If you’ve got performance to spare, though, this feature can make the gorgeous Destiny 2 look even better.
If you’re on a 1080p display and tell Render Resolution to work at 1440p, for example, your graphics card will work as hard as it would on a normal 1440p display. Doing so improves the clarity and fidelity of the game and doubles as an anti-aliasing alternative, but at a great potential impact on performance. It tells the game to render at a resolution higher than your actual monitor, then scales the image back down to match your display’s output. Render Resolution is like Nvidia’s Dynamic Super Resolution or AMD’s Virtual Super Resolution on steroids. Motion Blur blurs the screen to add an extra sense of speed when you’re running or hitching a ride on a vehicle.
Wind Impulse makes foliage react to the world, sending grass swaying when grenades explode or sparrows swoosh by. God Rays), Texture Anisotropy, and Texture Quality won’t hurt your FPS on most gaming systems either, though Nvidia warns that low-spec PCs might see a slight performance bump from decreasing those options.Ī couple of Advanced Video options are purely cosmetic and purely matter-of-taste, adding visual touches that you’ll love or hate for minimal performance impact. Leave those cranked for maximum eye candy! Light Shafts (a.k.a. Unlike the intensive Foliage Detail Distance setting, the Character and Environmental Detail Distance options have a minimal performance impact, as does Foliage Shadow Distance. The anti-aliasing options available-FXAA and SMAA-aren’t overly taxing, so don’t bother disabling those. Brad Chacos/IDGĭestiny 2’s advanced video options are where you’ll find the juicy graphics settings. Making this handful of tweaks improved the frame rate by a whopping 20fps on Nvidia’s 1080p system equipped with an Intel Core i7-6700K and a GTX 1060. Nvidia recommends disabling Depth of Field, setting the FoV to 95, dropping the Foliage Detail Distance to Medium and Shadow Quality to High, and swapping Screen Space Ambient Occlusion from “3D” to “HDAO” if you need to boost performance. Keep an eye on the handy VRAM Usage report on the top of the screen while you’re doing it, especially if you’re using a graphics card with less than 4GB of RAM. The effect of Field of View on PC performance, via Nvidia.īefore you resort to such drastic actions, tinker with the exhaustive graphics options in the Advanced Video section. A wider field of view is a key feature for PCs, but if you’re hurting for frame rate, decreasing it can potentially raise your FPS by a significant amount, per Nvidia’s in-depth Destiny 2 optimization guide. You can choose anything from a constricted 55 FoV all the way to an expansive 105. Here you’ll find yet another key difference from the console versions: a field of view slider. In the standard Video section at the top, you’ll find the basics, such as screen resolution, Vsync, and window mode (yes, Borderless Windowed is supported). The Video options hold Destiny 2’s graphics options and boy, there sure are a lot of them. Do so by pressing Alt + Z to bring up the GeForce Experience overlay, then click on the settings cog on the right-hand side and look for the Keyboard shortcuts option.ĭestiny 2 PC graphics options, performance guide Brad Chacos/IDG If this winds up being an issue for you, you can remap ShadowPlay’s keyboard shortcut to another combination. This is only particularly frustrating because Alt + F1 is the screenshot hotkey for Nvidia’s ShadowPlay, and since you’re running through it’s also the easiest way (if you have an Nvidia card) to capture your finest moments-at which time the character screen overlay pops up and obscures your vision.” Most are, but for some reason the character screen/inventory is locked to F1. Sadly, a frustrating, silly quirk that my colleague Hayden Dingman discovered during the Destiny 2 PC beta still lingers:
It works pretty much like you’d expect, and you can set various options (like aim down sites and sprinting) to toggle or hold. The Key Mapping section is, well, where you can remap your keyboard controls. Brad Chacos/IDGĭestiny 2’s PC keybinding options are extensive, but not quite exhaustive.
If you use a controller, you’ll find those plus a few more gamepad-centric options, such as vibration, autolook centering, and the controller layout.
Mouse jockeys can tweak the sensitivity of both mouselook and aiming down sites, as well as enable or disable aim smoothing and inversion of the horizontal and/or vertical axes. The Controls section handles how you handle.