Settings & Performance

Critically-High Importance for new players — default settings make it genuinely hard to spot other players. Deviations worth making, nothing else.

Game Settings

Setting	Value	Why
Automatic RAM Cleaner	Off	Added years ago for a memory leak that's since been fixed; no longer needed and costs performance.
Only Use Physical Cores	Off	Added for an old Unity Engine multithreading issue that's since been fixed.
FOV	75 (max)	Wider view, easier to spot peripheral movement.
Head Bobbing	0.2 (min)	Reduces visual noise while moving, easier to track targets.

Setting	Value
Screen Resolution	Monitor's native resolution
Aspect Ratio	Monitor's native aspect ratio
Screen Mode	Borderless
VSync	Off
Texture Quality	Ultra
Shadow Quality	Low
Object LOD	3.5
Overall Visibility	2000
Clouds Quality	Low
Volumetric Lighting	High
HBAO	High Performance
SSR	Medium/Low
Anisotropic Filtering	Per Texture
NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency	On
Sharpness	0.6

Setting	Value	Notes
High-quality Color	On	Higher-precision color grading/tonemapping.
Z-Blur	Off	Depth-based blur effect; disabled for visual clarity.
Area Light Instancing	On	Rendering optimization for scenes with multiple area lights.
Chrom. Aberrations	Off	Color-fringing lens effect; disabled for a cleaner image.
Noise	Off	Film-grain overlay; disabled for a cleaner image.
Grass Shadows	On	Grass casts shadows.
Streets of Tarkov Lower Texture Resolution Mode	On	Map-specific toggle that reduces texture memory usage on Streets of Tarkov — useful on VRAM-limited systems.

Enable NVIDIA DLSS, set the DLSS preset to L. Anti-Aliasing disables automatically once DLSS is on — leave it off.

Enable AMD FSR, set to Balanced. Anti-Aliasing on High (FSR doesn't replace it the way DLSS does).

Enable PostFX: On