The First Descendant is a free-to-play, third-person shooter with RPG elements, releasing for both PC and consoles. Spearheaded by Nexon, this multiplayer-focused game features the latest and greatest visual techniques that work together to deliver a crisp and beautiful gameplay experience.
While the game runs remarkably well on a wide range of PC hardware, players may find that tweaking some of these graphical settings will result in an appreciable improvement to visual fidelity and performance.
To that extent, a list of the ideal First Descendant PC settings can be found listed below.
Optimized The First Descendant PC settings
Assuming you possess a modern PC with up-to-date hardware, The First Descendant can be fairly easy to get up and running. The following in-game settings are configured with a balance between image quality and performance in mind, and should offer players a relatively stable minimum of 60 frames per second:
- Graphics: Custom
- Ray Tracing: Keep this disabled; Ray Tracing can be quite taxing on GPUs
- Additional Options: Choose between DLSS/FSR/XeSS/TSR for upscaling options. DLSS requires a Nvidia GeForce 2xxx series card or newer. Most players would find AMD’s FSR a decent enough alternative if they lack access to DLSS. These upscalers can be further configured to fine tune image/performance. A ‘Balanced’ preset is recommended for most.
- VSync: Keep this disabled at all times
- Maximum Frame Rate: Can be adjusted as per your display. Most players should leave this option at the ‘Unlimited’ setting.
- Visibility: High or Medium
- Anti-Aliasing: Keep this at High
- Post-Processing: Keep this at High
- Shadows: Keep this at Medium
- Global Illumination: Keep this at Medium or High
- Reflections: Keep this at Medium
- Textures: Keep this at High – if possible; if you possess a GPU with low VRAM (6 GB or lower) keep this locked to Medium
- Shader Quality: Keep this at High
- Object: Keep this at High
- Physics: Keep this at High/Ultra
- Motion Blur: Keep this disabled
- Display Mode: Keep this at Full Screen
- Field of View: Keep this at 100
- Sharpness: Keep this at 0
The above configuration was tested on an AMD Ryzen 7 5700x and an AMD Radeon RX 6700, coupled with 32 GB of RAM.
The First Descendant PC settings are quite scalable down to lower-end hardware though, and readers are encouraged to experiment until they find a config to their liking.
