Best Xdefiant PC Graphics Settings to Boost Performance & Visibility

[@Gershy13]

Waited for this video before i played the game! These guides are the best! Warzone performance huge difference. Excited to try the settings for Xdefiant!

[@TechGuides]

Appreciate it :)

[@Xenos118]

@@TechGuides Reduced latency does not reduced latency ? The game says to use DX12 if Windows 10 or later but DX11 is always better ? So the game gives false informations. It's ridiculous.

[@4GeeAutoo]

thanks for the vid bro, my computer was running fine when the game first dropped then shot down to like 60fps mid game and made it virtually unplayable. I put in all the settings and it instantly shot up to like 400+. you da man!

[@spitfire219]

The only 'settings optimization' guide/creator i trust. Straight to the point, clear content - no b.s, with explanations for every choice he chooses, fps diagrams, and further analysis. Still the GOAT! ( hope for a Black Ops 6/Warzone 2025 era guide soon?)

[@TechGuides]

Appreciate the kind words!! Yes I definitely will test Blopbs 6 and WZ2025 :)

[@soulan1s]

Finally I was waiting for a video like this!

[@VoldeZuDemMord]

A follow up regarding config tweaks would be amazing, thanks for your efforts❤

[@TechGuides]

Gotcha! Thanks for watching!

[@bazzcom2218]

Thanks for this detailed test.

[@TechGuides]

Thanks for watching!

[@Introcex]

Love your great content

[@TechGuides]

I'm humbled, thank you so much!

[@mustafajalil5990]

I really appreciated your guide, after I tweaked some settings as you did I can finally run the game with decent FPS, Thank you very much.

[@mellowistaken]

If you’re having massive stuttering issues I would switch to dx12. I went from game borderline unplayable to smooth as butter. I’m on win11

[@TechGuides]

Interesting! What res are you playing at?

[@mellowistaken]

@@TechGuides 1920:1080

[@TechGuides]

Seems to be a pattern, I might check if I got the time

[@techninjahd]

This geme is so much fun and glad we now have dependable and thorough guide thanks to your hard work! Appreciate it!

[@TechGuides]

Cheers buddy!!

[@mellowistaken]

This was the video i was waiting for! Love your content man

[@TechGuides]

Hope you liked it!

[@mellowistaken]

@@TechGuides i did thank you for all your hard work!! Does the reduce latency setting really not do anything?

[@TechGuides]

Unfortunatdly I cant really test end-to-end latency so I simply dont know. But on Nvidia Reflex Low latency is definitely the preferred method which also yields higher FPS

[@mellowistaken]

@@TechGuidesi had one other question, did reflection quality increase have any kind of visual change? Only reason i ask is because it actually affects the look of skins and player models. You can tell the difference when you turn it off completely in the config file. Thanks!

[@danielcecena15]

Thank you! Great video

[@7z7.]

Thank you very much for your video 💖 It has finally allowed me to see the visual differences, but above all to finally have stable FPS (DX12 was the cause of my problems, it seems). I only set “Spot Shadows Resolution” to Ultra because the other settings make the shadows on the characters blink (at the start and end of the match) 🤔 It's just a detail but it's very unsettling even if the characters aren't what we see the most during a match 😅

[@TechGuides]

Awesome, happy to hear it helped! Interesting find, thanks for sharing!!

[@johnnysweet6172]

Hello! Can you make video about various graphic settings and impact on fps in black ops 6? In some future and if it not hard to you of course

[@salem5.7]

When you are in the main menu how we can customize the FPS to make the gpu take some rest?

[@leogonzalez6287]

I would suggest everyone to test by themselves each dx version, in my case dx12 has better fps (330) than dx11 (170). Tested on firing range at 1080p res

[@TechGuides]

1080p might be different for sure!

[@leogonzalez6287]

@@TechGuides btw, amazing video. Thanks for your effort.

[@MrIFaXe]

best guide out there. props to you mate!

[@TechGuides]

Appreciate it man!

[@BHAGATSINGH-um2qp]

which window are you using now and why ? give some reasons.........

[@arcticowl1091]

the difference between windows 10 and 11 is so small it's completely irrelevant to the performance of the game.

[@omaral-ajmi250]

thank u for these details.

[@klausandroehre9042]

Thank you for that !

[@salsa4709]

thanks for the guide, aprecciate it! Nice Video!

[@TechGuides]

Cheers, thanks for watching!

[@Xyrodex]

yoo suuuper well done and finally someone brings up numbers! thank you :-)

[@TechGuides]

Thanks for watching!

[@MislavM7]

I have i7 1300K and RTX 4080 What is the best settings for visibility & performance?

[@cTothy]

Best guide! And perfect because I also have a 7900XTX

[@kasterr02]

Great Guide !

[@TechGuides]

Cheers

[@lolThez]

great video!

[@CLV.]

Thanks:) Although I don't play this game, I'm glad that the video is as detailed as before And the question is, is s4 warzone planned, or were the changes in the game not significant and the old problems not fixed? (problematic settings for example: graphics accelerator scheduling in windows settings and rebar in the text file settings of the game) Thanks!

[@TechGuides]

Appreciate the comment! I cant do a full WZ one in the next weeks because Im on vacay ;) but I might make a short on on some specific settings

[@ElPinoles17]

Would you do a graphics settings for Project Zomboid? Nice video(:

[@ShyGoldie]

wow, I really appreciate the effort you put into this! This helped many people :)

[@TechGuides]

Thank you!

[@masy145]

thanks for the video, could you maybe do rust next?

[@Remu-]

For some reason the Reduce Latency setting makes my performance worse when turned off. My fps drops to around 145 and when enabled it's 230+. 5600X + 3070 at 1440p. I also lost the ability to alt + tab to desktop even though I only changed some of the quality options. Super weird.

[@TechGuides]

Thats strange, I saw massively worse performance with it enabled but definitely use what works best for you! The alt-tab bug can be fixed by switching to Windowed Borderless and Back to Fullscreen. Then you can tab out of the game again

[@projectc1rca048]

Thank You!

[@TechGuides]

Thanks for watching

[@puky1919]

Thank you mister :)

[@TechGuides]

Thanks for watching

[@Iknotum]

A couple of things you said are wrong for my system. I'm using a mini pc with the ryzen 9 6900hx, and directX 11 gives me less fps and more stuttering. Also, a smaller FOV gives me more fps. Maybe you should also try your advise on a lower spec system, I know it's more work but you can't say your guide is the best when you only test on high end systems with 200fps minimum.

[@TechGuides]

Very possible, those are only applicable for 1440p too. Im afraid I can not possible test on more systems for these videos. I used to do a mid-range and high-range intel/Nvidia system but poeple wanted to see an AMD based system too ;)

[@realunited184]

Thank you

[@ericcod1productions]

x definat apparenlty fixed the dx12 render recently ! tho

[@TechGuides]

Thanks for letting me know!

[@Profetorum]

Hey man will you ever do a video on Diablo4? 😅

[@TechGuides]

Im very sorry but probably not. I prefer covering games that I also play

[@CZEguevara]

Hello, great video. And I would also like to ask you if you would write what kind of mouse you use. What is your PC DPI setting? And what sensitivity settings of the mouse and both scopes in the game? Thanks.

[@Inkredible26]

Cs2 settings video plz brother ❤

[@TechGuides]

Yes Ill do one soon :)

[@MattSanta]

Wouldn’t you want volumetric quality on high to improve visibility?

[@TechGuides]

Yes but it tanks performance...

[@Isaxus12]

3:31 what do you mean by this?

[@TechGuides]

Reflex low latency limits your FPS so that GPU never waits for CPU and other way around, basically avoiding overloading your system which is what you would achieve with a fixed framerate limiter as well.

[@Isaxus12]

@@TechGuides Makes sense but some limit FPS for the consistency

[@scottthecarguy8147]

(Closes Eyes) "Honestly, I really cannot tell any difference between DX11 and DX12..."

[@rob8141]

RTX 4080 right

[@TechGuides]

Higher end components will better give significant differences in performance with changes in settings, so yeah it makes sense.

[@RohanSingh-ng6zc]

RTX 4800 FTW

[@killalertochannel6667]

This man using RTX 4800 from the future

[@red_7594]

Great video 👍

[@TechGuides]

Thanks for watching!

[@-StronK-]

can someone please summarize it, I dont wanna go to university and watch a whole movie for a few settings

[@TechGuides]

Use the timestamps to go to the summary...

[@-StronK-]

@@TechGuides saw it later on, sorry for being rude

[@TheStanleyFTW]

Amazing video. I did some further tweaks by editing the config and I ended up getting a noticeable performance improvement by disabling Anti-aliasing, ambient occlusion and turning off some post process effects. Somehow the big performance winner for me was turning off TAA. However rendering scale setting wont fo anything if you turn it off. Would love to see if you maybe could check and test it out on both your systems. All I wanted was for my laptop 1660 ti to keep a consistent 144fps at 1920x1440 and this made it possible.

[@TechGuides]

Thanks a ton for the insight! I might take a look at config tweaks one day :)

[@TheStanleyFTW]

@@TechGuides Awesome! Once again thank you for the high quality uploads. Super helpful and very clear to follow. Two further additions to the config shenanigans that I tried out: - Disabling shadows ofc brightens the overall map, BUT some maps (Showtime and Echelon HQ) become unplayable due to the way shadows are used on the game - Disabling Vignette will cause a quite a blinding effect when being healed. Like your whole screen gets a very blinding blue tone that gets very difficult to play with while you're being healed. Aight ciao ciao back to getting rolled in XDefiant lmao

[@TheEnde124]

Very nice video! Happy you showed performance results for every setting :D

[@TechGuides]

Glad you liked it!

[@algoodlife]

good job man thanks!

[@MrSunglxzz]

Amazing guide as usual! PS: Will you look into the config for further tweaking?

[@TechGuides]

Thanks!! Probably yes :)

[@MrSunglxzz]

🥳 looking forward to it.

[@viandox5428]

It's really good that you compare AMD and Nvidia in your tests. There are really more demanding options depending on the manufacturer.

[@alexandrevieira1259]

I have an intel arc a770 gpu... i dont have nvidia reflex, should i enable reduced latency?

[@AtifIshtiaq-zj6sj]

With 1080ti and mostly on low to medium settings, I am having stuttering problem in few maps

[@brinc3423]

Thank you 🤩👍🏻

[@TechGuides]

Thanks for watching!

[@ryanlelak4471]

Can you do a guide on ark ascended

[@Ncc-tt3gh]

thanks for this video guid it helped alot

[@TheCenterOfFocus]

Were you looking at the right place for contact shadows?

[@TechGuides]

I could have missed some for sure! Didn't have too much time to produce this guide

[@Buster294]

What an amazing video! Thank you very much. This helps a lot to keep the heat in my room down (especially in summer), without dumping the quality. +1 Sub from me

[@TechGuides]

Awesome to hear, the support is much appreciated!!

[@danielcecena15]

Can you pls do Escape from Tarkov?

[@TechGuides]

Havent planned it yet but Ill keep it in mind if I got some capacity later this year :)

[@danielcecena15]

Wow thank you! @@TechGuides

[@danielcecena15]

@@TechGuides At your own leisure!

[@doydiyditx1445]

Wow incredible video . Have you by any chance tested the finals as well ? I couldn't find a video on it from your channel ❤

[@TechGuides]

Appreciate it! I haven't find the time to test the finals but its definitely on my list of games that I want to make a video for :)

[@mikegaming3826]

dangg an rtx 4800 haha

[@sergiogonzalez6986]

I’m not able to change to dx11. It’s locked out. I’m on windows 11. Any suggestions

[@TechGuides]

You mean enabling DX12?

[@TheRelaxingStart]

Very good video keep this channel going bro!

[@TechGuides]

Thank you!

[@scottthecarguy8147]

DX12 looks way crispier.

[@TechGuides]

Ehm no, no difference at all even at 500% zoom when pixel peeping...

[@SOTM_YT]

Thanks for the help, great work, can u please make a video about R6 Siege and CS2, thanks again

[@TechGuides]

Thanks for watching! Yes I definitely planned to do one for CS2!

[@SOTM_YT]

@@TechGuides Thank u

[@Parad0x_SL]

Finally. Thanks for this man. I will share this on reddit.

[@TechGuides]

Appreciate it man

[@sergiopele]

The best guides always!

[@TechGuides]

Much appreciated :)

[@NoisR]

Theres no fullscreen mode

[@TechGuides]

Err?

[@NoisR]

@@TechGuides yup this game has no fullscreen. when u select fullscreen its just windowed fullscreen

[@Micro117]

@@NoisR Thats just a bug the devs are aware of also sometimes you can fix this bug by going into borderless into windowed then into fullscreen or by going into borderless restarting game and then putting it on fullscreen.

[@NoisR]

@@Micro117 i hope they fix that. its so annoying when u die and u click on your second monitor... also why even is there my mouse cursour when i die? its so dumb. but thanks i will try if this fix will work for me

[@Micro117]

@@NoisR Yeah when I played on MnK the cursor going on to my 2nd monitor got annoying but fullscreen doesn't fix that the option they have ingame to lock cursor the game window is also bugged and just doesn't work they are also aware of this bug and are working on a fix from what I've heard