using the best return configuration for your gaming PC will increase your chances of winning a roguelike game by helping you maintain a consistent frame rate during key moments. Since Returnal has already proven to be a demanding experience for us gamers, there’s no reason for our systems to sweat unnecessarily (and potentially flex) with us.
As always, it’s important to check if your installation meets the Returnal system requirements before upgrading to the optimized settings for best performance. Your hardware configuration also determines the graphics options available to you, such as ray-traced reflections and shadows, as well as AMD FSR and Nvidia DLSS enhancement.
PCGamesN Benchmark: MSI MPG Trident AS 11th Gaming PC with Intel Core i7 11700F, MSI Ventus Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, 32GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM, MSI B560 motherboard and Windows 11.
Better return parameters
- Display optimization: DLSS or FSR
- Lighting quality: high
- Shadow Quality: High
- Ambient Occlusion – High
- Screen Space Mirroring: Enabled
- Model quality: high
- Texture quality: high
- Volumetric Mist: High
- Particle quality: high
- Anti-aliasing quality: high
We find the best feedback settings with the Game Test Tool, which offers a detailed and repeatable benchmark that truly reflects game performance. Naturally, we used that setup, doing everything we could to survive and explore corners. Dark of Atropos.
Reverse screen optimizations
The number of options in the display optimization settings may seem overwhelming, but there are only two to consider: Nvidia Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) and AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR). Any of these enhancement technologies is the easiest way to increase frame rate with minimal impact on image quality.
Those of you with a GeForce RTX series graphics card will naturally want to use DLSS, while everyone else should go with FSR. There’s no single recommendation when it comes to DLSS or FSR modes, but we generally don’t suggest going below “Balanced” (especially at lower base resolutions like 1080p).
Returned shadow quality
Of all the parameters of Returnal, the lancer of scratches and the quality of the shadows on the frequency of images, the most elevated, which is not surprising is the name of dynamic lights that parsèment the surface shadow of the extraterrestrial environment Game.
The quality of the shadows determines both the resolution and the distance at which the shadows are drawn. Stick to “High” if you can afford it, but going to “Medium” can improve performance by up to 4%. Unfortunately, “Low” doesn’t offer that kind of kick and sounds significantly worse, so it’s not worth using.
ray tracing
Developers Housemarque and Climax Studios added Returnal’s existing ray-tracing features that were present in the PlayStation 5 version of the game. Now, in addition to ray-traced shadows, the PC port features new ray-traced reflections exclusive.
While these ray tracing options slightly improve in-game visuals, we don’t recommend enabling them unless you have one of the best graphics cards available, like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti.
Less powerful GPUs, like the RTX 3070 on our benchmark, can maintain an average of 79 fps using the “Epic” preset in addition to “Epic” ray tracing, but the lows of 1% n weren’t as high as we’d expect. would like. . 47fps. To make matters worse, it was native 1080p and turning off the RT features improved our frame rate by 20-25%.
So Returnal’s ray tracing features are nice, but expensive. Neither shadows nor ray-traced reflections morph and are difficult to appreciate during fast-paced gameplay. However, if you are determined to use them, we strongly recommend that you use an image scaling solution to reduce your cost.
For those hoping to play the latest PlayStation PC on the go, we’ve got everything you need to know about Returnal Steam Deck compatibility, including performance observations and setup recommendations.
Take the Returnal system requirements test on PCGameBenchmark to answer the question… Can I run Returnal?
Source : PC Gamesn
