Frostpunk 2 is out as a PC exclusive, until it finally launches for consoles sometime next year. This sequel can be quite graphically demanding, but thankfully comes with multiple tweakable options that make it scale down considerably well with low end hardware.
The best Frostpunk 2 PC settings will attempt to strike a balance between frame rate and visual quality – with a slight preference on frame rates.
Optimized Frostpunk 2 PC settings and recommendations
- Fullscreen Mode: Fullscreen; windowed mode may be preferable for those looking to multitask
- Resolution: 1920×1080; adjust to your display’s native resolution
- Display: Choose the monitor you wish to display the game on; only applicable for multi monitor setups
- VSync: Off; always keep this disabled
- Frame Limit: Unlimited, might be worthwhile capping the frame rate to 60 FPS for devices that run on battery power (such as the Steam Deck)
- Upscaling: DLSS/FSR; choose between TSR/FSR/XeSS/DLSS – DLSS is only available for Nvidia RTX GPUs, while FSR is not restricted to any platform
- Upscaling Quality: Balanced or Performance; can only be changed while within the main menu and not in-game
- Sharpness: 0; recommended default
- Gamma: Recommended to keep at default values
- Preset: Custom
- Textures: High; can be set to Medium or Low if you possess a card with 6 GB VRAM or lower
- Terrain: Medium
- Effects: Medium; can be quite resource intensive on higher settings
- Shadows: Medium; drop to Low for weaker devices
- Fog: Very Low; quite resource intensive
- Postprocess: Medium
- Meshes: Medium; High can be enabled on stronger hardware
- City Details: Medium; can be adjusted as per your liking – depending on your config
- Lighting: Low; Medium and higher presets enable Unreal Lumen which is very resource intensive
The combination of in-game graphical settings above should offer a 60+ FPS experience for most PC builds, assuming you meet the recommended system requirements.
