Remnant 2 BEST Settings [Optimization Guide]

Remnant 2 is one of my most anticipated games of the year, as I’ve played the original for hours and tried to salvage every special weapon I could. The thing that surprised me was the game’s bad optimization. Remnant 2 isn’t the best out there when it comes to optimization. I’ve been running it on my decently specced laptop (i7-11 Gen with RTX 3070), and I was barely crossing the 60 FPS mark, even with DLSS. It’s not just me, as other players have also been facing this issue, and I thought a settings guide was essential. 

First Check System Requirements For Remnant 2

Before we start optimizing Remnant 2 for best performance, you’ll first have to gauge whether your PC is capable enough to handle the game. To do that, I’ll list the Remnant 2 system requirements, and you’ll have to compare them with your PC specifications.

Remnant 2 Minimum System Requirements

• CPU: Intel® Core i5-7600 or AMD™ R5-2600
• System Ram: 16 GB RAM
• GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon™ RX 590
• DirectX® Version: 12
• Storage Space Requirement: SSD with 80 GB available space
• Internet Connection Type: Broadband Connection

Remnant 2 Recommended System Requirements

• CPU: Intel® Core i5-10600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600
• System Ram: 16 GB RAM
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce® RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon™ RX 5700
• DirectX® Version: 12
• Storage Space Requirement: SSD with 80 GB available space
• Internet Connection Type: Broadband Connection

Now that you’ve compared the system requirements for Remnant 2 with your PC specification, you’ll have a better idea of how well your PC can handle the game. If you have equal to or better PC hardware than what’s mentioned in the requirements above, you’re all set to use the best Remnant 2 settings below. Otherwise, you’ll need to upgrade before you can experience the game in the best way possible. 

Use These Remnant 2 Settings

Now, we’ll dive into optimizing your game to give you the best performance. You’ll have to compromise on graphical fidelity at some points, but it will be worth it when Remnant 2 runs buttery smooth on your PC. 

Display Mode: Fullscreen

The first display option is the Display Mode, which sets your game’s display type to either Windowed, Borderless or Fullscreen. If you want the best performance, you should set it to Fullscreen mode, as your system can better focus all resources on Remnant 2. Borderless is great for people who often need to ALT + TAB out of the game to tend to other applications. 

Resolution: Your Native Display Resolution

The Resolution setting should be set at your display’s native resolution. This will give you the best picture quality without any blurriness. 

Brightness: Your Preference

Make sure to set your brightness slider to the optimal position according to your display. This is because Remnant 2 has some well-lit areas and some really dark but illuminated areas. You’ll get the best experience of their level design once the brightness is set to the optimal level. 

Motion Blur: Off 

Motion Blur looks really bad in Remnant 2, as it’s more distracting when you’re quickly dodging around enemies rather than being aesthetically pleasing. Best leave this at off. 

VSync: Off

VSync introduces input lag into Remnant 2. Although it helps reduce screen tearing into your game, if you want to land those last-second dodges and attacks on the bosses, it’s best that you disable VSync. Instead of VSync, I recommend you enable Nvidia’s GSYNC or AMD’s Freesync. 

Framerate: Your Display’s Max Refresh Rate

It would be best if you didn’t cap your Framerate. This is because Remnant 2 isn’t a story game that you need only 60 FPS for. Even though capping your FPS reduces strain on your GPU and CPU, you’ll greatly benefit from higher FPS due to the increased responsiveness. 

Upscaler: DLSS Or FSR 2.0

Using an Upscaler is necessary to get a stable FPS in Remnant 2. The game is practically designed around using Upscalers, and I recommend that you use Nvidia DLSS if you have an Nvidia RTX GPU. If you have any other GPU, AMD FSR 2.0 is as good and universally compatible with several GPUs.

Upscaler Quality: Performance

Now we can adjust the Upscaler Quality here, and trust me, right now, performance is the way to go. Unless you have a beefy GPU, then the quality mode will do you just fine. 

Graphics Quality Preset: Custom 

Since we’ll be fine-tuning every graphics setting, we don’t need to use a predetermined graphics preset. So it’ll stay at Custom. 

Shadow Quality: Low

In the fast-paced combat of Remnant 2, you’ll barely have time to look at the details of the shadows. Don’t get me wrong; the game’s pretty. However, when you’re running around the map, killing off enemies one by one while surviving, Shadow quality will become an afterthought real soon. So best turn them down to low. 

Post Processing: Medium 

Post Processing controls the quality of aesthetic effects in the game, which includes fog, rays and motion blur. This doesn’t impact performance that much, but on high, you’ll sacrifice a few FPS. So the medium is where you should set it. 

Foliage Quality: Low

There are several areas in Remnant 2 with a lot of grass and shrubbery. If you don’t what your FPS to tank while you’re fighting off enemies in this type of location, I’d recommend turning Foliage Quality to low. 

Effects Quality: Medium

The game makes abundant use of particular and explosion effects. Low makes the graphical quality of said effects really bad, which ruins the immersion a bit. Medium is the sweet spot to enjoy these effects in Remant 2 without sacrificing performance. 

View Distance Quality: Low or Medium

View Distance will determine how far the game will render objects in relation to the player’s position. In other words, the higher the view distance, the more game area will be rendered beyond even your camera. Hence, this will tank FPS quite a lot. I’d suggest low if you want to get as much FPS to focus on the area you’re currently in. If you have a slighter, better GPU, then the medium isn’t too bad, either. 

FOV Modifier: Default 

Field Of Vision is often an aesthetic effect that doesn’t affect the FPS at all. However, in Remnant 2, the wider your FOV is, the more objects will be loading into your peripheral vising, reducing the performance. I’d suggest you leave it at default unless you like how the wide FOV feels. 

Minimize Input Latency: Off

Since we’ve disabled VSynce, you won’t have to worry about any input latency. Turning on Minimize Input Latency Feature will reduce your FPS to favor input latency and combat input lag. However, if you’re feeling input lag in the game, you can turn it on to make it more responsive. 

Did Your Performance Improve?

We’ve listed all the best settings you should use in Remnant 2 to boost your performance. I’m quite confident you’ll get a significant boost in performance by simply using the settings I’ve mentioned above. The current state of the game doesn’t look that good, as it’s going to take some patches before you can expect it to get optimized. Until that happens, I hope a guide was able to make your gameplay experience better. Once the game gets optimized over time, you can crank a few settings up as you please. 

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