Best PC settings in Apex Legends for high graphics & performance

Apex Legends Season 22 is underway, and it brought a new map plus a lot of balance changes for players to contend with. That means you’ll want the best PC settings for optimal performance on the new battleground, especially if you’re a new or returning player.

So, here are the best PC settings for Apex Legends granting high FPS, amazing graphics, clean audio, precise aim, and more in Season 22.

Best Apex Legends PC video settings for graphics

• Display Mode: Full Screen
• Aspect Ratio: Native monitor resolution
• Resolution: Native monitor resolution
• Field of View: Personal preference
• Brightness: Person preference
• V-Sync: Disabled
• Adaptive Resolution FPS Target: 0
• Adaptive Supersampling: Disabled
• Anti-Aliasing: On
• Texture Streaming Budget: Medium
• Texture Filtering: Anisotropic 2X
• Ambient Occlusion Quality: Medium
• Sun Shadow Coverage: High
• Sun Shadow Detail: High
• Spot Shadow Detail: High
• Volumetric Lighting: Enabled
• Dynamic Spot Shadows: Enabled
• Model Detail: Medium
• Map Detail: High
• Effects Detail: High
• Impact Marks: High
• Ragdolls: High

Higher-end PCs will run these settings better than lower-end, so these settings are tailored for PCs that meet the recommended specs or higher for Apex Legends. You can tweak them slightly to fit your rig better, but remember that your performance may struggle with higher graphics settings.

Best Apex Legends PC video settings for performance

• Display Mode: Full Screen
• Aspect Ratio: Native monitor resolution
• Resolution: Native monitor resolution
• Field of View: Personal preference
• Brightness: Personal preference
• V-Sync: Disabled
• Adaptive Resolution FPS Target: 0
• Adaptive Supersampling: Disabled
• Anti-Aliasing: Off
• Texture Streaming Budget: Medium
• Texture Filtering: Anisotropic 2X
• Ambient Occlusion Quality: Medium
• Sun Shadow Coverage: Low
• Sun Shadow Detail: Low
• Spot Shadow Detail: Low
• Volumetric Lighting: Disabled
• Dynamic Spot Shadows: Disabled
• Model Detail: Medium
• Map Detail: Low
• Effects Detail: Medium
• Impact Marks: Medium
• Ragdolls: Medium

These settings focus more on making sure your game’s performance is optimal, but they’re also a good choice for lower-end PCs as well. While we found these settings worked, remember that you can adjust them to your specs to ensure Apex is running as smoothly as possible on your rig.

Best Gameplay settings for Apex Legends on PC

• Interact Prompt Style: Compact
• Button Hints: On
• Crosshair Damage Feedback: Off
• Damage Numbers: Stacking
• Ping Opacity: Faded
• Obituaries: On
• Minimap Rotation: On
• Weapon Auto-Cycle on Empty: Off
• Always-Sprint: Off
• Sprint Control: Press
• Auto-Run: Off
• Jetpack Control: Hold
• Incoming Damage Feedback: 2D/3D (Both)
• Taking Damage Closes Deathbox or Crafting Menu: Off
• Offscreen Portraits: Off
• Hop-Up Pop-up: Off
• Streamer Mode: Off
• Anonymous Mode: Disabled
• Usage Sharing: Disabled
• Performance Display: Off
• Communication Filter: Everybody
• Reticle: Green (Customize)
• Laser Sight: Default
• Color Blind Mode: Off
• Subtitles: Off
• Subtitle Size: Normal
• Enable Accessible Chat Features: Off
• Convert Incoming Voice to Chat Text: Off
• Play Incoming Chat as Speech: Off

Gameplay settings can make or break your matches in Apex Legends, so it’s important to adjust them accordingly. The settings above will ensure that your gameplay mechanics don’t mess with your ability to deal with third parties or being able to cross the map properly.

However, some of these are down to personal preference, so you may want to give these a try first and then tweak them as you need to make your own gameplay perfect.

Best mouse & keyboard settings for Apex Legends

• Mouse Sensitivity: 1.6 (800 DPI)
• ADS Mouse Sensitivity: 1
• Mouse Acceleration: Off
• Mouse Invert: Off
• Clamp Mouse Cursor to Game Window: On
• Lighting Effects: Off

How to change mouse & keyboard settings

1. Log in to Apex Legends.
2. Click on the cog in the bottom left corner of the screen to enter settings.
3. Navigate to the Mouse/Keyboard tab in settings.
4. Change your settings.

It’s important to remember that mouse and keyboard settings are largely personal preference, although we found that these settings gave us the best performance in-game. This is especially true for keybinds, which is why we did not include them in this list.

Best audio settings for Apex Legends on PC

• Master Volume: 50%
• Voice Chat Record Mode: Push to Talk
• Open Mic Record Threshold: 0
• Incoming Voice Chat Volume: 40%
• Sound Effects Volume: 100%
• Dialogue Volume: 40%
• Music Volume: 0%
• Lobby Music Volume: 0%
• Sound in Background: On

Audio is very important in Apex Legends because it determines how well you can hear enemies approaching, where enemies are shooting from, and other important sound cues like the circle moving.

These are another set of settings that can be changed based on personal preference, but the ones listed are the best to prioritize the most important sounds for gameplay awareness.

How to get uncapped FPS without enabling V-sync in Apex Legends

1. Open Origin or Steam.
2. Open your Game Library and right-click on Apex Legends.
3. Select Game Properties on Origin or choose Properties on Steam.
4. Head to Game Properties.
5. Visit the Advanced Launch Options on Origin or the General tab on Steam.
6. Type “+fps_max unlimited” under Command line arguments (Origin) or Launch Options (Steam).

Optimize your Discord to boost FPS

Discord is commonly used by the Apex Legends community to communicate with their teammates in the middle of a match. While it works great, you can further optimize it to improve the FPS on Apex. Here’s what you need to do:

1. Open Discord.
2. Head to the Settings menu.
3. Click the Overlay tab and ensure ‘Enable in-game overlay’ is unchecked.

You can also turn off Hardware Acceleration, which is at the bottom of the Appearance tab. This will keep Discord from using your graphics card to accelerate the software’s speed and grant you a few more FPS in-game.

How to update graphics drivers

NVIDIA graphics driver

1. Download GeForce Experience through the official website and install it.
2. Launch GeForce experience.
3. Select Drivers > Check for updates.
4. Follow the on-screen prompts to initiate and finalize the update.

AMD graphics driver

1. Download the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition from the official website and install it.
2. Launch AMD Software: Adrenaline Edition.
3. Go to the Home tab and click on Check for Updates from the top-right corner of the screen.
4. Download and install the update by following the on-screen prompts.

Apex Legends minimum and recommended PC requirements

If you’re still struggling with performance in Apex Legends, then the best thing to check is if you meet the minimum requirements.

Minimum:

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7
• CPU: Intel Core i3-6300 3.8GHz / AMD FX-4350 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Processor
• RAM: 6GB
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 / Radeon HD 7730
• GPU RAM: 1 GB
• HARD DRIVE: Minimum 56 GB of free space

Recommended

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7
• CPU: Intel i5 3570K or Ryzen 5
• RAM: 8GB
• GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290
• GPU RAM: 8GB
• HARD DRIVE: Minimum 56 GB of free space

Every new season of Apex Legends brings a new meta, so make sure you know what the best weapons and Legends are once you’ve sorted your settings out. The new Battle Sense mechanic will also help improve your gameplay.