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Our graphics settings guide for Star Wars Outlaws on PC

We've been testing Star Wars Outlaws to find the best graphics settings
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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.

✓ What we used to test

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 syncOff
Display modeExclusive fullscreen
ResolutionUse your native resolution
Cinematic display modeWe used Fill screen – but you may prefer the 21:9 cinematic mode
Monitor refresh rateUse your monitor’s max refresh rate, 144Hz in our case
Cinematics framerateUnlocked
Frame rate limitedOff
NVIDIA Reflex low latencyOn
Upscaler typeNVIDIA DLSS
Frame GenerationOn
Ray ReconstructionOn
Upscaler modeOff
Upscaler qualityNative 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 qualityHigh
Fog blurOn
Microdetail qualityHigh
Particle qualityHigh
Scatter densityHigh
Shadow qualityHigh
Shadow proxiesOff
Spotlight shadowsMany
Spotlight shadow qualityHigh
Deformable terrain qualityHigh
Lens and cinematic effects qualityHigh
Extra streaming distance50
Object detail125
Destruction qualityHigh
Spotlight projection resolution512
Terrain tesselationHigh
Raytraced contact shadowsHigh
Raytraced diffuse reflectionsMedium
Raytraced diffuse reflections resolutionMedium
Raytraced specular reflectionsMedium
Raytraced specular reflections resolutionHigh
BVH qualityHigh
Volumetric fogHigh
Volumetric cloudsMedium
Advanced graphics settings in Star Wars Outlaws, captured by PCGuide
Advanced graphics settings in Star Wars Outlaws, captured by PCGuide
Star Wars Outlaws gameplay screenshot, captured by PCGuide
Star Wars Outlaws gameplay screenshot, captured by PCGuide

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 qualityMedium
Fog blurOn
Microdetail qualityMedium
Particle qualityMedium
Scatter densityMedium
Shadow qualityMedium
Shadow proxiesOff
Spotlight shadowsModerate
Spotlight shadow qualityMedium
Deformable terrain qualityMedium
Lens and cinematic effects qualityMedium
Extra streaming distance0
Object detail100-125
Destruction qualityMedium
Spotlight projection resolution256
Terrain tesselationMedium
Raytraced contact shadowsLow
Raytraced diffuse reflectionsLow
Raytraced diffuse reflections resolutionMedium
Raytraced specular reflectionsLow
Raytraced specular reflections resolutionLow
BVH qualityMedium
Volumetric fogMedium
Volumetric cloudsMedium

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 qualityLow
Fog blurOn
Microdetail qualityLow
Particle qualityLow
Scatter densityLow
Shadow qualityLow
Shadow proxiesOn
Spotlight shadowsFew
Spotlight shadow qualityLow
Deformable terrain qualityLow
Lens and cinematic effects qualityLow
Extra streaming distance0
Object detail75-100
Destruction qualityLow
Spotlight projection resolution128
Terrain tesselationLow
Raytraced contact shadowsLow
Raytraced diffuse reflectionsLow
Raytraced diffuse reflections resolutionMedium
Raytraced specular reflectionsLow
Raytraced specular reflections resolutionVery low
BVH qualityLow
Volumetric fogLow
Volumetric cloudsLow

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 AMDNvidia, 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.
Star Wars Outlaws gameplay screenshot, captured by PCGuide
Star Wars Outlaws gameplay screenshot, captured by PCGuide

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.

About the Author

At PC Guide, Jack is mostly responsible for reporting on hardware deals. He also specializes in monitors, TVs, and headsets and can be found putting his findings together in a review or best-of guide.