Which settings give the most FPS?
Pick a game. Every measured setting is ranked by the FPS it gives back, with what it does to the picture, how sure we are and where the number came from.
Only games with at least one published measurement appear here. We left out games where no one has measured individual settings (Counter-Strike 2, Rust, Helldivers 2 and others), rather than guess.
Best free FPS: Effects Low
Up to +15% FPS with only a minor visual loss (low confidence).
- Shadows (Virtual Shadow Maps) off+53%Noticeable lossLow confidenceundated
Source and test notes
LOW CONFIDENCE: vendor blog (a Windows-optimiser product), no hardware, method, date or scene disclosed; page contains internal sign inconsistencies. Indicative only.
Test conditions: Undisclosed
Hone.gg: Best Performance Settings for Fortnite - Effects Low+15%Minor visual lossLow confidenceundated
Source and test notes
LOW CONFIDENCE: vendor blog (a Windows-optimiser product), no hardware, method, date or scene disclosed; page contains internal sign inconsistencies. Indicative only.
Test conditions: Undisclosed
Hone.gg: Best Performance Settings for Fortnite - Post processing Low+15%Minor visual lossLow confidenceundated
Source and test notes
LOW CONFIDENCE: vendor blog (a Windows-optimiser product), no hardware, method, date or scene disclosed; page contains internal sign inconsistencies. Indicative only.
Test conditions: Undisclosed
Hone.gg: Best Performance Settings for Fortnite - View distance Near+7%Minor visual lossLow confidenceundated
Source and test notes
LOW CONFIDENCE: vendor blog (a Windows-optimiser product), no hardware, method, date or scene disclosed; page contains internal sign inconsistencies. Indicative only.
Test conditions: Undisclosed
Hone.gg: Best Performance Settings for Fortnite - Motion blur off+5%No visible lossLow confidenceundated
Source and test notes
LOW CONFIDENCE: vendor blog (a Windows-optimiser product), no hardware, method, date or scene disclosed; page contains internal sign inconsistencies. Indicative only.
Test conditions: Undisclosed
Hone.gg: Best Performance Settings for Fortnite - Textures Low+2%Major visual lossLow confidenceundated
Source and test notes
Tiny FPS gain; VRAM saving is the real effect. LOW CONFIDENCE: vendor blog (a Windows-optimiser product), no hardware, method, date or scene disclosed; page contains internal sign inconsistencies. Indicative only.
Test conditions: Undisclosed
Hone.gg: Best Performance Settings for Fortnite
These sources report the cost of raising a setting. A 32% cost is not a 32% gain (it is about 47%), so we never mix the two lists.
- Lumen global illumination (Off vs Epic)-50%Noticeable lossLow confidenceundated
Source and test notes
GI Epic reported -50% FPS; dropping Epic to High recovers ~+21%. LOW CONFIDENCE: vendor blog (a Windows-optimiser product), no hardware, method, date or scene disclosed; page contains internal sign inconsistencies. Indicative only.
Test conditions: Undisclosed
Hone.gg: Best Performance Settings for Fortnite - Nanite-20 to 40%Minor visual lossLow confidenceundated
Source and test notes
-20% minimum, up to -40% combined with Virtual Shadows. LOW CONFIDENCE: vendor blog (a Windows-optimiser product), no hardware, method, date or scene disclosed; page contains internal sign inconsistencies. Indicative only.
Test conditions: Undisclosed
Hone.gg: Best Performance Settings for Fortnite - Hardware ray tracing-30%Noticeable lossLow confidenceundated
Source and test notes
'-30% or more'. LOW CONFIDENCE: vendor blog (a Windows-optimiser product), no hardware, method, date or scene disclosed; page contains internal sign inconsistencies. Indicative only.
Test conditions: Undisclosed
Hone.gg: Best Performance Settings for Fortnite - Lumen reflections-6 to 13%Minor visual lossLow confidenceundated
Source and test notes
-6% to -13% at Epic. LOW CONFIDENCE: vendor blog (a Windows-optimiser product), no hardware, method, date or scene disclosed; page contains internal sign inconsistencies. Indicative only.
Test conditions: Undisclosed
Hone.gg: Best Performance Settings for Fortnite
Data collected 14 Oct 2026. Figures are the sources' own, on their test hardware, so treat them as a ranking, not a promise. See also the upscaling calculator.
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- Wccftech: Elden Ring Ray Tracing Update PC Test - Improved, But at What Cost?
- Tom's Hardware: Black Myth Wukong PC benchmarks: A tour de force for Nvidia's ray tracing hardware
- Tom's Hardware: Testing Alan Wake 2: Full Path Tracing and Ray Reconstruction Will Punish Your GPU
- PC Gamer: The best Apex Legends settings: How to get the best performance
- PCGamesN: Best Marvel Rivals settings
- NVIDIA GeForce: Grand Theft Auto V PC Graphics & Performance Guide
- GamersNexus: GTA V texture quality comparison and FPS
- Tom's Hardware: Nvidia DLSS4, MFG, and full ray tracing tested on RTX 5090 and RTX 5080
- PC Gamer: Red Dead Redemption 2 settings guide, system requirements, port analysis, performance tweaks, benchmarks
- GamingBolt: Red Dead Redemption 2 PC Tech Analysis, Comparison With PS4 Pro, and More
- GamersNexus: Starfield Graphics Optimization Guide & Benchmarks, Settings Comparison, & Performance Mods
Collected 14 Oct 2026 from the published tests named above. Several tests are older than the current game version, and the date is shown on every row.
FAQ
Which graphics setting gives the most FPS?
It depends on the game, which is why this page ranks them per game. Shadows and global illumination or ambient occlusion are usually the biggest, while texture quality usually costs memory rather than frame rate.
Why are some games missing?
We only list games where someone has published a measured result for individual settings. For Counter-Strike 2, Rust, Helldivers 2 and others we found none we trust, so they are left out instead of guessed.
Why are gains and costs listed separately?
Sources report either the FPS gained by lowering a setting or the FPS lost by raising it. A 32% cost works out as roughly a 47% gain, so mixing them would mislead.
Do FPS booster apps do any of this?
No. We do not recommend booster apps. Everything here is a setting inside the game, free to change.