High FPS & Visibility: THE BEST SETTINGS..

UPDATED The 2024 version of the best settings to provide you a tactical advantage in Escape from Tarkov.. This is not a guide specifically to increase your FPS, though most of the settings I'll be adjusting will increase your performance... the main goal here is to improve visibility and provide a tactical advantage.
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[@2Lew]

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[@startide]

00:26 what's the difference between performance and good fps ?

[@cozycherry2497]

hey just a quick question would you be able to list your spec in the disctription of the video just like cpu gpu so people can estimate what there lod qulity and texture quality should be?

[@tobito4397]

@@startide the triangle look cool

[@vishi7628]

The military teaches look right to left if you want to spot things moving, so if your playing and want to spot someone moving in a treeline scan from the right to the left. Opposite of reading.

[@spoolinsvt6489]

Does that actualkly make a difference? Would it stick out more since you are accustomed to seeing left to right? Interesting

[@vishi7628]

@@spoolinsvt6489 yeah it does, idk how to explain it in words but when youre looking from right to left your eyes spot irregular things easier and things that stand out really pop if that makes sense

[@spoolinsvt6489]

@@vishi7628 yeah that makes sense. Thanks, I’ll give it a try. Half the time I might as well be blind it feels like

[@IAmMrJonny]

@@spoolinsvt6489 in real life, it’s a bro science placebo. In videos and video games, it doesn’t matter. If you need someone to tell you it works so that you can start using your brain to recognize irregularities then do what it takes. For those who cant use their brains; the best way is to do multiple quick scans like you’re speed reading a book. Then clap your hands twice and spin in your gamer chair. You’ll always spot them this way.

[@vishi7628]

@@spoolinsvt6489 yeah fr tho

[@reaghnor]

Thanks for this. I’ve only recently started messing with the nvidea settings after watching one of your previous vids. Game changer. The short description on each setting you’re tweaking is great too, helps a lot!

[@dogrooo878]

Adjusted my settings and now I am the best videogame gamer out there on the internet. Thanks Lew

[@carricofernandes270]

🧢

[@dogrooo878]

@@carricofernandes270No cap fr fr bussin bussin on god

[@Maintenance_Mark]

@@dogrooo878 The new video game player of the century.

[@NimrodHAHA]

you have an ELA pfp bro i can tell ur copper

[@dogrooo878]

@@NimrodHAHA You have no clue lol

[@rjtrageser9884]

Finally a settings video! Been asking for this one for a while

[@Lex4122]

Holy shit, and i was bumbeling around in the dark and wondered for years why so many of my firefights at night were totally onesided...

[@robdamercman]

Yeah it helps not having to run nv

[@ExacoMvm]

Some corrections: LoD ( Level of Detail ) Quality will determine how high or low poly the objects are in distance. It won't affect at what range PMC/Objects render in, the lower the settings the lower poly/detail the objects will be in distance. Overall visibility will do what it says, in long range maps like Shoreline, Woods, etc you would ideally want higher visibility since it affects at what range objects render, 1500-2000 should be fine for most cases. Both LoD and Visibility also has significant performance impact and they somewhat work together e.g. Low visibility and high LoD should give about same performance as High Visibility and low LoD.

[@wizzle2222]

I'm looking at building my 1st pc specifically to play this game (yes I hate myself). But this was very helpful for me to understand what parts I'm going to need to get the best settings I'll be wanting. Thank you

[@KidCoyle]

Did you build your rig yet?

[@CYWNightmare]

For lack of color in tarkov especially if you use HDR, make sure High-Quality Color is enabled then go to postfx tab and select boost as your grading set it to 100. You can mess with the rest of the sliders yourself. I run this top to bottom: 100, 100, -100, 100, 100, 100. Change these if you ever do night raids theres a couple that make nvg so clear

[@MilkTestingMan]

Glad to see you making these videos, because when I first started this game, I never thought to change my monitor settings. The game was pitch black in dark areas and I didn’t understand how anybody could play like that. Took me forever to just turn up the gamma lmao.

[@leonidas9731]

yes me too I felt just recently like i barley saw two pmc's before they shot me I stood still both times to take a double take one was a rat in a bush cust ruaf extract the other was cresting a wooded and bushy hill on shorline.

[@arcticowl1091]

Something quite important if you like using lasers, due to the way TAA works, it makes the laser very hard to see while moving. Using no AA with 0 sharpening will keep the noisiness down while having a clear visible laser. I wouldn't recommend this on resolutions below 1440p as not having any anti aliasing looks quite bad on lower resolutions.

[@leviathan_gg]

Your last vid of this is what got me hooked onto your channel, now there's another one!? 😭Man how time flies💯

[@ruckin-ro5590]

A recommendation following the color blind segment (5:08), instead of turning Tritanopia up, I would recommend turning your colorfulness up. It makes the greens more greener, but keeps blue things blue instead of turning them purple.. Tritanopia also makes your gun look more purple, while colorfulness makes it look more blue. I am also not going into the Nvidia settings because I don't like what it does outside for Tarkov. If you do change you're Nvidia settings what I say might not apply.

[@gitrekt-gudson]

Thanks for the tips. I did most of this except for the nvidia control panel stuff... I play too many games that aren't Tarkov to bother with changing that every time I hop on, and with Tarkov I only mess with SPT these days so it's all good.

[@D4RKV3NOM]

For AMD users - go to custom colour in radeon settings to adjust contrast/brightness/saturation.. then open "Display Colour Calibration" from the start menu, when it is open pin it to the taskbar, then when in game alt tab and open the Display Colour Calibration app and press next a few times till you see gamma and increase it using the slider, then DONT close the Display Colour Calibration app, just minimise it and there you go! you can keep it on the gamma setting (minimized of course) and when done playing tarkov you can lower the gamma to default (reset button on app) then you don't have blown out gamma when using pc as well.. a pc xD (i copied my response to another person on this comment thread)

[@x1ks830]

2:37 you have the anistropic filter off, then 5:30 min is selected in the options. First you say turn it off and after a few minutes of the videos you have this option turned on? I think I'm missing something here. First something turned on, then turned off, it's hard to take what you say seriously, but it looked interesting.

[@PokerXXI]

Is there a way to change between two profile of Nvidia control panel ? Or I have to tweak the setting everytime I launch and quit the game ?

[@surfero66]

11700k , 64gb ram, rtx 4070 ti It doesnt matter if I put high or low, in streets, I hace the same FPS all games… gpu and cpu in high are working at 43% and 45%… this game is really really optimized by a monkey :( I dont know what else I can adjust to have more fps on streets. 1200hours in this game, and no improvement. Ohh Anyway, thanks for the video! 👍🏻 nice explained

[@ludababy3722]

Man has the best video edits ever ! Keep up the good work buddy

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

If you change the individual R, G, B in Nvidia settings you basically can emulate the PostFX without losing frames.

[@toastbroti_8775]

Bro thank you so much. I already subscribed a long time ago where your setting videos was crazy. It was nessecary this video.

[@CaneGame]

Dude. I have said it before, but I'm gonna say it again; you make the cleanest and best videos!

[@FL_Cordis]

Good edit and video Lew!

[@user-fn1cq4df3g]

Tarkov players explaining why you need to go into the settings on your PC and Tarkov to make the game not look fucking terrible. Tarkov players explaining how realistic the game is when everyone jacks the brightness up on Night raids instead of using NODs.

[@2Lew]

All the best players do this, and unfortunately if you don’t use tactical advantages like this… another player will… and they’ll likely kill you. Unless you want to keep dying to other people doing this, you might as well join them until BSG fix lighting so you can’t do this, like Rust has. Whilst you might not be mentioning me when you said this, I also hate the whole realism tarkov conversation, it’s a video game, screw realism just make it a good game!

[@xulua.24]

i can tell you are a TERRIBLE pvp player 😂

[@virtualalphastudios6149]

Wow this dude just said lew is bad at pvp, he must be a tard. Add the re.

[@WinZ10]

great vid lew, love the vids. favorite tarkov streamer.

[@egyptnesq5006]

Thanks man. Appreciate the deep explanations

[@zobilamouche420]

There's is also the ICC profile trick, IMO it looks a bit better, avoids using insane brightness and postfx settings that can take a few fps

[@Shovker27]

Ive never seen more than like 5 fps difference, i7 10700k + 4070 + 32gb ram

[@Mixson31]

thanks. I was copy of some setting and this is IT. Big thanks mate.

[@TheChemicalTube]

Sorry bro. I've don't understand. You use post fx or not ? Thank you

[@labcoat22]

Awesome another great job. I am sure I will watch this 10 to 15 times too

[@jafooleys1076]

will need to try tweaking my settings, been meaning to do it for a while appreciate the video 💜

[@mobilityrp3888]

can you explain why you would use full screen over borderless if you have dual monitors. I seriously doubt that is the better option when on dual. if its for single absolutely. But when on dual monitor, having full screen actually doubles the work your PC has to do anytime you alt tab. so you would be stuck not alt tabbing at all.

[@leonidas9731]

Do we have to reset them every wipe/update? Also can you do a video of popular controls for inventory/all controls + the ones you use?

[@doolatron]

Interested to see if you use process lasso or the RAM cleaner. I’ve recently started using these and my game feels much smoother.

[@Sandee-]

This is so helpful! Thanks Lew! 💜

[@Lu_Kitsuray]

For sure have to try some of these. Honestly, it doesn't even look that bad considering what I expected.

[@CYWNightmare]

I just wished they would optimize the damn game. With my exact setup most brand new triple A games even games like arma/DayZ I hit 240 fps with minor settings reductions. Tarkov I could only hit that @ 1080p rock bottom settings with dlss assuming I had a 4090.

[@drunkpunk5393]

The eft color management filter that you make default seems to do this outside of nvidia. I can see farther into the dark hallways ect

[@xm4rux]

03:57 How did you do that? The PostFX controls and the current game in one screen???

[@Sunshinemeadowss]

Helped me clean my game up a ton❤

[@DrDoinks]

*NEW, UPDATED TODAY MARCH 10, 2024 LIGHTING GUIDE:* 1. Apply for position of lead lighting designer at Battlestate Games (Must be living in Russia) 2. Work tirelessly for months and do a design overhaul of the entire lighting system. 3. Will release in the next unity engine update as a patch (in 3 years) *easy* No software, or setting changes required.

[@Alexander-z2m8m]

Very helpful video. Thanks a lot !

[@ugachaka2614]

Dop vid! This gamma thing helps so much! Cheers!

[@pbfamous07]

this video has changed tarkov from a stuttering pile of junk to a smooth youtube looking beast factory. first raid with new settings took a 2 man squad as a scav down and filled stash. thank you

[@Murtox]

object LOD has nothing to do with render distance tho... its for the models in the game. higher LOD quality means higher quality props. Its about the poly count used for an prop/object

[@2Lew]

LOD in Tarkov directly effects render distance of PMCs, if you don’t believe me check it for yourself

[@StepSisRUstuck]

Its crazy how i only have a 1660 super before i tweaked my settings i wouldn't even hit 60fps and now that ive tweaked all my settings and overclocked my cpu my game runs over 100fps easy unless i play streets 😊

[@bwdnako]

What ever happened to the postfx follow up?!?!

[@citizensnips2348]

I always find your tips interesting but i think this kind of thing is very system dependant in some cases. Like TAA will make it harder to spot things the lower your resolution is. Sometimes it's best to have no anti alliasing and lower sharpness.

[@martynas6ha4griefer]

AH- Look. I agree. It will help you see, but my eyes physically started hurting upon you turning up that gamma. I get it, but damn, I wish stuff like the fog and darkness was different so you wouldn't need to compromise between tactical and eye hurt.

[@glorbin]

the most entertaining tarkov player and the only tarkov content i can sit through 👍😂

[@coolbreeze7132]

Still just tryna figure out why sometimes getting less than 60 fps with a 14600kf and 7900 xt

[@gisten7818]

Great video just what I needed.

[@sum41ow]

great video!

[@sabrosocuy6933]

can you make one of these on audio as well?

[@Airsuprem]

What kind of monitor do you use as main?

[@inkognito21blr1080p]

why fullscreen? while in fullscreen mouse in stash feels insalely laggy and slow because of 60fps lock in lobby, while borderless allows your mouse to work on 144hz or whatever you have

[@sharkscanplay2890]

less actual delay during raids game typically runs better as well

[@Solid_Dude]

Placebo ​@@sharkscanplay2890

[@doncekebabas4781]

Can you include your nvidia control panel settings?

[@louisnel894]

I must be honest, the fact that ppl can tune settings to the point where they don't even need Nvg's is sad :( The game is suppost to be dark at night, like Stalker Gamma for example, whats the point if you can just avoid it? Completely breaks the game Imo :(

[@ravenous478]

Didn't think a concise settings video was possible at all, never mind one that actually informs you on how it all works instead of just rambling for 8 minutes before showing you a postfx screen for 10 seconds. Great job.

[@JoshuaBates-k8v]

Thank you bro you saved me!! I was getting 30fps on a i9 3900XT and a RTX 3060 oc edition now I’m rocking 120-140 all day😎🫡

[@keanupere7814]

Do you have the settings for amd from a friend by any chance?

[@nathanblanchard4712]

trying to get dark areas to look clearer is not working for me, even on night raids i cant get it to look like yours, when i put gamma all the way up and then adjust contrast it just ends up with a red tinge and not clear :( not sure what elsse to do but awesome vid

[@iiNaStYiii]

Anything over 65 FOV the zoomed scopes are off. you can shoot at something and the bullet hits lower than where the reticle is set at. Its been a bug since they added 75 fov

[@kiteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

So you made that vid, just to say at the end "its up to you" and "personal preference"?

[@ArrySalinalive]

dude the game looks way better and fun to play thanks for the setting ❤

[@lthammox]

It’s kinda sad that one can just override the game like that, and pretty much remove the night element. Ruins the intention of having a night/day cycle, and nvgs…

[@Immortal_BP]

im struggling to not run into a group as a solo, past 10 games i played 7 of them i saw other pmc and out of 7 were all groups most of which were 3+. groups of 2s aren't too bad because after u get the first guy its just a 1v1

[@duxartoria3392]

AMD users looking for the control panel: what the fuck is an nvidia

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

It's a game console I think. One of those hand held ones.

[@smoke5373]

Lol no we just use the adrenaline software 😊

[@heniogigakoks5925]

@@smoke5373adrenaline software has like 1/4 of nvidia settings

[@KoNine9]

I really don't know what people always have with there tarkov settings. It's the same like it always was, turn everything down beside textures that's it. Looks good, good performance.

[@Rancid_Ninja]

Adjust gamma on amd adrenaline?

[@Malte1878]

Pls do this for AMD aswell 😢❤

[@isyxx_]

so is there a way to automaticaly switch profiles in the control panel?

[@acolytetojippity]

Wow, I tried adjusting my monitor settings and it makes everything look...weird. it's almost like there's a film grain effect being applies when i crank the gamma and contrast up. looks kinda awful.

[@JTheDiamond]

me when i have an AMD gpu 😭😭😭

[@krisstoikow9325]

I tough i see when i put my glasses on, but then i found this video!

[@williamboyes279]

as an AMD user, i wish i could find an easy way to replicate those colour changes.

[@Solid_Dude]

Look in adrenaline dawg

[@fyzache]

I have 4060 and 5800x3d textures high or medium?

[@SIGMA27315]

no more high quality color? is there a reason?

[@Gregseh]

Thanks Lew!

[@BigBoyMMO]

Never released the postfx vid I see...almost sub'd.

[@leonidas9731]

I'm supprised BSG doesn't add in a skill for viewing distance so when your a timmy you are blind then when you get higher seeing skill level you get a huge advantage lmao.

[@officialxavier7967]

monitor sets?

[@PanoCstaV]

SETTINGS FOR AMD AS WELL?

[@bradybingham7605]

So why does it HAVE to be full screen I’ve seen many streamers and KZbinrs suggest borderless for tarkov because it gives them the most consistent frames…

[@2Lew]

Borderless forces vsync enabled, more input latency. Some people can’t feel it I guess. Fullscreen has much better latency /frame times

[@johanpettersson4980]

@@2Lew This is not true since Optimization for windowed games was implemented in Windows 11. There is no difference between exclusive fullscreen, fullscreen running with Full Screen Optimization enabled or borderless/windowed with Optimization for windowed games enabled. Earlier, Tarkov had some performance issues with Fullscreen Optimizations and got increased FPS when disabling FSO (under the compatibilty tab, properties for EscapeFromTarkov.exe) but I cant see any difference with later eft patches and more recent windows updates.

[@preachyvex6326]

YEASS KEEP THE VIDEO COMING

[@MajorMxx]

Great Vid, helps a lot. Thanks Lew

[@justv7536]

I wish every other PMC I saw didn't have a 30 k/d and the best recoil control you've ever seen on a stockless AK with irons at over 200 meters

[@thealonestargazer]

they NEED to fix nvgs, so that they look realistic

[@Voicesinme]

criminally under viewed wtf

[@syesepoh]

Another one only showcasing Nvidia settings goddamnit!!! Anybody got any AMD settings they would like to share?

[@syankha8329]

Use Hyper Rx preset and turn on freesync. Don't use RSR or FSR if you are using a 1080p monitor. That's pretty much it, but you may want to enable AFMF manually to test if it will help you or not.

[@syesepoh]

@@syankha8329 Thank you brother

[@Kejkli]

very good one!!

[@Jideaohn]

I use basically all these settings and every time I ADS I lose like 30 frames INSTANTLY, no matter the map. Maxing at like 75 FPS n drops to like 43 when down sights. I just wanna play the game 💀 any one give me a hand?

[@bornruthless7902]

Idk if you get notifications for screenshot but sorry I took a bunch of them lol

[@Pl4st3ex]

Is there any possibilty to make shorcut for gamma to switch on with one button? Messing with it all the time is pain in the ass. Got stream deck. Anyone?

[@2Lew]

Unfortunately not, there are some 3rd party apps on GitHub that do that but would need to make scripts I think do put it on streamdeck specifically

[@Snakumaru]

people keep saying hbao helps player silhouettes pop out in dark areas. anything true about that?

[@2Lew]

yeah there is an element of truth to that as HBAO does tend to outline things with shadow, so it could help. its preference to be honest.. but with that being said I will test this out in offline for next time :)

[@Snakumaru]

@@2Lew I did not expect an answer and so quick too. I am positively surprised, thank you!

[@txdeskpop]

anyone have tips for night lighting with AMD adrenaline?

[@rjtrageser9884]

Alright, I don't wanna pry, but I'm level 25 and still don't know shoreline, streets, or most of interchange. This is my 2nd wipe and I only play solo so shit can get brutal, like 3 raids ago I died with .01 seconds left in the raid to a exit camper when I was trying to do fishing gear. Anyways, long winded way of saying: map guide please?

[@Johno7685]

Im on my third wipe and the way i learn maps is pull up somthing like map genie on your phone or diffrent window. Load into offline raids and have a run about.

[@incediumignis]

no guide out there will stop you from getting exfil camped, if somebody wants to exfil camp you, they will, human vision is focused on movement and outlines, if somebody picks a spot that doesnt outline his silhouette and he doesnt have colors that "pop" you will probably not see him. If you get killed at the start just look at the maps on the wiki and the spawns, check which points of interests are on the map and most likely paths and timings, or just camp for 6 minutes in spawn and end up behind everyone.

[@rjtrageser9884]

Bold of you to assume I wasn't stopping every 30 seconds to look at a map on my phone. (I was)

[@maxgamerflame9651]

"open up your nvidia control panel" 👀me with a full amd build

[@Moendos99TTV]

That's funny to see. You have one monitor and it's called the Elgato. How are you doing this? Your not duplicating your main monitor to Capture card? See 3:40 as reference what i mean

[@totodave266]

Big W for seeing how we see what you see.