[PUBG] Maximum FPS / Performance Settings

This guide will help you tune up your PUBG settings so you can get the best performance possible. It also contains settings you should use in Nvidia Control Panel and AMD Radeon Settings, plus other windows 10 specific settings and other tweaks.

I have tried to collect every performance boost, fps increase information in this post, I hope this helps others as much as it has helped me.

Graphics Settings

• Display Mode: Fullscreen or FullScreen Windowed
• Resolution: 1920x1080 (monitor native resolution)
• FPP Camera FOV: 90-100
• Lobby FPS Limit: 60
• In-Game FPS Limit: Unlimited
• Smoothed Frame Rate: Off
• Screen Scale: 100
• Anti-Aliasing: Medium or High
• Post-Processing: Very Low
• Shadows: Very Low
• Textures: Medium or High
• Effects: Very Low
• Foliage: Very Low
• View Distance: Very Low
• V-Sync: Off
• Motion Blur: Off
• Sharpen: On
• Anti-Aliasing: GPU dependent, Very Low = Off, Low = FXAA, Medium-High-Ultra = TAA (with slight differences)
• Texture: GPU dependent, set to a value that will cause your GPU to operate at 80-99%
• Effects: This setting affects muzzle flash, setting it to higher will lets you see more flashing of enemy weapons
• View Distance: barely effects FPS, to reduce stuttering you can set it higher

Gameplay / UI

• Inventory screen character render: Off
• Replay: Disabled
• Death Cam: Disabled

Nvidia Settings

Nvidia control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings > Add: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\PUBG\TslGame\Binaries\Win64 and select TslGame.exe

• Anisotropic filtering: Application-controlled
• Antialiasing - FXAA: Off
• Antialiasing - Gamme correction: On
• Antialiasing - mode: Application-controlled
• Antialiasing - Transparency: Off
• Maximum pre-rendered frames: 1
• Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA): Off
• Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration: Single display performance mode
• Optimize for Compute Performance: Off
• Power management mode: Prefer maximum Performance
• Preffered Refresh rate: Highest available
• Shader Cache: On
• Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization: On
• Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: Allow
• Texture filtering - Quality: High Performance
• Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization: On
• Tripple buffering: Off
• Threaded optimazation: On
• Vertical Sync: Off
• Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames: 1

Nvidia Control Panel > Display > Adjust dektop color settings > 3. Apply the following enchancements
// this does not improve performance just makes richer colors and ergonomically pleasing images, like re-shade, but it does not get u banned for it.

• Digital vibrance: 55-60%
• Hue: 0%

Nvidea Experience

• General > In-Game Overlay: Off
• Shield > Gamestream: Off

AMD Radeon Settings

AMD Radeon Settings > Gaming > Select PUBG

• Anti-aliasing Mode: Use application settings
• Anti-aliasing Method: Multisampling
• Morphological Filtering: Off
• Anisotropic Filtering Mode: Use Application settings
• Texture Filtering Quality: Performance
• Surface Format Optimization: On
• Wait for Vertical Refresh: Always off
• OpenGL Triple Buffering: Off
• Shader Cache: On
• Tessellation Mode: Override application settings
• Maximum Tessellation Level: Off
• AMD FreeSync: AMD optimized
• Frame Rate Target Control: Disabled

Steam

Right click PUBG in steam library > Properties > General tab

• Un-Check "Enable Steam Overlay while in-game"
• (Obsolete) Set Launch Option: -malloc=system -USEALLAVAILABLECORES

Setting > Web Browser

• Delete Web Browser Cache
• Delete All Browser Cookies

Windows 10

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\PUBG\TslGame\Binaries\Win64 and right click TslGame.exe

• Compatibility > check "override high DPI scaling behavior" and select "Application" from the drop-down menu.
• Also disable "Full screen optimization"
• Windows 10 Settings > Gaming > Game DVR > Set all sides to Off

Power Management (Windows 10)

// Laptop users be warned this will consume much more battery!

• Settings >System > Power & sleep > Addtional Power Settings
• Under Choose to customize a power plan, expand the option which says “Unhide Additional plans.”
• If you do not see Ultimate Performance Mode, then follow the next steps.
• Open a cmd.exe as Administrator
• In the command prompt, copy the following command, and hit Enter.
• powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61

Delete Crash report files

• C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\TslGame\Saved\Crashes
• Remove all files

Delete loading screen video

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\PUBG\TslGame\Content\Movies
• Remove or rename LoadingScreen_Xbox.mp4

Nvidia/AMD drivers

Always update to the latest nvidea driver! However there are some specific drivers made for PUBG.
For newer GPUs (especially 1080ti/2080) recommended drivers might reduce stuttering. To uninstall previous display drivers i recommend using DDU

• Nvidia driver 388.71 --> 2017 December
• Nvidia driver 391.01 --> 2018 Februar
• AMD driver 18.2.2 --> 2018 Februar

!!!WARNING!!!

There are reports that the newly added Anti-Cheat causes FPS drop, so upon starting PUBG a Game launcher should come up, there make sure to Un-Check the "Enable Anti-Cheat" and hit PLAY.

ADDITIONAL

• Close unused background programs
• Use CCleaner to clean system and registry
• Update all device drivers (e.g. with Driver Booster 6)
• Disable Hardware optimization where it's possible (Chrome, Discord, Steam ...etc)
• You may try to disable paging, if you have 16GB or more RAM
• Don't play on Wi-Fi, play over cable
• Run game on SSD

If still not satisfied with the result look into CPU/GPU/RAM overclocking possibilities.
I get up-to 200+ FPS, but stable 144 FPS if locked via RivaTuner

My Setup: Asus Strix Z270H / Intel® Core™ i7-7700K / EVGA Hybrid GTX 980Ti / Samsung 960 Evo 250GB M.2 / Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB 3000Mhz / Fractal Design Integra M 750W Bronze / Fractal Design Celsius S36 3x120mm / Phanteks Enthoo Luxe / Windows 10 x64

Guide by Obeliksz