Best PC Graphics Settings for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake…

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater breathes new life into the fan-favorite title of the series by completely overhauling its graphics in Unreal Engine 5. While the environments and characters look life-like, the game's performance on even higher-end PC configurations is taking a hit. Players are largely failing to play the game at locked 60 FPS, and are reporting frequent stutters and random FPS drops. To optimize MGSD: Snake Eater on your PC, here are the best settings that you can try.

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Best Settings for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater on PC

Best Graphics Settings Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater PC

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater gives players limited graphical options when it comes to tweaking the game visuals to adjust performance on PC. Despite the limitations, you can still improve the graphics settings drastically if you tweak a few settings just right. Here's a breakdown of the best settings you can use to optimize MGSD Snake Eater on your PC.

Setting Name	Best Preset	Notes
Windowed Mode	Fullscreen	To maximize the stability and performance of the game, fullscreen works better. However, borderless fullscreen may work well for other players.
Resolution	Native	Don't use anything lower than the native resolution of your display.
V-Sync	On	Since the game is currently locked at 60 FPS, you can enable V-Sync. If you're deciding to uncap the game's framerate (more on that later), then keep it disabled.
Maximum Frame Rate	60	Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is currently locked at 60 FPS.
Anti-Aliasing Method	DLSS/FSR	The game features both AI Upscalers from Nvidia and AMD. Feel free to use one that's compatible with your hardware.
Upscaling Quality	Balanced	Due to the current unoptimized state of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, it's best to keep this at the balanced preset. You can later bump it up to Quality, or even Native, once the performance-focused patch drops.
Graphics Quality	Custom	We'll fine-tune all the graphical settings in this guide, so you don't need to use a static graphical preset here.
Shadows	Medium	Medium shadows are the lowest you can get in terms of maintaining the look of the game. Low removes the depth in scenes, making the game feel flat.
Textures	Depends on GPU's VRAM	Low-Medium: 8GB, High: 10GB, Ultra: 12GB or more
Global Illumination	Medium	Similar to shadows, Global Illumination controls the majority of the lighting in the jungle setting. Switching to a lower preset than medium will make the scenes overblown with brightness, which ruins the visual fidelity.
Bloom	Ultra	This setting is mostly for esthetics, and does not affect performance.
Motion Blur	Off	-
Depth of Field	On	It gives the cutscene and gameplay moments a cinematic feel.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Performance on PC

Well, these are the best settings that you can use to optimize Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's performance on PC. The settings above were tested on a PC with an Intel i9-14900H CPU, Nvidia RTX 4080 GPU, and 32GB RAM. Despite optimizing the settings, the game could hold 60 FPS in 70% of spots (in the opening area), while dropping to 54 FPS in more graphically demanding locations. The situation improves drastically once you head inside guard quarters or facilities.

The game's poor optimization makes it a challenge for players to properly run it on their PCs. However, you can try installing the Optimized Tweaks MGSD mod by VynnGfx to reduce stutters, improve performance and lower overall input latency. It's a tried-and-tested mod that improves the game's stuttering and also allows FSR Frame Generation to be enabled on all PC configurations.

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