Every frame matters in Dungeonborne where death comes swiftly. The first-person dungeon crawler challenges you to escape with your loot while dealing with monsters and other players in a traditional PvPvE experience. With every second counting down to oblivion, you must always try to strike hard and fast. That, however, becomes problematic if your game is suffering from low frames per second (fps) or stuttering because of random fps drops.
Thankfully, Dungeonborne features a range of graphics settings that can be optimized to let your PC pump more fps than on default. It is a quick and easy process, and highly recommended if you are looking to dominate other human players.
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Best Graphics Settings to Maximize FPS in Dungeonborne
There are a few things that must be cleared before optimizing your graphics settings in Dungeonborne. Firstly, in your Display settings, always set your Display Mode to Fullscreen and Resolution to native. Secondly, disable Vertical Sync to eliminate input lag unless you want to test your new G-Sync gaming monitor against screen-tearing issues.
Disable the Camera Sway and remove any cap on the Frame Rate Limit. Lastly, increase the Field of View to expand your peripheral vision. This, however, can slightly impact your frame rates. So, experiment with what you find comfortable.
Make sure to confirm the PC system requirements for Dungeonborne. The dungeon-extraction game requires a minimum Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card, which is nearly two decades old. The graphics settings below should help you gain a significant fps boost even with the old hardware.
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Graphics Setting |
Value |
Description and Notes |
|---|---|---|
|
3D Resolution |
50 Percent |
It changes the upscaling resolution of Anti-Aliasing. However, if Anti-Aliasing is disabled in favor of another upscaling method (DLSS/FSR/XeSS), you must experiment with the 3D Resolution slider for the best gains. |
|
Global Illumination |
Medium |
Medium provides a good balance of improved lighting and high fps. Setting it to High or above activates ray-tracing effects, which are fairly cumbersome. Lower Global Illumination also offers a competitive PvP advantage by removing almost all shading. |
|
Shadows |
Off |
Disabling (or lowering) Shadows has always been one of the best ways to gain a massive fps boost, especially in online PvP games. Set it to Medium if you want Shadows to help you see enemies better in the distance. |
|
Anti-Aliasing |
Off |
The Supersampling options offer better optimizations that overwrite Anti-Aliasing, so disable this. |
|
View Distance |
Very High |
Anything lower forces textures to pop around you in Dungeonborne. It is highly recommended to max out the View Distance to help spot enemies at long ranges. |
|
Textures |
Very High |
Set Textures Low/Medium at 1440p/1080p respectively if your GPU has less than 4GB VRAM. If your VRAM is more than that, max out the setting to improve texture clarity when seeing objects at an angle in Dungeonborne. |
|
Effects |
Low |
Disable all effects to get an immediate 10–15 fps boost in Dungeonborne. If you want to see the lanterns and fireplaces working, though, set Effects to either High or Very High. Anything lower will force the fire animations to be laggy. |
|
Reflections |
Low |
Yet another setting similar to Shadows that eats a lot of resources. Setting it to High or above activates ray-tracing reflections. Disabling Reflections is recommended for non-RTX cards. |
|
Post-Processing |
Low |
Cinematic effects such as motion blur are distracting, so turn them down as much as possible. |
|
Supersampling Mode |
|
Disable Supersampling to get the most frames possible. However, enabling it to Quality or Performance can make Dungeonborne run smoother depending on your graphics card. Note that Supersampling changes your 3D Resolution setting. You will need to experiment with the slider to see what works best. |
|
Sharpness |
100 Percent |
Experiment with what looks best for your monitor. 100 percent Sharpness can look good on older displays, but the new ones might need Sharpness to be below 50 percent for improved visuals. |
|
Advanced Models and Shadow Rendering |
Off |
This is one of the most demanding features in Dungeonborne, and not at all worth the fps drops, especially for older systems. It adds a high level of detail for objects at close range. Disable this setting for the maximum fps boost possible. |
The above graphics and video settings were tested on an old Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 to net over 200 frames per second in Dungeonborne. Hence, there is a lot of room to experiment if you are running an Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series (or AMD equivalent).
None of the graphics settings require you to restart the game. Jump into the Training Room and start tinkering with the video settings to see their effects and fps gains/losses in real time.
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How to Enable FPS Counter in Dungeonborne
Dungeonborne, unfortunately, does not feature a built-in fps counter. You will have to rely on Steam to see how well your system is running the game.
- Head into Settings after launching the Steam client.
- Select In Game from the left-hand window.
- Change the In-Game FPS counter setting to where you want the fps to be shown.
Both the Nvidia and AMD apps also feature built-in fps counters. They even share other processing data such as how much Memory and VRAM are being used. Similarly, head into their Settings to turn on the fps display.
Dungeonborne
- Released
- July 19, 2024
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- Mithril Interactive
- Publisher(s)
- Mithril Interactive
- Platform(s)
- PC
- Genre(s)
- Dungeon Crawler, Extraction
