Best Rainbow Six Extraction PC settings: How to boost FPS & recommended specs

Liam Mackay
Rainbow Six Extraction squad gameplay

Rainbow Six Extraction, the horror-themed spin-off to Siege, is finally here on PC and consoles. Here’s how you can get the best PC performance possible, boost your FPS, and check whether your computer can actually run it at all.

Rainbow Six Extraction is here, bringing the tight squad-based gameplay of Siege to a horror setting. You’ll need to use guns, gadgets, and teamwork to survive the containment zone, but you also need to make sure you’re getting the best performance from your PC.

Ubisoft have revealed the PC requirements to run Rainbow Six Extraction at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K, so here are the specs you need to meet. Along with that, we’ve picked out the settings you need to change to maximize performance and get you hitting consistently high frames.

Rainbow Six Extraction poster

Rainbow Six Extraction minimum & recommended requirements

Luckily, you don’t need a top-of-the-line gaming rig to run Rainbow Six Extraction at its minimum settings, as 1080p Low only requires an Intel i5-4460 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB.

The game will likely still look absolutely fine on low, but if you want to improve how the game looks, you’ll want to run it at least the high 1080p requirements. For those with high-powered rigs, you can also play at 1440p or 4k.

You can check out all the requirements below.

CPUGPURAMStorageOS
Low 1080pIntel i5-4460 // AMD Ryzen 3 1200NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB // AMD RX 560 4GB8GB (Dual-Channel Setup)85GBWindows 10 64-bit
High 1080pIntel i7-4790 // AMD Ryzen 5 1600NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6GB // AMD RX 580 8GB16GB (Dual-channel setup)85GBWindows 10 (64-bit)
High 1440pIntel i5-8400 // AMD Ryzen 5 2600XNVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB // AMD RX 5600CT 6GB16GB (Dual-channel setup)85GBWindows 10/11 64-bit
Ultra 2160p 4kIntel i9-9900K // AMD Ryzen 7 3700XNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB // AMD RX 6800XT 16GB16GB (Dual-channel setup)85GB (+9GB HD Textures)Windows 10/11 64-bit

Best Rainbow Six Extraction PC settings

To ensure you’re getting the most from your game, using the right PC settings is vital. The key is maximizing your frames per second (FPS), while also making sure your game is nice to look at too.

This can be a difficult tightrope to walk, but we’ve put together our best settings to give you a hand. While these worked for us, they may not work for everyone, but we’ll be updating these with any improvements we discover.

Video Display

  • Resolution: 1920 x 1080
  • Display Mode: Full Screen
  • Refresh Rate: 144Hz (Match to your monitor’s refresh rate)
  • Aspect Ratio: Auto
  • VSync: Off
  • Field of View: 85 (Test this out and find your preference)
  • Brightness: 55%
  • Widescreen Letterbox: Off
  • HDR: On
Rainbow Six Extraction graphics settings

Graphics

  • Resolution Quality: Dynamic 25% to 100%
  • Dynamic Resolution Target Framerate: 120
  • Texture Quality: Medium
  • Texture Filtering: Anisotropic 8X
  • NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: Off
  • Latency Flash Indicator: Off
  • Shadow Quality: Medium
  • Shading Quality: High
  • Reflection Quality: Medium
  • Level of Detail Quality: High
  • Effects Quality: Medium
  • Anti-Aliasing: T-AA
  • T-AA Sharpness: 50%
  • Amient Occlusion: SSBC
  • Sprawl Quality: High
  • Lens Effect: Off
  • ADS Depth of Field: Off

With more and more players jumping into Extraction to fight off monsters, we’re sure these settings will improve, so keep checking back for updates.

You can also check out the PC requirements for Battlefield 2042 and Halo Infinite!

Image Credit: Ubisoft

About The Author

Liam is CharlieIntel's Editor who focuses on Call of Duty but also plays lots of fantasy RPGs or anything else in his massive gaming backlog. After graduating in Journalism from Edinburgh Napier University, Liam freelanced in games journalism before joining CharlieIntel in November 2020. You can contact Liam at [email protected].