After spending 2 years as a PlayStation exclusive, God of War Ragnarok finally makes its way to the PC. The PC port is remarkably solid, with multiple upscaling options, low latency modes as well as frame generation techniques.
God of War Ragnarok runs superbly across a wide range of PC hardware – including low-power handheld devices with iGPUs as well.
A breakdown of the best God of War Ragnarok PC settings will be listed below, aiming to strike a balance with a 60+ FPS target against a minimal loss in visual quality.
Optimized God of War Ragnarok PC settings
Display
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 3440×1440; keep the same as your display’s native resolution
- VSync: Off; always keep disabled
- Aspect Ratio: 21:9/16:9/16:10; native aspect ratio for your display
- Frame Rate Limit: Off; can be worth enabling for low power devices – such as handheld gaming PCs
- Latency Reduction: Reflex Boost; Optional
- Frame Gen: On; Massively boosts performance but not recommended if you do not hit a base 60 FPS target by default – in order to avoid stutter
Scaling
- Method: AMD FSR 3.1/XeSS/Nvidia DLSS; XeSS is recommended in most cases, unless you possess an RTX-capable Nvidia GPU
- Quality: Balanced; Balanced offers a suitable compromise between image quality and framerate – but can be lowered to Performance for lower end systems
Quality
- Preset: Custom; a mostly High preset with some Medium options thrown in
- Textures: High; 6 GB VRAM at minimum, 8+ GB is preferrable
- Models: High; more detailed characters
- Anisotropic Filter: High; usually a minimal hit on image quality
- Lighting: Medium
- Shadows: Medium; swap to Low if you have performance issues
- Reflections: Medium
- Atmospherics: Medium
- Ambient Occlusion: High
- Tessellation: Low; minimal loss in image quality with the Low option
The settings above were tested with a Ryzen 5700x, 32 GB of RAM and an RX 6700. The game managed to deliver well over 60 FPS at 3440×1440, and is well optimized.
