Epic Games’ most popular title, Fortnite, is available for PC, mobile and consoles. The PC port of the game in particular, scales incredibly well with PC hardware – and can push visuals to extremes if so desired.
While using features such as ray tracing do result in an immensely superior image, they are usually less than ideal given the huge performance penalty incurred in the process.
As such, the best Fortnite PC settings will take into account a more ‘balanced’ approach, opting for visual clarity without any frills, all to ensure high framerates – which is crucial for a fast paced game.
Optimized Fortnite PC settings
Display
- Window Mode: Fullscreen; switch to Windowed if so desired
- Resolution: 1920×1080; set this to your display’s native resolution
- V-Sync: Off; always keep disabled
- Frame Rate Limit: Unlimited
- Rendering Mode: DirectX 12
Graphics
- Brightness: Leave at default value
- User Interface Contrast: Leave at default value
- Color Blind Mode: Enable and tweak only if you suffer from a form of color blindness
- Motion Blur: Recommended to keep disabled
Graphics Quality
- Quality Preset: High
- Anti-Aliasing & Super Resolution: Choose between AMD’s FSR or Nvidia’s DLSS; DLSS is only applicable to the RTX series of GPUs
- 3D Resolution: 80%; lower to boost FPS at the cost of visuals
- Dynamic 3D Resolution: Disabled
- Nanite Virtualized Geometry: Off
- Virtual Shadows: High
- Global Illumination: Off
- Reflections: Off
- View Distance: Far
- Textures: Medium
- Effects: Low
- Post Processing: Low
- Hardware ray Tracing: Off; always keep disabled
- Nvidia Reflex Low Latency: On – only if you possess an Nvidia GPU
Features such as ray tracing and nanite/lumen should be left disabled entirely, given that they consume a ton of processing power and dramatically decrease your FPS.
While the visual improvement is transformative and indeed striking, higher framerates with a crisper image should always be preferred in competitive play.
The combination of settings listed above should allow for upwards of 60 FPS on most hardware – assuming you meet the minimum spec.
