When a game as massive asThrone and Libertyis released, it’s a common thing for players to wonder justhow the game can performup to the promises made by it. This game, in particular, boasts some pretty hefty battles that can sometimes see thousands of players all interacting with each other. Add the countless NPCs and other characters that can be involved, and the game has a lot to handle when it comes to performing properly.
Fortunately, performance isn’t one of the game’s weak points. Even at the highest settings available, the game seems to run at a steady clip, though this, of course, would change with some older machines. But even with this good performance, the game still allows players to customize their settings to get the best settings possible. This guide has those settings for players to use as a reference to make sure their gameruns as smoothly as possibleasplayers jump into the fray.
Best Settings To Improve Performance
First off, players can get to the graphics settings bypressing the ESC button on keyboard or pause button on controllersto pull up the menu.
They can then look at the bottom section and select the Settings option, followed by the Graphics one on this new screen.
Here,they can change their settingsto the following for optimal performance boosts:
FSR/DLSS Upscaling
Performance
This does have a solid impact on performance, and while Ultra Performance gives a little bit more, it seems to have a greater impact on graphical fidelity. This is the best middle ground.
Resolution
Native
Having the setting set to the monitor’s native is always going to give the best results. Having it otherwise will cause some minor performance problems.
Frame Rate Limit
No Limit
Not a massive impact on performance, but still worth letting the game not have to work for a specific goal.
VSync
Off
A minor impact on performance and having it turned off just makes it feel smoother.
Resolution Rate
100%
Not enough of a hit to frames to warrant having any lower.
Optimize Large-Scale Combat
On
A minor difference in performance and worth to have the massive battles be at their best.
Motion Blur
A slight boost to performance and much better to look at.
A slight bump in frames and performance.
x16
Effects Quality
High
A slight boost to performance that also preserves some graphical fidelity.
Post Processing
Vegetation Quality
Low
Gives a decent boost to performance and players won’t miss the vegetation.
Shadow Quality
Gives a good boost to performance at the cost of something that doesn’t matter very much.
Distant Shadow Quality
Hair Strands
Disable
Takes up more power than it’s worth and players won’t notice it missing.
Visual Fidelity
Medium
A good middle ground to keep performance solid with some sharp graphics. Low also works to give a small boost to performance.
Delay Camera Rotation
Not a big change to performance but having it turned on is more annoying than anything.
Camera Shake Effects
More of a preference option, but it helps the performance feel smoother.
Many of these settings differ in terms of how they affect the way the game performs. For instance, Anisotropic Filteringdoesn’t have much of a differenceat all between higher and lower settings. As such, it’s recommended to keep it at x16.
On the other hand, the character countdid show to have a significant impact on performance, which is why it is set to Low here to save the machine from having to render all those characters.
Of course, all of thiscan change depending on the specs of the machinethe game is being played on. Higher-end PCs can get away with having most of these settings set to max, while the Steam Deck will default to the lowest values.
These settings are best used with mid-to-high range machines, and the specs that they were tested on were:
Players can continue to play around with these to find the selections that work best for them, but this is a great baselineto start with.
People should alsoexpect some performance changesas theytravel around the game’s map. Journeying into the cities and more dense areas of the map will cause the game to slow down a bit to render everything. However, these dips have not been significant enough to warrant any panic or worry.
