)
- Clouds: High
- Fog: High
- Sky: High
- Foliage quality: Low
- Environment draw distance: Medium (select Near if you're getting low FPS)
Also read: Stalker 2 system requirements: Minimum and recommended PC settings explored
If you're using a newer NVIDIA graphics card, such as the high-end 3000 series or the recently released 4000 series, you are recommended to select the DLSS method for Upscaling. Additionally, choose "Quality" for the Upscaling quality setting and enable the DLSS Frame Generation option.
Check out more guides on the game below:
- List of main missions and side quests
- Can you change the difficulty?