Our graphics settings guide for Star Wars Outlaws on PC
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The latest highly-anticipated Star Wars game is finally here for all, just a few days after it became available for pre-order customers in its early access stage. Now that we’ve had the time to have a good look at the game, it’s about time to put together our list of the best graphics settings for Star Wars Outlaws.
Right off the bat, the system requirements are pretty hefty, which means we’ve thrown one of the high-end setups in our testing lab at it to get the game running at 4K. Don’t worry though, as we’ll cover a range of settings depending on your rig, including mid-range and low-end systems.
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How we picked the best graphics settings for Star Wars Outlaws
We rated the RTX 4080 Super as the best GPU for Star Wars Outlaws, so that’s the graphics card we’ve used for testing. The game has a ton of graphics options to consider, so we’ve put the video settings below if you wish to refer back to it; we’ll move on to advanced graphics settings down below. Although we tried the game out at native 4K (without upscaling) with our rig below, chances are you’ll want a much less demanding target, so some kind of upscaling is recommended for most rigs.
Our in-house testing rig
- Motherboard: ASUS ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
- GPU: MSI SUPRIM X RTX 4080 SUPER
- RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32GB 6400
- Cooler: ROG Ryujin II 360 AIO
- PSU: Phanteks 1000W
Video settings for our high-end PC
Vertical sync | Off |
Display mode | Exclusive fullscreen |
Resolution | Use your native resolution |
Cinematic display mode | We used Fill screen – but you may prefer the 21:9 cinematic mode |
Monitor refresh rate | Use your monitor’s max refresh rate, 144Hz in our case |
Cinematics framerate | Unlocked |
Frame rate limited | Off |
NVIDIA Reflex low latency | On |
Upscaler type | NVIDIA DLSS |
Frame Generation | On |
Ray Reconstruction | On |
Upscaler mode | Off |
Upscaler quality | Native AA |
As a side note, on the topic of ray tracing, there are individual settings for raytraced elements, none of which you can actually turn off completely. What you can toggle off though is “NVIDIA RTX Direct Lighting” and we’d recommend doing so as it does carry a heavy burden on performance, even for high-end PCs.
Best settings for our RTX 4080 Super gaming PC
For the video settings on our RTX 4080 Super rig, we decided to not use any upscaler mode, opting for native resolution as well as native AA for excellent visual fidelity. Additionally, we used Frame Generation to ensure gameplay felt consistently smooth – and it did. Some people have reported that frame generation is causing crashes, and if this is still the case for you, obviously we’d recommend disabling it and using upscaling in its place to achieve higher frames (we’d recommend the Quality setting).
Within the video settings, we went with playing at 4K (3840 x 2160), exclusive fullscreen, no frame rate limit, and V-Sync off. The game proved to be quite demanding, eating up a lot of VRAM at this resolution; we wouldn’t recommend playing at 4K if you have anything less than 16GB of memory. Let’s move on to the main bulk of it though – the advanced video settings.
Advanced graphics settings
Environment reflection quality | High |
Fog blur | On |
Microdetail quality | High |
Particle quality | High |
Scatter density | High |
Shadow quality | High |
Shadow proxies | Off |
Spotlight shadows | Many |
Spotlight shadow quality | High |
Deformable terrain quality | High |
Lens and cinematic effects quality | High |
Extra streaming distance | 50 |
Object detail | 125 |
Destruction quality | High |
Spotlight projection resolution | 512 |
Terrain tesselation | High |
Raytraced contact shadows | High |
Raytraced diffuse reflections | Medium |
Raytraced diffuse reflections resolution | Medium |
Raytraced specular reflections | Medium |
Raytraced specular reflections resolution | High |
BVH quality | High |
Volumetric fog | High |
Volumetric clouds | Medium |
Best settings for mid-range
Moving down to mid-range PCs now, we’re looking more at targeting 1440p (2560 x 1440). According to the game’s system requirements, the ‘High’ graphics preset with upscaling set to Quality is good enough for a steady 60 FPS at this resolution. For the
In terms of GPUs, it recommends either the RTX 3080 (10GB) or RTX 4070 (12GB), so you can expect to use plenty of memory at this resolution too. We also recommend using the Quality ‘upscaling quality’ setting, with upscaler mode set to Fixed as well as setting Frame Generation on and Ray Reconstruction off. Let’s move on to the full list of advanced settings:
Advanced graphics settings
Environment reflection quality | Medium |
Fog blur | On |
Microdetail quality | Medium |
Particle quality | Medium |
Scatter density | Medium |
Shadow quality | Medium |
Shadow proxies | Off |
Spotlight shadows | Moderate |
Spotlight shadow quality | Medium |
Deformable terrain quality | Medium |
Lens and cinematic effects quality | Medium |
Extra streaming distance | 0 |
Object detail | 100-125 |
Destruction quality | Medium |
Spotlight projection resolution | 256 |
Terrain tesselation | Medium |
Raytraced contact shadows | Low |
Raytraced diffuse reflections | Low |
Raytraced diffuse reflections resolution | Medium |
Raytraced specular reflections | Low |
Raytraced specular reflections resolution | Low |
BVH quality | Medium |
Volumetric fog | Medium |
Volumetric clouds | Medium |
Best settings for low-end
Now looking at low-end PCs, the minimum requirements suggest the low graphics preset, and this is a good place to start if you want to make it quick. With GPUs such as the GTX 1660 paired with a Ryzen 5 3600 processor, it is expected you’ll manage around 30 FPS at 1080p with ‘Quality’ upscaling.
If you’re on a low-end machine, we’d opt for a more aggressive form of upscaling; Balanced at the very least. Depending on your exact specs, it may be best to use Performance as well. Frame generation is not always recommended if you’re only managing passable FPS without it, as it could mean poor latency, so this is a setting you may want to toggle off if the game feels particularly laggy in terms of input lag. Luckily we’re not dealing with a competitive multiplayer game here, so some latency can be excused for most people.
Advanced graphics settings
Environment reflection quality | Low |
Fog blur | On |
Microdetail quality | Low |
Particle quality | Low |
Scatter density | Low |
Shadow quality | Low |
Shadow proxies | On |
Spotlight shadows | Few |
Spotlight shadow quality | Low |
Deformable terrain quality | Low |
Lens and cinematic effects quality | Low |
Extra streaming distance | 0 |
Object detail | 75-100 |
Destruction quality | Low |
Spotlight projection resolution | 128 |
Terrain tesselation | Low |
Raytraced contact shadows | Low |
Raytraced diffuse reflections | Low |
Raytraced diffuse reflections resolution | Medium |
Raytraced specular reflections | Low |
Raytraced specular reflections resolution | Very low |
BVH quality | Low |
Volumetric fog | Low |
Volumetric clouds | Low |
How to optimize Star Wars Outlaws & boost FPS
Aside from our best settings guides above, what can you do to improve your FPS? There are a few methods worth mentioning here, some of which may also be relevant if you’re experiencing Star Wars Outlaws crashing or stuttering.
- Update your graphics drivers. It doesn’t matter if you have an AMD, Nvidia, or Intel graphics card – keeping your GPU drivers up to date is important for stable gameplay, as well as ironing out any issues that could affect framerate. This is especially true for games that recently launched, where driver optimizations are often most substantial.
- If you’re game is stuttering, enable V-Sync. Turning on V-Sync in game will lock the framerate to your refresh rate, helping prevent FPS spikes that cause stutters. If possible, we would recommend FreeSync or G-Sync instead (if your monitor supports one) as these are forms of variable refresh rate tech which provide overall better implementation.
- Minimize other CPU and GPU usage on your PC. Star Wars Outlaws is a demanding game, so it’s best that you close down any other resource-hogging tasks that may be slowing you down and affecting performance.
Final word
The performance of Star Wars Outlaws has been a talking point upon its release. For example, we noticed it eating up a ton of memory on our RTX 4080, and of course, not everyone can enjoy the 16GB of RAM this high-end card offers. Furthermore, reports of game crashes with frame generation aren’t ideal, though we luckily didn’t experience this ourselves.
Overall, with plenty of graphics settings to play with, many gaming PC builds should be able to run Star Wars Outlaws quite smoothly. Someone even found hidden graphics max settings, though we’d avoid these considering how demanding they are. Hopefully, this guide has helped find the best setup for you, whatever your target FPS is. It’s also nice to hear that some players even got the game running reasonably well on gaming handhelds such as the ROG Ally.