Apex Legends is a super competitive video game, and reaching the top level of ranked play is not that easy. One thing that can help you improve is good settings. To help you with that, here is our complete guide on the best settings for Apex Legends.

What Do Best Settings Even Mean?

Before we dive into all the best settings for Apex Legends, we must first explain what that even means. While trying to figure out the best settings for any video game, we have three main goals in mind.

 

The first goal is to increase the overall framerate. The second goal is to reduce input lag, and the final goal is to improve visibility. Increasing the framerate makes the game feel smooth and crisp. Reducing input lag makes the game feel responsive.

 

Improving visibility can include several things. For example, visibility can include shadows that help spot enemies. It may also include contrast settings between enemies and the background, which also helps spot enemies.

Nvidia Control Panel Settings

To start changing settings from the Nvidia control panel, you must open it first. Go to the desktop of your PC > right click > and click on NVIDIA Control Panel. A new window will open up on your screen, with a couple of options on the left section of this window. Find and click on "Manage 3D settings" from those options.

 

Once you have done all that, click on the "Program Settings" tab, click on the "Add" button, select "Apex Legends," and then click on the "Add Selected Program" button. After doing that, copy all the settings listed below:

 

1.      Antialiasing - AXAA (Off)

2.      Antialiasing - Mode (Off)

3.      CUDA - GPUs (All)

4.      Low Latency Mode (On)

5.      Multi Frame Sampled AA (MFAA) (Off)

6.      Power management mode (Prefer maximum performance)

7.      Preferred refresh rate (Your Monitor) (Highest available)

8.      Shader Cache (On)

9.      Texture Filtering - Negative LOD bias (Allow)

10.  Texture filtering - Quality (High Performance)

11.  Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization (On)

12.  Threaded optimization (On)

13.  Tripple buffering (Off)

14.  Vertical sync (Off)

In-Game Settings

Once done with the Nvidia control panel settings, you can move on to in-game settings. Launch the game, go to the in-game settings, and click on the "VIDEO" tab. After that, copy all the settings listed below.

 

1.      V-Sync (Disabled)

2.      NVidia Reflex (Enabled)

3.      Adaptive Resolution FPS Target (0)

4.      Anti-aliasing (TSAA)

5.      Texture Streaming Budget (1 or 2 GB Under the Max VRAM of your GPU)

6.      Texture Filtering (Bilinear)

7.      Ambient Occlusion Quality (Disabled)

8.      Sun Shadow Coverage (Low)

9.      Sun Shadow Detail (Low)

10.  Spot Shadow Detail (Low)

11.  Volumetric Lighting (Disabled)

12.  Dynamic Spot Shadows (Disabled)

13.  Model Detail (Low)

14.  Effects Detail (Low)

15.  Impact Marks (Disabled)

16.  Ragdolls (Low)

 

These are the bare minimum settings required for the game to look decent and deliver a high framerate at the same time. However, if you still get a lower framerate, you can try lowering the resolution from 1080p.

 

On the other hand, if you are getting well over 200 FPS, you can try increasing some settings. Pick one setting and set it to a higher value, and then see if it keeps the framerate above your desired value or over 144 FPS.