Escape from Tarkov can be difficult to run on PCs with older hardware. If you’re struggling to maintain 60 FPS, there are ways to boost performance.
Lowering a few graphical settings can help, but you might not want to sacrifice more fidelity than you need to.
Here are the best settings to do that in Escape from Tarkov.
Best Escape from Tarkov Graphics settings
To find the settings of Escape from Tarkov, do the following:
- Go to the first Main Menu and look for the tab labeled ‘Settings.’
- From here, you’ll see various settings menus that can be tinkered with.
- For now, click on the tab labeled ‘Graphics’.
- Here, there will be a long list of every possible graphical setting in Escape From Tarkov.
From top to bottom, here are the values that are recommended for each setting to ensure the best performance.
- Screen Resolution: 1920×1080 (or whatever your monitor’s native resolution is)
- Aspect Ratio: 16×9 (or whatever your monitor’s native aspect ratio is)
- Window: Fullscreen
- Vsync: Disabled
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Shadows Quality: Low
- Object LOD Quality: 2.5
- Sharpness: 1.3
- Z-Blur: Disabled
- Antialiasing: TAA
- Resampling: 1x off
- Overall Visibility: 2,000
- Shadow Visibility: 75
- HBAO: Off
- SSR: Off
- Anisotropic Filtering: Per Texture
- Lobby FPS Limit: 60
- Game FPS Limit: Whatever your monitor’s native refresh rate is
- Chromatic Aberrations: Disabled
- Noise: Disabled
- Grass Shadows: Disabled
If players find their FPS still isn’t consistently staying at 60, they can attempt to further lower settings such as Texture Quality and Antialiasing. They can also try putting the game into “Windowed” mode instead of Fullscreen.
Of course, if players see they have some wiggle room with their FPS, they can also increase some of the settings.
Best Escape from Tarkov Game settings
The ‘Game Settings’ menu can also help you improve your FPS in Escape From Tarkov. This menu doesn’t include nearly as many options as the graphical settings tab, but there are still some important things to change.
- Auto RAM Cleaner: Enabled
- Head Bopping: 0.2
- FOV: 75
Best Escape from Tarkov Postfx Settings
- Brightness: 20
- Saturation: 20
- Clarity: 50
- Colourfulness: 30
- Luma Sharpen: 35
- Adaptive Sharpen: 35
- Color grading: Cognac
- Intensity: 15
- Colorblind mode: Protanopia
EFT Postfx is best left off. It comes with a performance hit and doesn’t add too much to the overall look and feel of the game.
Best Settings to Boost Visibility in Escape from Tarkov
- Object LOD quality: 2
- Overall Visibility: 1000
- FOV: 60
- Grass Shadows, Chromatic Aberrations, Z-Blur, Noise: off
We recommend these settings to boost visibility. Make sure to keep things like Grass Shadows off, as it could mess with overall visibility. If you are mostly using sniper rifles, try Overall Visibility at 1500.
Is Tarkov CPU or GPU intensive?
Tarkov is very CPU-dependent, so make sure you have a really good CPU to handle it. We recommend an Intel or Ryzen chip with strong single-core performance, as you might experience issues otherwise.
